OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws AI In Brief Plus: Mistral emits uncensored model, Meta expands Llama 2's context window, Alexa drills into your voice AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 4
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 31
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something? AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 79
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Offbeat09 Aug 2023 | 56
TV and film extras fear generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs AI in brief Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 17
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43
MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes Open source image-massage works … up to a point AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 6
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian Analysis If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 21
Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish' AI + ML01 Aug 2023 |
Friendly AI chatbots will be designing bioweapons for criminals 'within years' Watch out, mad scientists – your careers are over AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 20
Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits ... now please buy our silicon With 34 designs to pick from, you can choose your own ML adventure AI + ML25 Jul 2023 | 4
Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out AI in brief Plus: Apple is building its own large language models internally, and AI South Park is terrible AI + ML24 Jul 2023 | 18
Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 10
Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores HPC21 Jul 2023 | 43
Judge lets art trio take another crack at suing AI devs over copyright Just the facts, ma'am. More facts, in fact AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 53
IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 2
Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency Updated Another kind of supply chain attack that can quietly mess up bots and apps AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 11
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT AI in brief Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 82
Important note: Humans can use AI to make music and still bag a Grammy Organizers change rules as generative ML takes over everything AI + ML05 Jul 2023 | 17
No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 8
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 39
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 5
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault +Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law Shoddy predictive systems labeling gender, race, emotion would be verboten AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 15
Meta teaches AI image model to stop generating human fingers like a drunk Picasso Less GPU time, better generated images AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 5
UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation Proposes global brainbox-bossing body based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's blueprint AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 18
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value' Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 26
Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools We're fine being judged by code, now that we're getting an assist AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 16
This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep Don't take our word – these eggheads claim to have proved it AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 27
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 14
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17 WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15
Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator AI In Brief Plus: Around 3,900 jobs have been axed and replaced with AI, and Microsoft cosies up with a GPU provider to support OpenAI AI + ML05 Jun 2023 | 18
Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet AI + ML29 May 2023 | 80
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes AI + ML26 May 2023 | 16
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models HPC23 May 2023 | 2
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors AI + ML22 May 2023 | 68
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong? Systems20 May 2023 | 3
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok AI + ML19 May 2023 | 11
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today? AI + ML18 May 2023 | 41
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece When Irish AIs are smiling AI + ML16 May 2023 | 43
EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties? AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer Opinion Go, Team Robot AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91
Ed tech house Chegg's share price halves after blaming ChatGPT for subscription dip Student app maker says it's 'not a sky falling thing,' customizes own LLM just in case AI + ML02 May 2023 | 1