Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer
Demos of AI agents can seem stunning but getting the technology to perform reliably and without annoying, or costly, errors in real life can be a challenge. Current models can …
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Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for …
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s approach to building artificial intelligence came under fire this week from former employees who accuse the company of taking unnecessary risks with technology that could become harmful. …
Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
Turning to a friend or coworker can make tricky problems easier to tackle. Now it looks like having AI chatbots team up with each other can make them more effective. …
Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works
A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new generative AI …
Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing
When ChatGPT was released in November 2023, it could only be accessed through the cloud because the model behind it was downright enormous. Today I am running a similarly capable …
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
Last year, the team began experimenting with a tiny model that uses only a single layer of neurons. (Sophisticated LLMs have dozens of layers.) The hope was that in the …
It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
Folks, when dogs talk, we’re talking Biblical disruption. Do you think that future models will do worse on the law exams? If nothing else, this week proves that the rate …
OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard Ilya Sutskever Is Leaving the Company
Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted to fire OpenAI CEO …
Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
Pulkit Agrawal, an assistant professor at MIT who works on AI and robotics, says Google’s and OpenAI’s latest demos are impressive and show how rapidly multimodal AI models have advanced. …