Since DeepSeek’s new R1 chatbot made its debut, experts across the industry have put it through paces ranging from writing Dad jokes to complex math calculations.
Tag: AI
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DEEPSEEK ERASES FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT AI
Stock markets’ ebullience through much of 2024 was due to AI. Nvidia became a $3-trillion company as it piled up back orders for its state-of-the-art AI chips.
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AI ARMS RACE, HUMANITY IN THE CROSSHAIRS
OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler revealed this past week that he had left OpenAI in late 2024, over concerns about the way AI was being developed at the company.
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FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” DEPARTMENT…
Earlier this month, David Birch, a British commentator on financial technology, posed a question to an AI at his online bank, Virgin Money. “I have two [savings accounts] with Virgin Money,” he asked. “How do I merge them.”
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NEWEST AI’S OUTSMART OUR ABILITY TO MEASURE THEIR INTELLIGENCE
The abilities of early AIs could be measured according to several standard tests. As AI models became more sophisticated, the tests have had to become more difficult.
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OPENAI DEBUTS “OPERATOR” AUTONOMOUS AGENT
On 23 January, OpenAI showed off its “Operator,” an AI agent that can travel the web and handle the details of routine tasks for you, such as making a restaurant reservation on the Open Table website or ordering groceries through Instacart.
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HAS DEEPSEEK POPPED THE AI INDUSTRY’S BUBBLE?
Now DeepSeek, a Chinese AI skunkworks, says its R1 AI model cost just $6 million to develop. Tests show that it performs about as well on many tasks as the newest systems from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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AS FORECAST: “INTERACTIVE U” IS THE EDUCATION TREND OF THE FUTURE
The popularity of online coursework in Europe has increased over the past year—hitting the highest level recorded.
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GETTING “OBJECTIVE” WITH ANTHROPIC’S CLAUDE
As AI companies continue to attempt to build AI which can outperform humans, driving the lion’s share of profit and power to themselves and companies that best exploit the technology, it’s interesting to see different “anthropometric” gambits.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HUMANKIND PROMOTED TO “MANAGERS” BY AI?
Humans won’t lose their jobs to AI, technocrats are still assuring everyone, despite current job hemorrhages on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.