Yesterday AI commentator Gary Marcus described OpenAI — the ChatGPT chatbot company — as a slow-motion train wreck. He was referring to yet more high-profile departure via a series of puff piece magazine covers, commenting, “From left to right that’s Ilya Sutskever (now gone, less than a year later), Greg Brockman (on leave, at least until the end of the year), CTO Mira Murati (departure just announced) and Sam Altman (fired, and then rehired).” Read More ›
There is no way to build a computer that does not rely on 1’s and 0’s (computation), so computers that understand meaning are not possible. Read More ›
The researchers warn against using chatbots in research writing: While it can compose correct English, what it says may be false, inaccurate, or confabulated. Read More ›
YouTube doesn’t want to harm its business model, which thrives on sensation and controversy but it must also avoid at all costs a legal and political powderkeg. Read More ›
The AI researchers report “a dramatic breakdown of function and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models trained at the largest available scales”. Read More ›
It takes an experienced financial planner to distinguish between good and bad advice, so clients may as well skip the LLMs and go to the knowledgeable human. Read More ›