Arizona State University (ASU) announced a new agreement with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT enterprise to its students, faculty, and administrative staff in February 2024. While the headlines suggest everyone will have access, the announcement is vague as the University is…
AI researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic trained proof-of-concept LLMs showing deceptive behavior triggered by specific hints in the prompts. Furthermore, they say, once deceptive behavior was trained into the model, there was no way to circumvent it using standard techniques.…
Sixteen generative AI news stories from the past weeks were on the agenda for this week’s edition of GAIN. You can watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, ByteDance,…
Former star football player Keisuke Honda, a rare Japanese athlete-turned-angel-investor, is in talks to raise as much as ¥15 billion ($100 million) for his first fund wholly dedicated to startups in his home country. The X&KSK Fund plans to invest…
rabbit launched its $199 personal AI device (PAD) through a virtual keynote at CES 2024. Consumers can use natural language to ask questions and get answers or get digital tasks done (e.g., order a pizza or rideshare) — if they…
A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet Inc. artificial intelligence division, have been talking with investors about forming an AI startup in Paris, according to people familiar with the conversations. The team has held discussions with potential investors…
Transcript Vig: I’ll be talking about Amazon DynamoDB distributed transactions. Let’s start with a poll, how many of you have written applications that use a cloud database? Pretty good. How many of you have written applications that use a cloud…
Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram today to reveal Meta’s plans to accelerate the development of (artificial) general intelligence (AGI). While he used the term “general intelligence” and not artificial general intelligence, he seems focused on what would traditionally be called…
Shopify has recently published a tech blog about some of their internal machine learning process on how to get more actionable insights based on their customer signals. One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable…
Google’s YouTube and Spotify Technology SA, the world’s most popular video and music services, are joining Netflix Inc. in steering clear of Apple Inc.’s upcoming mixed-reality headset. YouTube said in a statement Thursday that it isn’t planning to launch a…
Ads running on Meta Platforms Inc.’s apps saw return on spending increase by an average of 32% with the help of artificial intelligence, global business group head Nicola Mendelsohn said. Ads using AI also reduced the cost of acquisition by…
Many people think prompt injections represent the primary threat to generative AI foundation model security. Well-crafted prompts can indeed be used for inappropriate data exfiltration and other unwanted model behavior. However, there are more pernicious threats that few people have…