Tag Archives: AI

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

Getty Images reader comments 31 On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as “gpt-chatbot” that had been undergoing testing on LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena and frustrating experts was, in fact, OpenAI’s newly announced GPT-4o AI model. He also revealed that GPT-4o had topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard,… Read More »

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

reader comments 97 On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for “omni”), a major new AI model that can ostensibly converse using speech in real time, reading emotional cues and responding to visual input. It operates faster than OpenAI’s previous best model, GPT-4 Turbo, and will be free for ChatGPT users and available as a service… Read More »

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

reader comments 163 On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow’s technical content with OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant. However, the deal has sparked controversy among Stack Overflow’s user community, with many expressing anger and protest over the use of their contributed content to support and train AI… Read More »

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. reader comments 184 The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic “dogs” developed by Ghost Robotics, with the potential to be equipped with… Read More »

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

reader comments 41 Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from the Internet, according to a Bloomberg report. 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… Read More »

New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

Enlarge / Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., during a town hall on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Suleyman joined Microsoft in March. reader comments 35 Microsoft is working on a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1,… Read More »

AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

reader comments 57 On Thursday, renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, tweeted a lighthearted proposal that large language models (LLMs) like the one that runs ChatGPT could one day be modified to operate in or be transmitted to space, potentially to communicate with extraterrestrial life. He said the idea was “just… Read More »

Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app

Enlarge / The Claude AI iOS app running on an iPhone. reader comments 14 On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the launch of an iOS mobile app for its Claude 3 AI language models that are similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also introduced a new subscription tier designed for group collaboration. Before the app launch, Claude was… Read More »

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

Enlarge / A photo of the Cheyenne supercomputer, which is now up for auction. reader comments 72 On Tuesday, the US General Services Administration began an auction for the decommissioned Cheyenne supercomputer, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 5.34-petaflop supercomputer ranked as the 20th most powerful in the world at the time of its installation in… Read More »

Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

reader comments 25 On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named “gpt2-chatbot” that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may be a secret test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 large language model (LLM). The paid version of ChatGPT is currently powered… Read More »