Artificial intelligence

Interesting fact: OpenAI’s Whisper was developed only because the company had already copied, analyzed, and used every usable text on the internet to train its LLM. With Whisper they were able to transcribe the audio tracks of YouTube videos and use those for training as well. indiatimes.com writes in “How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for AI” The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology – lots more. ...

I learned something new! Although it’s almost obvious, it wasn’t clear to me. Right now we can’t simply fix faulty large language models when they make mistakes or spread false information. That’s because LLMs are created using neural networks. Neural networks learn on their own and build mathematical probabilities by repeatedly computing certain things with small variations. So if you want to change something in an LLM, you’d have to adjust countless such probabilities. This process is so labor-intensive that it’s easier to create a new LLM. That’s why GPTs are released as larger, major version updates. ...

The service Whembat helps you search for a stolen bike across various platforms using image recognition. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

The article »Pluralistic: How I got scammed« by Cory Doctorow recounts an experience of fraud. Even someone as savvy as he is isn’t immune to scams. In the process, he also examines the issues surrounding artificial intelligence. we’re nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we’re certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job ...

Robbie Antenesse explains very well in his article “How ChatGPT Works (In Simple Terms) and Why You Still Matter” what Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) are and why they are not artificial intelligence (AI). The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.