AI reading for Wednesday March 27

Claude takes top spot by a hair on Chatbot Arena leaderboard - Tom's Guide

Head-to-head Claude wins against GPT-4-1106 50% of the time and against GPT-4-0125 53% of the time. LMsys ranks them tied at #1. Also, the Bard model on the list is the free version, the $20 version is better, and Bard 1.5, the mixture-of-experts model, is in preview and is even more capable with the 1m-token context window, ability to upload audio and video and images to a single model.

The world is starting to catch up to OpenAI and there are three excellent frontier models. Or at least, the ball is in OpenAI’s court, Sam Altman said they will have something amazing later this year, so it will be interesting to see what happens!

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Databricks introduces new open source MoE LLM, 132b total params, something like 16x8b params, says it outperforms Llama although it's also bigger - Databricks

Inside the creation of DBRX, the LLM from Databricks - WIRED

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VCs air grievances with Sam Altman, reality distortion field, shades of Steve Jobs and/or maybe Adam Neumann - Business Insider

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War for AI talent goes ballistic - WSJ

Zuck recruits AI talent with personal emails - Business Insider

Sergey Brin calling AI researchers personally to deliver counteroffers and convince them to stay. - Business Insider

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If your doctor doesn't listen to you well, maybe the AI will? - USA TODAY

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AI tracking museum visitors, surely stores do more and talk about it less. - The Art Newspaper

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Will overreliance on AI make you dumber? - Windows Central

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Google AI suggestions which are being rolled out to the masses, sometimes include links to malware. Seems like an impossibly bad fail to not filter those. - Forbes

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The Air Force bought AI to interpret aerial and satellite imagery - 404 Media

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A master class in prompting. - Hackernoon

See also my own blog post. - druce.ai

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The age of AI hype, AI-washing, and AI BS. The new dot-com? - Business Insider

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TikTok in big AI push in Singapore, poaching from Baidu and Alibaba - Tom's Hardware

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Intel says Microsoft's Copilot AI will run locally on PCs, AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance. I'm not sure Intel's Meteor Lake and Apple's M3 get there, barely if at all. Will be a big upgrade cycle if/when Microsoft delivers local AI worth upgrading for. - Tom's Hardware

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Microsoft Teams adds AI features - The Verge

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Tether altcoin makes AI push - CoinDesk

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Yet another AI chip startup raises $25m - Bloomberg

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You can now ask ChatGPT a question via Siri - OpenAI

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Apple sets WWDC date in June: iOS AI rumors, no chatbot, new AI features, new partners - MacRumors

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