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AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands

posted onMarch 17, 2023
by l33tdawg
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On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and "too perfect." Midjourney v5 is available now as an alpha test for customers who subscribe to the Midjourney service, which is available through Discord.

Microsoft aims to reduce “tedious” business tasks with new AI tools

posted onMarch 7, 2023
by l33tdawg
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On Monday, Microsoft bundled ChatGPT-style AI technology into its Power Platform developer tool and Dynamics 365, Reuters reports. Affected tools include Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder, both of which have been updated to include GPT large language model (LLM) technology created by OpenAI.

The move follows the trend among tech giants such as Alphabet and Baidu to incorporate generative AI technology into their offerings—and of course, the multi-billion dollar partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft announced in January.

I Asked an Algorithm to Optimize My Life. Here's What Happened

posted onMarch 2, 2023
by l33tdawg
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I was halfway through a master’s in Computer Science when my vision changed. I was working as a data scientist during my summer off from school, and I had friends who said things like “I’m at a local maximum” in normal conversation. Wherever I looked, suboptimality began standing out as though highlighted in the angry red of a programming error.

Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy

posted onFebruary 20, 2023
by l33tdawg
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Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing Chat service, still in private testing, has been in the headlines for its wild and erratic outputs. But that era has apparently come to an end. At some point during the past two days, Microsoft has significantly curtailed Bing's ability to threaten its users, have existential meltdowns, or declare its love for them.

Fearing ChatGPT, Google enlists founders Brin and Page in AI fight

posted onJanuary 25, 2023
by l33tdawg
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ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives about OpenAI's new chatbot, which Google feels could threaten its $149 billion search business.

Created by OpenAI and launched in late November 2022, the large language model (LLM) known as ChatGPT stunned the world with its conversational ability to answer questions, generate text in many styles, aid with programming, and more.

Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips

posted onDecember 28, 2022
by l33tdawg
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Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some of the magic wears off, however, when Lee learns that the image had not appeared simply by asking for “a picture of a train.” Instead, it had to be painstakingly coded and rendered—by hard-working humans.

GPT-3 and Cybersecurity

posted onDecember 16, 2022
by l33tdawg
Credit: Sophos

The use of deep neural networks has significantly improved the performance of machine learning in fields such as image recognition, machine translation, and malware classification. A key lesson from recent deep learning success is that, as we scale neural networks, they tend to get better in ways that can be game-changing. In this post, we explain how supercomputer-scale neural networks can be used for machine learning security applications in new and powerful ways.

OpenAI invites everyone to test new AI-powered chatbot—with amusing results

posted onDecember 2, 2022
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chat interface for its GPT-3 family of large language models. It's currently free to use with an OpenAI account during a testing phase. Unlike the GPT-3 model found in OpenAI's Playground and API, ChatGPT provides a user-friendly conversational interface and is designed to strongly limit potentially harmful output.

OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

posted onNovember 30, 2022
by l33tdawg
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On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing longer-form content. Almost immediately, people discovered that it could also generate rhyming songs, limericks, and poetry at a level GPT-3 could not previously produce.