Chatgpt

22 Nov 23

What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Limor Fried is the founder of Adafruit, a leading electronics manufacturer for makers. The open-source microcontroller driver libraries she writes to interface with devices such as sensors and displays often become de facto standards and are found in many code repositories. Recently, Fried began experimenting with ChatGPT to generate drivers…

29 Oct 23

Generative AI’s Energy Problem Today is Foundational

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

While the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back more than 60 years to the mid-20th century, the explosion of generative AI products—like ChatGPT or Midjourney— in the past two years has brought the technology to a new level of popularity. And that popularity comes at a steep…

02 Oct 23

ChatGPT’s New Upgrade Teases AI’s Multimodal Future

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

ChatGPT isn’t just a chatbot anymore.OpenAI’s latest upgrade grants ChatGPT powerful new abilities that go beyond text. It can tell bedtime stories in its own AI voice, identify objects in photos, and respond to audio recordings. These capabilities represent the next big thing in AI: multimodal models.“Multimodal is the next…

08 Sep 23

Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS,…

01 Sep 23

College Admissions: Should AI Apply?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A new school year is dawning for the Northern Hemisphere, which means a new crop of high school seniors are staring down the dreaded college admissions process. To secure their place at the institution of higher learning of their choice, many of these students will need to write personal essays…

23 Aug 23

IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI

Computer & Information Technology

An artificial intelligence chip from IBM is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips at speech recognition. Many controversial AI systems, including ChatGPT and other large language models, as well as generative AI now used to create video and images, may benefit from the device.The accuracy…

02 Aug 23

Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Seeing his words on the printed page is a big deal to Andrew Leland—as it is to all writers. But the sight of his thoughts in written form is much more precious to him than to most scribes. Leland is gradually losing his vision due to a congenital condition called…

28 Jul 23

The Long and Mostly Short of China’s Newest GPT

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Who said all large-language models (LLMs) necessarily need to be large? In China’s case, LLMs are currently downsizing in their size and number of parameters. According to sources, this is because the country is now focusing on enabling Chinese startups and smaller entities to build their own generative AI applications.…

27 Jul 23

Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source

Computer & Information Technology

Social media and advertising-technology company Meta recently released an update to its large language model Llama. Llama 2 was released as open source, providing users access to the model’s weights, evaluation code, and documentation. Meta states the open-source release was intended to make the model “accessible to individuals, creators, researchers,…

07 Jul 23

Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

If you’re a typical person who has plenty of medical questions and not enough time with a doctor to ask them, you may have already turned to ChatGPT for help. Have you asked ChatGPT to interpret the results of that lab test your doctor ordered? The one that came back…