Monthly Archives: March 2023

Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 8:58 am on March 22, 2023
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AI image creator comes to Microsoft Bing

Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Edge browser are now equipped with an AI-powered image creator.

Why it matters: The tool uses OpenAI’s DALL-E to generate images from text prompts, and its rollout today reflects how quickly Microsoft has been building on its OpenAI partnership.

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 8:53 am on March 22, 2023
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The Age of AI has begun

Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet.

In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.

The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, and we immediately started brainstorming about all the things we could do with such a user-friendly approach to computing. Charles eventually joined Microsoft, Windows became the backbone of Microsoft, and the thinking we did after that demo helped set the company’s agenda for the next 15 years.

The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI since 2016 and was impressed by their steady progress. In mid-2022, I was so excited about their work that I gave them a challenge: train an artificial intelligence to pass an Advanced Placement biology exam. Make it capable of answering questions that it hasn’t been specifically trained for. (I picked AP Bio because the test is more than a simple regurgitation of scientific facts—it asks you to think critically about biology.) If you can do that, I said, then you’ll have made a true breakthrough.

I thought the challenge would keep them busy for two or three years. They finished it in just a few months. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 3:49 pm on March 21, 2023
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ChatGPT Helped Win a Hackathon

A team from cybersecurity firm Claroty used the AI bot to write code to exploit vulnerabilities in industrial systems

The ChatGPT AI bot has spurred speculation about how hackers might use it and similar tools to attack faster and more effectively, though the more damaging exploits so far have been in laboratories.

In its current form, the ChatGPT bot from OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence startup backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft Corp., is mainly trained to digest and generate text. For security chiefs, that means bot-written phishing emails might be more convincing than, for example, messages from a hacker whose first language isn’t English. 

… Two security researchers from cybersecurity company Claroty Ltd. said ChatGPT helped them win the Zero Day Initiative’s hack-a-thon in Miami last month. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 10:49 am on March 21, 2023
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Runway debuts AI model that can generate videos from text

Startup Runway AI Inc. today debuted Gen-2, an artificial intelligence model that can generate brief video clips based on text prompts.

… Gen-2, the startup’s new AI model for generating videos, is an improved version of an existing neural network called Gen-1 that debuted in February. …Runway’s original Gen-1 neural network takes an existing video as input along with a text prompt that describes what edits should be made. A user could, for example, supply Gen-1 with a video of a green car and a text prompt that reads “paint the car red”. The model will then automatically make the corresponding edits. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 10:42 am on March 21, 2023
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Midjourney V5 is Out Now – Next Steps in Photorealistic Experience with AI Art

Arecent breakthrough in AI, you might have missed: the highly awaited Midjourney V5 is out now. The independent research lab has just released their latest version of the famous AI art generator. Some already call it “a world of photorealistic wonder” in terms of creating breathtaking images from text prompts. Wonder or not, the newly trained model promises significant improvements in language understanding, accuracy, and stylistic flexibility. Let’s try it out together and see what this update is capable of.

V5 is the second deep-learning model from Midjourney and has been in the works for the past five months. It claims to use completely different neural architecture and new aesthetic techniques compared to its predecessor. As developers put it: “You might hear it characterized as newly trained, bigger-brained, that it knows more, understands more, or listens better. All these things are true of V5.“ Of course, we had to try for ourselves. And lo-and-behold, this release does create wonders, even if it is still just an alpha test. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 6:10 pm on March 20, 2023
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OpenAI CEO, CTO on risks and how AI will reshape society

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 2:40 pm on March 17, 2023
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Generative AI for office productivity: A comparison of Google and Microsoft’s offerings

Here’s a rundown of the AI-powered productivity features announced this week by Google for Workspace and Microsoft for Office 365.

Microsoft wasn’t a name you’d have come to associate with innovation. But the company’s newfound love for AI and its pouring billions into the tech is changing that. The company’s search engine Bing recently shot into the limelight after being limited to a single-digit market share for over a decade, thanks to the new AI chatbot integration.

Microsoft has undoubtedly won the AI-boosted search engine race, pulling ahead of Google at it. And now the focus has shifted toward integrating AI into office productivity apps.

Earlier this week, Google announced a suite of upcoming generative AI features for its various Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Only a couple of days later, Microsoft announced 365 Copilot – similar generative AI capabilities for its own office productivity apps. Neither of the two additions has been rolled out to the general public as of yet, but enough information has been provided nevertheless to differentiate between the two. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 2:23 pm on March 17, 2023
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The Future of Work With AI

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 9:56 am on March 17, 2023
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Lightning AI CEO slams OpenAI’s GPT-4 paper as ‘masquerading as research’

Shortly after OpenAI’s surprise release of its long-awaited GPT-4 model yesterday, there was a raft of online criticism about what accompanied the announcement: a 98-page technical report about the “development of GPT-4.” 

Many said the report was notable mostly for what it did not include. In a section called Scope and Limitations of this Technical Report, it says: “Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar.”

“I think we can call it shut on ‘Open’ AI: the 98 page paper introducing GPT-4 proudly declares that they’re disclosing *nothing* about the contents of their training set,” tweeted Ben Schmidt, VP of information design at Nomic AI.  Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 9:51 am on March 17, 2023
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OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is officially here — and the numbers speak for themselves.

Hot on the heels of its announcement, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new large language model — and reader, we’re both spooked and skeptical in equal measures.

According to a new white paper, the algorithm got incredibly good scores on a number of exams including the Bar, the LSATs, the SAT’s Reading and Math tests, and the GRE. Read More

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