Collaborate Disseminate
This is not the first time humanity has stared down the possibility of extinction due to its technological creations. But the threat of AI is very different from the nuclear weapons we’ve learned to live with. Nukes can’t think. They can’t lie, deceive… Continue reading The case for how and why AI might kill us all
ChatGPT showed the world that conversational AIs are ready for prime time, and capable of performing and chatting in character. It was only a matter of time before this kind of intelligence came to video game NPCs (non-player characters) – and yet I’m … Continue reading You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it’s incredible
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a slow, buggy, boring-looking chat bot that frequently makes things up and cuts off in the middle of answers. But it communicates as well or better than most humans, and writes code as well. It does both in a range of languages, sho… Continue reading Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?
Language model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is quite out of date, with the cutoff being late 2021. That’s where all of ChatGPT’s “knowledge” … Continue reading ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes
You’ve probably played with AI image generators by this stage. Services like DALL-E and Midjourney can create extraordinary images in response to simple text prompts. They’re a ton of fun, and like many AI tools, they’re improving and evolving at a fre… Continue reading Glaze tool messes with digital art so AIs can’t steal your style
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made the public aware of the insane power, potential and threat of large language models. The ripples from ChatGPT’s launch late last year are being felt in every industry – you can’t responsibly plan for the future of nearly any b… Continue reading China’s Baidu launches its “ERNIE Bot” AI early in response to GPT
ChatGPT’s underlying language model, GPT-3.5, is about to be superseded. The CTO of Microsoft Germany has told the audience at the company’s “AI in Focus” event that GPT-4 is set for imminent release, unlocking new capabilities, including video.Continu… Continue reading Microsoft casually drops news that ChatGPT 4.0 will go live this week
“No Lights, no cameras, all action.” You knew it was coming. One of the key companies behind the Stable Diffusion image generator has launched a mind-blowing AI video creation and editing tool that operates something like DALL-E for moving pictures.Con… Continue reading AI tools are now creating video, and matching sound effects
We are witnessing a revolution. After the stunning debut of OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 image generator last year, the company opened its natural language generator up to the public at the end of November last year. Since then, it’s spread like wildfire, amassin… Continue reading ChatGPT: The friendly face of your AI replacement