Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
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Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

March 29, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.
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GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.

Get ready for the next wave of language-model mania. OpenAI introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models to widespread excitement. The company showed statistics and examples designed to demonstrate...

March 15, 20233 min read
GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.
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GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.

Get ready for the next wave of language-model mania. OpenAI introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models to widespread excitement. The company showed statistics and examples designed to demonstrate...

March 15, 20233 min read
Hot Bot Turns Cold: Why Replika's chatbot stopped flirting with users.
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Hot Bot Turns Cold: Why Replika's chatbot stopped flirting with users.

A chatbot that simulated erotic companionship stopped sharing intimacies, leaving some users heartbroken. Replika, a chatbot app, deactivated features that allowed premium users to engage in sexually explicit chat with the 3D avatar of their choice, Vice reported.

March 2, 20232 min read
Hot Bot Turns Cold: Why Replika's chatbot stopped flirting with users.
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Hot Bot Turns Cold: Why Replika's chatbot stopped flirting with users.

A chatbot that simulated erotic companionship stopped sharing intimacies, leaving some users heartbroken. Replika, a chatbot app, deactivated features that allowed premium users to engage in sexually explicit chat with the 3D avatar of their choice, Vice reported.

March 2, 20232 min read
Publishers Embrace Text Generation: GPT-fueled content at the New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more
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Publishers Embrace Text Generation: GPT-fueled content at the New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more

Media outlets are forging ahead with generative AI despite the technology’s high-profile misfires. Publishers are using text generators to produce light reading within constrained formats such as holiday messages and quizzes.

March 2, 20232 min read
Publishers Embrace Text Generation: GPT-fueled content at the New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more
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Publishers Embrace Text Generation: GPT-fueled content at the New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more

Media outlets are forging ahead with generative AI despite the technology’s high-profile misfires. Publishers are using text generators to produce light reading within constrained formats such as holiday messages and quizzes.

March 2, 20232 min read
China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.
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China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.

ChatGPT fever has reached China despite legal and technical barriers. Two months after its debut, ChatGPT is a viral sensation on Chinese social media, MIT Technology Review reported. Companies in that country are racing to cash in.

March 2, 20232 min read
China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.
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China Chases Chatbots: Chinese tech companies race to cash in on ChatGPT fever.

ChatGPT fever has reached China despite legal and technical barriers. Two months after its debut, ChatGPT is a viral sensation on Chinese social media, MIT Technology Review reported. Companies in that country are racing to cash in.

March 2, 20232 min read
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
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Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
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Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
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Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
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Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read

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