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China’s Ant, Baidu, Tencent collaborate with US firms OpenAI, Nvidia on publishing first global generative AI standards

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China’s Ant Group, Baidu and Tencent Holdings have joined forces with leading global tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia to publish two international standards on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). The companies on Tuesday released the “Generative AI Application Security Testing and Validation Standard” and the “Large Language Model Security … Read more

Apple finally has a way to defeat ChatGPT

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Yugandhar Bonde / Pexels OpenAI needs to watch out because Apple may finally be jumping on the AI bandwagon, and the news doesn’t bode well for ChatGPT. Apple is reportedly working on a large language model (LLM) referred to as ReALM, which stands for Reference Resolution As Language Modeling. Made to give Siri a boost … Read more

Chinese generative AI developers rush to upgrade chat bots to handle super long texts

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China’s biggest generative artificial intelligence (AI) developers, including Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding, have rushed to upgrade their chat bots so they can handle super long texts of up to 10 million Chinese characters. The move follows Google, which in February unveiled the latest version of its Gemini large language model (LLM) that achieves a … Read more

Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent to Kuaishou tout advancing generative AI models in race to catch up

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The KwaiYii LLM from Kuaishou, a top Chinese short-video platform operator, has “significantly surpassed GPT-3.5 in overall performance … and is approaching the levels of GPT-4 in certain metrics”, said Cheng Yixiao, company founder and CEO, during its post-earnings call on Wednesday. 01:45 Chinese AI-generated cartoon series broadcast on state television Chinese AI-generated cartoon series … Read more

RTX GPUs now come with a local AI chatbot. Is it any good?

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Nvidia It’s been difficult to justify packing dedicated AI hardware in a PC. Nvidia is trying to change that with Chat with RTX, which is a local AI chatbot that leverages the hardware on your Nvidia GPU to run an AI model. It provides a few unique advantages over something like ChatGPT, but the tool … Read more

Traffic flow smooth on major expressways tonight, says the highway authority

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KUALA LUMPUR: Traffic flow on major expressways in the country was reported to be smooth as of 8pm on Sunday (Feb 11), according to a Malaysian Highway Authority spokesperson. He said northbound traffic towards Sungai Jawi city centre to Bukit Merah was flowing smoothly. “The traffic in both directions at the Juru Toll Plaza was … Read more

AI Models Choose Nuclear Attacks Over Peace As The US Implements The Technology Into Its Arsenal

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AI models all chose nuclear attacks over peace in a new study, as the US begins to implement the technology into its military arsenal. In a disturbing experiment, a research team simulated war scenarios using five AI programs including ChatGPT and Meta’s AI program and found all models chose violence and nuclear attacks. ‘We show … Read more

House of Lords Report Urges UK Government to Reevaluate AI Safety Focus

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A report released by the Parliamentary House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee suggests that the UK government needs to broaden its perspective on AI safety to avoid falling behind in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The report, following extensive evidence gathering from various stakeholders, including big tech companies, academia, venture capitalists, media and government, … Read more

Beijing must harness AI to boost China’s image on the ‘global stage’, party newspaper says

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China should leverage AI-generated content for its international messaging and image building and enhance content scrutiny, according to commentary published on Friday by a newspaper of the Central Party School. In the article in Study Times, bylined Li Chunyan, called for China’s propaganda officials to pay more attention to the output of applications such as … Read more