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Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech

4 hours ago

Google has launched a UK version of an app that lets users interact with the artificial-intelligence system one of its engineers has claimed is sentient.

It is a very limited trial, with just three scenarios to choose from.

And while Google wants feedback about how its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (Lamda) performs, the app users cannot teach it any new tricks.

The company has always maintained the technology, used to power chatbots, has no independent thoughts and feelings.

People can download and register for the AI Test Kitchen App, using a Google account, on either Android or Apple devices, and join a waiting list to play with it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63301146

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U-PaLM does much better than PaLM on some tasks or demonstrates better quality at much smaller scale (62B as opposed to 540B). Overall, we show that U-PaLM outperforms PaLM on many few-shot setups, i.e., English NLP tasks (e.g., commonsense reasoning, question answering), reasoning tasks with chain-of-thought (e.g., GSM8K), multilingual tasks (MGSM, TydiQA), MMLU and challenging BIG-Bench tasks.
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