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OpenAI has pushed out a flurry of updates at its first developer conference – including the release of its new GPT-4 Turbo which can fit the “equivalent of more than 300 pages of text in a single prompt” – and the ability to train and run LLMs powered by proprietary datasets. Calling
The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
"Cache misses have this weird massive non-linear effect into how much work the GPUs are doing, because we suddenly need to start recomputing all this stuff."
Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around
Report comes as nation states fret over risk, UK's PM says AI companies shouldn't "mark their own homework"
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,
Package includes Ollama, which lets you download a range of open source LLM model packages, bundling weights, configuration and data into a single portable file