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Has ChatGPT rendered the US's education report card irrelevant? - ZDNet

The Nation’s Report Card, also known as The National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP, is a standardized test of student ability in the US that has been administered since 1969 by the US Board of Education. The test is widely cited as the benchmark of where students stand in their ability to read, write, do math, understand scientific experiments, and many other areas of competence.The test had a grim message for teachers, administrators, and parents last year: teenagers’ math scores sh…
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How GenAI got much better at medical questions - thanks to RAG - ZDNet

This is the year that many parties using generative artificial intelligence will try to give the programs something resembling knowledge. They will mostly do so using a rapidly expanding effort called “retrieval-augmented generation,” or, RAG, whereby large language models (LLMs) seek outside input -- while forming their outputs -- to amplify what the neural network can do on its own. RAG can make LLMs better at medical knowledge, for example, according to a report by Stanford University and c…
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Cybercriminals are using Meta's Llama 2 AI, according to CrowdStrik...

Cybercrime outfits have taken fledgling steps to use generative AI to stage attacks, including Meta’s Llama 2 large language model, according to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in its annual Global Threat Report, published Wednesday.The group Scattered Spider made use of Meta’s large language model to generate scripts for Microsoft’s PowerShell task automation program, reports CrowdStrike. The program was used to download login credentials of employees at “a North American financial services vic…
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Can enterprise identities fix Gen AI's flaws? This IAM startup thin...

Artificial intelligence (AI) scientists are increasingly finding ways to break the security of generative AI programs, such as ChatGPT, so it was only a matter of time before someone applied the same cybersecurity techniques of vetting users to vetting sources of data.On Wednesday, startup IndyKite of San Francisco unveiled its bid to verify what goes into Gen AI as the grist of its predictions.The software “helps to ensure ‘baked-in’ trustworthiness of leveraged data in any business or analyti…
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Meet Copilot for Finance, Microsoft's latest AI chatbot - here's ho...

As part of its ongoing campaign to integrate generative artificial intelligence into everything, Microsoft on Thursday announced the public preview of Copilot for Finance, a tool meant to help those in the finance office perform tasks such as analyzing variance in sales, speeding up collections, and tracking down missing invoices. “Sixty-two percent of finance professionals say they are stuck in the drudgery of data entry and review cycles,” noted Charles Lamanna, Microsoft chief vice preside…
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I tried ChatGPT's memory function and found it intriguing but limit...

OpenAI recently unveiled a new feature for ChatGPT called “memory,” which stores things you explicitly ask the program for later use. This feature can be a way to make anything you build with ChatGPT, be it essays, resumes, or code, more attuned to your preferences.The memory function is being slowly rolled out to the ChatGPT user base. OpenAI set me up with memory in my account, and I had the chance to try it out for myself. Also: Want to work in AI? How to pivot your career in 5 stepsWhat I f…
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How to use ChatGPT's file analysis capability (and what it can do f...

OpenAI a week ago unveiled a new feature for ChatGPT called “memory,” which stores things you explicitly ask the program to have access to, for later use. Alongside memory, it’s good to remember that ChatGPT can also use existing file-upload capabilities to analyze text and images. You just drag and drop a file into the chat window, such as a PDF or a JPEG, add a prompt if you like, and ChatGPT will start to produce some text output based on what you’ve uploaded. Also: How to use ChatGPTThe cap…

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Move over Gemini, open-source AI has video tricks of its own - ZDNet

Google dazzled the world with its demo this month of its most cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 1.5, a follow-up to the first Gemini model, which was released last December. Among other feats, Gemini 1.5 excels at things such as the “needle-in-a-haystack” challenge, where the model must identify a frame of video matching a text description. However, Google’s model -- like most AI models from the biggest commercial entities -- contains little technical detail abo…
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I asked Gemini and GPT-4 to explain deep learning AI, and Gemini wo...

Sometimes, the best way to examine something is in the context of stuff you already know a little bit about. Or, at least, think you do.In that spirit, I recently tested Google’s Gemini chat bot, formerly Bard, against OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4. This test was part of a discussion of a key element in modern deep-learning forms of artificial intelligence (AI). This element is the kind of AI that underlies both ChatGPT and Gemini. That element is called ‘stochastic gradient descent’ (SGD).Also: ChatGPT v…
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Making GenAI more efficient with a new kind of chip - ZDNet

2024 is expected to be the year that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) goes into production, when enterprises and consumer electronics start actually using the technology to make predictions in heavy volume -- a process known as inference.For that to happen, the very large, complex creations of OpenAI and Meta, such as ChatGPT and Llama, somehow have to be able to run in energy-constrained devices that consume far less power than the many kilowatts used in cloud data centers.Also: 2024…
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AI startup Cerebras unveils the WSE-3, the largest chip yet for gen...

The race for ever-larger generative artificial intelligence models continues to fuel the chip industry. On Wednesday, Cerebras Systems, one of Nvidia’s most prominent competitors, unveiled the “Wafer Scale Engine 3,” the third generation of its AI chip and the world’s largest semiconductor. Cerebras released the WSE-2 in April 2021. Its successor, the WSE-3, is designed for training AI models, meaning refining their neural weights, or parameters, to optimize their functionality before they are…