Deep Learning
The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions
In a closed-door workshop led by Anthropic and Stanford, leading AI startups and researchers discussed guidelines for chatbot companions, especially for younger users. At Stanford for eight hours on Monday, representatives from Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft met in a closed-door workshop to discuss the use of chatbots as companions or in roleplay scenarios. Interactions with AI tools are often mundane, but they can also lead to dire outcomes. Users sometimes experience mental breakdowns during lengthy conversations with chatbots or confide in them about their suicidal ideations . "We need to have really big conversations across society about what role we want AI to play in our future as humans who are interacting with each other," says Ryn Linthicum, head of user well-being policy at Anthropic .
The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China
Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say. Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, however, worry that the US is starting to fall behind when it comes to minting open-weight AI models that can be downloaded, adapted, and run locally. Open models from Chinese companies like Kimi, Z.ai, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are now rapidly gaining popularity among researchers and engineers worldwide, leaving the US as a laggard in an increasingly vital area of AI innovation. "The US needs open models to cement its lead at every level of the AI stack," Nathan Lambert, founder of the ATOM (American Truly Open Models) Project, tells WIRED.
Instruction Tuning With Loss Over Instructions
Further analysis substantiates our hypothesis that our improvement can be attributed to reduced overfitting to instruction tuning datasets. It is worth noting that we are not proposing IM as a replacement for the current instruction tuning process. Instead, our work aims to provide practical guidance for instruction tuning LMs, especially in low-resource scenarios.
Google enters 'new era' of AI with its advanced Gemini 3 model
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Google enters'new era' of AI with its advanced Gemini 3 model Google says Gemini 3 is its most intelligent model yet. Google is launching Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. From the outset, users will have access to the flagship Gemini 3 Pro model, which is multimodal from the ground up and can process text, image, audio, and video in the same flow. This model is said to top several AI benchmark tests in logic, math, and fact checking.