AI Tools and Language Models: An Overview
The development of AI tools and language models is progressing rapidly, with new advancements being made every day. However, even their most ardent supporters, like Elon Musk, sometimes get scared and want to hit the brakes. This is because no matter how eloquent the machines talk, false statements or manipulations through prompt injections are sometimes difficult to recognize.
In the special issue of c’t chatGPT & Co., readers are given an overview of what is possible with AI tools and language models, and what isn’t. The magazine features 124 pages that take a look at the development of language models so far and put the hype to the test.
Since the 1950s and 1960s, when Claude Shannon calculated his first theorems with mathematical formulas, people have dreamed of being able to talk to omniscient machines. Even with the great progress made with chatGPT in recent months, the coupling of such language models with search engines encounters new problems, as their large test by Bing, You.com, Phind & Co. shows.
Image and Legal Issues
Though issues like these are a cause for concern, wording aids in speech generators can reduce work. The magazine introduces productive tools and shows how best to use them as a co-pilot. It also discusses how artists and authors can prevent AI companies from using their work to train their models.
As texts often need to be embellished with images, in the Stable Diffusion focus, readers will learn how they can generate images themselves at home without paying expensive subscription fees or sending sensitive data to US companies whose data protection does not meet the GDPR’s requirements.
AI as Part of the Solution
The magazine also explores whether AI is part of the problem or part of the solution to climate change. Along with productive solutions, fraudulent activities and criminal actions are also recognized as potential threats that AI tools can bypass firewalls and exploit security gaps. Administrators need to know these ways to use AI to close the gaps in their systems.
Availability of the Magazine
The special issue c’t ChatGPT & Co. is available both on paper and in digital form. If readers order the print edition for 14.90 euros in the heise shop up to and including May 30, 2023, they do not pay any shipping costs. The digital edition is now available as a PDF for EUR 12.99 from the heise shop. Readers can also find the printed booklet and the digital edition in the heise shop as a bundle for EUR 19.90 or as a super bundle, which consists of the booklet + PDF + book “Deep Natural Language Processing” from Hanser Verlag (worth EUR 39.99) for EUR 54 or EUR 89 instead of EUR 67.88.
