After all the concerns raised by ChatGPT’s data outage on the past 20th of March, we quickly observed some reactions from the outside world. The most forceful one? Italy banning ChatGPT for data privacy concerns. Nearly one month after the incident, OpenAI has already taken some actions regarding user data privacy: The possibility to turn off the chat history … [Read more...] about What ChatGPT Knows about You: OpenAI’s Journey Towards Data Privacy
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Most Powerful 7 Language (LLM) and Vision Language Models (VLM) Transforming AI in 2023
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, natural language processing has become a focal point for researchers and developers alike. Building on the foundations of Transformer architecture and BERT’s bidirectional upgrade, several groundbreaking language models have emerged in recent years, pushing the boundaries of what machines can understand and … [Read more...] about Most Powerful 7 Language (LLM) and Vision Language Models (VLM) Transforming AI in 2023
Creating An Information Edge With Conversational Access To Data
Figure 1: Representation of the Text2SQL flow As our world is getting more global and dynamic, businesses are more and more dependent on data for making informed, objective and timely decisions. However, as of now, unleashing the full potential of organisational data is often a privilege of a handful of data scientists and analysts. Most employees don’t master the … [Read more...] about Creating An Information Edge With Conversational Access To Data
Can ChatGPT Compete With Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis Machine Learning Models?
ChatGPT is a GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) machine learning (ML) tool that has surprised the world. Its breathtaking capabilities impress casual users, professionals, researchers, and even its own creators. Moreover, its capacity to be an ML model trained for general tasks and perform very well in domain-specific situations is impressive. I am a researcher, and its … [Read more...] about Can ChatGPT Compete With Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis Machine Learning Models?
Exploring Creativity in Large Language Models: From GPT-2 to GPT-4
Creativity as envisioned by Midjourney. Generated by the author This article was originally published on the author’s blog and re-published to TOPBOTS with permission from the author. In recent weeks, people have used large language models (LLMs) to generate a variety of creative content, such as books, flash fiction, rap battles, and music chords. But is it possible to … [Read more...] about Exploring Creativity in Large Language Models: From GPT-2 to GPT-4
Unconstrained Chatbots Condone Self-Harm
WARNING. This post contains references to self-harm and suicide. It includes conversations between a human and DialoGPT, with the sole purpose of surfacing the danger of uncontrolled AI. If you or a loved one are dealing or have dealt with suicidal thoughts, I suggest skipping this article. In the context of an accelerating mental health crisis, Natural Language … [Read more...] about Unconstrained Chatbots Condone Self-Harm
Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
Imagine that all people around the world could use voice AI systems such as Alexa in their native tongues. One promising approach to realizing this vision is massively multilingual natural-language understanding (MMNLU), a paradigm in which a single machine learning model can parse and understand inputs from many typologically diverse languages. By learning a shared data … [Read more...] about Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
How To Structure Intent In Chatbots And Gather Useful Feedback
I recently collaborated on several projects involving chatbots and had the opportunity to discuss with industry experts about the main difficulties that are often encountered in this type of project. While it is becoming easier and easier to build conversational assistants, it looks like there are some problems that emerge systematically as the chatbot grows, as a consequence … [Read more...] about How To Structure Intent In Chatbots And Gather Useful Feedback
State-of-the-art Approaches to Building Open-Domain Conversational Agents
This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas: Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metrics In this piece, we start by covering the cutting-edge approaches to building open-domain dialog agents. 2020 is the breakthrough year for open-domain … [Read more...] about State-of-the-art Approaches to Building Open-Domain Conversational Agents
Key Research Advances in Building Task-Oriented Dialog Agents
This research summary is part of our Conversational AI series which covers the latest AI & machine learning approaches in the following areas: Open-domain chatbotsTask-oriented chatbotsDialog datasetsEvaluation metrics In this research summary, we feature some of the most interesting novel approaches to improving the performance of task-oriented, or goal-oriented, … [Read more...] about Key Research Advances in Building Task-Oriented Dialog Agents