No longer confined to the boundaries of laboratories and niche applications, generative AI methods have erupted onto the global stage with relevance to almost every aspect of knowledge work and with increasing use in everyday life. From generating communications, summarizing documents and crafting literature to engineering code, translating languages,...

The splashiest claims in the 16 (so far) lawsuits charging OpenAI and other developers of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with copyright-related violations are those that allege that making copies of in-copyright works for purposes of training generative AI models infringes copyright. (Complaints and court decisions thus far...

Each time someone interacts with a large language model (LLM), there is an energy cost in running the model for inference. In addition, there is an energy cost in the preparation and training of the model before it was brought to production. It is relatively easy to look at these costs in terms of kilowatt-hours (kWh), but it is hard to compare that...

Computing has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. For decades, artificial intelligence (AI) was a subfield of computer science that overpromised and underdelivered. Language mastery has been the holy grail of AI from its early days. Suddenly, computers can communicate fluently in natural language—sometimes nonsense, but...

Large Language Models (LLMs) can do astonishing things, like summarize complex data or generate creative content in seconds. Unfortunately, they also make things up— euphemistically referred to as hallucinating. Hallucinations happen when a model outputs plausible sounding but inaccurate, even nonsensical, responses to prompts, which can undermine LLMs’...

The Role of Autonomous Machine Computing in Shaping the Autonomy Economy https://bit.ly/3x5A6UY February 1, 2024 The Autonomy Economy represents a transformative phase in our society, driven by the integration of autonomous machines such as autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, drones, and more into the provision of goods and services. Central...