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Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact

Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.

Microsoft’s 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of “small language models."

This week, the Overture Maps Foundation released a handy command-line tool for downloading a subset of the Overture dataset. Usage is simple:

Gemini 1.5 Pro launch, new version of GPT-4 Turbo, new Mistral model, and more.

ChatGPT 3.5 still falls far short of GPT-4, and other models surpassed it long ago.

OpenAI will no longer require an account for ChatGPT, the company's free AI platform. On Monday, OpenAI announced it will allow users to access its free-to-use ChatGPT generative AI chatbot without signing up for the service.

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Claude 3 Opus has overtaken OpenAI's GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena, an online ranking test pitting LLMs against one another. It shows how far Anthropic's Claude LLM has come, and how impressive OpenAI's year-old tech is.