AI & Gen AI News Watch: 2/23/24

Here's the top gen AI news this past week:

• This appears to be a week for weird AI. As mentioned above, Google pulled Gemini for image issues, and earlier in the week, OpenAI basically had to "reset" ChatGPT/underlying models as they started spouting nonsense. 
• On a positive note, Open AI announced that it's "improved the memory" of ChatGPT chats, basically making ChatGPT more intuitive and user-friendly. 
• On Wednesday, Google announced Gemma, an open source version of its Gemini LLM (formerly known as Bard). (BTW: If you’ve ever wanted to play with an LLM directly and you're not a data scientist, there's a nice guide for getting your hands dirty with Gemini available here). 
• Looking for examples of how companies are using AI? How about this one exploring how it’s being used to accelerate mining discoveries. 
• Or this one creating an AI biology model. 
• Or this one discovering new materials. 
• Or this one about a small weather prediction company bypassing competitors thanks to its use of AI.
• If you're looking for a new way to use generative AI in your company day-to-day, Adobe just added the ability to "chat" with documents to its PDF tools. 
• Of course, adding AI tools isn't always a slam dunk, as JetBrains recently found out. They recently removed an AI assistant from their programs (and are being praised for doing so). 
• Speaking of AI technology possibly gone too far, employers seem to be gravitating to (and candidates seem to be pulling away from) these new AI-driven personality tests fused into online job applications (although, to be honest, we're not sure we see what the AI angle is here). 

Posted by Becky Nagel on 02/23/2024