Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

This story was updated to add new information. LinkedIn user data is being used to train artificial intelligence models, leading some social media users to call out the company for opting members in ...

A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), makes it possible to control how training data is used even after a model has been built.

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) might sound like a task reserved for tech wizards with endless resources, but the reality is far more approachable—and surprisingly exciting. If you’ve ever ...

Generative AI models aren't born out of a vacuum. In a sense, these systems are built piece by piece using massive amounts of training data, and always need more and more information to keep improving ...

Maybe they should have called it DeepFake, or DeepState, or better still Deep Selloff. Or maybe the other obvious deep thing that the indigenous AI vendors in the United States are standing up to ...

Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot. By Jesus Jiménez Meta has been expanding its artificial ...

Scientists are flocking to DeepSeek-R1, a cheap and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) ‘reasoning’ model that sent the US stock market spiralling after it was released by a Chinese firm last week.

Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...