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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development with its signature chatbot assistant Grok…
LLMs Can Now Reason in Parallel: UC Berkeley and UCSF Researchers Introduce Adaptive Parallel Reasoning to Scale Inference Efficiently Without Exceeding Context Windows
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in reasoning capabilities, exemplified by breakthrough systems like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeekR1, which utilize test-time compute for search and reinforcement learning to optimize performance. Despite this progress, current methodologies face critical challenges that impede their effectiveness. Serialized chain-of-thought approaches generate excessively long output sequences, increasing latency and…
How Well Can LLMs Actually Reason Through Messy Problems?
The introduction and evolution of generative AI have been so sudden and intense that it’s actually quite difficult to fully appreciate just how much this technology has changed our lives. Zoom out to just three years ago. Yes, AI was becoming more pervasive, at least in theory. More people knew some of the things it…
Severance Fans Are Divided By Season 2’s Finale For A Disappointing Reason
Severance fans have had a weekend to let the season finale of Apple TV’s dystopian workplace thriller sink in, and some are not handling it well. Make no mistake, “Cold Harbor” was a thrilling hour and change of television that ended the season on an incredible note. Some might argue it could have served as…
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of data. For instance, LLMs can understand many languages, generate computer code, solve math problems, or answer questions about images and audio. MIT researchers probed the inner workings of LLMs to better understand how they…
CNET Survey: 43% of Americans Use VPNs, Citing Privacy as the Primary Reason. Experts Expect That Number to Rise
Virtual privacy networks are gaining popularity. Between January’s short-lived TikTok ban, the rise of AI scams and online privacy concerns, Americans are turning to VPNs to access restricted content or to increase their security. An exclusive CNET survey found that 43% of US adults are using VPNs, and nearly half do so to safeguard their…