Summary The name Gemini is closely associated with a major shake-up at Google. In April 2023, Alphabet announced the merger of its two AI units, Google Brain and Deepmind. The resulting Google Deepmind was to focus on developing large multimodal AI models. It was a big move that showed how much pressure Google was under …
Summary Added video demo and statement from Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals Update from December 9, 2023: Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals addressed criticism of Google’s staged Gemini hands-on demo on X, stating that “all the user prompts and outputs in the video are real, shortened for brevity.” The staged video people criticized supposedly “illustrates what the …
Google’s internal proposal, “Project Ellmann,” aims to use AI to provide users with a comprehensive view of their life stories, using mobile data like photos and searches. The project plans to utilize Google’s latest AI model, Gemini, to analyze search results, identify patterns in user photos, and create a chatbot to answer complex questions about …
Summary For months, users have been complaining that GPT-4 performance in ChatGPT is getting worse, even with the new Turbo model. OpenAI is looking into this feedback. Recently, more and more users have complained about bad or incomplete answers, especially when generating code. OpenAI now responds to these complaints on X. “Model behavior can be …
OpenAI looks into complaints about “lazy” ChatGPT with GPT-4 Read More »
Summary The European Union has reached a political agreement on the world’s first law regulating artificial intelligence. Negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU were concluded on Friday evening after lengthy discussions. The AI law is designed to more strictly regulate the use of AI in the EU, introducing different risk …
EU reaches “historic agreement” on world’s first AI regulation, setting global precedent Read More »
Summary Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI launches its Grok AI chatbot for X platform Premium+ subscribers in the US. Access to Grok is being rolled out to Premium+ subscribers in the US, the X company announced on its platform. Premium+ users will find Grok in the side menu on the web, iOS and Android platforms. …
Summary A staged demo video leaves developers and employees in doubt about the true capabilities of Google’s new Gemini language model. In the video, titled “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI,” Google shows off the AI model’s impressive voice interaction and real-time visual response capabilities. After the demonstration, however, it turned out that the …
Summary Helen Toner, one of the board members who voted to fire Sam Altman from OpenAI, has spoken out about the power struggle at the AI company. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Toner said that the decision to fire Altman was not about AI safety, but rather a lack of trust. “Our …
The reason for firing Sam Altman was “to strengthen OpenAI,” says Helen Toner Read More »
Meta AI has launched Purple Llama, an umbrella project aimed at providing open trust and safety tools for responsible generative AI development and “to level the playing field.” The project will offer tools and evaluations to help developers build responsibly with open generative AI models, with initial focus on cybersecurity and input/output safeguards. As part …
Meta’s Purple Llama aims to make open-source AI safer Read More »
Summary OpenAI competitor Anthropic has developed a method to improve the performance of its Claude 2.1 AI model. This shows once again how unpredictable language models can be in responding to small changes in the prompt. Claude 2.1 is known for its larger-than-average context window of 200,000 tokens, which is about 150,000 words. This allows …
Anthropic’s long context “prompt hack” shows the weirdness of LLMs Read More »
