AI’s Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and…
Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think
Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by…
Buzzy Startup Just Dumps AI Model That Beats GPT-3.5 Into a Torrent Link
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch. Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg (Getty Images) While most AI companies are preciously unveiling their latest algorithms with press tours and blog posts, others seem…
Pulitzer Winner Michael Chabon Sues Meta for Allegedly Using His Copyrighted Material to Train AI
Authors are suing Meta for allegedly using their works to train its Llama artificial intelligence software, according to a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon…
Meta’s Latest AI Release Is an Open Source Coding Bot
Right on cue, Meta has shared its latest AI drop with the world, and this time, the company is letting anybody get their hands on a bot that will write,…
Meta’s Next Big Open Source AI Dump Will Reportedly Be a Code-Generating Bot
Meta’s language-centric LlaMA AI will soon find itself in the company of a nerdier, coding wiz brother. The company’s next AI release will reportedly be a big coding machine meant…
Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset ‘Books3′ Offline
One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years.…
WokeGPT: Study Says ChatGPT Shows Liberal Bias
A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying…
Apple Is Reportedly Making Fast Progress on Its Own ‘Apple GPT’
Image: rarrarorro (Shutterstock) The AI gold rush is showing no signs of slowing down. As ChatGPT continues to enamor the world with its strings of relatively coherent text, Apple is…
Meta and Microsoft Introduce Llama 2 AI and It’s Open Source
As the AI bubble continues to inflate—for better or worse—two titans of the tech industry, Microsoft and Meta, have unveiled the second generation of LLaMA, and they’re giving competitor OpenAI…