Large language models have become the public face of artificial intelligence, but a growing group of researchers and practitioners argue that these systems are nowhere near genuine understanding.

Apart from the northward advance of killer bees in the 1980s, nothing has struck as much fear into the hearts of headline writers as the ascent of artificial intelligence. Ever since the computer Deep ...

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user's computer. If you haven't ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's conversational platform ChatGPT, ...

Despite advances, AI models continue to be geared towards the needs of English-speaking people in high-income countries.

A group of telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East is planning to build multilingual large language models (LLMs) that cater to telco-specific needs in a bid to drive adoption of generative AI ...

A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list of 204 tasks ...

Large language models such as ChaptGPT have proven to be able to produce remarkably intelligent results, but the energy and monetary costs associated with running these massive algorithms is sky high.

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...