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OpenAI Unveils a Powerful, Cost-Effective, and User-Friendly Embedding Model
OpenAI is introducing text-embedding-ada-002, a cutting-edge embedding model that combines the capabilities of five previous models for text search, text similarity, and code search. This new model outperforms the previous most capable model, Davinci, on most tasks, while being significantly more cost-effective at 99.8% lower pricing.
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OpenAI Releases Conversational AI Model ChatGPT
OpenAI released ChatGPT, a conversational AI model based on their GPT-3.5 language model (LM). ChatGPT is fine-tuned using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and includes a moderation filter to block inappropriate interactions.
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First Open Source Copyright Lawsuit Challenges GitHub Copilot
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in a US federal court challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot and the related OpenAI Codex. The suit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims violation of open-source licenses and could have a wide impact in the world of artificial intelligence.
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OpenAI Releases 1.6 Billion Parameter Multilingual Speech Recognition AI Whisper
OpenAI recently released Whisper, a 1.6 billion parameter AI model that can transcribe and translate speech audio from 97 different languages. Whisper was trained on 680,000 hours of audio data collected from the web and shows robust zero-shot performance on a wide range of automated speech recognition (ASR) tasks.
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MIT Researchers Develop AI Model to Solve University-Level Mathematics Problems
Researchers at MIT have developed an AI model that can solve problems used in university-level mathematics courses. The system uses the OpenAI Codex engine to generate programs that output the problem solution, including graphs and plots, achieving an accuracy of 81% on the MATH benchmark dataset as well as on real problems from MIT courses.
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OpenAI Releases Minecraft-Playing AI VPT
Researchers from OpenAI have open-sourced Video PreTraining (VPT), a semi-supervised learning technique for training game-playing agents. In a zero-shot setting, VPT performs tasks that agents cannot learn via reinforcement learning (RL) alone, and with fine-tuning is the first AI to craft a diamond pickaxe in Minecraft.
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LAION Releases Five Billion Image-Text Pair Dataset LAION-5B
The Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) released LAION-5B, an AI training dataset containing over five billion image-text pairs. LAION-5B contains images and captions scraped from the internet and is 14x larger than its predecessor LAION-400M, making it the largest freely available image-text dataset.
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OpenAI Introduces InstructGPT Language Model to Follow Human Instructions
OpenAI overhauled the GPT-3 language model and introduced a new default tool called InstructGPT to address complaints about toxic language and misinformation.
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OpenAI Announces Question-Answering AI WebGPT
OpenAI has developed WebGPT, an AI model for long-form question-answering based on GPT-3. WebGPT can use web search queries to collect supporting references for its response, and on Reddit questions its answers were preferred by human judges over the highest-voted answer 69% of the time.
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Roland Meertens on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Roland Meertens gave a talk on developing AI-based applications titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Zero Shot Learning." He demonstrated two examples of using foundation models and zero shot learning to rapidly deploy prototype applications and gain feedback without needing to gather large datasets and train models.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models
At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform.