Monday, March 18, 2024

AMAZON AGI TEAM SAY THEIR AI IS SHOWING "EMERGENT ABILITIES" WHOA. - NOOR AL-SIBAI, the Byte

A new Amazon AI model, according to the researchers who built it, is exhibiting language abilities that it wasn't trained on. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed academic paper, the team at Amazon AGI — which stands for "artificial general intelligence," or human-level AI — say their large language model (LLM) is exhibiting "state-of-the-art naturalness" at conversational text. Per the examples shared in the paper, the model does seem sophisticated.In the paper, whose international team of authors includes 18 AI experts, the Amazon AGI consortium pointed out that BASE TTS was never "explicitly" told to come up with its more surprising outputs.