Industry legends are coming in force to support AI tools. (Picture: id Software)The legendary co-creator of the Doom and Quake games for id Software, came out swinging on Monday in support of AI game tools, citing how the industry has developed from the early days of hand coding hex digits.
The heart of the issue is the release of Microsoft’s Copilot Labs’ release of an AI powered, fully playable tech demo of new Quake II maps this weekend.
It wasn’t made by hand or by coding, but rather built as an ai world you could navigate freely, and the frames are rendered on the fly — at 10 frames per second with a a resolution of 640 x 360.
En resultatside fra Bard er den eneste informasjonen Google har sluppet fra den faktiske chatboten. (Bilde: Google)
Bard baserer seg på årevis med forskning, og skal konkurrere med ChatGPT, men du får ikke testet den enda. Den kommer «i løpet av de neste ukene.»
Boten skal være basert på språkmodellen LaMDA, som ble lansert for to år siden, og har vært i intern testing i et års tid, i følge en bloggpost fra Sundar Pichai.
— Bard forsøker å kombinere bredden av verdens kunnskap med kraften, intelligensen og kreativiteten i de store språkmodellene våre, fortsetter han.
People are astounded Meta used a non public, unreleased and optimized model on the industry’s most respected benchmark. (Picture: Meta)According to severalreports, it seems Meta used an unpublished Llama 4 Maverick model created especially to score well on the LMArena benchmark.
Surprisingly good ranking
The largest selling point for their latest Maverick model was how well it did in precisely this benchmark, scoring just above ChatGPT 4o-latest and and slightly below Gemini 2.5 Pro, considered the current cutting edge of AI engineering.
The fact that Llama 4 Maverick got second place in between these, on the most watched leaderboard in AI, raised a lot of eyebrows over the weekend.
Det er forventet at Google avdekker ChatGPT-svaret sitt denne uken, antakelig en chatbot integrert i søkemotoren. Bilde: mjmonty, CC BY 2.0
Google har en presentasjon denne uken om «søk, kart og videre,» der det forventes at de skal trekke sløret av sin egen chatbot — mens Microsoft nettopp har vist frem Bing med chatGPT, antakelig ved en feiltakelse.
Den kommende presentasjonen fra Google, på onsdag, kommer etter at toppsjefen Sundar Pichai skal ha lovet «direkte interaksjon» med den «nyeste og kraftigste språkmodellen i samhandling med søk.» På en nylig investorsamtale.
The Llama 4 models seem tailor made for STEM benchmarks, runs on little hardware, and is very cost efficient. (Picture: LadyDragonflyCC, CC BY 2.0)The latest models out of Meta, the Llama 4 Maverick and the Scout, aren’t reasoning models, but put in extra work by using a panel of «experts» instead.
The models are rolling out right now on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct, where they are free for everyone with a membership.
Will answer «contentious» questions
According to TechCrunch, the new models will answer questions previous models wouldn’t, responding to «debated» questions and «contentious» prompts «without judgement:»
— We’re continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers more questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints, and doesn’t favor some views over others, a meta spokesperson told the website.
Miss Quake II? Now you can play new levels generated by AI. (Picture: Screenshot)Amid Ai fears in the gaming industry, replete with layoffs and questions about artistry in the age of AI, Microsofts Copilot labs has offered a glimpse into what the future of gaming might look like.
They spent only just over a week on training to produce a real time game model of Quake II, says Tom’s Hardware, that now plays a somewhat choppy 10 frames per second or so version of the game — with new, never before seen gameplay, generated on the fly.
Selv OpenAI, selskapet bak ChatGPT, er nå ute med et verktøy for å oppdage robot-tekst.Ikke mindre enn tre verktøy som kan oppdage ChatGPT har dukket opp de siste dagene. Noen er mer nøyaktige enn andre.
Siden ChatGPT kom på banen har mange, spesielt i skolen, vært opptatt av hvordan man kan blokkere eller oppdage tjenesten i skolelekser og lignende.
Roboten produserer forbausende kompetente svar på spørsmål om det meste, og har alt bestått mange forskjellige eksamener i alt fra legefeltet til Master of Business Administration.
Så, hvordan kan man oppdage en tekst generert av ChatGPT?
The United Nations are worried developing nations will miss out on AI. (Picture via www.localdigital.com.au)The UN Trade and development organization doesn’t think AI will simply go away, predicting instead that nearly half of all jobs will be affected by 2033.
They also warn that only a hundred corporations control the technology, and say the difference between developed and developing nations will grow as the technology gets unevenly rolled out.
OpenAi is now a $300B company, and is pushing into new frontiers. (Picture: OpenAI)In a blockbuster day for OpenAI news, it also says it added 1 million users an hour last night, and is opening the famous image generator for free users.
The money raised by the ChatGPT maker values the company at $300 billion, and is the most money raised by a private tech company ever, as it was the last time they raised a mere $6.6 billion back in October 2024.
In fact, the funding is three times the previous high note in funding for tech companies.
Gemini 2.5 is topping leaderborads all over. (Picture: Google)The latest Gemini launch got overshadowed by ChatGPTs new image generation, but the model has been absolutely crushing it in the benchmarks and averages.
The Pro 2.5 is currently one of the best large language model out there, and it is now available for free – with no set qoutas or limits on prompts.
OpenAIs gründer og CEO Sam Altman langer ut mot GPT-ryktene. (Bilde: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0)ChatGPT har allerede tatt verden med storm, men når det kommer til den neste versjonen heller toppsjefen vann på bålet.
Samtidig går ryktene om neste utgave av språkmodellen bak ChatGPT. Den nåværende modellen er basert på en moderert versjon av GPT 3.0 som kom i 2021, og neste versjon skal være like om hjørnet.
The internal thinking of an AI has been mostly opaque before this study. (Image: Anthropic.)Some people think large AI models are preprogrammed by lots of people, whereas the opposite is often true.
Training an LLM like Claude often consists of unmonitored consumption of huge amounts of data, with minimal human involvement.
— Language models like Claude aren’t programmed directly by humans, says Anthropic, — They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do, they add.
Tracing the thoughts of an LLM
Now they have set out to change that, with a couple of scientific studies mapping out the internal reasoning, or how the model actually thinks in response to normal prompts.
Anthropic scores an early copyright win. (Credit: Anthropic)A US court has denied a coalition of record companies’, including Universal Music, request to keep music lyrics out of the training data for their AI, finding that no immediate harm had been proved.
This is just one of manylawsuits against AI companies claiming they copied and used copyrighted materials in training their models, that hinges on the fair use provision of the copyright laws
Karl Marx goes shopping, from OpenAI.Moving from Dall-E to native GPT 4o images makes for higher quality and more lifelike detail — and they also updated their terms of service.
Rolling out to users on Free, Pro and Plus tiers, the image generation should be live pretty much by the time of this writing, letting you generate just about anything you can imagine from a text prompt – within reason.
Accessing a world of knowledge
Since it uses GPT 4o, the generator has access to a world of knowledge and context that was missing from the previous generators, writes Mashable.
The new ARC-AGI-2 tests for «fluid intelligence» and is bad news for the state of the art models. (Picture: The Arc Prize Foundation)Artificial General Intelligence denotes when AI becomes more proficient than humans in most tasks, and is the holy grail of current AI research, even though there are different definitions depending on who you ask.
A new cognitive, problem solving benchmark, the ARC-AGI-2, which is easy for humans and really tough for even the best of the reasoning AIs shows just how far away that goal is, TechCrunch reports.
In fact, most state of the art AIs score in the low single digits on this test, whereas humans score an average of 60%.