Tech in the naughty corner

Why are Apple and Facebook Threatening to put Europe in the AI Naughty Corner?

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has announced that it will not release its advanced AI model (an update to Llama) in the EU. They say this is because they fear European regulations. This news comes hard on the heels of Apple’s announcement that its generative AI tools may not be available in the EU. Here are some thoughts on the why?

Person speaking nicely to a computer

Speaking Nicely to Generative AI Seems to Help Get Better Answers

In a paper published in April this year, researchers showed how speaking more collaboratively to LLMs seems to generate better responses. The paper describes how Chengrun Yang, Xuezhi Wang, Yifeng Lu, Hanxiao Liu, Quoc V. Le, Denny Zhou, and Xinyun Chen conducted a series of experiments to explore how different strategies for prompts delivered different answers.