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Oct 23, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
In 2007, the iPhone—the world’s first smartphone—was introduced. It had its share of skeptics: Tech news site CoolTechZone’s editor in chief, Gundeep Hora, is on record saying “The iPhone is going to be nothing more than a temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.” In hindsight, though, we know smartphones transformed everything, from how we communicate to how we find information to how we document our lives. I think we’ll look back at today's AI and see something like that.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
It's May 2023, and a couple of New York lawyers are feeling especially clever. They've used ChatGPT to write their legal brief, complete with six court cases to back up their argument. Time to take off early in time for happy hour. Well, not quite. Turns out, none of the cases ChatGPT gave as examples were real. This facepalm moment was a wakeup call for anyone using AI tools: They can hallucinate information, and if you don't watch out, these errors can seep into your work.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
A few weeks ago, there was a leak of Apple's hidden AI prompts for their Smart Reply email feature and Memories feature for Apple photos. But most of the attention was given to the prompt around hallucinations: In it, the engineers implored the system, "Do not hallucinate.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
Creator HQ AI for Creators Massive study of 100,000 humans shows how to get creative outputs from LLMs.“Elephant...harmony...whisper...desert...wisdom…”That's GPT-4 trying to ace the Divergent Association Task (DAT), a key measure of creativity that a team of Canadian researchers used to explore AI's creative potential—and how it stacks up against humans. Their findings offer valuable insights into how you can coax more creative outputs from AI tools.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
When Claude Sonnet 3.5 was released, everyone was captivated by its slick new experimental feature: Artifacts. These self-contained outputs from Claude let you co-create content in a separate window – no more tedious copy/paste from the chat. To use this feature:Head to the "Feature Preview" section in your settings. Enable the Artifacts feature. Start chatting with Claude as usual. That's it! You're now ready to experience the magic of Artifacts.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
At the frontier of AI, a few major companies are continuously releasing important updates to their large language models (LLMs). One that's been turning heads lately is Anthropic's newest model: Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But can it dethrone my go-to AI companion, ChatGPT? I decided to put it to the test. The basics of Claude’s new modelAnthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o (ChatGPT’s latest update, as of this writing) in many ways, particularly those involving reasoning.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
Remember that feeling when you first discovered ChatGPT? The excitement, the possibilities, the...constant need to re-introduce yourself? Well, OpenAI heard our collective sighs and introduced one of its biggest feature additions: Memory. As someone who's been eagerly anticipating this feature, I dove headfirst into testing it for the past two months—and came up, honestly, a little dissatisfied. I've found it is one of the most difficult features to use effectively.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
When I tell people that I have a degree in math, they have one of two responses: Either “I hated math," or “Why would you do that?!"I get it; the world is not really filled with math lovers. That’s probably why so many people want to outsource their math to AI tools like ChatGPT. But you should avoid relying too heavily on AI for math—Large Language Models (LLMs) are still only B students at best. For instance, ChatGPT-4 scores 76.6% in math problem solving, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet manages 71.1%.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Briana Brownell
They swirl at the very edges of our atmosphere, forming paper-thin ripples that glow electric and pearl blue. They’re lit by a twilight sun catching on ice crystals and seeded by rocket exhaust and space dust. These are noctilucent, or “night-shining,” clouds—the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere—and they seem to be spreading. Some scientists attribute their proliferation to global climate change.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
descript.com | Briana Brownell
Creativity is a tricky thing, even for humans. Scientists are still trying to understand the elements that lead to creativity, so being able to get AI to be truly creative is a tall order. Which is why a new prompt framework jumped out at me: the SPARK framework, created by entrepreneur Dr. Sabba Quidwai. It’s an acronym, but the last letter was what really appealed: K stands for Kismet.
