Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move.

David PierceDec 6, 2023

Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini

David PierceDec 6, 2023

Google’s Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro — and eventually to Android

David PierceDec 6, 2023

How AI is fooling the photography world

Verge StaffDec 6, 2023

Climate groups say Biden AI order doesn’t address AI’s climate impact

Emilia DavidDec 6, 2023

Richard LawlerDec 6, 2023

OpenAI execs dubbed ChatGPT a “Low key research preview.”

The phrase became an internal joke after ChatGPT’s popularity exploded right out of the gate, according to the NYT’s recap of its launch a year ago and the reaction among Big Tech companies.

Google and Meta scrambled AI teams to launch competing products — even if that meant removing some guardrails — like Bard and LLaMa. And Microsoft’s rush to beat Google had Satya Nadella saying, “We have a big order coming to you, a really big order coming to you,” to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang as he ordered $2 billion in chips.

Bing’s GPT-4-powered Deep Search takes its time with AI questions

Emma RothDec 5, 2023

Calm’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Sleep Story’ will star Jimmy Stewart’s AI-generated voice

Charles Pulliam-MooreDec 5, 2023

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting OpenAI’s latest models and a new code interpreter

Tom WarrenDec 5, 2023

Getty lawsuit against Stability AI to go to trial in the UK

Emilia DavidDec 4, 2023

OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped

Emilia DavidDec 4, 2023

Alex HeathDec 4, 2023

The GPU haves and have-nots.

This chart from Omdia Research estimating Nvidia’s largest customers this year has been making the rounds in my social media feeds.

As I wrote in an earlier issue of Command Line, these H100s are essentially the tech industry’s new gold, since they are the preferred workhorse for powering generative AI. The gap in shipment volume between Meta, Microsoft and everyone else is quite something, and tracks with what I’ve heard from sources in recent months.

A chart showing H100 GPU shipments this year.

Omdia Research

Elizabeth LopattoDec 4, 2023

Well, I’m back from my little sabbatical!

Nothing important happened while I was gone, right?

Turmoil at OpenAI: what’s next for the creator of ChatGPT?

Wes DavisDec 4, 2023

How many phone charges does an AI-generated image take?

The answer, according to a pre-print study, is about one. Researchers at AI company Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University found that general-purpose AI models like GPT-4 are “orders of magnitude” more power-hungry than purpose-made models powering products like Google Translate.

The study, though not yet peer-reviewed, puts into context the environmental cost of generative AI, particularly of inefficient models (one image from the least efficient image-creating model can use as much CO2 as an average gas car driving about 4 miles, for instance).