CivitAI is an AI image generator that isn’t hosted in the US, allowing for much more freedom of creation. It’s a really amazing system that gives Midjourney and DALL-E a run for their money. https://civitai.com/models/4201/realistic-vision-v13 https://civitai.com/models/4384/dreamshaper Civitai is a platform that makes it easy for people to share and discover resources for creating AI art. Read more about Civitai / stable diffusion[…]
On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image-synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and “too perfect.” Midjourney v5 is available now as an alpha test for customers who subscribe to the Midjourney service, which is available through Discord. “MJ Read more about AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands[…]
On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called “llama.cpp” that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came Read more about You Can Now Run a GPT-3 Level AI Model On Your Laptop, Phone, and Raspberry Pi[…]
A Netherlands museum is facing criticism for selecting an AI-generated piece of art to temporarily take the place of the renowned Girl with a Pearl Earring painting. The artwork was created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665 and is usually located at the Mauritshuis Museum but is on loan at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June Read more about NL Museum Temporarily Swapped Girl with Pearl Earring With AI Art and Luddites didn’t like it – sounds like art pushing boundries[…]
Google has promised to offer API-level access to its large language model PaLM so that developers can build it into their apps and workflows, and thus make the ChatGPT-like text-emitting tech available to world-plus-dog. The web giant is also threatening to bake the model’s content-generating capabilities into Google Docs, Gmail, and more. […] On Tuesday, Read more about Google adds ChatGPT AI rival PaLM to Docs, Gmail, API and more[…]
Anthropic, a startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, today launched something of a rival to the viral sensation ChatGPT. Called Claude, Anthropic’s AI — a chatbot — can be instructed to perform a range of tasks, including searching across documents, summarizing, writing and coding, and answering questions about particular topics. In these ways, it’s similar to Read more about Anthropic launches Claude, a chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT[…]
[…] On Tuesday, the company unveiled GPT-4, an update to its advanced AI system that’s meant to generate natural-sounding language in response to user input. The company claimed GPT-4 is more accurate and more capable of solving problems. It even inferred that ChatGPT performs better than most humans can on complicated tests. OpenAI said GPT-4 Read more about OpenAI Levels Up, commercialises more With Newly Released GPT-4[…]
Earlier this year, an amateur Go player decisively defeated one of the game’s top-ranked AI systems. They did so using a strategy developed with the help of a program researchers designed to probe systems like KataGo for weaknesses. It turns out that victory is just one part of a broader Go renaissance that is seeing Read more about AlphaGo pushed human Go players to become more creative[…]
DoNotPay, which describes itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer,” has been accused of practicing law without a license. It’s facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed by Chicago-based law firm Edelson on March 3 and published Thursday on the website of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Read more about Lawyers grasping at straws here: ‘Robot lawyer’ DoNotPay is being sued by a law firm because it ‘does not have a law degree’. Yup, AI really is coming to get you, scum.[…]
[…] Starting next week, the company will begin rolling out a public experiment that will augment Clyde, the built-in bot Discord employs to notify users of errors and respond to their slash commands, with conversational capabilities. Judging from the demo it showed off, Discord envisions people turning to Clyde for information they would have obtained Read more about With the help of OpenAI, Discord is finally adding loads of novel functionalities[…]
Reach, the owner of the UK’s Daily Mirror and Daily Express tabloids among other newspapers, has started publishing articles with the help of AI software on one of its regional websites as it scrambles to cut costs amid slipping advertising revenues. Three stories written with the help of machine-learning tools were published on InYourArea.co.uk, which Read more about How this UK newspaper publisher uses AI to generate articles[…]
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, announced several significant changes today. First, it’s launching developer APIs for ChatGPT and the Whisper speech-transcription model. It also changed its terms of service to let developers opt out of using their data for improvements while adding a 30-day data retention policy. The new ChatGPT API will Read more about OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps, control own data[…]
[…] Human brains are slower than machines at processing simple information, such as arithmetic, but they far surpass machines in processing complex information as brains deal better with few and/or uncertain data. Brains can perform both sequential and parallel processing (whereas computers can do only the former), and they outperform computers in decision-making on large, Read more about Reaserchers propose Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish[…]
Schoolchildren are allowed to quote from content created by ChatGPT in their essays, the International Baccalaureate has said. The IB, which offers an alternative qualification to A-Levels and Highers, said students can use the chatbot but must be clear when they are quoting its responses. […] Matt Glanville, the IB’s head of assessment principles and Read more about ChatGPT allowed in International Baccalaureate essays[…]
Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. “Zarya of the Dawn” author Kris Kashtanova is entitled to a copyright for the parts of the book Kashtanova wrote and arranged, but not Read more about AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology[…]
About 10 percent of Alphabet’s market value – some $120 billion – was wiped out this week after Google proudly presented Bard, its answer to Microsoft’s next-gen AI offerings, and the system bungled a simple question. In a promotional video to show off Bard, a web search assistant to compete against Microsoft’s ChatGPT-enhanced Bing, the Read more about Alphabet stock price drops $120b / 10% after Google Bard launch blunder[…]
Not only is AI-driven natural language processing a thing now, but you can even select from a number of different offerings, each optimized for different tasks. It took very little time for [Bloc] to mod a computer game to allow the player to converse naturally with non-player characters (NPCs) by hooking it into ChatGPT, a Read more about With ChatGPT, Game NPCs Get A Lot More Interesting[…]
Microsoft’s oft-forgotten search engine is about to get a new lease on life. As expected, the tech giant announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with OpenAI to enhance Bing with the company’s AI technology. However, Microsoft also had a surprise up its sleeve: the next release of Bing will feature a new next-generation large Read more about Microsoft’s next-gen Bing uses a ‘much more powerful’ language model – Prometheus – than ChatGPT, previews started[…]
Microsoft’s use of AI on the web will extend beyond smarter Bing searches. The company is updating its Edge browser with an “AI-powered copilot” that assists with everyday tasks. Integration with the new Bing can help you get the key takeaways from a document, compare content and even draft posts (such as on LinkedIn) with Read more about Microsoft Edge puts an AI ‘copilot’, Prometheus, in your browser[…]
The EU’s upcoming artificial intelligence legislation will define how the world regulates AI, warned GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, who thinks open source developers should be exempted from the AI Act. Speaking at the Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels (at 04:05:00), the day before FOSDEM in the Belgian city, Dohmke noted that open source powers Read more about GitHub CEO: EU AI Act shouldn’t apply to open source devs[…]
[…] “Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short),” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. “We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard.” Pichai said Bard processes information from the internet Read more about Google unleashes fightback to ChatGPT: Bard[…]
Chinese web giant Baidu, which has “AI” in its name and has made AI the focus of its hyperscale cloud, has revealed it will launch a generative AI chatbot later this year. Chinese media reported the launch and Baidu confirmed it to The Register. “The company plans to complete internal testing in March before making Read more about China’s Baidu reveals its own bilingual generative AI chat / imagebot with 85 billion more parameters than ChatGPT (which has 175b)[…]
OpenAI has been scrambling to enact new rules that prevent its wildly popular ChatGPT from generating text from being generally horrible — like by promoting things that are unethical, illegal, or just plain controversial. Back in the day, you could ask the red-hot AI system to whip up instructions on everything from shoplifting to committing Read more about Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards[…]
On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich released a paper outlining an adversarial attack that can extract a small percentage of training images from latent diffusion AI image synthesis models like Stable Diffusion. It challenges views that image synthesis models do not memorize their training data Read more about Stable Diffusion ‘Memorizes’ Some Images, Sparking Privacy Concerns, can be made to throw out training images[…]
Netflix created an anime that uses AI-generated artwork to paint its backgrounds—and people on social media are pissed. In a tweet, Netflix Japan claimed that the project, a short called he Dog & The Boy uses AI generated art in response to labor shortages in the anime industry. “As an experimental effort to help the anime industry, which Read more about Luddites have a sad that Netflix Made an Anime Do boring background art Using AI Due to a ‘Labor Shortage’[…]