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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/googles-top-ai-model-palm-2-hopes-to-upstage-gpt-4-in-generative-mastery/ [arstechnica.com]

On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2 [ai.google], a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4 [arstechnica.com]. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard [arstechnica.com] conversational AI assistant.

As a family of large language models (LLMs), PaLM 2 has been trained on an enormous volume of data and does next-word prediction, which outputs the most likely text after a prompt input by humans. PaLM stands for "Pathways Language Model," and "Pathways [arxiv.org]" is a machine-learning technique created at Google. PaLM 2 follows up on the original PaLM [googleblog.com], which Google announced in April 2022.

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