Woodstock Wire: Generative AI

Enterprise -- The Register - ChatGPT? Write me a really horrid nondisparagement exit clause

OpenAI has told former and current staff that it won't enforce nondisparagement agreements that could have cost employees dearly....

Media -- CNBC - Tech - OpenAI on Thursday sent an internal memo releasing former employees from non-disparagement agreements that did not expire, which had incited controversy.

Think -- HBR.org - With the addition of AI-generated overviews, Google, Perplexity, OpenAI and other search engines are changing how consumers find information.

Life -- Phys.org - Artificial intelligence software has been developed to rapidly analyze animal behavior so that behaviors can be more precisely linked to the activity of individual brain circuits and neurons, researchers in Seattle report.

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - The mental-health app Woebot launched in 2017, back when "chatbot" wasn't a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and new: a way for people to get on-demand...

Media -- DIGITIMES - China's fierce battle of the Large Language Models (LLMs) has begun.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Passive component distributor Nichidenbo has been riding the AI wave in the market, with AI server-related orders growing steadily.

Tech -- The Verge - Some writers have declared that the debut of ChatGPT on November 30th, 2022, marked the beginning of a new chapter in history akin to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Others have been more...

Business Wire -- SoSafe, Europe's largest security awareness and human risk management vendor, has announced the launch of their pioneering Human Risk Operating System, The Human Risk OS(tm), a set of capabilities designed to help customers identify, quantify,...

Business Wire -- #GenAI--CloudFabrix demonstrates advanced Macaw GenAI Assistant for AIOps and Observability, at GenAI Summit, SFO while joining NVIDIA Inception program

SupplyChain -- Sourcing Innovation - Some of you were upset that my last post on Valid Uses for Gen-AI weren't very Procurement centric, arguing that there were valid uses for Gen-AI in Procurement and that the doctor should have focussed on, or at least included, those...

Life -- Psychology Today - Dare to explore the secret lives of Large Language Models, where a new form of techno-sentience challenges our understanding of intelligence and existence itself.

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Microsoft unveiled a host of new artificial intelligence features and developer tools at its annual Build conference on Tuesday (May 21), underscoring the tech giant's commitment to AI across its product lines.

"We're riding an extraordinary...

Business Wire -- Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new functionality for Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box, including integrations with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices and Hugging Face Large Language Models...

SupplyChain -- Spend Matters - Spend Matters is researching the personal viewpoints and the practical application of AI among leaders in the procurement profession. We are welcoming both opinion and real-life use cases from senior procurement and supply practitioners...

Enterprise -- The Register - You get a GPU, you get a GPU, everyone gets a ZeroGPU!

Open source AI champion Hugging Face is making $10 million in GPU compute available to the public in a bid to ease the financial burden of model development faced by smaller dev teams....

Media -- PYMNTS.com - In the cutthroat world of artificial intelligence, tech behemoths are betting big on a new frontier: multimodal AI.

As the shine of text-based chatbots dims, companies are gambling that the future belongs to AI assistants capable of seeing,...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - OpenAI is trying to ease concerns following the departure of two safety executives.

Last week saw the resignation of Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and Jan Leike, both of whom headed the company's "superalignment...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - OpenAI reportedly effectively dissolved its "superalignment team," which was dedicated to ensuring the safety of future advanced artificial intelligence systems.

The decision came in the wake of the departure of the team's leaders, Bloomberg...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Reddit Inc. forged a partnership with OpenAI that will bring its content to the chatbot ChatGPT and other products, while also helping the social media company add new artificial intelligence features to its forums.

Tech -- The Verge - Scarlett Johansson says that OpenAI asked her to be the voice behind ChatGPT - but that when she declined, the company went ahead and created a voice that sounded just like her....

Tech -- The Verge - OpenAI says "AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice."



OpenAI is pulling the ChatGPT voice that sounds remarkably similar to Scarlett Johansson after numerous headlines (and even Saturday...

Tech -- The Verge - A note from OpenAI says that you may no longer have to download files you have on Google Drive or OneDrive if you want to use ChatGPT to analyze your data. You will be able to add those files directly to...

Enterprise -- GoogleCloud - Customers tell us they see great potential in using large language models (LLMs) with their data to improve customer experiences, automate internal processes, access and find information, and create new content -just to name a few of the...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Among OpenAI's many big updates this week was a new ChatGPT app for MacOS. Here's how to use it and when Windows users can get in on the fun.

Life -- Phys.org - In the age of generative-AI and large language models (LLMs), massive amounts of inauthentic content can be rapidly broadcasted on social media platforms. As a result, malicious actors are becoming more sophisticated, hijacking hashtags, artificially...

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Google Cloud today announced the imminent launch of its most powerful and energy-efficient tensor processing unit to date, the Trillium TPU. Google's TPUs are similar to Nvidia Corp.'s graphics processing units, which have emerged as the...

ReadWriteWeb -- NASA is staying up-to-date as they officially appoint their first ever chief artificial intelligence officer. The independent agency that is...

EE -- Hackaday - Large Language Models (LLMs ) are everywhere, but how exactly do they work under the hood? [Miguel Grinberg] provides a great explanation of the inner workings of LLMs in simple (but not simplistic) terms that eschews the low-level mathematics...

Media -- Fox - Tech - How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?It's a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other AI programs that can hold conversations, write stories and even generate songs and images within seconds.For...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - This week, Google and OpenAI both announced they've built supercharged AI assistants: tools that can converse with you in real time and recover when you interrupt them, analyze your surroundings via live video, and translate conversations...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - Google is set to introduce a new system called Astra later this year and promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type of AI assistant it's ever launched.



The current generation of AI assistants, such as ChatGPT,...

Life -- Neuroscience News - Researchers developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing, mimicking animal brains. This method significantly improves data processing speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The study...

Media -- DIGITIMES - From Nvidia and Microsft to Taiwan's TSMC, Quanta, Wistron, and Foxconn, companies are constantly exploring the future of their businesses with the theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Tech -- NY Times Technology - In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

Business Wire -- Manhattan announces Manhattan Active(r) Maven, a specialized GenAI solution built for customer service, along with Manhattan Assist.

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The open-source giant's AI work is all about integrating the entire Red Hat software family into a smart, easy-to-manage stack. Here's what each one does and how they fit together.

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - OpenAI's new and improved GPT-4o model makes it harder to determine who'll find free ChatGPT adequate and who should spring for Plus. We break down your options to help you decide.

Enterprise -- InfoQ - In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Anthony Alford and Roland Meertens about the future of software development and the training of new developers, in a world where Large Language Models heavily contribute to software development. By Anthony...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate with in real time via live voice conversation, video streams from your phone, and text. The model is rolling out over the next few weeks and will be free...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the widely popular ChatGPT, announced Monday (May 13) the launch of GPT-4o - with "o" meaning "omni" - a new language model free for all users. The text, vision and audio processing...

Tech -- The Verge - OpenAI is releasing a Her-inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time - and hopefully do it all without abandoning you like in the movie.

During...

Tech -- NY Times Technology - Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

Tech -- The Verge - OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o, an iteration of its GPT-4 model that powers its hallmark product, ChatGPT. The latest update "is much faster" and improves "capabilities across text, vision, and audio,"...

Tech -- The Verge - ChatGPT now has a desktop app - but it's only available on macOS for now. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced the news during an event on Tuesday, where she also said that ChatGPT is getting a refreshed UI.

In the demo...

Tech -- The Verge - OpenAI is making a number of its previously subscription-only features available to free users of ChatGPT, with the biggest being the ability to create custom chatbots and browse its GPT Store.

The company...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The chatbot's free version is due for a refresh and OpenAI's CEO promises new stuff that 'feels like magic.'

Enterprise -- Azure service updates - We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been...

Enterprise -- VMblog - Today at ServiceNow's annual customer and partner event, Knowledge 24 , ServiceNow showcased AI avatars of the future together with NVIDIA,...

Enterprise -- SAP - New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions