Civil war in the AI community ➡ Open vs. closed AI platforms ... Top AI stories TL;DR 3Nov23

Last update: 11/3/23 

This week's top stories covered two related developments. The first played out onstage in three of the grandest global venues; whereas the second unfolded backstage ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE

Google vs. Microsoft... Top AI stories TL;DR 27OCT23

Last update: 10/27/23

Consider the image for this blog note. Question: Why is that man smiling? Answer: He is smiling because he is Satya Nadella, the very well paid CEO of Microsoft. As described in the articles reporting our first top story, Nadella's huge investment bets in AI have yielded substantial quarterly earnings, earnings that have convinced Wall Street that AI will soon become a highly productive and highly profitable money maker for Microsoft. Microsoft’s growth in the most recent quarter stemmed from the business unit the company labels “Azure and other cloud services,” which houses its investments in AI ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE
 

Bard vs. ChatGPT ... Top AI stories TL;DR 20Oct23

Last update: 10/20/23

When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT driven by a comprehensive LLM called "GPT-3.5" back in late 2022, it caught Google off-guard. Google was even more befuddled when OpenAI replaced GPT-3.5 with the more powerful model GPT-4 in early 2023; then OpenAI released an incessant stream of new capabilities for ChatGPT in the months that followed ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE

Ezra Klein, "The Matrix", and Big Tech's current efforts to trivialize LLMs

Last update: 5/31/23 

Once again, the editor of this blog calls his readers' attention to some cogent observations about artificial intelligence (AI) from Ezra Klein, his favorite public intellectual. Mr. Klein's observations appeared in a recent NY Times op ed ==> "Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind", Ezra Klein, NY Times, 5/28/23. As the editor suggested in a previous note on this blog, "Ezra Klein: the public intellectual as AI critic", Klein is brilliant and well informed; but he is not an AI expert, so his incisive comments illuminate the limits of what can be understood about large language models (LLMs) and other AI technologies by non-experts.

Developing reliable specialized large language models (LLMs) for the multi billion dollar online/hybrid education market

Last update: Friday 5/12/23 

Why did OpenAI release ChatGPT with the GPT-3.5 model, then with GPT-4, even though both models were prone to factual errors, bias, and "hallucinations". Open AI claimed that it did so, even at the risk of being banned in some countries (e.g., Italy temporarily), in order to learn from widespread user experience with the flawed models.