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Researchers at XJDR have developed a new technique called Entropix that aims to improve reasoning in language models by making smarter decisions when the model is uncertain, according to a recent blog post by Thariq Shihipar. The method uses adaptive sampling based on two metrics, entropy and varentropy, which measure the uncertainty in the model’s …
The U.S. Department of Labor released a list of artificial intelligence best practices for developers and employers this week. Here’s the PDF. The highlights:
Anthropic’s latest AI feature “Computer Use” can demonstrate remarkable capabilities in interacting with computers, according to a recent hands-on experience by Thariq Shihipar. While the system is still slow, unreliable, and prone to taking over the user’s computer, it represents an exciting step forward in AI-driven computer interaction, write Shihipar. Claude Computer Use excels at …
India is making great strides in building its own AI infrastructure and has already trained more than 100,000 AI developers. This was reported by Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the Nvidia AI Summit in India, according to VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi. The country now has more than 2,000 AI startups in the Nvidia Inception Program …
Open source AI models are increasingly winning out over closed systems like GPT-4 in the enterprise. This is what Matt Marshall reports for VentureBeat after numerous conversations with executives. The open models, such as Metas Llama, have now reached comparable quality and offer enterprises more control, customization, and cost efficiency. Major technology vendors such as …
A new AI approach from OpenAI promises significantly better results with longer computation times compared to existing models, reports Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. OpenAI researcher Noam Brown explained at the TED AI Conference in San Francisco that 20 seconds of AI computation time delivers the same performance boost as scaling up a model 100,000 times. …
A former OpenAI researcher accuses his previous employer of violating copyright laws in developing ChatGPT. Suchir Balaji, who left the company in August 2023, helped collect and organize internet data for the chatbot, as he reveales in interviews with the New York Times. The 25-year-old scientist is convinced that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data was …
Artificial Intelligence can be better understood through some basic principles of how it thinks and works. Large Language Models (LLM) essentially function like sophisticated text prediction systems that forecast the next word in a sentence based on vast amounts of data, explains Ethan Mollick in his 100th Substack post. These AI systems operate with limited …
Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has issued a stark warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence for the entertainment industry, reports Erich Schwartzel for the Wall Street Journal. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, he criticized AI companies for using movies and TV shows to train their models without fairly …
Media executives are increasingly adopting AI tools for their daily work, though they remain cautious in their approach. According to a Digiday survey at the Digital Publishing Summit in Florida, executives primarily use artificial intelligence for basic tasks like email editing, transcriptions, and research. Some companies have prohibited the use of AI tools until appropriate …