AI & Robotics

Following up on his proclamation last week that xAI would begin allowing selected users access to its first AI product, founder Elon Musk on Sunday morning revealed it to the world, and it is very much aligned with his sensibilities and often irreverent and immature sense of humor, while boasting access to realtime information and high efficiency. The product is a Large Language Model (LLM)…

Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? If we’re talking about Llama, Meta’s large language model that took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August — I would argue that the answer is… (writer takes a moment to duck) yes.  I can almost see readers getting ready to pounce.

Hidden Door has unveiled an updated artistic vision behind its new game where generative AI creates the narrative for humans to play. With this game, which is still in the testing stages, the development team isn’t creating a singular narrative for the game. Rather, it’s creating a library of tools that can help it bring an endless variety of stories to life so that players can come back over…

Midjourney is one of the most popular AI art and text-to-image generators, generating high-quality photorealistic and cinematic works from users’ prompts typed in plain English that have already wound up on TV and in cinemas (as well as on VentureBeat, where we use it along with other tools for article art). Conceived by former Magic Leap programmer David Holz and launched in the summer of 2022…