Tag Archives: GPT-3

ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

But it was really motivated by just an enormous, not only opportunity, but a moral obligation in a sense, to do something that was better done outside in order to design better medicines and have very direct impact on people’s lives. Ars: The funny thing with ChatGPT is that I was using GPT-3 before that.… Read More »

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model

reader comments 56 OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe… 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 »

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 »

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

reader comments 30 When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic from its ability to imitate human communication and composition. Since then, the biggest question in AI has remained the same: When is GPT-5 coming out? During interviews and media appearances around the… Read More »

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Getty Images reader comments 20 It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely… Read More »

OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI “laziness” problem

reader comments 19 On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked in a mention of a potential fix to a widely reported “laziness” problem seen in GPT-4 Turbo since its release in November. The company also announced a new GPT-3.5 Turbo model (with… Read More »

Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI

Enlarge / An illustration of a robot holding a French flag, figuratively reflecting the rise of AI in France due to Mistral. It’s hard to draw a picture of an LLM, so a robot will have to do. reader comments 30 On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a… Read More »

Elon Musk’s AI bot, Grok, speaks as if made by OpenAI in some tests, causing a stir

reader comments 16 Grok, the AI language model created by Elon Musk’s xAI, went into wide release last week, and people have begun spotting glitches. On Friday, security tester Jax Winterbourne tweeted a screenshot of Grok denying a query with the statement, “I’m afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI’s use… Read More »

ChatGPT was the spark that lit the fire under generative AI, one year ago today

Enlarge / An artist’s interpretation of what ChatGPT might look like if embodied in the form of a robot toy blowing out a birthday candle. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 37 with One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. It’s uncommon for a single tech product to create as… Read More »