A look at OpenAI’s Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI’s next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more  —  Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI’s CEO.  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO …

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OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more  —  A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it’s still not perfect.

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DeepMind uses its AlphaTensor AI to quickly solve a matrix multiplication problem by building a custom TensorGame board game, beating a 50-year-old record  —  The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.

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Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica, a large language model to generate scientific text, days after its launch, amid criticism about incorrect results  —  Galactica was supposed to help scientists.  Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.

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A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI’s GPT-3, Google’s LaMDA, Meta’s OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data  —  Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet.  So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?

Chris Stokel-Walker / MIT Technology Review:
Bot Sentinel: about 877K Twitter accounts were deactivated and 497K were suspended between October 27 and November 1, more than double the usual  —  Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.