As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

Editor’s note (September 9th): This article has been updated. WHEN TECH folk talk about the lacklustre progress of large language models (LLMs), they often draw an analogy with smartphones. The early ...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being implemented in a wide range of disciplines, with the promise of unlocking new possibilities for scientific exploration. However, while the development of ...

The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, ...

There is an all-out global race for AI dominance. The largest and most powerful companies in the world are investing billions in unprecedented computing power. The most powerful countries are ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue their rapid evolution and domination of the generative AI landscape, a quieter evolution is unfolding at the edge of two emerging domains: quantum computing ...

Generative AI, especially large language models (LLMs), present exciting and unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for academic research and scholarship. As the different versions of LLMs ...

Umit Topaloglu, PhD, FAMIA, is a clinical research informaticist specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) applications and privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) methodologies. His research ...

Yannan Yu, MD Resident, Diagnostic Radiology (PGY5) UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging ...

Popular large language models (LLMs) are unable to provide reliable information about key public services such as health, taxes and benefits, the Open Data Institute (ODI) has found. Drawing on more ...