Chess is a game that has fascinated AI researchers. Alan Turing wrote a chess algorithm on paper in 1951, though the computers of the time were too slow to run it. In 1957 an IBM engineer called Alex Bernstein wrote a chess program for an IBM 704 computer, which ran on vacuum tubes. As silicon…
One of the biggest challenges facing large language models (LLMs) is hallucination: generating information that is false but presented as fact. Moreover, these fabrications tend to be plausible and convincing. For example, in a legal context, LLM-generated court documents regularly hallucinate precedent court cases. Many submissions by lawyers have been caught, and law firms and…
Did a Munich court just open a legal can of worms for AI companies? Traditionally, internet platforms and search providers like Google have been legally insulated from the content that their platforms display. If they provide a link via a search to a website that had defamatory content or obscenities, they are protected in the…
The restaurant industry generates over $4 trillion to the global economy, and employs at least 50 million people (possibly as many as 100 million). As with any industry, there is potential for the use of AI in various aspects of it, from back-office operations like booking and ordering systems, through to personalised marketing and staff…
Plagiarism, presenting someone else’s words, ideas, or work as your own without giving proper credit to the source, is not new. The term was coined by the poet Martial in ancient Rome, around 80 AD. However, it has taken on a new lease of life with the widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) based…
Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, based on large language models (LLMs) has had a seismic impact on the world since ChatGPT’s public release in November 2022. Half of all internet content is now AI-generated, over half of all venture capital investment is AI-related, and NVIDIA became the most valuable company in the world in July…
Large language models (LLMs) have developed significantly since ChatGPT burst onto the public scene in late 2022, built on the GPT-3 model. There have been increases in scale, with GPT-4 being several times larger than GPT-3 in terms of the numbers of parameters. Context windows increased from a few thousand tokens to over a million.…
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have excellent linguistic skills, but to use them for a specific business process, they need additional knowledge. For example, a customer service chatbot would not be much use unless it knew things like the products that the company sold and who had purchased them and when. To supplement…
I recently stumbled across an AI curiosity via a post on LinkedIn. Before we explore this, a little background is necessary. When a large language model (LLM) gets a prompt then it has to decide how long to make its answer – a few sentences, or something longer? The LLM actually generates an “end of…
Because of the buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, it is easy to forget that large language models (LLMs) which power generative AI, are just a subset of AI. There are actually many forms of AI around, from old-fashioned expert systems to machine learning, to reinforcement learning systems to newer…