Schools brief | Artificial intelligence

How AI models are getting smarter

Deep neural networks are learning diffusion and other tricks

A flame under a container diffusing letters turned into a speech bubble.
image: Mike Haddad

Type in a question to ChatGPT and an answer will materialise. Put a prompt into DALL-E 3 and an image will emerge. Click on TikTok’s “for you” page and you will be fed videos to your taste. Ask Siri for the weather and in a moment it will be spoken back to you.

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