A coalition of a half-dozen open source AI stakeholders, — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the world’s first comprehensive AI law.
In a policy paper released today, “Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act,” the…
In the last six months, AI, specifically generative AI, has been thrust into the mainstream by OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT and DALL-E to the general public. For the first time, anyone with an internet connection can interact with an AI that feels smart and useful — not…
AI has dominated discussions, not only in the global tech scene but in the business world at large. Such has been the impact of applications like ChatGPT and DALL·E that consumers are now fully aware of the wealth of possibilities large language models (LLMs) and generative…
Did I write this, or was it ChatGPT?
It’s hard to tell, isn’t it?
For the sake of my editors, I will follow that quickly with: I wrote this article (I swear). But the point is that it’s worth exploring generative artificial intelligence’s limitations and areas of utility for developers and users. Both are revealing. The same is true for Web3 and blockchain.
While we’re already seeing the…
A new survey from Salesforce has revealed that AI and automation will be critical drivers for enterprise IT teams as they contend with growing demands of a turbulent macroeconomic environment.
The research, conducted between February and April 2023, involved 4,000 IT…
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Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven leading AI companies to manage the short- and long-term risks of AI models. Representatives from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft are set to sign the commitments at the White House this afternoon.
The commitments secured include ensuring products are safe before…
Generative AI is no laughing matter, as Sarah Silverman proved when she filed suit against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta for copyright infringement. She and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey allege that the companies trained their large language models…
ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
July 21, 2023
OpenAI today unveiled a potentially impactful feature for users for its ChatGPT Plus subscription service ($20/month): custom instructions, a new setting that users can toggle on when logged into their ChatGPT Plus account. The setting allows the AI chatbot to store…
Cleanlab emerges with $5 million to automate data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack
July 20, 2023
Cleanlab, a startup that provides a data curation solution for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise AI, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, marking a significant vote of confidence in Cleanlab’s mission to eliminate the “dirty data problem” plaguing the machine learning space.
The startup, founded…
