There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention. Ever-more ...

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Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, are learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. The reason? Simulating and playing the popular ...

Researchers from UC San Diego got large language models (LLMs) to play the popular fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, in an attempt to evaluate their performance over time.

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

In the late 1970s, a Princeton undergraduate named John Aristotle Phillips made headlines by designing an atomic bomb using only publicly available sources for his junior year research project. His ...

What if we could truly understand the “thoughts” of artificial intelligence? Imagine peering into the intricate inner workings of a large language model (LLM) like GPT or Claude, watching as it crafts ...