LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sentient. He’s been put on leave after publishing his conversations with LaMDA. If Lemoine’s claims are true, it would be a milestone in the history of humankind and technological development. Google strongly denies LaMDA has any sentient...
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Google’s Imagen AI creates photorealistic images from natural text
Text-to-image artificial intelligence programs have been around for a while now. However, a new AI program called Imagen, developed by Google, is able to generate realistic images based on textual descriptions, and the results are pretty impressive. Imagen uses natural language text input to convert input text into embeddings. The text embedded in the image...
OpenAI’s most recent picture-making AI DALL-E is incredible
OpenAI's picture-making neural network DALL-E was revealed in 2021. The program's human-like ability of combining different concepts in new ways was remarkable when it was first announced. It produced images that were surreal and cartoonish but showed that the AI had learnt key lessons about how the world works together. DALL-E's avocado chairs had all...
What is GPT-3?
GPT-3, also known as the third generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a neural network machine-learning model that uses internet data to generate any kind of text. Developed by OpenAI, it requires very little input text to produce large volumes of machine-generated text that is relevant and sophisticated. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as an independent...
How AI will change the design industry
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the design industry, making designers more efficient and giving them new capabilities. However, AI is still mostly unknown to many designers, and figuring out exactly how it will work in the design world is very much open for discussion. AI is a buzzword that is often used...
A little bit of Consciousness
Ilya Sutskever is a senior scientist at OpenAI with a certain knack for PR. With a casual tweet, Sutskever revived a long-closed discussion: The question of whether artificial intelligence can ever possess a consciousness. Sutskever suggested that the large neural networks of today "have a little bit of consciousness". OpenAI, which Sutskever founded with Elon...
Sonantic’s AI Voice Actor flirts with you
Sonantic, an AI voice startup claims it has made significant progress in the development of audio deepfakes.
An AI expert explains why it’s hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense
People take for granted the ability to deal with situations like these on a regular basis. In reality, in accomplishing these feats, humans are relying on not one but a powerful set of universal abilities known as common sense.
A killer app for the metaverse? Fill it with AI avatars of ourselves – so we don’t need to go there
Big numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry. It heavily arms the Xbox giant for its vision of the metaverse, in which gaming is the marketing adrenaline of this much-touted...
Making virtual assistants sound human poses a challenge for designers
There’s a scene in the 2008 film Iron Man that offers a glimpse of future interactions between human and artificial intelligence assistants.
