Tech Meme

Irregular Ideas: LLMs will remove scholarly, creative, and economic software creation barriers, marking the industry’s Gutenberg moment to unleash the next great technology wave  —  There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft threatened to cut rivals’ Bing search index access over its use in their AI chat tools and warned at least two that they violated its terms  —  Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: An AI chatbots comparison test finds ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited  —  The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what?  We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: A March 15 affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged BreachForums admin; the DOJ caused the forum “to go offline”  —  The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM that the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford’s Alpaca model  —  Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Email: Twitter offers four-year equity grants to staff, on top of legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year  —  New stock will start to vest after six months, according to an email  —  Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Tong / Reuters: Replika restores erotic roleplay for users who signed up before February 1, after complaints from some who considered themselves “married” to chatbot companions  —  AI chatbot company Replika is restoring erotic roleplay for some users, Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda said late on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI’s iPhone moment, DGX Cloud service, export controls, Nvidia’s position in the stack in an LLM world, and more  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March’s GTC conference, and again after last fall’s GTC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Email: Twitter offers new equity grants to staff, in addition to legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year  —  New stock will start to vest after six months, according to an email  —  Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme