Microsoft Copilot: how to use this powerful AI assistant

Microsoft Copilot: how to use this powerful AI assistant

Microsoft In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is a powerful tool designed to streamline and enhance your professional productivity. Whether you’re new to AI or a seasoned pro, this guide will help you through the essentials of Copilot, from understanding what it is and how to sign up, to … Read more

Exclusive | PolyU’s top AI scientist Yang Hongxia seeks to revolutionise LLM development in Hong Kong

Exclusive | PolyU’s top AI scientist Yang Hongxia seeks to revolutionise LLM development in Hong Kong

At present, Yang said LLM development has mostly relied on deploying advanced and expensive graphics processing units (GPUs), from the likes of Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, in data centres for projects involving vast amounts of raw data, which has put deep-pocketed Big Tech companies and well-funded start-ups at a major advantage. The entrance to … Read more

OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to test AI’s value for lab work

OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to test AI’s value for lab work

OpenAI is teaming up with Los Alamos National Laboratory, best known for developing the world’s first atomic bomb, to study the opportunities and risks for using artificial intelligence systems to assist with scientific research. The Microsoft-backed start-up said Wednesday that it is working with Los Alamos to evaluate how its latest AI model, GPT-4o, can … Read more

GPT-4 is now being trained by AI to improve accuracy

GPT-4 is now being trained by AI to improve accuracy

OpenAI OpenAI has developed an AI assistant, dubbed CriticGPT, to help its crowd-sourced trainers further refine the GPT-4 model. It spots subtle coding errors that humans might otherwise miss. After a large language model like GPT-4 is initially trained, it subsequently undergoes a continual process of refinement, known as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). … Read more

OpenAI says GPT-5 will have ‘Ph.D.-level’ intelligence

OpenAI says GPT-5 will have ‘Ph.D.-level’ intelligence

Dartmouth Engineering The next major evolution of ChatGPT has been rumored for a long time. GPT-5, or whatever it will be called, has been talked about vaguely many times over the past year, but yesterday, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati gave some additional clarity on its capabilities. In an interview with Dartmouth Engineering that … Read more

Tech unicorn Zhipu AI joins China’s LLM price war amid new funding round

Tech unicorn Zhipu AI joins China’s LLM price war amid new funding round

“We diligently iterated the core technology of our models and improved its efficiency,” Zhipu AI chief executive Zhang Peng said at the event. “This is not just a simple price war. Through technological innovation, we lowered the cost and improved customer value.” This development reflects Zhipu AI’s confidence to go head-to-head against the major LLM … Read more

New AI battle adopts old price war strategy as Chinese tech giants keep start-ups at bay behind the Great Firewall

New AI battle adopts old price war strategy as Chinese tech giants keep start-ups at bay behind the Great Firewall

“It’s like the bad money is driving out good money,” said You Yang, a computer science professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The price war indicates a lack of competitiveness based on the merits of the models themselves, according to You, making them incapable of attracting customers at previous market prices. In the … Read more

Are Financial Analysts At Risk? AI Outperforms in Financial Forecasts And Delivers Superior Trading Profits, Study

Are Financial Analysts At Risk? AI Outperforms in Financial Forecasts And Delivers Superior Trading Profits, Study

A new study shows OpenAI’s GPT-4 has surpassed human financial statement analysis and forecasting capabilities. These findings could potentially disrupt the financial services industry, which, along with other sectors, is rapidly embracing generative AI technologies. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business conducted the study revealing that the large language model (LLM) outperformed humans … Read more

Baidu ekes out modest quarterly revenue growth amid escalating generative AI competition in China

Baidu ekes out modest quarterly revenue growth amid escalating generative AI competition in China

Baidu, China’s search engine and artificial intelligence (AI) giant, reported 1 per cent revenue growth in the first quarter of 2024, in line with consensus estimates, as the Beijing-based company contends with heightened domestic competition amid efforts to commercialise its generative AI initiatives. The firm’s revenue reached 31.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) during the quarter … Read more