Transforming business practices through augmented intelligence: a new revolution
Opinion piece / Crossed view – MEGA International – June…
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When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it. What it does is something else and that something else only…
The Open Group Summit – Events Highlights Ecosystems Architecture & AI Standards, Edinburgh, UK, April 22-25, 2024
By Ash Patel, Marketing Specialist, The Open Group
The recent Summit of The Open Group in Edinburgh featured a vast variety of leading subject matter experts, keynote speakers, Forum Members, Work Groups, and Consortia, who came together to start a conversation involving the following themes: Ecosystems Architecture & AI Standards, Sustainability / Enterprise Architecture / Digital Transformation, and much more. There were over 425 attendees from 30 countries!
Microsoft lays the limitations of ChatGPT and friends bare
Microsoft researchers published a very informative paper on their pretty smart way to let GenAI do ‘bad’ things (i.e. ‘jailbreaking’). They actually set two aspects of the fundamental operation of these models against each other.
How a Series of ‘Quick Wins’ with AI Can Transform Businesses
by Kimberley Hagerty Introduction In the fast-paced world of supply…
Ain’t No Lie — The unsolvable(?) prejudice problem in ChatGPT and friends
Thanks to Gary Marcus, I found out about this research paper. And boy, is this is both a clear illustration of a fundamental flaw at the heart of Generative AI, as well as uncovering a doubly problematic and potentially unsolvable problem: fine-tuning …
Will Sam Altman’s $7 Trillion AI Plan Rescue AI?
Sam Altman wants $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing. Some call it an audacious ‘moonshot’. Grady Booch has remarked that such scaling requirements show that your architecture is wrong. Can we already say something about how large we have to scale cu…
The Department of “Engineering The Hell Out Of AI”
ChatGPT has acquired the functionality of recognising an arithmetic question and reacting to it with on-the-fly creating python code, executing it, and using it to generate the response. Gemini’s contains an interesting trick Google plays to improve be…
Memorisation: the deep problem of Midjourney, ChatGPT, and friends
If we ask GPT to get us “that poem that compares the loved one to a summer’s day” we want it to produce the actual Shakespeare Sonnet 18, not some confabulation. And it does. It has memorised this part of the training data. This is both sought-after an…
What makes Ilya Sutskever believe that superhuman AI is a natural extension of Large Language Models?
I came across a 2 minute video where Ilya Sutskever — OpenAI’s chief scientist — explains why he thinks current ‘token-prediction’ large language models will be able to become superhuman intelligences. How? Just ask them to act like one.
State of the Art Gemini, GPT and friends take a shot at learning
Google’s Gemini has arrived. Google has produced videos, a blog, a technical background paper, and more. According to Google: “Gemini surpasses state-of-the-art performance on a range of benchmarks including text and coding.”
But hidden in the grand …
Artificial General Intelligence is Nigh! Rejoice! Be very afraid!
Should we be hopeful or scared about imminent machines that are as intelligent or more than humans? Surprisingly, this debate is even older than computers, and from the mathematician Ada Lovelace comes an interesting observation that is as valid now as…