Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands

Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a demonstration video. Google Research On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied ...

AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered Bing Chat bot: Creative, Balanced, or Precise. Microsoft has been testing the feature since ...

ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps

OpenAI On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the availability of developer APIs for its popular ChatGPT and Whisper AI models that will let developers integrate them into their apps. An API (application programming interface) is a set of protocols that allows different ...

Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. Ars Technica On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual ...

Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants ...