Google Bard and the LLM Race Heats Up
Google announces Bard in response to ChatGPT, and the large language model race officially begins
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Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Bet on OpenAI and the AI Arms Race
Microsoft's massive investment in OpenAI signals a new era of AI competition among the tech giants
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2022: The Year AI Broke Through
Looking back at a year that saw AI go from research curiosity to mainstream phenomenon, while I published two books and watched the world change
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ChatGPT Launches: The iPhone Moment for AI
OpenAI just released ChatGPT and it is the first AI product that makes non-technical people understand why artificial intelligence matters
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AI Research Is Moving Faster Than Anyone Can Track
The velocity of AI research has reached a point where even dedicated practitioners cannot keep up with the pace of significant breakthroughs
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Stable Diffusion: AI Art Goes Open Source
Stability AI just open-sourced a state-of-the-art image generation model, and the implications of putting this technology in everyone's hands are profound
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DALL-E 2: AI Creates Art
OpenAI just showed us an AI system that generates photorealistic images from text descriptions, and the implications are staggering
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AI-Assisted Coding Tools Are Emerging
GitHub Copilot and TabNine hint at a future where AI writes code alongside us, and I am paying close attention
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GPT-3: AI Can Write
OpenAI's GPT-3 paper demonstrates that scaling a language model to 175 billion parameters produces something qualitatively different from what came before
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AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol: AI's Deep Blue Moment
DeepMind's AlphaGo just defeated one of the greatest Go players in history, and this feels fundamentally different from Deep Blue
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Watson Wins Jeopardy: AI Becomes Dinner Table Talk
IBM Watson just defeated Jeopardy champions on live television, and suddenly everyone has an opinion about artificial intelligence
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