Bye Bye Bots: OpenAI quit robotics to focus on AGI.
OpenAI

Bye Bye Bots: OpenAI quit robotics to focus on AGI.

The independent research lab OpenAI wowed technology watchers in 2019 with a robotic hand that solved Rubik’s Cube. Now it has disbanded the team that built it. OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba revealed that OpenAI shuttered its robotics program last October.

July 21, 20211 min read
Bye Bye Bots: OpenAI quit robotics to focus on AGI.
OpenAI

Bye Bye Bots: OpenAI quit robotics to focus on AGI.

The independent research lab OpenAI wowed technology watchers in 2019 with a robotic hand that solved Rubik’s Cube. Now it has disbanded the team that built it. OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba revealed that OpenAI shuttered its robotics program last October.

July 21, 20211 min read
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
OpenAI

Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E
OpenAI

Tell Me a Picture: OpenAI's two new multimodal AI models, CLIP and DALL·E

Two new models show a surprisingly sharp sense of the relationship between words and images. OpenAI, the for-profit research lab, announced a pair of models that have produced impressive results in multimodal learning: DALL·E.

January 13, 20212 min read
Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI’s co-founder on building multimodal AI models
OpenAI

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI’s co-founder on building multimodal AI models

The past year was the first in which general-purpose models became economically useful. GPT-3, in particular, demonstrated that large language models have surprising linguistic competence and the ability to perform a wide variety of useful tasks.

December 30, 20202 min read
Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI’s co-founder on building multimodal AI models
OpenAI

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI’s co-founder on building multimodal AI models

The past year was the first in which general-purpose models became economically useful. GPT-3, in particular, demonstrated that large language models have surprising linguistic competence and the ability to perform a wide variety of useful tasks.

December 30, 20202 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
OpenAI

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.
OpenAI

Writer’s Unblock: Language models keep getting bigger and better.

Neural networks for natural language processing got bigger, more prolific, and more fun to play with. Language models, which already had grown to gargantuan size, continued to swell, yielding chatbots that mimic AI luminaries and have very strange ideas about horses.

December 23, 20201 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
OpenAI

The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read
The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs
OpenAI

The Proof Is in the Network: A transformer model that generates mathematical proofs

OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) architecture has created coherent essays, images, and code. Now it generates mathematical proofs as well.

November 11, 20202 min read
Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
OpenAI

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
OpenAI

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
OpenAI

Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.
OpenAI

Bots Don’t Need Social Distancing: Covid-19 drove demand for Replika, an AI chatbot.

A chatbot is providing companionship for the locked-down and lonely. Downloads of Replika, a chatbot designed to be a virtual friend, have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times.

July 1, 20201 min read
Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.
OpenAI

Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.

May 27, 20201 min read

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