Originally published in The Verge, May 24, 2024. The company confirmed it is ‘taking swift action’ to remove some of the AI tool’s bizarre responses. Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. The
Originally published in Delphina, May 29, 2024. When I (Duncan) was on Uber’s Marketplace team, we would (semi) joke that we were lurching from crisis to crisis. Our dozens of core machine learning products directly controlled billions...
Originally published in O’Reilly, October 24, 2023. Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our...
Originally published in Live Science, May 31, 2024. Last year, claims that OpenAI’s GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a...
Originally published in GeekWire, April 17, 2024 In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Amazon’s grocery technology has been in the news a lot over the...
Originally published in Strange Loop Canon, April 23, 2024 On goal drift and lower reliability. Or, why can’t LLMs play Conway’s Game Of Life? Every time over the past few years that we came up with problems...
Originally published in FinancialPlanning, April 8, 2024 Most advisors agree that AI technology can provide efficiencies, whether it be through streamlining workflow or communicating more effectively with clients. However, the jury is out on whether these budding...
Originally published in MIT News, March 25, 2024 Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects. Large language models, such as those that power popular...
Originally published in Venture Beat, April 1, 2024 Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can understand ambiguous references to on-screen entities as well as conversational and background context, enabling more natural interactions with...
Originally published in The New York Times, April 4, 2024 Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters. A hotel...
