AI Safety

Bill Gates thinks AI's risks are manageable if we act responsibly

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Chris McKay• July 11, 2023 • 2 min read

In a recent blog post, Bill Gates weighs in on AI risk, staking out a middle ground between "AI doomers" like Geoffrey Hinton and optimistic voices like Yann LeCun. Gates acknowledges legitimate concerns about AI, including impacts on jobs, privacy, elections, bias, and security. However, he expresses optimism that society

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OpenAI Shares Insights from their World Tour

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Chris McKay• July 1, 2023 • 1 min read

Was OpenAI's world tour a well-intentioned initiative aiming to bring the conversation about AI to the global stage, or clever public relations and lobbying? The answer of course is yes. Insights from global conversationsWe are sharing what we learned from our conversations across 22 countries, and how we will be

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Stability's new SDXL 0.9 model can generate more photorealistic images

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Chris McKay• June 22, 2023 • 1 min read

Stability AI's newest open-source model, SDXL 0.9, is its most impressive model yet. Though its output may not quite reach the standards of leading models like Midjourney, its rapid enhancements and easy accessibility are nothing short of impressive. In a field often defined by specialized hardware requirements, what is

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The Infrastructure that Powers ChatGPT

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Chris McKay• June 2, 2023

Ever wonder what it takes to train and power large language models like ChatGPT? Here's a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure that Microsoft has in place.

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Measuring the Productivity Impact of Generative AI

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Chris McKay• June 1, 2023 • 1 min read

A study conducted between 2020 and 2021 found that when customer service agents used a GPT-based AI tool, their productivity rose by nearly 14 percent, with a striking 35 percent increase among the least experienced and skilled workers. What's particularly compelling about these findings is the way AI essentially created

Google Research

Training LLMs for Software Development

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Chris McKay• May 31, 2023 • 1 min read

Reading Google's outline of DIDACT (Dynamic Integrated Developer ACTivity), left me am both exhilarated and intrigued. The whole idea of training machine learning (ML) models with data from the software development process, rather than just the final code, is downright ingenious and novel. It's one of those things that look

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OpenAI Really Wants us to Regulate AI. Should we?

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Chris McKay• May 23, 2023 • 1 min read

The company's leaders have penned a letter that calls for global coordination, safety measures, and public oversight. While I agree that it's critical to ensure safety, we must also recognize that placing restrictions and implementing audits may stifle the freedom needed to foster equitable AI development. I applaud the emphasis

AI Tech

Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

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Chris McKay• May 23, 2023 • 1 min read

For the uninitiated, Wolfram Alpha is a unique online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages like you would get from a search engine like Google. Like ChatGPT, it's designed to handle natural language