Machine Learning Research
LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town
Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?
Generative AI
Tech & Society
ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.
Tech & Society
The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.
Tech & Society
Robots Work the Drive-Thru: Drive-thru fast-food restaurants are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
Chatbots are taking orders for burgers and fries — and making sure you buy a milkshake with them. Drive-thru fast-food restaurants across the United States are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
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Cloud Computing Goes Generative: Amazon simplifies generative AI for cloud computing customers.
Amazon aims to make it easier for its cloud computing customers to build applications that take advantage of generative AI. Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock platform is offering new generative models, software agents that enable customers to interact...
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ChatGPT Ain’t What It Used to Be: ChatGPT's behavior change over time
It wasn’t your imagination: OpenAI’s large language models have changed. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has drifted in recent months. In a limited selection of tasks, some prompts yielded better results than before, some worse.
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Apple Grapples With Generative AI: Apple Is proceeding on the sly to capitalize on the generative AI trend.
Apple insiders spoke anonymously about the company’s effort to exploit the current craze for chatbots. Apple built a framework for large language models and used it to develop a chatbot dubbed Apple GPT — for internal use only.