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Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims LaMDA AI Achieves Sentience

A Google engineer faces paid administrative leave after publicly arguing that the company's LaMDA chatbot possesses human-like consciousness. Google firmly denies the claim, stating there is no evidence to support the AI being sentient.

large language models

Researchers Introduce Massive Benchmark to Evaluate Language Model Capabilities

A sweeping new study introduces the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark to rigorously test the reasoning and knowledge of large language models. The project involves over 200 authors collaborating to push past traditional text generation metrics.

Meta Releases Powerful Open-Source Language Model to Rival GPT-3

Meta challenges OpenAI by releasing a massive 175-billion-parameter language model for free. This open-source approach directly competes with OpenAI's proprietary GPT-3 system.

artificial intelligence

DeepMind Builds Single AI Agent That Plays Games, Chats, and Controls Robots

Researchers introduce Gato, a single neural network that performs over 600 different tasks using the exact same weights. The generalist agent seamlessly switches between playing Atari games, captioning images, chatting with users, and controlling a physical robot arm.

Google Researchers Unveil Imagen, a Highly Advanced Text-to-Image AI Model

A new AI system called Imagen combines large language models with diffusion techniques to generate highly realistic images from text descriptions, outperforming competitors in human evaluations.

Google Unveils Imagen AI Text-to-Image Generator With Impressive Realism

Google introduces Imagen, a new artificial intelligence system that creates highly photorealistic images from written text descriptions. The company keeps the tool private due to concerns about social biases and harmful stereotypes present in its training data.

Google Unveils PaLM, a 540-Billion Parameter Language Model

Google Research introduces PaLM, a massive 540-billion parameter language model trained using its new Pathways system. The model achieves state-of-the-art few-shot learning results across hundreds of tasks.

Midjourney Leads the Booming AI Image Generation Market

Midjourney is a popular generative AI program that creates detailed images from simple text descriptions. The San Francisco-based independent research lab continues to update its powerful text-to-image model.

Meta Releases OPT-175B to Open Up Large Language Model Research

Meta AI introduces OPT-175B, a 175-billion-parameter language model released alongside its training code to democratize access for researchers. The noncommercial release aims to boost reproducible studies on bias, toxicity, and model robustness.

Google Unveils 540-Billion Parameter PaLM to Push AI Reasoning Boundaries

Google introduces PaLM, a massive 540-billion parameter language model trained on thousands of specialized chips. The model achieves breakthrough performance on reasoning tasks and even surpasses average human scores on key benchmarks.

Google Unveils 540-Billion Parameter PaLM Language Model

Google Research introduces PaLM, a massive 540-billion parameter language model trained using its new Pathways system. The model achieves state-of-the-art few-shot performance across hundreds of language tasks.

Meta Releases Open-Source OPT Models to Rival GPT-3

Researchers introduce OPT, a suite of open pre-trained transformer language models that match GPT-3's performance while significantly reducing carbon emissions. The release includes full model weights and code to help the research community study large language models.

Meta Unveils OPT, an Open Source Alternative to GPT-3

Meta releases the OPT family of large language models to give researchers broader access to GPT-3-level technology. The release includes fully trained weights for models ranging from 125 million to 175 billion parameters.