The Biden administration is urging cloud service providers, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, to identify foreign users involved in creating AI technologies, particularly targeting users in China. A new proposal could dictate these companies to disclose the identities including IP addresses of international clients working on AI projects. This rule aims at limiting access to…
Natural language processing, a rapidly developing field, depends crucially on the evolution of language models. Essential for mimicking human-like text understanding and generation, these models are key in various operations, such as translation and conversational interfaces. However, conventional models, especially byte-level ones, have faced the issue of effectively managing long data sequences which hampers their…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have made striking advancements, improving natural language generation and comprehension. However, these models often struggle with non-English languages, particularly those with limited resources. Although the introduction of generative multilingual LLMs has improved this scenario, language coverage remains inadequate. Achievements in this area include the XLM-R auto-encoding model…
In September 2022, Character.AI, a chatbot designed by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, former Google AI developers, was launched. This groundbreaking AI exceeded traditional chatbots by enabling users to engage in dialogue with AI renditions of noteworthy historical and contemporary figures. The concept was formed in November 2021 and led to the creation of…
A legal dispute has arisen over an artificial intelligence (AI)-created video featuring a tour-de-force imitation of late comedian George Carlin. The video, which is said to have shocked fans, was created by a fictitious AI podcast host 'Dudesy'. Although the video demonstrated the progress made in voice cloning, it infuriated Carlin's estate, who are now…
Researchers from The Wharton School conducted a study aiming to enhance the creative potential of an artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4 during brainstorming sessions. They found that while GPT-4 was adept at generating ideas, the produced ideas appeared to have minimal diversity, making them similar to already existing concepts instead of presenting unique, out-of-the-box…
Fitness landscape, a key concept in evolutionary biology, is utilized to map how different genetic variations affect an organism's survival and reproduction capabilities. This concept forms the foundation of understanding evolutionary processes, as well as protein engineering advancements. However, mapping the fitness landscape is an arduous task due to the huge number of potential genotypes…
The internet is a vast source of knowledge that is continuously expanding and updating. Keeping up with the constant changes and ensuring people have access to the most current and relevant information is a significant challenge in information retrieval. This challenge is compounded by the rise of large language models (LLMs) like chatGPT, used in…
Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing are rapidly advancing fields, and a key player in these arenas is the application of Large Language Models (LLMs). But LLMs have their challenges, one such being their capability to effectively engage in role-play. To address this, Alibaba researchers are pioneering a unique technique, DITTO, which significantly amplifies the…
Language Models (LMs) can have difficulty in reasoning tasks like mathematics or coding, particularly in low-resource languages. These struggles come as LMs tend to be largely trained on data from high-resource languages, leaving smaller languages underrepresented. This issue can be intensified in specialised LMs, such as Orca 2 and MetaMath which have undergone considerable adaptation,…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enabled an unprecedented level of content manipulation. Deep fake technology, which can create or alter images, audio, and video to fabricate situations or statements, has outpaced public awareness and is increasingly threatening democratic processes. Let's look at some significant political deep fake incidents to date:
1. Joe Biden New Hampshire Robocall Incident…
Vision-language models (VLMs) like GPT-4V have made significant progress in AI tasks, but they struggle with spatial reasoning. This limitation is especially problematic in fields such as robotics and augmented reality, which require a detailed understanding of the positions and relationships of objects in three-dimensional space.
A team of researchers from Google DeepMind and Google Research…