Universities in South Africa building their own large language models
Universities in South Africa are developing their own large language models specifically geared to meet the requirements of the local population.
From Cape Town to the Free State, local educational institutions recently...
The overconfident AI problem
Generative AI systems like large language models and text-to-image generators can pass rigorous exams that are required of anyone seeking to become a doctor or a lawyer.
They can perform better than most people in Mathematical Olympiads. They can write halfway...
Understanding the AI behind ChatGPT
The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era and they may indeed have significant impacts on how we live and work in future.
But they haven’t appeared...
Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok AI chatbot and language model
Elon Musk's xAI has launched its own artificial intelligence (AI) engine and chatbot to take on OpenAI, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
Called "Grok", the AI is modelled after the Douglas Adams novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
How hackers are making AI models bad at math
Kennedy Mays has just tricked a large language model. It took some coaxing, but she managed to convince an algorithm to say 9 + 10 = 21.
“It was a back-and-forth conversation,” said the 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia.
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Meta backtracks on free use of Llama for cloud services
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to make money from the major cloud-computing companies when they resell its artificial intelligence large language model, Llama 2.
“If you’re someone like Microsoft, Amazon or Google, and you’re going to...
Meta makes Llama 2 available to commercial customers on Azure and AWS
Meta Platforms Inc. is making its artificial intelligence large language model, Llama 2, available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud providers including Microsoft Corp.
Meta isn’t charging for access...
Google loses last of 8 key AI researchers that wrote groundbreaking paper
An artificial intelligence researcher who co-authored one of Google’s most influential papers in the field is leaving the company to launch a startup.
Llion Jones, who helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is...