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AI Pioneers Grapple with Mysteries of Hallucinating Machines and 'Emergent Abilities'

With advanced artificial intelligence technology reshaping the world in real-time, it can be disconcerting to acknowledge that even the creators of these systems lack a complete understanding of their inner workings.

AI in the Workplace: Americans Express Caution and Unease

A newly released report from the Pew Research Center delves into the perceptions of AI in the workplace, revealing a spectrum of opinions among respondents. In general, there is a sense of caution and uncertainty surrounding the utilization of AI for hiring and worker evaluation.

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Stability AI to Offer Image Generation

Stable AI, the company behind the popular Stable Fusion generative AI tool, is expanding into the image generation space.

Microsoft Developing AI Processor 'Athena'

Reportedly, Microsoft's aim is to avoid costs associated with using Nvidia's GPUs.

AWS Launches 'Bedrock' To Give Devs Access to AI Models

Amazon Web Services recently unveiled new tools for developers looking to build generative AI applications on the industry's most-used public cloud platform.

Stanford University's Latest Report Reveals Significant Increase in AI Misuse

The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 AI Index Report, shedding light on a notable surge in the inappropriate application of AI technology, particularly in the realms of image and video deepfakes, as well as controversial facial recognition and surveillance initiatives.

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Microsoft Simplifies AI Image Generation in DALL-E 2

Microsoft simplifies the process of AI-driven image generation in DALL-E 2, allowing users to produce their own images within applications such as the "new Bing" search site and a preview version of Microsoft Designer.

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Advise for Devs Building Prompt Engineering Skills Proliferates

Demand for prompt engineering skills has truly soared, with companies offering big bucks to hire people with the ability to create text-based prompts or cues that can be interpreted and understood by large language models (LLMs).

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Commercial AI Faces Growing Backlash Amid Rapid Expansion

Is the rush to capitalize on AI advancements through commercial products moving too fast? Some of the most prominent leaders in the industry think so.

Microsoft Preps Azure OpenAI for GPT-4

A preview of GPT-4 support in Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service is now available, Microsoft announced this week.

GitHub Semantic Kernel To Give Devs an AI Launchpad

Now in preview on GitHub is the Semantic Kernel open source framework, Microsoft announced this week.

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OpenAI Releases GPT-4 with Multimodal Capabilities

OpenAI announced and demo'd the latest incarnation of its neural network machine learning model, GPT-4, this week. The new version is multimodal, which means it responds to both text and image inputs.

Microsoft's AI Ethics Team Gets the Axe

Tech job cuts have been rampant this year, typically ascribed to inflationary concerns, and Microsoft has not been immune.

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