Google Bard, the search giant’s vision for a conversational AI chatbot, has had a rocky road since it was unveiled to the world in March 2023, with subsequent updates to it earning poor reviews from early testers like VentureBeat, and it was recently found to be accidentally enabling shared conversations to appear in Google Search results (that’s since been fixed).
Now it appears that…
Did you spend your weekend driving down the New Jersey Turnpike, mulling over the similarities between a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen’s outspoken opinions on the future of AI and famed urban planner Robert Moses’ confident views on the future of cities? I…
OpenAI’s new GPT-4V release supports image uploads — creating a whole new attack vector making large language models (LLMs) vulnerable to multimodal injection image attacks. Attackers can embed commands, malicious scripts and code in images, and the model will…
Over 20 AI leaders, including Marc Andreessen, will appear at 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum tomorrow
October 24, 2023
Twenty-one AI leaders will appear tomorrow at the 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum. The event comes over a month after what was supposed to be the first of nine forums in which all 100 senators have the opportunity to get a crash course on a variety of issues related to AI, including copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and…
Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
October 24, 2023
Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene nearly a year ago, the generative AI era has kicked into high gear, but so too has the opposition.
A number of artists, entertainers, performers and even record labels have filed lawsuits against AI companies, some against ChatGPT maker…
A new platform that allows users to fine-tune open-source large language models (LLMs) without writing any code has recently launched new features that make the process even easier and faster.
The platform, called MonsterAPI, was created by a team of researchers and…
Snoop Dogg, sentient AI and the ‘Arrival Mind Paradox’
October 23, 2023
Like many longtime technologists, I am deeply worried about the dangers of AI, both for its near-term risk to society and its long-term threat to humanity. Back in 2016 I put a date on my greatest concerns, warning that we could achieve Artificial Superintelligence by 2030 and Sentient Superintelligence soon thereafter.
My words got attention back then, but often for the wrong reasons — with…
How to police the AI data feed
October 22, 2023
Over the last year, AI has taken the world by storm, and some have been left wondering: Is AI moments away from enslaving the human population, the latest tech fad, or something far more nuanced?\
It’s complicated. On one hand, ChatGPT was able to pass the bar exam —…
In a new paper, researchers from various universities and Eleuther AI, a company renowned for its open-source models, introduce LLEMMA, an open-source large language model (LLM) specifically designed to solve mathematical problems.
LLEMMA surpasses other leading math-focused…
Oracle loops in Nvidia AI for end-to-end model development
October 21, 2023
Oracle just made another move to simplify AI development and deployment for its customers. This week, the Larry Ellison-founded company announced it is bringing Nvidia AI stack to its marketplace.
The move gives Oracle customers access to the most sought after, top-of-the-line GPUs for training foundation models and building generative applications.
Under the partnership, the company said it is…
