AI

Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert got everyone's pixels in a pickle when he tweeted that Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic's newest hopeful ChatGPT killer) demonstrated a type of "metacognition" (or self-awareness) during a "needle-in-the-haystack" evaluation. Continue Reading →

Anthropic claims that Claude 3, the company's most recent AI release, has achieved "near-human" capabilities in various cognitive tasks. It's a bold claim. Let's put it in perspective. Continue Reading →

I am thrilled to announce our first AI for Brand Marketers Summit powered by Brand Innovators & Shelly Palmer, hosted by Paramount Global (June 4-6 in NYC). Continue Reading →

If you've been wondering when Apple will have an answer to ChatGPT and the generative AI craze, we may finally have a clue. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has accused The New York Times of employing deceptive tactics to generate evidence for a copyright lawsuit against the AI company. In a legal filing in Manhattan federal court, OpenAI alleges that The New York Times used "deceptive prompts" to make ChatGPT reproduce the newspaper's content, which OpenAI argues violates its terms of use and undermines the integrity of the legal process. Continue Reading →

Paris-based startup Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large, a new open source AI model that builds on its initial offering, Mistral 7B. Designed for developers, Mistral Large distinguishes itself with exceptional reasoning skills and proficiency in code and mathematics. The model is multilingual and is fluent English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Continue Reading →

For its EA Sports College Football 25 video game, EA Sports will offer Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals worth $600 to more than 11,000 athletes. This initiative marks the largest NIL deal to date, covering all 85 scholarship players across 134 FBS programs. Continue Reading →

Tyler Perry has decided to halt the planned $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio, citing concerns over the rapid advancements in AI, particularly OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora. Continue Reading →

Google has decided to pause the image generation of people for its AI model Gemini due to concerns over racial accuracy in the images it produced. The decision came after users and critics pointed out that the AI was generating historically inaccurate images, particularly in terms of the race of the subjects depicted. Continue Reading →

Yann LeCun, Meta's Chief AI Scientist, has been all over social media lately. He's looking to reboot the AI research echo chamber, challenging the current approach to AI championed by OpenAI, Google, and other big players. Continue Reading →