Text or Images, Input or Output: GILL, an innovative approach to multimodal model training
Generative AI

Text or Images, Input or Output: GILL, an innovative approach to multimodal model training

GPT-4V introduced a large multimodal model that generates text from images and, with help from DALL-E 3, generates images from text. However, OpenAI hasn’t fully explained how it built the system. A separate group of researchers described their own method.

January 10, 20243 min read
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
Generative AI

GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly

It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...

January 3, 20243 min read
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
Generative AI

GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly

It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...

January 3, 20243 min read
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Generative AI

Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated

Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.

December 20, 20232 min read
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Generative AI

Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated

Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.

December 20, 20232 min read
Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023
Generative AI

Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023

This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types. 

December 20, 20232 min read
Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023
Generative AI

Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023

This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types. 

December 20, 20232 min read
Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model
Generative AI

Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model

Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...

December 13, 20233 min read
Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model
Generative AI

Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model

Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...

December 13, 20233 min read
Amazon Joins Chatbot Fray: The pros and cons of Q, Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot
Generative AI

Amazon Joins Chatbot Fray: The pros and cons of Q, Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot

Amazon launched a chatbot for large companies even as internal tests indicated potential problems. Amazon introduced Q, an AI-powered assistant that enables employees to query documents and corporate systems.

December 6, 20232 min read
Amazon Joins Chatbot Fray: The pros and cons of Q, Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot
Generative AI

Amazon Joins Chatbot Fray: The pros and cons of Q, Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot

Amazon launched a chatbot for large companies even as internal tests indicated potential problems. Amazon introduced Q, an AI-powered assistant that enables employees to query documents and corporate systems.

December 6, 20232 min read
Testing for Large Language Models: Meet Giskard, an automated quality manager for LLMs.
Generative AI

Testing for Large Language Models: Meet Giskard, an automated quality manager for LLMs.

An open source tool automatically tests language and tabular-data models for social biases and other common issues. Giskard is a software framework that evaluates models using a suite of heuristics and tests based on GPT-4.

November 29, 20232 min read
Testing for Large Language Models: Meet Giskard, an automated quality manager for LLMs.
Generative AI

Testing for Large Language Models: Meet Giskard, an automated quality manager for LLMs.

An open source tool automatically tests language and tabular-data models for social biases and other common issues. Giskard is a software framework that evaluates models using a suite of heuristics and tests based on GPT-4.

November 29, 20232 min read
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
Generative AI

Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.

ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself. 

November 29, 20231 min read
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
Generative AI

Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.

ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself. 

November 29, 20231 min read

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