Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 74 with Share this story On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered Bing Chat bot: Creative, Balanced, or Precise. Microsoft has been testing the feature since February 24 with a limited set of users.… Read More »
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 49 with Share this story On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones.… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot eagerly writing a submission to Clarkesworld. Ars Technica reader comments 81 with Share this story One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines—generative AI—is unlimited content. On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 240 with Share this story Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial prompts, often resulting in Bing Chat appearing frustrated, sad, and questioning its existence. It has argued with… Read More »
Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can “trick” a language model to spill its secrets. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 109 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a “New Bing” search engine and conversational bot powered by ChatGPT-like technology from OpenAI. On Wednesday, a Stanford University student… Read More »
reader comments 98 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing… Read More »
Enlarge / A screenshot of Nothing, Forever showing faux-Seinfeld character Larry Feinberg performing a stand-up act. Nothing Forever reader comments 167 with 0 posters participating Share this story Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been streaming a live, endless AI-generated Seinfeld episode that features pixelated cartoon versions of characters from the… Read More »
Enlarge / A realistic artist’s depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI reader comments 79 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Reuters reported that AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million active monthly users last month, a mere two months from launch, making it… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work. Ars Technica reader comments 93 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT-style text synthesis technology from OpenAI to create individualized quizzes and potentially other… Read More »
Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives… Read More »