Gpt-4

27 Dec 23

Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

2023 may well go down in history as one of the most wild and dramatic years in the history of artificial intelligence. People were still struggling to understand the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which had been introduced in late 2022, when the company released its newest large language model, GPT-4,…

18 Dec 23

Gemini Is Google’s Best AI Model Yet, But Who Cares?

Computer & Information Technology

Google’s reveal of Gemini, an AI model built to close the gap between the search giant and OpenAI, made a great first impression. Strong benchmarks, a flashy video demo, and immediate availability (albeit for a cut-back version) signaled confidence. But the positivity soured as AI engineers and enthusiasts picked through…

14 Dec 23

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

One day, the theory goes, we humans will create AI systems that outmatch us intellectually. That could be great if they solve problems that we’ve been thus far unable to crack (think cancer or climate change), or really bad if they begin to act in ways that are not in…

11 Sep 23

Python Profiler Links to AI to Improve Code

Computer & Information Technology

Python continues its dominance as one of the top programming languages, yet it’s notorious for being sluggish, so some software developers resort to profilers—tools that run programs to determine which parts of the code are slow. But profilers can be frustrating, because they can slow programs down during the profiling…

24 Jul 23

Meta’s Llama 2 Elbows Into a Still-Open Field

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last week, Meta introduced Llama 2, a new large language model with up to 70 billion parameters. The new generative AI system represents a spectacular shot across the bow of OpenAI, which shares few details about most AI models including GPT-3/3.5 and GPT-4. Llama 2’s release—with 40 percent of the…

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…

23 Jun 23

The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That

Computer & Information Technology

The Internet is hurtling into a hurricane of AI-generated nonsense, and no one knows how to stop it.That’s the sobering possibility presented in a pair of papers that examine AI models trained on AI-generated data. This possibly avoidable fate isn’t news for AI researchers. But these two new findings foreground…

21 Jun 23

The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

Computer & Information Technology

What should we make of OpenAI’s GPT-4, anyway? Is the large language model a major step on the way to an artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the insider’s term for an AI system with a flexible human-level intellect? And if we do create an AGI, might it be so different from human…

17 May 23

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. And so it is with the current shock and awe over large language models, such as GPT-4 from OpenAI.It’s a textbook example of the mixture of…

19 Apr 23

GPT-4, AGI, and the Hunt for Superintelligence

Computer & Information Technology

For decades, the most exalted goal of artificial intelligence has been the creation of an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, capable of matching or even outperforming human beings on any intellectual task. It’s an ambitious goal long regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension, because of the likelihood of…