LLMs

LLMs

Domesticating a local language model: Configuring and customising homebrew personal assistant LLMs

You've captured an AI model on a consumer-level computer. So what do you do with it next?

LLMs

Local language models: Building a personal AI assistant with LM Studio

The first of a two-part series on how to spin up a large language model (LLM) using an ordinary, consumer-level home computer.

Meta

Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave

The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.

LLMs

LLMs can be hypnotized to generate poisoned responses, IBM and MIT researchers warn

Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.

Cybercrime

Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn

LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.

AI

Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?

Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.

Opinion

Why better short-term memory is the key to smarter AI

For LLMs and other AI models to reach their full potential, they must evolve beyond a goldfish-like recall of previous interactions.

ChatGPT

The etiquette of ChatGPT: Should you say please and thank you to AI?

It used to cost nothing to be polite - but that's certainly no longer the case in the age of GenAI.

ChatGPT

OpenAI bins "sycophantic" ChatGPT update after "Glazegate" backlash

Sam Altman admits that GPT-4o has been sucking up to its users too intensely and takes surgent action to make it a bit less icky.

ChatGPT

GenAI vs the human brain: Can ChatGPT really think and reason?

"This is a critical warning for the use of AI in important decision-making areas."

GenAI

Meta is using AI to make NPCs more human, less robotic and hopefully not quite as ridiculous

Patent application reveals plans to give non-player characters the ability to speak and behave realistically using LLMs and GenAI.

Microsoft

Microsoft admits new Phi-4 small language model is "tedious"

Waffly model delights in giving "long and elaborate" answers that can be just a little bit dull.