Issue 32 18th December 2023

Highlights

Did you miss the Global AI Conference?

The Global AI Conference is an event that brings together AI fans from all over the world. It's put together by the Global AI Community. On the day we streamed for over 18 hours delivering 30+ session.

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Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.

The post Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models appeared first on Microsoft Research.

AI isn’t and won’t soon be evil or even smart, but it’s also irreversibly pervasive

Artificial intelligence – or rather, the variety based on large language models we’re currently enthralled with – is already in the autumn of its hype cycle, but unlike crypto, it won’t just disappear into the murky, undignified corners of the internet once its ‘trend’ status fades. Instead, it’s settling into a place where its use...

Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature

Earlier this fall, Spotify was found to be developing a new feature that would allow its streaming app users to create playlists using AI technology and prompts. Now, that “AI playlists” feature has been spotted in the wild, as part of a test that to see how users will respond to AI-driven playlist creation.

Is Google Gemini the new chat gpt?

Google has launched Gemini, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence model, marking a significant advancement in the AI landscape. This new model, which Google claims surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT in most tests, is set to revolutionise various aspects of technology and AI applications. Key Features and Capabilities of Google Gemini Advanced Reasoning Across Multiple Formats: Gemini showcases exceptional reasoning abilities, not just in text but also in handling images, audio, and even marking physics homework.

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Azure AI Search: Generating the right answers, every time

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The AI trust crisis

Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used.

OpenAI thinks superhuman AI is coming — and wants to build tools to control it

While investors were preparing to go nuclear after Sam Altman’s unceremonious ouster from OpenAI and Altman was plotting his return to the company, the members of OpenAI’s Superalignment team were assiduously plugging along on the problem of how to control AI that’s smarter than humans. Or at least, that’s the impression they’d like to give.

AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems

Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge.

Getting started with Azure AI Studio

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Is ChatGPT Intelligent? A Scientific Review

A counterfactual task could be solving arithmetic questions in any base other than 10: the abstract skills needed to complete the task are identical, but you will find significantly more examples of the decimal system on the internet (and on LLMs training sets) . That is the crux of the LLM-AGI debate: has GPT (and LLMs in general) developed true, flexible, intelligence or is it only repeating variations on texts that it has seen before?

Masochist Britain: why is everyone asking Alexa to insult them?

The annual list of Alexa’s most-asked questions reveals evidence the UK is a nation of masochists, obsessed with football – and farting..