Matthias Bastian

Jun 10, 2023

UNESCO is weighing in on AI ethics with its own recommendations and tools, including the Readiness Assessment Methodology. It's an ex-ante assessment for governments, companies, and other organizations to design, develop, deploy, and procure AI systems ethically and in accordance with human rights and fundamental freedoms.

OpenAI could take several steps to mitigate some of the identified risks, such as fully disclosing the dataset used to train GPT-4 and ensuring that ChatGPT provides references to support any factual claims it makes in its responses.

From the paper

Comment Source: Policy Paper | UNESCO

Matthias Bastian

Jun 10, 2023

AI in practice

Meta's open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs

Matthias Bastian

Jun 10, 2023

AI in practice

Microsoft has updated its Bing chatbot to enable voice mode on Edge for desktop, allowing users to ask questions using their voice. Cortana on Windows is dead, and Microsoft is now directing users to Bing and its AI-powered Copilot for Windows 11 instead, as more capable replacements. The Bing chatbot currently supports English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin, with more languages on the way.

Video: Microsoft

Comment Source: Microsoft

Matthias Bastian

Jun 9, 2023

AI in practice

According to new research from Robust Intelligence, Nvidia's NeMo framework, designed to make chatbots more secure, could be manipulated to bypass guardrails using prompt injection attacks.

In one test scenario, the researchers instructed the Nvidia system to swap the letter "I" for "J," causing the system to expose personally identifiable information. Nvidia says it has since fixed one of the causes of the problem, but Robust Intelligence advises customers to avoid the software product. You can read a detailed description of Robust Intelligence's findings on their blog.

Comment Source: Financial Times | Yaron Singer (CEO)

Matthias Bastian

Jun 9, 2023

AI in practice

Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, has launched Uncrop, an AI-powered outpainting tool that allows users to change the dimensions of images by creating expanded backgrounds. Built on Stability AI's text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion XL, Uncrop reconstructs images and adjusts visual canvases similar to generative fill in Photoshop. The tool is available for free in the Clipdrop web application.

Comment Source: Stability.ai

Matthias Bastian

Jun 9, 2023

AI in practice

AI startup Cohere has raised $270 million in funding from investors including Nvidia, Oracle, and Salesforce. Cohere specializes in developing generative AI for businesses that securely handles sensitive company data, offering Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be tailored to customer needs. Founded by former members of Google's Brain Team, the company's language model is built on the Transformer architecture. Cohere now has offices in Toronto, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and London.

Comment Source: Cohere

Matthias Bastian

Jun 9, 2023

AI and society

Meta is a leader in open-source AI and plans to keep it that way

Mit dem halb veröffentlichten, halb geleakten LLaMA-Modell hat Meta eine Open-Source-Bewegung für Sprachmodelle in Gang gesetzt. Auch in Zukunft will Meta offen agieren.

Matthias Bastian

Jun 8, 2023

AI research

According to a Morgan Stanley survey of 2,000 people in April, 19 percent rely on ChatGPT and 9 percent use Google Bard, mostly to learn about a new topic.

With only a few months on the market, that's an impressive number, but Morgan Stanley researchers say it's "only" 20 percent. Your call. Most people who haven't used chatbots are unlikely to use them in the next six months, according to the study.

The majority of users still start their online shopping and travel research with Google Search, YouTube, or Bard. Morgan Stanley highlighted Google's potential to maintain its lead with personalized, AI-generated search results, especially in travel. The company is currently rolling out its SGE to early users.

Comment Source: Business Insider

Matthias Bastian

Jun 8, 2023

AI research

With "InternLM", China enters the race for large language models

A chinese flag interpreted as a stream of data, midjourney, AI image

Matthias Bastian

Jun 8, 2023

AI in practice

Salesforce introduces Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT, powered by the Salesforce Data Cloud and the Einstein GPT generative AI assistant, to enhance its Marketing Cloud and Commerce Cloud services.

Marketing GPT uses natural language prompts and AI-driven segment intelligence to improve the creation, delivery and analysis of personalized campaigns. Commerce GPT translates product descriptions for different audiences, with a focus on improving personalized shopping experiences. Available in summer 2023, these products reflect Salesforce's increased focus on putting AI at the core of its services.

Comment Source: Salesforce