Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI leaders, has released an updated version of its text generation model, Claude Instant 1.2, available through its API. It boasts improved performance in areas such as math, coding, reasoning, and security, with better resistance to jailbreaking and hallucination. Claude Instant 1.2 aims to compete with entry-level offerings …
Summary The ToolLLaMA language model, which specializes in API calls, can use over 16,000 APIs and achieves the performance of ChatGPT. Chinese researchers have presented ToolLLM, a framework that brings open source models up to the quality of ChatGPT in using APIs, an aspect in which these models have lagged far behind commercial offerings. ToolLLM …
Summary Large language models bring a new dimension to customer service automation – but also new risks. Unlike previous chatbots, large language model chatbots do not follow a predefined path. Rather, they follow a general direction that is much more focused on the user’s request and allows for a degree of flexibility in response. This …
Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Runway’s Gen-2 text/image-to-video model can now generate videos up to 18 seconds long. Previously it was only 4 seconds. The update is now available to all Runway Gen-2 …
Summary A Reddit user recently took it upon himself to create new Haribo-style gummy animals with Midjourney. u/logical_haze says he wants to end the “bear monopoly.” After the post caused a stir on the official Midjourney forum and received a lot of positive feedback, the original poster contacted Haribo directly with his creations. Haribo takes …
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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. China’s internet giants Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba have reportedly ordered $5bn worth of Nvidia chips crucial for developing generative AI systems. The companies plan to purchase 100,000 …
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Summary OpenAI says that custom instructions for ChatGPT are now rolling out to all users on the free plan as well. EU and UK ChatGPT will get custom instructions “soon”. OpenAI gives users a new way of prompting in ChatGPT through custom instructions that will be included in all future chats. In beta, these will …
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Summary How harmful and dangerous is AI? One way to find out is through “red teaming”. Red teaming is a strategy used in many fields, including AI development. Basically, the “red team” is an independent group that tries to investigate or deliberately infiltrate the system, project, process, or whatever for vulnerabilities. The goal is to …
Microsoft explains how it’s Red Teaming GPT-4 and other AI models Read More »
Summary Entertainment giant Disney has set up an AI task force to promote the use of artificial intelligence within the company. Disney set up the task force earlier this year, according to three sources who spoke to Reuters. It will explore how AI can be used across the company and build relationships with startups. One …
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Summary The broad application of AI in the financial ecosystem comes with notable concerns, according to Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In July 2023, the SEC had already proposed a rule to responsibly manage the integration of AI. In an interview, Gensler outlined his concerns that AI could be at …
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