Meta’s massive, 70-billion parameter LLaMA 2 has been outflanked by the newly released 180-billion parameter Falcon Large Language Model. The artificial intelligence community has a new feather in its cap with the release of Falcon […]

A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways. ChatGPT made it possible for anyone to play with powerful artificial […]

As generative AI models become increasingly capable, “foundation model” is a relatively new term being tossed around. So what is a foundation model? The term remains somewhat vague. Some define it by the number of […]

Helion, backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has already lined up Microsoft as its first customer. A startup backed by Sam Altman says it’s on track to flip on the world’s first fusion power plant in […]

The savvy observer has been burned many times before. He knows what it’s like to believe the AI magic show, only to have the curtain pulled back and the flimsy strings yanking the puppet revealed. […]

Amid an explosion of panic about artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and runaway algos, the celebrated Sci-Fi writer Ted Chiang considers how to best think about AI. “The Evolution of Human Science” was written in response to […]

Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers. We’re now ready to open source the next version of Llama 2 and are making it available free […]

Ethan Mollick provides an opinionated guide, focused on how to pick the right AI tool to do things. Not a single AI lab seems to provide any user documentation. Instead, the only user guides out […]

Most people are not aware or concerned that LLMs are created through what amount to illicit means, and that they may in fact contain and regurgitate copyrighted works. If you ask GPT-4 to do a […]

People who use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks are more productive and produce higher-quality work than those who don’t, a study found. People have been using ChatGPT to help them to do their jobs […]

Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, announced the formation of what he’s calling xAI, whose goal is to “understand the […]

Mark Zuckerberg may not have to dethrone Twitter to profit handsomely from his new app. Is Zuckerberg taking on this risky gambit just to spite Musk? Doubtful. There may be something else in the Threads […]

Connectivity and the proliferation of smartphones that rely on it has accelerated and transformed an older form of civilian-military collaboration. Jack McDonald of King’s College London points out that, when America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, […]

Welcome to the unsettling world of Artificial Intelligence moviemaking. “We kind of hit a point where we just stopped fighting the desire for photographic accuracy and started leaning into the weirdness that is DALL-E,” says […]

The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on books without permission. Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in […]

One more big test remains for Varda’s first-of-its-kind “space factory.” The co-founder of California-based startup Varda Space Industries says his company’s first space mission—a miniature lab that has grown crystals of the drug ritonavir in […]

Tech bosses know the only thing protecting them from sudden platform collapse syndrome are the laws that have been passed to stave off the inevitable fire. Governments hold back from passing and enforcing laws that […]

Second Life remains both the first and the most successful manifestation of a so-called metaverse. Zuckerberg first outlined his vision for the Metaverse, the “successor to the mobile internet”, in 2021. According to Nick Clegg, […]

Everyone is on Instagram and everyone will probably wind up on Threads too, whether they enjoy it or not will be beside the point. When Elon Musk went well out of his way to fumble […]

Apple said on Monday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to a judge’s order in an antitrust case brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games that could force the iPhone maker […]

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. Google Search’s dominance has created a cottage industry of SEO professionals who […]

Today, AI hallucinations propel hyperbolic narratives around foundation model FUD, open source outperformance, incumbent invincibility, investor infatuation, and doomer declarations. During the early internet era of the mid-90s – and crypto in the early 2010s […]

Everyone is talking about these new AI technologies — like ChatGPT — and AI companies are touting their awesome power. But they aren’t talking about how that power comes from all of us. For four […]

Apple has long championed the idea that coding should be accessible to everyone and the company is making significant strides in leveraging machine learning to expedite app development. While the focus has largely been on […]

With the proven reliability and scalability of Google Cloud Services, Vertex is likely to become a top choice for many development tasks. The AI landscape in the United States is currently dominated by three heavyweights: […]

Jobs that require visual or audio interactions felt insulated from AI, but now they are not – for better and for worse. What multimodal AI does is let the AI “see” images and “understand” what […]

Hype is proliferating, and some of its ensuing disappointments have been, well, disappointing. There’s something to consider beyond the hype cycle: hype burnout. The hype cycle, as defined by Gartner, which tracks it, is that […]

The entertainment value of AI is the AI itself. Don’t think about how to hide its shameful replacement of human artists. Let them have their own medium. As Marshall McLuhan once noted, whenever a new […]

What happens as AI-generated content proliferates around the internet, and AI models begin to train on it, instead of on primarily human-generated content? A group of researchers from the UK and Canada have looked into […]

The Executive Chair of the Open Data Institute, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, recently gave evidence to parliament on the governance of artificial intelligence. But what does AI have to do with open data? AI systems, […]