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Maximilian Schreiner

Aug 14, 2024

LongWriter: Current LLMs can generate much longer text than previously thought

Maximilian Schreiner

Aug 13, 2024

Automated research: The AI Scientist generates papers for 15 dollars each

Jonathan Kemper

Aug 13, 2024

This AI understands video games, and it could make cheating easier than ever

AI illustration of a rabbit sitting in front of a TV playing video games.

Maximilian Schreiner

Aug 13, 2024

Microsoft: Iran uses generative AI to influence US elections

AI illustration of a US politician and a data matrix.

Kim M. Scheurenbrand

Aug 11, 2024

Microsoft's RUBICON tells if your AI coding buddy is actually helping or just slacking off

Matthias Bastian

Aug 10, 2024

Harvard study shows LLMs are already deeply rooted in students' daily lives

A survey of 326 students by the Harvard Undergraduate Association found that almost 90 percent use generative AI.

Matthias Bastian

Aug 10, 2024

ChatGPT's automatic prompt rewriting reduces DALL-E 3's performance, study finds

A study at the University of California, Berkeley, shows that the automatic revision of prompts by a large language model reduces the quality of images generated by DALL-E 3 by almost 58 percent compared to the direct use of prompts written for DALL-E 2. In an experiment with 1,891 participants, users of DALL-E 3 achieved better results than those using DALL-E 2, but the advantage was smaller when the prompts were automatically revised. This suggests that AI-assisted prompt revisions may affect users' ability to realize the full potential of a model. The researchers identified two main reasons for the differences in performance between DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3: improved technical capabilities and adapted prompting strategies by users. As models evolve, an interplay may develop in which people continually adjust their prompts to take advantage of the latest model's capabilities.

Matthias Bastian

Aug 8, 2024

Google Deepmind's robot serves up impressive ping pong skills in matches against humans

Google Deepmind's new robot probably plays table tennis better than you do

Maximilian Schreiner

Aug 8, 2024

AI-powered material rendering breakthrough paves the way for more realistic graphics

Maximilian Schreiner

Aug 7, 2024

Researchers compress 3D object data into 64x64 pixel images for 3D content creation