Tag: AI models
Things Get Strange When AI Starts Training Itself
Updated at 11:52 a.m. ET on February 16, 2024
ChatGPT exploded into the world in the fall of 2022, sparking a race toward ever more advanced artificial intelligence: GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and so many others. Just yesterday, OpenAI unveiled a model called Sora, the latest to instantly generate short videos from written prompts. But for all the dazzling tech demos and promises, development of the fundamental technology has slowed.
The most advanced and attention-grabbing AI programs, especially language
AI Is Pushing Science Into an Age of Uncertainty
This summer, a pill intended to treat a chronic, incurable lung disease entered mid-phase human trials. Previous studies have demonstrated that the drug is safe to swallow, although whether it will improve symptoms of the painful fibrosis that it targets remains unknown; this is what the current trial will determine, perhaps by next year. Such a tentative advance would hardly be newsworthy, except for a wrinkle in the medicine’s genesis: It is likely the first drug fully designed