Claude

With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of one of the most profound effects of AI large language models: how they will reshape childhood. In the future, every middle-class kid will grow up with a personalized AI assistant — so long as the parents are OK with that.…

“You don’t want to know how the sausage gets made.”As much as you’ve probably heard this refrain, I’m here to say that, really, you do, or at least you should. If you’re going to be shoving a bratwurst in your mouth hole, don’t you want to know if somebody was pouring sawdust into your sausage? The same goes for tech. Now with AI large language models taking the tech world by storm, you’re damn tooting we want to know what kind of data is being used to make ChatGPT or any other LLM. On Tuesday, OpenAI released its GPT-4…

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Despite their ability to crank out incredibly lifelike prose, generative AIs like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT (powered by GPT-4), have already shown the current limitations of gen-AI technology as well as their own tenuous grasp of the facts — arguing that the JWST was the first telescope to image an exoplanet, and that Elvis' dad was an actor. But with this much market share at stake, what are a few misquoted facts against getting their product into the hands of consumers as quickly as possible?  The team over at…

Illustration: DiscordDiscord isn’t new to artificial intelligence, but it’s certainly making a statement about its commitment to it in its latest blog post. The company has declared its chat app the “place for AI with friends.” Indeed, if you want to bring a seemingly-sentient AI chatbot into a conversation with your favorite online pals, you can—it’s part of a public experiment launching next week.Discord laid out its vision for the future of its AI in its chat app, which already offers AI-infused moderation and the…

Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoThis Halloween we want to celebrate Disneyland’s original macabre monument the Haunted Mansion, which for many has served as a rite of passage as a first friendly introduction to horror when visiting the theme park. It definitely was for me growing up in Southern California—I can still remember my first few rides, hiding my face in my parents’ arms and peeking through my fingers on the Doom Buggy until I was brave enough to embrace the silly spooks in their graveyard jamboree.So my chat with…

The French Canadian Claude Vivier died in Paris in 1983, at the age of just 34. For a number of years afterwards the gruesome circumstances of his death – stabbed by a 19-year-old man he had invited to spend the night with him – and the fact that Vivier seemed to have anticipated it, seemed to be more widely known than any of his music. But his reputation has steadily grown, and though British performances of his works remain relatively rare, he is often claimed as one of the most significant composers of the second half…