… We wondered if generative AI (genAI) adoption would mirror the promise of the cloud back in 2010. The transition to cloud ended up requiring significant investment in infrastructure and time, not to mention change management. But the promise—and implementation—of AI is proving to be very different. — Read More
Daily Archives: September 8, 2023
LLMs Are Not All You Need
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powering the next big wave of innovation in technology, as with the internet, smartphones, and the cloud — generative AI is poised to change the fabric of our society.
GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot have been supercharging the productivity of developers worldwide since 2021. … The way we work is soon to shift. Goldman Sachs expects GenAI to raise global GDP by 7% in the next ten years. …LLMs alone are good, but not 7% of global GDP good. We need the ecosystem built around LLMs to make the most of them. — Read More
LLMs, RAG, & the missing storage layer for AI
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI, especially Language Model Machines (LLMs) have emerged as the veritable backbone of numerous applications, from natural language processing and machine translation to virtual assistants and content generation. The advent of GPT-3 and its successors marked a significant milestone in AI development, ushering in an era where machines could not only understand but also generate human-like text with astonishing proficiency. However, beneath the surface of this AI revolution lies a crucial missing element, one that has the potential to unlock even greater AI capabilities: the storage layer. — Read More
Chinese social media campaigns are successfully impersonating U.S. voters, Microsoft warns
Chinese state-aligned influence and disinformation campaigns are impersonating U.S. voters and targeting political candidates on multiple social media platforms with improved sophistication, Microsoft said in a threat analysis report Thursday.
Chinese Communist Party-affiliated “covert influence operations have now begun to successfully engage with target audiences on social media to a greater extent than previously observed,” according to the report, which focused on the rise in “digital threats from East Asia.” — Read More
Time100 AI
Time has published its list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebrated—its ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. AI’s capacity to model itself on human behavior has become its defining feature. Yet behind every advance in machine learning and large language models are, in fact, people—both the often obscured human labor that makes large language models safer to use, and the individuals who make critical decisions on when and how to best use this technology. Reporting on people and influence is what TIME does best. That led us to the TIME100 AI. — Read More
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