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AI Speech Gets Real: BASE TTS

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

Amazon has introduced an amazing new model called BASE TTS (TTS = text-to-speech). These are the models that accept written text as an input, and then speak that text for us, which is what we use to create talking avatars and chatbots, among many other use cases. BASE stands for […]

Virtual AI Announcers – Good Better Best

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

Last week another new AI-generated reporter took the stage on a top television channel, this time in Thailand. The avatar’s name is Natcha and she’s described in the press release as having been created from “the most advanced algorithms.” In this installment, we take a careful look at the quality […]

No Free LL-unch

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

This video covers some of the emerging tools and platforms for tuning and comparative testing of Large Language Models, including Vellum.ai, Gradio, Lambda Labs and Paperspace. “No Free Lunch” is a reference to a classic paper by computer scientist and statistician, David Wolpert, who used that phrase in a Theorem […]

Has AI Learned to Lie? New Findings!

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

This video describes an experiment where a Large-Language Model was convinced by a series of prompts that it should not tell the truth, and so it intentionally gave false information. That example is explored against a backdrop of some of the more famous cases where AI has deceived some of […]

Copilot Showdown? Azure vs AWS vs GCP

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

Let’s say you’re thinking about doing a pilot for your company using generative AI, and your focus is large language models to generate text – things like answers or advice or summaries — and for starters, you’re looking Microsoft OpenAI vs Amazon vs Google. Of these, which one would be […]

Stable Code 3B: Hype or Hero or Cats with Hats?

Jim Griffin 03/06/2024

Stable Code 3B is the latest entrant in the field of text-to-code and has been declared in the technology press as a new leader. This video compares the mostly positive feedback from bloggers and journalists to the mostly skeptical feedback from the programmer community on forums like Y-Combinator. In fact, […]