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Matthias Bastian

Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
Matthias Bastian
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Aug 11, 2023
AI in practice
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Read full article about: AI-generated videos just got a lot longer

Runway's Gen-2 text/image-to-video model can now generate videos up to 18 seconds long. Previously it was only 4 seconds. The update is now available to all Runway Gen-2 users in the browser version and will be coming to the iOS app soon. See the following 18-second epic of red-bearded guys doing stuff on the streets of Japan. Any resemblance to living editors of this site is purely coincidental.

It looks like Runway is going full speed ahead with AI video, the start-up just released a major quality update for Gen-2 at the end of July.

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Aug 10, 2023
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Read full article about: China's tech giants splurge $5 billion on Nvidia chips for AI domination

China's internet giants Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba have reportedly ordered $5bn worth of Nvidia chips crucial for developing generative AI systems. The companies plan to purchase 100,000 A800 processors this year and more GPUs in 2024. Nvidia is offering these processors in China to comply with export control regulations after U.S. officials demanded a halt to exports of the company's top computer chips for AI-related work in the country. The news comes after President Biden signed an executive order limiting U.S. investment in China's sensitive technology sectors.

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Aug 7, 2023
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Read full article about: ChatGPT beats Bing and Bard at answering physiology case studies for medical education

A study comparing the performance of OpenAI's ChatGPT (GPT-3.5), Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing (Precision mode) in answering 77 physiology case vignettes showed that ChatGPT significantly outperformed the others (ChatGPT 3.19±0.3, Bard 2.91±0.5, Bing Chat 2.15±0.6, on a scale of 0 to 4). Two physiologists independently scored the responses of the LLMs for accuracy.

While the results highlight the potential for incorporating AI systems into medical education, the study acknowledges the need for further research to determine the effectiveness of these models in different medical fields. It's also possible that specific AI models fine-tuned for medical tasks will win the race, such as Google's recently unveiled Med-PaLM M, which also incorporates vision.

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