Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software…
On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative…
Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt what some call the first global resolution on AI, reports Reuters. The resolution aims to…
Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson’s disease at age…
When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic from its ability to imitate human communication and composition. Since then, the biggest question in…
Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia. Nvidia In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial intelligence often comes hand in hand with a physical platform, such as an android or…
Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip—the company’s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors—which Nvidia…
Benj Edwards On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in 2024, according to people…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. On Sunday, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model…
Getty Images It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT…