For much of the last year, it’s felt like Large Language Models (LLMs) have been the only game in town. While the State of AI Report predicted that transformers were emerging as a general purpose system back in 2021, significant advances in capabilities caught both the AI community and wider world by surprise, with implications for research, industry dynamics, and geopolitics.
Last year’s State of AI report outlined the rise of decentralization in AI research, but OpenAI’s GPT-4 stunned observers as big tech returned with a vengeance. Amid the scrabble for ever more compute power, challengers have found themselves increasingly reliant on its war chest. At the same time, the open source community continues to thrive, as the number of releases continues to rocket. — Read More
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Daily Archives: October 12, 2023
Nearly three quarters of news organisations believe generative AI presents new opportunities for journalism
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of news organisations surveyed in a new global report published today (20 September) on AI and the media believe generative AI (genAI), such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, presents new opportunities for journalism.
The new report, Generating Change: A global survey of what news organisations are doing with AI, from the JournalismAI initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) surveyed over 100 news organisations from 46 countries about their engagement with AI and associated technologies. The survey was conducted between April and July 2023. — Read More