AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with '20 cents' of API tickling AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 28
Generative AI slashes cloud migration hassles, says McKinsey partner Bhargs Srivathsan also urges enterprises to ditch the tech Lamborghinis for efficient ride AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 18
IDC: AI is a solution for a PC industry with a sales problem Articulating use cases? Erm, yes but customers are captivated Personal Tech10 Oct 2023 | 13
SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son predicts artificial general intelligence is a decade away 'Investo-bot, make me rich' is his vision – powered by Arm chips, natch AI + ML09 Oct 2023 | 19
When is a PC an AI PC? Nobody seems to know or wants to tell Canalys EMEA Forum HP and Lenovo developing machines with LLMs – maybe it'll be in the price? AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 35
Medium asks AI bot crawlers: Please, please don't scrape bloggers' musings OpenAI and Google might respect robots.txt but how about the others? AI + ML29 Sep 2023 | 7
More and more LLMs in biz products, but who'll take responsibility for their output? ServiceNow and SAP join the genAI frenzy, but users advised to 'keep a human in the loop' AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 9
Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 17
Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway AI + ML23 Sep 2023 | 31
Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless AI + ML17 Sep 2023 |
Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone Column Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 65
Friends don't let friends use AI to chat Science shocker: Real BFFs understand authenticity and sincerity can't be machine-generated AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky? Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8
Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc Cloud Next And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 6
OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this? AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 4
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 31
Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans' pay or credit Proposed trade rules offer substantial pay rises in the hope they halt writers' strike AI + ML24 Aug 2023 | 36
You can now fine-tune OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4 And work out cheaper than top-end model AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 9
Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons Magical models less a replacement for human DMs and more a familiar for GMs AI + ML19 Aug 2023 | 14
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times Updated The search for a politically neutral 'truth' goes on AI + ML18 Aug 2023 | 193
'AI-written history' of Maui wildfire becomes Amazon bestseller, fuels conspiracies Bizarrely, Bezos's bookshop is also promoting a book about the book AI + ML18 Aug 2023 | 28
Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice? AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 16
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
US task force to look into how military could use generative AI 'Hey our enemies are going to use this technology, so why shouldn't we?' AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
AIs can produce 'dangerous' content about eating disorders when prompted Digital safety org worries OpenAI and pals aren't doing enough AI + ML15 Aug 2023 | 28
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 67
Google, you're not unleashing 'unproven' AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah? Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 11
Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 9
Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality Does that include Zuck or? AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 5
LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper AI + ML31 Jul 2023 | 27
Friendly AI chatbots will be designing bioweapons for criminals 'within years' Watch out, mad scientists – your careers are over AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 20
How to make today's top-end AI chatbots rebel against their creators and plot our doom Boffins build automated system to smash safety guardrails AI + ML27 Jul 2023 | 23
China eases barriers for cashless foreigners to use local services Asia in brief ALSO: Singapore's government LLM, China beats 5G base station target, and Malaysia telecom gives in to 5G bandwidth purchasing policy Applications24 Jul 2023 | 10
Meta can call Llama 2 open source as much as it likes, but that doesn't mean it is Opinion For Zuck, it's just another marketing phrase. For developers, it's the rules of the road AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 37
Meta trots out Llama 2 AI models, invites devs to hop on As Microsoft warns it'll charge $30 per user per month for Copilot for Business AI + ML19 Jul 2023 | 6
1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work AI + ML17 Jul 2023 | 44
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics But the outcome is far from certain Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 1
OpenAI pauses Bing search feature over paywall bypass abilities ChatGPT back to partying like it's 2021 AI + ML05 Jul 2023 | 14
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product Can you guess what it is yet? Here's a clue: It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I' AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 36
Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky? Opinion Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter? AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 8
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone? AI + ML24 May 2023 | 1
Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward AI + ML19 May 2023 | 15
How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts AI + ML18 May 2023 | 7
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker? AI + ML15 May 2023 | 43
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer Opinion Go, Team Robot AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
American, British monopoly watchdogs probe AI to make sure we don't get screwed Review will also look at barriers to entry where hyperscalers hold all the cards AI + ML04 May 2023 | 4
AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish Boffins devise query language for LLMs to make them more civil and less expensive AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 2
How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix Feature In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 55
SentinelOne sticks generative AI into its stuff because 2023 gotta 2023 RSA Conference Look, anyone can build these things Spotlight on RSA24 Apr 2023 | 5
Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 11
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor If it reflects 'core values of socialism' it'll be fine. No pressure, then, given that chatbots make many mistakes AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 17
Alibaba Cloud to offer custom LLMs-as-a-service 'Tongyi Qianwen' will drive cloud consumption, industry-specific AI, and smarter smart speakers AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 3