Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
Working together will make LLMs more capable and intelligent—for good and ill
On May 13th OpenAI unveiled its latest model, GPT-4o. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, called it the “future of interaction between ourselves and the machines”, because users will be able to speak to the model, which will talk back in an expressive, humanlike way. A day later, Demis Hassabis, the leader of Google’s artificial-intelligence (AI) efforts, demonstrated Project Astra, an early version of what he says is the company’s attempt to “develop universal AI agents that can be helpful in everyday life”.
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