Efficient training of language models to fill in the middle
We show that an autoregressive language model can learn text embeddings after applying a simple transformation to the dataset. This simply moves a range of text from the middle of…
Exclusive: Upcoming US rules on AI chip exports aim to discourage circumvention
This illustrated photo taken on February 17, 2023 shows a semiconductor chip on a printed circuit board.Reuters/Florence Law/Illustration/File photo Obtaining license rights Oct. 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials say they…
Will we be smarter than humans in 5 years? The breakneck pace of AI
VentureBeat Presents: AI Unleashed – A special executive event for enterprise data leaders.Network and learn from industry peers. learn more Jeffrey Hinton, one of the “godfathers of AI,” has been…
VERSES provides integrated communications for investor relations
birth eye Inc., a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation artificial intelligence, announced that it has hired Integrous Communications as an investor relations advisor. Integas will help communicate VERSES’ corporate,…
Indy security company hopes use of AI will help curb crime
Austin Smith, CEO of Indianapolis-based Watchman Security, said the goal of the new gun detection software is to stop crimes before they happen. INDIANAPOLIS — Crime scene after crime scene…
Deasie wants to rank and filter data to increase confidence in generative AI
Deasya startup developing tools that give companies more control over their text-generating AI models, today announced seed funding with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, RTP Global, Rebel Fund, and…
Introducing Whisper
Other existing approaches often use smaller, more tightly paired speech and text training datasets. Or use extensive but unsupervised voice pre-training. Because Whisper was trained on a large and diverse…
Google Search’s latest AI trick turns words into images
summary Google has launched its own text-to-image tool for its Search Generative Experience (SGE) feature, which allows users to generate images based on text descriptions. The tool is available to…
The ever-ethical OpenAI has replaced its “core values” with something completely different.
Ah, I understand. artificial, generally In recent weeks, OpenAI has quietly changed its “core values” list to focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI), which was not explicitly listed before. as…
How this year’s Black Hat NOC leveraged AI to protect its event
According to data collected by Palo Alto Networks, more than 907 million threat events were detected in real time at this year’s Black Hat USA conference. This is a staggering…
What do roboticists think about generative AI?
The topic of generative AI is frequently covered in my newsletter Actuator. I’ll admit that a few months ago I was a little hesitant to spend more time on this…
Scaling law for overoptimization of reward models
Reinforcement learning from human feedback typically optimizes against a reward model that has been trained to predict human preferences. Since the reward model is an imperfect proxy, overoptimizing its value…