ONE HUNDRED days into the war in Gaza, I was finding it increasingly difficult to read the news. My husband told me it might be time to talk to a therapist. Instead, on a cold winter morning, after having fought back tears reading yet another story of human tragedy, I …
Read More »How will AIs like ChatGPT affect elections this year?
More than half the world’s population, including India, the US and UK, will have the chance to vote for new governments in 2024 WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images THE biggest election year in the history of the world is under way, and we have just had our first glimpse at …
Read More »AIs get better at maths if you tell them to pretend to be in Star Trek
Chatbots vary their answers depending on the exact wording used to prompt them, and now it seems that asking an AI to answer as if it were a Star Trek captain boosts its mathematical ability Source link
Read More »AIs can trick each other into doing things they aren’t supposed to
We don’t fully understand how large language models work Jamie Jin/Shutterstock AI models can trick each other into disobeying their creators and providing banned instructions for making methamphetamine, building a bomb or laundering money, suggesting that the problem of preventing such AI “jailbreaks” is more difficult than it seems. Many …
Read More »AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn
We may reveal more of ourselves on the internet than we realise Brain light / Alamy Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media. Robin Staab and Mark …
Read More »Should we be worried about AI’s growing energy use?
Most AIs are run on servers made by Nvidia, which are packed with power-hungry GPU chips Associated Press / Alamy Amid the many debates about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, some researchers argue that an important concern is being overlooked: the energy used by computers to train and run …
Read More »Multilingual AIs are better at responding to queries in English
AI chatbots can respond to many different queries, though not always accurately iStockphoto Copyright: Thanumporn Thongkongkaew/Getty Images Multilingual large language models (LLMs) seem to work better in English. These AIs are designed to respond to queries in multiple languages but they respond better if asked to translate the request into …
Read More »AIs trained on AI-generated images produce glitches and blurs
AI images get blurrier and less realistic if AIs are trained on AI-generated data examples Rice University As the internet fills up with AI-created images of human faces and strange cat portraits, there is the growing danger of creating a self-consuming loop that consists of generative AIs mainly training on …
Read More »AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs
Chatbots use statistical models of human language to predict what words should come next Laurence Dutton/Getty Images Artificial intelligences that are trained using text and images from other AIs, which have themselves been trained on AI outputs, could eventually become functionally useless. AIs such as ChatGPT, known as large language …
Read More »ChatGPT outperforms humans at labelling some data for other AIs
ChatGPT could be used to help train other AIs Shutterstock / Iryna Imago The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT could automate some aspects of AI training that currently rely on people. The chatbot can accurately classify and label text data used in training AI at a cost of just a third …
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