Local AI is an interesting concept: AI assistants similar to ChatGPT that do not run in the cloud, but on your own PC or on a server you operate yourself. One challenge is the speed of the answers. Nvidia has now presented “Chat with RTX”, which uses the computing power of its own graphics cards. … Read more
OpenAI has caused quite a stir with a preview of the video AI “Sora”. The examples on the official website are indeed impressive. However, without our own tests, it is not yet possible to make a meaningful assessment of how well Sora works in everyday life and what the video clips can be used for. … Read more
Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also … Read more
Temperature in Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI systems is a crucial control parameter that influences the randomness and creativity of the outputs. The value typically ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 represents highly deterministic (predictable) and 1 represents very random responses. With a low temperature setting, the system consistently repeats the … Read more
The Browser Company has introduced Arc Search, an app for iPhones and iPads that searches the web in response to a user’s search query and presents the information it finds on a page. If someone clicks on one of the listed sources, ads are automatically blocked, among other things. In his article on Engadget, Pranav … Read more
Nebojša Vujinović Vujo buys abandoned news websites and fills them with AI-generated content to generate advertising revenue. Vujo’s most profitable acquisition was The Frisky, which generated over $500,000 in revenue in its first year. However, traffic to its sites has declined over time, possibly because search engines are getting better at identifying spam content. More … Read more
Air Canada’s chatbot gave a customer incorrect information about the terms of a refund. In court, the airline argued that the chatbot itself was responsible for what it said, not Air Canada. The court disagreed, and the company had to pay up. Source: The Guardian
While Google’s Gemini offerings are proprietary, the company has now unveiled two open source models under the name Gemma that are free to use. Officials say they are based on the same techniques used for Gemini. With 2 billion and 7 billion parameters, the two Gemma models are small and have limited capabilities. However, they … Read more
If you use Slack in a large company and for a long period of time, it is not so easy to stay up to date and to find information again. New AI helpers are designed to change that, summarizing discussions and improving the search function, for example. Sources: VentureBeat, The Verge
The creators of Stable Diffusion give a preview of Stable Cascade, which, thanks to its particular architecture, can be used on PCs without specialized and expensive hardware. Source: Stability.ai