Year in Review
This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types.
Tech & Society
Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...
Tech & Society
Amazon launched a chatbot for large companies even as internal tests indicated potential problems. Amazon introduced Q, an AI-powered assistant that enables employees to query documents and corporate systems.
Tech & Society
An open source tool automatically tests language and tabular-data models for social biases and other common issues. Giskard is a software framework that evaluates models using a suite of heuristics and tests based on GPT-4.
Hardware
ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself.
Tech & Society
Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.
Tech & Society
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies.
Machine Learning Research
Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...
Tech & Society
OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.
Machine Learning Research
Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.
Business
AI companies are soaring on promises they can revolutionize society while making a profit. What if they're flying too close to the sun? The latest models generate publication-worthy essays and award-winning artworks, but it’s not clear how to make them generate enough revenue...
Tech & Society
Large language models occasionally generate information that’s false. What if they produce output that’s downright dangerous? Text generators don’t know true from false or right from wrong. Ask an innocent question about food or health, and you might get an innocent — but fatal — answer.