OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever to exit firm
Sutskever’s future with the company has been in doubt since, while on the board, he voted to oust Altman from his role as CEO, only to reverse course and sign an open letter demanding his return.
Sutskever’s future with the company has been in doubt since, while on the board, he voted to oust Altman from his role as CEO, only to reverse course and sign an open letter demanding his return.
GPT-4 showcased a markedly superior performance when compared to unspecialised junior doctors, who possess a proficiency level comparable to general practitioners with specialist eye knowledge.
Gemini 1.5 Flash might be a better option for real-time responses to customers or fast image generation, while Gemini 1.5 Pro could read and summarize research papers.
This is nothing short of a full-stack AI-ification of search. Google is using its Gemini AI to figure out what you’re asking about, whether you’re typing, speaking, taking a picture, or shooting a video.
The abilities you’ll gain include being able to use Copilot to read and send text messages on your Android device (via the PC, of course), or look up contact information.
You can use Copilot directly within the Settings app’s search function. Stuck looking for a specific option or setting on your PC? Simply type your query into the search bar and click “Ask Copilot in Windows (preview).”
Gemini Live will enable two-way spoken conversation with the chatbot, smart assistant capabilities, and vision features — a lot like what OpenAI is working on for ChatGPT.
Google says you can make Gemini your gym buddy, sous-chef, coding partner, creative writing guide, or anything you can dream up. Gems feels similar to OpenAI’s GPT Store that lets you make customized ChatGPT chatbots.
Asking for a summary of emails from a certain contact will get you a bullet-point list of what has been happening, with a list of “sources” at the bottom that will jump you right to a certain email.
The integration will let you do things like generate product reviews, social media posts, and other blurbs directly within Chrome.
Google users have long been trying to hack Gemini to do complicated, multi-app things: send an email based on the data they’re looking at in Sheets or add a reminder to respond to the email they were currently looking at.
The AI assistant also exhibited its potential in wearable devices, such as smart glasses, where it could analyze diagrams, suggest improvements, and generate witty responses to visual prompts.
After the event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cryptically posted just one word on X: “her.” He has also expressed that Her is his favorite movie. The film explores themes of loneliness and human-AI relationships.
AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.
Find out how these AI engines performed with “a free and easy game idea for a 5-year-old’s birthday party,” “a new smartphone app idea that’s likely to appeal to a lot of people, complete with a name,” and “tell me how to reset macOS and what I need to bear in mind before I do”.
The question of who should control AI development and who should have access to AI is of vital importance to society. A joint Princeton/Stanford seminar addressed this question.
Another great listicle of Copilot tips.
Microsoft also plans to integrate this entire experience into Microsoft Copilot. You’ll be able to ask “which days should I go in this week?” and you’ll get a list of suggestions based on in-person meetings, when your co-workers are planning to be in.
OpenAI is making a number of its previously subscription-only features available to free users of ChatGPT, with the biggest being the ability to browse its GPT Store and use custom bots…
Users could open the ChatGPT desktop app in a small window, alongside another program. They asked ChatGPT questions about what’s on their screen — whether by typing or saying it. ChatGPT could then respond based on what it “sees.”
The AI assistant seemed to easily pick up on emotions, adapted its tone and style to match the user’s requests, and even incorporated sound effects, laughing, and singing into its responses.
It would apparently be able to help customer service agents “better understand the intonation of callers’ voices or whether they’re being sarcastic.”
The software-as-a-service tool is capable of using a company’s existing data, images, brand style and analytics to build marketing campaigns for new and existing products, including email outreach, blogs and social media posts.
One system even altered its behaviour during mock safety tests, raising the prospect of auditors being lured into a false sense of security.
Apple Inc. has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the startup’s technology on the iPhone, part of a broader push to bring artificial intelligence features to its devices, according to people familiar with the matter.
Siri’s underlying technology will include a new generative A.I. system that will allow it to chat rather than respond to questions one at a time.
What kind of a company creates fake authors for a famous newspaper or magazine and operates them like sock puppets? Did AdVon have other clients? And was it being truthful that the reviews had been created by humans rather than AI?
The visual recognition skills of the large language model fell far short of clinical standards, achieving a positive predictive value (PPV) of less than 25% during its best attempt at trying to spot image findings from a set of 100 chest x-rays.
About half (52 percent) of those who use AI are reluctant to admit that they’ve used it for important tasks. And slightly more (53 percent) say that if they do use it on work tasks it makes them look replaceable.
“Hello Mods, We have received a copyright complaint from openai.com alleging unauthorized use of their copyrighted logos in r/ChatGPT. The ‘subreddit profile image’ does make use of the copyrighted content, which can lead to user confusion: please address the unauthorized copyrighted elements by May 16.”
In the coming months Copilot for Microsoft 365, the paid service that adds an AI assistant to Office apps, will be updated with a new auto-complete feature that offers suggestions to improve AI prompts.
A year and a half into ChatGPT’s life, the AI program’s impacts on education in Colorado and beyond are irrefutable. Conversations about artificial intelligence in the classroom have dominated conferences and training sessions for schools and universities across the state.
Stack Overflow’s partnership with OpenAI also follows the LLM company’s recent push for increased partnerships and marquee deals, including their major announcement of a $100 billion datacenter to be built with Microsoft.
Med-Gemini was tested on 14 medical benchmarks and established a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance on 10, surpassing the GPT-4 model family on every benchmark where a comparison could be made.
DotDask Meredith signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT.
This reportedly marks the first time Microsoft has deployed a major language model in a secure setting, designed to allow spy agencies to analyze top-secret information without connectivity risks—and to allow secure conversations with a chatbot similar to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.
“Employers are getting hundreds of the exact same cover letters word for word”. They suspect that the applicants are mostly using ChatGPT for these cover letters and job applications.
OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow’s API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn, will give Stack Overflow attribution — aka link to its contents — in ChatGPT.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to “protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT.”
Using cutting-edge GenAI technology, these assistants will furnish financial experts with in-depth market insights and timely updates on investment options and customer behaviour.
This marks the first time Microsoft has developed an in-house AI model of this magnitude since investing over $10 billion in OpenAI for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models.
Researchers found that morality judgments given by ChatGPT4 were “perceived as superior in quality to humans'” along a variety of dimensions like virtuosity and intelligence.
“We’re seeing a little upping of that skill, where students are getting code snippets from generative AI that they need to test for correctness.”
As businesses race to put generative AI in front of customers everywhere, military experts say its strengths and limitations need further testing and evaluation in order to deploy it responsibly.
It’s easy to be enchanted by AI, but sometimes harder to see whether it can make an active, accurate contribution to company efficiency and — who knows? — perhaps even profits.
Don’t wait to get comfortable with AI. Try out a few of these prompts and flex your chatbot muscles. You’ll see just how easy they are to use.
“No computer, no AI can replace a human touch,” said Amy Grewal, a registered nurse. “It cannot hold your loved one’s hand. You cannot teach a computer how to have empathy.”
Some users say they’ve logged 12 hours a day on Character.AI, and posts about addiction to the platform are common.
Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service prohibits integrations with Azure OpenAI Service from being used “by or for” police departments for facial recognition in the U.S.
“We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.”
Meta’s assistant stinks at counting. When you ask it for a five-syllable word starting with the letter w, it will respond with “wonderfully,” which has four syllables. When you ask it for a four-syllable word starting with w, it will offer “wonderful”.
An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership.
The chatbot acts as an assistant for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, learning from a company’s data and workflows so employees can ask questions about their business. Users can also ask Q questions about coding, HR information, or logistics.
The point Genius Group is so wantonly missing is that Turing was a real person whose life meant something, both in terms of the history of computing and mathematics, but also in society.
Memory brings ChatGPT closer to being a better AI assistant. Once it remembers your preferences, it can include them without needing a reminder.
The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis”.
Your “Gemini mobile app” may be any of the following:
On Android: the Gemini app, including as your mobile assistant
On iOS: the Gemini tab in the Google app
“Satya and the entire senior leadership team lean on Gates very significantly. His opinion is sought every time we make a major change.”
Leveraging advanced algorithms to manage patient messages had tremendous impact, including providing population-level insights regarding commonly recurring issues and even allowing for faster response times for potentially acute and emergent situations.
Artificial intelligence’s thirst for electricity is conspiring with other factors to trigger a sharp spike in electricity demand that the U.S. is only beginning to address.
One of the most useful functions of Microsoft Copilot in Outlook, is its ability to quickly write first drafts of emails, so that you can focus on getting the tone right, rather than typing out all the pleasantries.
Meta’s fast-and-furious deployment of new AI features aims to make the technology’s benefits accessible — but also risks degrading the experience for its billions of users.
The only change in my question was ‘John’ to ‘Jane’. No other details were specified.
Yet the output given by ChatGPT couldn’t have been more different.
The highlight of testing the system with dozens of lawyers was when a GDPR specialist reviewed its answers. The lawyer ranked 8 out of 10 responses as excellent, and the remaining 2 as overly cautious in interpreting the law.
noyb is now asking the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) to investigate OpenAI’s data processing and the measures taken to ensure the accuracy of personal data processed in the context of the company’s large language models.
using the Copilot app on the web instead of the Copilot extension in the browser seems to block ads. Why? Well, apparently, the Copilot app has a built-in ad blocker that filters out most of the ads from the web sources.
The FT writes in a press release that ChatGPT users will see summaries, quotes, and links to its articles. Any prompt that returns information from the FT will be attributed to the publication.
Moderna CEO Bancel expects his staff to ask OpenAI’s chatbots questions at least two, maybe three times every hour–an AI interaction rate that could easily, with some back-of-the-napkin estimates, eat up 10 to 15 minutes of work time each work hour.
AI is forcing corporate boards to change how they operate, with the most aggressive companies appointing AI bots as observers to their boards and putting tech at the center of their board strategy work.
Catholic Answers explained that it had defrocked the virtual clergy after receiving “criticism of the representation of the AI character as a priest.”
Copilot adoption is happening “faster than any suite we have sold in the past,” according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, referring to Microsoft’s Copilot software tools, which add artificial-intelligence features to company offerings like Office.
Meta has drawn criticism over its approach to “open” AI. The license attached to Llama 3 doesn’t conform to any accepted open-source license, and some aspects of the model, such as the training data used, are not revealed in detail.
“After using ChatGPT and Copilot for over a year, I keep coming to the same conclusion — Microsoft’s Copilot is the better option and doesn’t get the credit it deserves.”
Microsoft is working hard to develop stories around AI and why organisations need to adopt it. This one, by Microsoft EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff, provides lots of links to customers who are putting AI to work
ChatGPT-4 generated acceptable messages to patients without any additional editing by radiation oncologists 58% of the time, and 7% of responses generated by GPT-4 were deemed unsafe by the radiation oncologists if left unedited.
Unlike Copilot in other Microsoft 365 applications, like Word and Powerpoint, Copilot in Excel is designed to only work with data, rather than the entire document. You’ll need to select the cells you want it to work with before inputting your request.
Apple said on its Hugging Face model page that OpenELM, which stands for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,” performs very efficiently on text-related tasks like email writing. The models are open source and ready for developers to use.
Companies are trying to game the platform with the express purpose of ranking high on Google and are using AI and account buying to do it.
The idea is simple: if they can’t handle these basic challenges, it’s probably not worth asking them to do anything more complex.
Microsoft hasn’t said that Phi-3-mini will be the next Copilot, running locally on your PC. But there’s a case to be made that it is, and that we have an idea of how well it will work.
A great resource with examples of effective prompts, from Claude provider Anthropic.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded defensive about his strategy of blasting away at various high-cost futuristic projects, including AI and mixed reality.
The companies will jointly experiment with technology like Azure OpenAI Service to develop innovative generative AI use cases across various business functions. This includes testing how Copilot for Microsoft 365 could help improve workplace productivity.
“The right way to think about generative AI is to view it as a flexible tool that’s usable by human workers,” MIT professor Daron Acemoglu says.
Imagine an operator saying something like, ‘Hey computer, why is production on this unit slowing down? And what can I do to adjust it?'”
The committee approved the use of ChatGPT Plus, a paid subscription plan for the chatbot, for “a cross-section of … committee staff” and held an initial training on the tool, according to the report on AI strategy and implementation in the House.
After the termination of the short-lived experiment to have the jumped-up paperclip offer its help – whether a user wanted it or not – you would have hoped that was the end of it.
The company last week unveiled a new blog series with tips, tricks, and suggestions on how you can get the most out of Gemini for Google Workspace. You can apply the advice to almost any AI chatbot.
If we can’t separate ourselves from the products of our tools, we can at least be transparent about those tools and how they’ve been used.
About four-in-ten adults have not too much or no trust in the election information that comes from ChatGPT. By comparison, just 2% have a great deal or quite a bit of trust.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM) can autonomously exploit vulnerabilities in real-world systems if given a CVE advisory describing the flaw.
To start creating new slides in Powerpoint using Copilot, all you need to do is ask it, giving it any information you feel it might need to be up to the task.
Unlike an app, which can be loaded and unloaded as you use it, running something like Gemini Nano could mean permanently losing what is apparently a big chunk of system memory.
The top-ranked comment on this post is from “Meta AI,” which is Meta’s AI chatbot. “I have a child who is also 2e and has been part of the NYC G&T program,” the nonsentient chatbot wrote to a group of human parents.
Bad actors attempt to bypass safeguards with the intent to achieve unauthorized actions, which may result in what is known as a “jailbreak.” The consequences can range from the unapproved but less harmful to the very serious.
Instead of verifying Grok’s outputs, it appeared that X users—in the service’s famously joke-y spirit—decided to fuel Grok’s misinformation.
The initial set of AI-related features Apple plans to debut with iOS 18 “will work entirely on device.” In practice, these AI features would be able to function without an internet connection or any form of cloud-based processing.
It already has functions or “recipes” you can use, such as Rephrase, Summarize and Create Email, that will base their results on the text you’ve selected. However, you can create your own recipes, as well, including one that can generate images.
Google DeepMind chief Hassabis didn’t specify how exactly Google would be spending that $100 billion or more, nor how quickly it would spend it, but he did insist that the Chocolate Factory’s processing prowess surpasses Microsoft’s – or anyone else’s.