• KnowNo combines LLMs with statistical tools that measure confidence levels to enable robots to ask for help – teaching them to recognize and respond to uncertainty has improved the success rates of three robots in over 150 different scenarios, and shown that people prefer robots that ask questions. - MIT Technology Review
• Popular financial news website Investing.com used AI to rewrite stories from competing sites and published them without linking to the original content – some of the affected creators say this is a threat to original content, but others say this is just plain ol’ plagiarism that’s been happening forever, only now it’s AI-powered. - Semafor
• OpenAI partners with Axel Springer to train models on their content, and boost ChatGPT answers with recent, authoritative news content – including summaries of paid content from popular media brands, with attribution and links to the full articles, as a way to support journalism in the AI age. - Axel Springer
• Phi-2 is a tiny (2.7 billion parameters) model that outperforms models 3x its size – its secret is highly-curated, textbook-quality training data, and innovative scaling techniques that were used to grow the previous Phi-1.5 model into Phi-2. - Microsoft
• Which AI should you be using on a daily basis? Basically, GPT-4, unless you have specific needs that can only be addressed with competing proprietary or open-source models – and remember, free ChatGPT doesn’t have GPT-4, you need the premium version. - One Useful Thing
• Perhaps you don’t need a chip in your brain to communicate via brainwaves – a cap records the brains electrical activity and translates it into text in a “significant breakthrough in the field” of brain-to-text translation, at the moment it’s only 40% accurate and researchers want to push it to 90%. - UTS
