GPT-4 showcased a markedly superior performance when compared to unspecialised junior doctors, who possess a proficiency level comparable to general practitioners with specialist eye knowledge.
The question of who should control AI development and who should have access to AI is of vital importance to society. A joint Princeton/Stanford seminar addressed this question.
Some users say they’ve logged 12 hours a day on Character.AI, and posts about addiction to the platform are common.
Artificial intelligence’s thirst for electricity is conspiring with other factors to trigger a sharp spike in electricity demand that the U.S. is only beginning to address.
The highlight of testing the system with dozens of lawyers was when a GDPR specialist reviewed its answers. The lawyer ranked 8 out of 10 responses as excellent, and the remaining 2 as overly cautious in interpreting the law.
The idea is simple: if they can’t handle these basic challenges, it’s probably not worth asking them to do anything more complex.
A great resource with examples of effective prompts, from Claude provider Anthropic.
Imagine an operator saying something like, ‘Hey computer, why is production on this unit slowing down? And what can I do to adjust it?'”
If we can’t separate ourselves from the products of our tools, we can at least be transparent about those tools and how they’ve been used.
Wisely AI has identified five risks associated with the use of Generative AI in organisations. In this white paper, we provide guidance on how to mitigate these risks.
This is the first guidance led by the Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) and postures the center to support one of its central goals: improving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of AI systems.
The position was further elevated last month, when the White House announced federal agencies were required to designate chief AI officers “to ensure accountability, leadership, and oversight” of the technology. Yet the role’s responsibilities are still being worked out.
There’s a problem with leading artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: We don’t really know how smart they are.
Another helpful set of tips, this time from HowToGeek.
One in two lawyers in Australia and New Zealand have already used generative artificial intelligence to perform day-to-day tasks and almost the entire profession believe it will change how legal work is carried out in future.
. “Candidly, a lot of people inside law firms just don’t think about the deployment of tech in the delivery of legal services,” he said. “If you want to see a doctor today, it’s all through a website, but if you want a lawyer, you’ve got to pick up the phone.”
Developing ways to measure the persuasive capabilities of AI models is important because it serves as a proxy measure of how well AI models can match human skill in an important domain, and because persuasion may ultimately be tied to certain kinds of misuse, such as using AI to generate disinformation, or persuading people to take actions against their own interests.
A fake photo—or memory-based reconstruction, as the Barcelona-based design studio Domestic Data Streamers puts it—of the scene that a real photo might have captured. The fake snapshots are blurred and distorted, but they can still rewind a lifetime in an instant.
Forget artificial intelligence breaking free of human control and taking over the world. A far more pressing concern is how today’s generative AI tools will transform the labor market.
“AI is purposefully ill-defined from a marketing perspective,” said Alex Hanna, director of research at Distributed AI Research Institute. It “has been composed of wishful thinking and hype from the beginning.”
While the inner workings of these algorithms are notoriously opaque, the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple. They are trained by going through mountains of text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against it.
Sounds good, until you realize that, as Forbes puts it, the Gemini prompts themselves mean that Google’s AI has “has read your email, even if you haven’t.”
Gemini offers a solution for summarizing lengthy YouTube videos. With this extension, users can conveniently access quick summaries and save time. If you’re pressed for time and can’t watch a full video, Gemini provides a practical alternative. Find out more about this helpful feature and learn how to use it effectively.
‘Hey, can you make sure you turn on the AI tool, and can you send me the summary?’ And instead of sitting there, half concentrating for an hour, I read the summary in four minutes flat.“
Gemini is a handy tool for adding relevant images quickly to Google Slides. Like any AI image generator, it requires specific prompts to generate the image you want.
Claude 3 Opus gives you a very similar experience to Google Gemini Advanced. There are no plugins, there is no code interpreter, and they generate text at very similar speeds to each other.
I was struck by how prescient Mead was in discussing not just the simulation hypothesis, but also the question of self-improving AI systems. Keep in mind, she’s discussing events from the 1948-1950 period, when digital computers were just a few years old.
Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written in the spring of 2017. They were all Google researchers, though by then one had left the company…
The bots — with names like LazyApply and Massive — have turned job hunting into a technological arms race. You pay a fee, feed your résumé into the bot, tell it what you’re looking for, and blam! — it starts sending out hundreds of applications on your behalf, often in real time.
Despite the wider availability of Microsoft Copilot Pro, Gemini Advanced may have a greater value proposition for many individuals.
An International Monetary Fund study recently predicted that AI was poised to impact 60 per cent of all jobs in advanced economies like ours, with about half of those to benefit from AI increasing productivity and the other half to be adversely impacted.
Pesce says while AI is powerful it is also unreliable: “These machines don’t know when they are making things up. They don’t’ know when they’re running off the rails. They don’t want to stop.”
How can these powerful systems beat us in chess but falter on basic math? This paradox reflects more than just an idiosyncratic design quirk. It points toward something fundamental about how large language models think.
“To better understand emerging AI usage trends in the workplace and the skills workers need to be successful in the future, Access Partnership collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to survey close to 15,000 workers…”
Tuesday, Google confirmed to Reuters that those restrictions have kicked in. Election queries now tend to come back with the refusal: “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.”
Many question the idea that an AI could ever be capable of empathy, and worry about the consequences of people seeking emotional support from machines that can only pretend to care.
Most consumers, however, are unwilling to pay, believing that what is currently available is good enough.
Walmart’s AI strategy boils down to finding ways to make sure shelves are never empty, whether they are in a Supercenter store or your own refrigerator.
“Priceline recently added more features for Penny, an AI travel assistant that debuted last June. When it first was launched, Penny could only help with finding accommodations, but now it can help find flights, car rentals and vacation packages…”
Gemini 1.5 promises to be faster and more efficient thanks to a specialization technique called “mixture of experts,” also known as MoE. Instead of running the entire model every time it receives a query, Gemini’s MoE can use just the relevant parts…
Cryptocurrency? That’s _so_ 2022. Owners of fleets of GPUs, they’re now pivoting to AI, according to The Guardian…
“Data collected in mid-January on 44 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers, including newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian…”
Who can’t use a little humour?
As of the time of writing, there is not a dedicated Gemini app for iPhone and iPad. Instead, it’s available in the official Google app.
The disparity between leaders’ attitudes to AI and that of their employees is a difficult gap to close; the aspects of AI that form the business case for its implementation are often the same aspects that drive concerns from employees about job security.
“The group that had access to GitHub Copilot was able to complete their tasks 42.36 percent faster than the control group participants…The code produced by Copilot participants contained fewer code smells and bugs on average…”
Train ChatGPT to be your personal AI coach, applying tough love and questioning to your biggest business goal.
The number of referrals from services using the Limbic chatbot rose by 15% during the study’s three-month time period, compared with a 6% rise in referrals for the services that weren’t using it.
OpenAI has made no commitment to make any “democratic inputs” binding upon its own decision-making processes. In fairness, at this stage, it would be strange if it had. “We’re focusing on the quite narrow context of, how could we even do it credibly?”
The big takeaway from all these research efforts is that scientists are hard at work trying to find ways of compressing and dividing the work of training to make it feasible on battery-operated devices with less memory and less processing power…
AI can assist with brainstorming activities when you feel “stuck” and it can serve as a second “set of eyes” at times when another person is not available.
I had imagined the beginning of a whole new age of products, shaped around the new capacities offered by ‘good enough’ artificial intelligence, and expected to be able to report about all of the ways that this ‘good enough’ AI had been put to work.
In this evolving landscape, advanced economies and more developed emerging markets need to focus on upgrading regulatory frameworks and supporting labor reallocation, while safeguarding those adversely affected…
We’re back after a break and a trip to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show
‘ve turned our notifications off, downed our tools, and begun our holiday rest. We’ll be back with more stories about Windows Copilot and AI chatbots in 2024. See you then – and thank you for reading!
More than two out of three respondents (67%) predict their companies will increase investment in AI next year through either expanded use, further research or partnerships with AI software companies.
“Copilot gave up completely, and simply asked to go back to its nap. Claude took issue with the nuance of a few answers. Bard hit hard on a whole slew of answers — but, apparently, to err is not only human, it’s AI as well.”
“What use cases are appropriate, and what aren’t? The ability to distinguish between the two is important, and it’s an issue for both companies that use AI and companies that don’t.”
“It’s no accident that these corporate AIs have a human-like interface. There’s nothing inevitable about that. It’s a design choice…The companies behind those AIs want you to make the friend/service category error.”
In the rush to deploy off-the-shelf proprietary LLMs, health-care institutions and other organizations risk ceding the control of medicine to opaque corporate interests.
OpenAI’s charter—a document so sacred that employees’ pay is tied to how well they adhere to it—further declares that OpenAI’s “primary fiduciary duty is to humanity.”
Casting dialogue-agent behaviour in terms of role play allows us to draw on familiar folk psychological terms, without ascribing human characteristics to language models that they in fact lack.
Recognizing the limitations and risks surrounding AI tools is important – so we’ve compiled a list of all the AI mistakes, mishaps, and failures that have occurred during humanity’s recent exploration of the technology.
Three-quarters of the business uses of generative ai will fall into four areas: customer operations, marketing and sales, software engineering, and research and development. Navigating a complex tax code or summarising a legal document could become a breeze.
From Windows Copilot Strategies, this essay asks if we have any idea how widely AI is already being used in our organisations…
Gates: Depending on how much information you choose to share with it, the software will be able to respond personally because it will have a rich understanding of your life.
Most businesses haven’t taken a look at how AI may already be used by their employees. It could be that IT policies on office machines keep those PCs secure – but what about the machines folks use when working from home a few days a week?
The capability to snap an image, whether it’s a medical report or a skin lesion, and converse about it, breaks down previously existent barriers. Voice interaction further smoothens this experience, creating a more human-like conversation
That, in a nutshell, is why we should never trust pure LLMs; even under carefully controlled circumstances with massive amounts of directly relevant data, they still never really get even the most basic linear functions.
Some of the world’s largest consultancies have already built out proprietary enterprise large language models and are expanding and refining them. McKinsey already has employees testing out its proprietary LLM.
Heather Ford’s talk at UMass, “Is the Web Eating Itself?” asks whether Wikimedia other projects can survive the rise of generative AI.
AI already accounted for 10 to 15 percent of Google’s electricity consumption in 2021. And the company’s AI ambitions have grown big time since then.
Perhaps the most fundamental limitation of today’s large language models is that they depend on knowledge that’s been generated by people. A sea change will come when the bots can generate knowledge for themselves.
“An AI PC,” he added, “is a PC that learns about you continuously, it’s a PC that is your personal foundation model within the data within the PC and it is a PC that will be able to interact with you more naturally.”
This feature from COSMOS Magazine asks — can we even ask if AI is conscious? And what does ‘consciousness’ even mean?
Believing that AI will save time is like being a person in the late 1800s seeing their first car and thinking “oh how easy it’ll be to get to the meadow now!” People back then didn’t imagine that by the 1960s we’d be stuck in traffic jams for hours in mega-cities. Now apply this to AI.
Maybe we really are on the cusp of a total change to the way we interact with machines and the arrival of the long-anticipated era of truly conversational computing is imminent
Did you know that an AI chatbot can make things up? While AI chatbots do not think, and are not trying to be deceitful, it’s in the nature of their programming to always provide a response – but they have no way to know whether that response is right or wrong, only that it is probable. A probable response will fool someone if it’s in an area outside their own expertise. Knowing this, how can we use AI safely?
Participants with access to the large language model GPT-4 completed 12.2% more tasks on average and completed tasks 25.1% more quickly than those without access to AI, the study conducted in tandem with Boston Consulting Group found.
Enter a prompt that describes the email you want Bard to write. For example, you could enter a prompt like “Write a thank-you email to my colleague for helping me with the project,” or “Write a formal email to my manager requesting a vacation.”
Each of the ‘Big Three’ AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing Chat and Google’s Bard – have theirs strengths and weaknesses. In my forthcoming book, Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots, I compare their capabilities. Which one is best for you? Watch the video and find out: Learn more about Getting Started with […]
“We saw some remarkable things come up in the last couple of weeks,” said Kendall. “I never would have thought to ask something like this, but look—” He typed: “How many stories is the building on the right?” Three stories.
Microsoft has not added an on/off switch for Windows Copilot in the Settings. The only option that you find there, currently at least, is to hide the Windows Copilot icon, so that it is no longer pinned to the Taskbar.
In this article, discover the basics about these generative AI tools, including my assessment of their strengths and weaknesses and how you might use each tool for content marketing.
Walmart said its new “My Assistant” feature can help with a range of tasks, from summarizing long documents to assisting in the creation of new content.
While many students have been using ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard to get some help with their homework, teachers have been more reluctant to use generative AI tools in the classroom. OpenAI has written a great introductory guide for educators who want to integrate AI chatbots into their instruction:
These kinds of results are feeding a hype machine predicting that these machines will soon come for white-collar jobs, replacing teachers, doctors, journalists, and lawyers.
A recent column in COSMOS Magazine explored the need for folks to come up to speed – quickly – with the capabilities and pitfalls of AI Chatbots:
At the end of May, Microsoft had its DEVELOP conference, which it uses to showcase new products for the hundreds of thousands of programmers who write applications and utilities for Microsoft’s immensely popular software packages (like Office) and ubiquitous Windows operating system. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, took to the stage for the opening keynote, touting […]
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