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OpenAI’s latest blunder shows the challenges facing Chinese AI models

OpenAI’s latest blunder shows the challenges facing Chinese AI models

In fact, among the few long Chinese tokens in GPT-4o that aren’t either pornography or gambling nonsense, two are “socialism with Chinese characteristics” and “People’s Republic of China.” The presence of these phrases suggests that a significant part of the training data actually is from Chinese state media writings, where formal, long expressions are extremely […]

How ChatGPT will revolutionize the economy

How ChatGPT will revolutionize the economy

Power struggle When Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, got access to the new generation of large language models such as ChatGPT, he did what a lot of us did: he began playing around with them to see how they might help his work. He […]

Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better

Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better

Google has a lot riding on this launch. Microsoft partnered with OpenAI to make an aggressive play for Google’s top spot in search. Meanwhile, Google blundered straight out of the gate when it first tried to respond. In a teaser clip for Bard that the company put out in February, the chatbot was shown making […]

How ChatGPT was made, and a boost for infertility treatment

How ChatGPT was made, and a boost for infertility treatment

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT, with zero fanfare, in late November 2022, nobody inside the company was prepared for a viral mega-hit. It was viewed in-house as a “research preview,” a tease of a more polished version of a two-year-old technology and a way to iron out some of its flaws. But then it absolutely blew […]

Year in review, and the big problem with ChatGPT

Year in review, and the big problem with ChatGPT

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 ChatGPT doesn’t always tell the truthBut it states things so confidently that it’s easy to be fooled. (NYT $)+ It’s been suggesting some disturbing anti-terror measures, including torture. (The Intercept)+ For some users, whether it’s accurate or not isn’t important. (WP […]