SCALE: Custom Open-Source LLMs

Fine-tune open-source large language models for improved performance on your most important use cases.

… Scale Generative AI Data Engine powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. — Read More

#chatbots, #devops

Meta’s latest AI model is free for all 

The company hopes that making LLaMA 2 open source might give it the edge over rivals like OpenAI.

Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company is today unveiling LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone to use—for free. 

Since OpenAI released its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT last November, tech companies have been racing to release models in hopes of overthrowing its supremacy. Meta has been in the slow lane. In February when competitors Microsoft and Google announced their  AI chatbots, Meta rolled out the first, smaller version of LLaMA, restricted to researchers. But it hopes that releasing LLaMA 2, and making it free for anyone to build commercial products on top of, will help it catch up.  — Read More

#big7, #chatbots, #devops

Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster

Those of us who have spent the last few decades reporting on technology have seen fads and fashions rise and fall on investment bubbles.

In the late 1990s it was dot-com companies, more recently crypto, blockchain, NFTs, driverless cars, the “metaverse.” All have had their day in the sun amid promises they would change the world, or at least banking and finance, the arts, transportation, society at large. To date, those promises are spectacularly unfulfilled.

That brings us to artificial intelligence chatbots.

In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being…. In a few months, it will be at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be incalculable. — AI pioneer Marvin Minsky — in 1970

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#strategy, #chatbots

Claude 2

We are pleased to announce Claude 2, our new model. Claude 2 has improved performance, longer responses, and can be accessed via API as well as a new public-facing beta website, claude.ai. We have heard from our users that Claude is easy to converse with, clearly explains its thinking, is less likely to produce harmful outputs, and has a longer memory. We have made improvements from our previous models on coding, math, and reasoning. For example, our latest model scored 76.5% on the multiple choice section of the Bar exam, up from 73.0% with Claude 1.3. When compared to college students applying to graduate school, Claude 2 scores above the 90th percentile on the GRE reading and writing exams, and similarly to the median applicant on quantitative reasoning.

Think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks. The Claude 2 API for businesses is being offered for the same price as Claude 1.3. Additionally, anyone in the US and UK can start using our beta chat experience today. — Read More

#chatbots

GPT-4 Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, MoE

OpenAI is keeping the architecture of GPT-4 closed not because of some existential risk to humanity but because what they’ve built is replicable. In fact, we expect Google, Meta, Anthropic, Inflection, Character, Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, and more to all have models as capable as GPT-4 if not more capable in the near term.

Don’t get us wrong, OpenAI has amazing engineering, and what they built is incredible, but the solution they arrived at is not magic. It is an elegant solution with many complex tradeoffs. Going big is only a portion of the battle. OpenAI’s most durable moat is that they have the most real-world usage, leading engineering talent, and can continue to race ahead of others with future models. — Read More

Yam Peleg posted the details. Yam’s Post Here … at least for now

#chatbots

AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool

Within weeks of ChatGPT’s launch, there were fears that students would be using the chatbot to spin up passable essays in seconds. In response to those fears, startups started making products that promise to spot whether text was written by a human or a machine.

The problem is that it’s relatively simple to trick these tools and avoid detection, according to new research that has not yet been peer reviewed.  — Read More

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OpenAI launches its GPT-4 API into general availability

OpenAI LP today made GPT-4, its newest and most capable language model, generally available through a cloud-based application programming interface.

…  Alongside GPT-4, OpenAI is making three other AI models’ APIs generally available: GPT-3.5 Turbo, a predecessor to GPT-4 that offers more limited capabilities for a significantly lower cost, DALL-E for image generation, and Whisper for speech transcription. — Read More

#chatbots

CognoSpeak: AI tool uses speech technology to quickly assess dementia risk

A new AI tool that could help doctors assess the early signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s more quickly and efficiently, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

The system, known as CognoSpeak, uses a virtual agent displayed on a screen to engage a patient in a conversation. It asks memory-probing questions inspired by those used in outpatient consultations and conducts cognitive tests, such as picture descriptions and verbal fluency tests. — Read More

#chatbots

ChatData

Chat with/Query 2 milions arxiv papers. — Read More

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NASA is creating a ChatGPT-like assistant for astronauts

Despite our intrinsic distrust of AI in space taught to us by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey (“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave“), it offers large advantages to both manned and unmanned missions. To that end, NASA is developing a system that will allow astronauts to perform maneuvers, conduct experiments and more using a natural-language ChatGPT-like interface, The Guardian reported. 

“The idea is to get to a point where we have conversational interactions with space vehicles and they [are] also talking back to us on alerts, interesting findings they see in the solar system and beyond,” said Dr. Larissa Suzuki, speaking at an IEEE meeting on next-gen space communication. “It’s really not like science fiction anymore.” 

NASA aims to deploy the system on its Lunar Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and provide support for NASA’s Artemis mission. It would use a natural language interface that allows astronauts to seek advice on experiments or conduct maneuvers without diving into complex manuals.  — Read More

#chatbots