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Azure Open AI, Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft AI, OpenAI - March 19, 2023

Microsoft spent millions to put together a supercomputer for OpenAI

Nearly five years ago, a little-known company approached Microsoft with a special request to put together computing horsepower to the scale it had never done before. Microsoft then spent millions of dollars in putting together tens of thousands of powerful chips to build a supercomputer. OpenAI used this to train its large language model, GPT, and the rest, as they say, is history. Microsoft is no stranger to building artificial intelligence (AI) models that help users work more efficiently. The automatic spell checker that has helped millions of users is an example of an AI model trained on language. However, OpenAI wasn't...

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Artificial Cognition, Psychology - March 19, 2023

Artificial cognition: How experimental psychology can help generate explainable artificial intelligence

Abstract Artificial intelligence powered by deep neural networks has reached a level of complexity where it can be difficult or impossible to express how a model makes its decisions. This black-box problem is especially concerning when the model makes decisions with consequences for human well-being. In response, an emerging field called explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to increase the interpretability, fairness, and transparency of machine learning. In this paper, we describe how cognitive psychologists can make contributions to XAI. The human mind is also a black box, and cognitive psychologists have over 150 years of experience modeling it through experimentation....

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AI, Artificial Cognition - March 19, 2023

Theory of Mind Breakthrough: AI Consciousness & Disagreements at OpenAI [GPT 4 Tested]

What does the Theory of Mind breakthrough discovered in GPT 4 mean for the future of our interactions with language models? How might this complicate our ability to test for AI consciousness? I show the weaknesses of a range of tests of consciousness, and how GPT 4 passes them. I then show how tests like these, and other developments, have led to a difference of opinion at the top of OpenAI on the question of sentience. I bring numerous academic papers and David Chalmers, an eminent thinker on the hard problem of consciousness, and touch on ARC post yesterday on...

Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of Clippy

Each of the former Office apps will get AI-assisted automation features Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft 365 Copilot, its rumored effort to build automated AI-powered content-generation features into all of the Microsoft 365 apps. The capabilities Microsoft demonstrated make Copilot seem like a juiced-up version of Clippy, the oft-parodied and arguably beloved assistant from older versions of Microsoft Office. Copilot can automatically generate Outlook emails, Word documents, and PowerPoint decks, can automate data analysis in Excel, and can pull relevant points from the transcript of a Microsoft Teams meeting, among other features. Microsoft is currently testing Copilot "with 20 customers, including eight in Fortune...

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Microsoft AI, Microsoft Copilot - March 18, 2023