• Stanford Researchers Take Down Alpaca AI Due to 'Hallucinations' and Rising Costs

    Stanford Researchers Take Down Alpaca AI Due to 'Hallucinations' and Rising Costs
    Researchers at Stanford University have taken down their short-lived chatbot that harnessed Meta’s LLaMA AI, nicknamed Alpaca AI. The researchers launched Alpaca with a public demo anyone could try last week, but quickly took the model offline thanks to rising costs, safety concerns, and “hallucinations,” which is the…Read more...
  • Adobe Says Its New ‘Firefly’ AI Image Generator Doesn't Steal Other People's Art

    Adobe Says Its New ‘Firefly’ AI Image Generator Doesn't Steal Other People's Art
    On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image generators. Instead of using training data dredged up from the internet, Adobe said its crafted its service only using images on its…Read more...
  • Microsoft Adds DALL-E AI Image Generator to Bing

    Microsoft Adds DALL-E AI Image Generator to Bing
    Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it is using an advanced version of Open AI’s DALL-E image generator to power its own Bing and Edge browser. Like DALL-E before it, the newly announced Bing Image Creator will generate a set of images for users based on a line of written text. The addition of image content in Bing…Read more...
  • Will Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard backfire?

    Will Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard backfire?
    Success of AI-powered rivals ChatGPT and Bing Chat has forced its hand, but release brings risks for tech giantCan Google save its golden goose or will it simply kill it trying? That’s the question that lurks behind the launch of the company’s Bard chatbot, hurriedly announced after the overnight success of ChatGPT in early 2023.With Bard, Google has to walk a tightrope: offer users an experience that can compete with the AI-powered Bing Chat and ChatGPT without cannibalising its eno
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  • The tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives

    The tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives
    From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every dayDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereWhat are the tipping points for an AI boom?Some are clear in hindsight.The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents, create PowerPoint
  • TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives

    TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives
    From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s howDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereWhat are the tipping points for an AI boom?Some are clear in hindsight.The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents,
  • Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK

    Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK
    From Tuesday users can join waiting list for access to technology that firm hopes will rival Bing Chat and ChatGPTGoogle’s Bard chatbot is launching on Tuesday in the UK and US, as the company completes its dash to release a competitor to Bing Chat and ChatGPT.It is seen as a do-or-die moment for the company, whose profitable web search service risks being outcompeted by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – even if those chatbots currently have problems in consistently returning a
  • Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Land Mines

    Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Land Mines
    Metal detecting can be a fun hobby, or it can be a task to be completed in deadly earnest—if the buried treasure you’re searching for includes land mines and explosive remnants of war. This is an enormous, dangerous problem: Something like 12,000 square kilometers worldwide are essentially useless and uninhabitable because of the threat of buried explosives, and thousands and thousands of people are injured or killed every year.While there are many different ways of detecting mines a
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