Anthropic have released the Claude 3 family: Announcement. Early comments from my filter bubble: not available in the EU hosting options also include Microsoft Azure, in addition to AWS? overreaching guardrails: Claude still refuses work at times, e.g. coding a website may be gaming and misrepresenting benchmark scores. The comparisons t... Read more 05 Mar 2024 - less than 1 minute read
The AI art exhibition Hello, Human currently running at MoCA Taipei features several works created using Suno AI. To my surprise, Suno AI has singing voices! Very beautiful, and only slightly glitchy at times. Image: Vistor enjoying artwork by Koya Matsuo in the “Hello, Human” exhibition created by Keith Lam and Escher Tsai. The artworks “Tori... Read more 27 Feb 2024 - less than 1 minute read
Business analysts all have their own theories and predictions on GenAI. One evergreen is “summarization”, perhaps gleaned from Model Cards. Same for the recent Forrester event in Milan: The other main reason consumers are using AI, in Italy but especially in Germany, is to summarize something. My observation is different: Anecdotally, ra... Read more 24 Feb 2024 - less than 1 minute read
A German lawyer asked on LinkedIn about collaborative writing with AI: How difficult and expensive would it be to offer the following product using the OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral APIs? Users upload a Word document they have written. With a prompt, they ask the AI to revise the document linguistically within the context of the document... Read more 24 Feb 2024 - 1 minute read
So Sora is making waves, prompting "AI Doomsayers" to speak on the behalf of artists, while at the same time dunking on TikTok culture. I think the hype surrounding Sora is unjustified, for two reasons: it is not new. The technology is (AFAIK) about 3 years old, OpenAI has mainly only used (and: been able to use) a lot of data - thanks ... Read more 15 Feb 2024 - 1 minute read