Tag Archives: GPT-3

Controversy erupts over non-consensual AI mental health experiment

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person talking to a secret robot therapist. Ars Technica reader comments 139 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Friday, Koko co-founder Rob Morris announced on Twitter that his company ran an experiment to provide AI-written mental health counseling for 4,000 people without informing them first, The… Read More »

NYC schools block ChatGPT, fearing negative impact on learning

Enlarge / AI-generated image of a kid using a computer. Ars Technica reader comments 103 with 0 posters participating Share this story New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational news site Chalkbeat. The move comes amid fears from educators that students will… Read More »

“Please slow down”—The 7 biggest AI stories of 2022

Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »

Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you

Enlarge / Ghostwriter understands what you type and can automatically write responses using OpenAI’s GPT-3. Arvind Sanjeev / Ars Technica reader comments 26 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process for creating Ghostwriter, a one-of-a-kind repurposed Brother typewriter that uses AI to chat… Read More »

No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 69 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep… Read More »

OpenAI invites everyone to test new AI-powered chatbot—with amusing results

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a chatbot exploding forth from squiggly radial lines, as was foretold by the prompt. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 49 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chat interface for its GPT-3 family of large language models. It’s currently… Read More »

OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

Enlarge / An AI-generated image inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. Ars Technica reader comments 40 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing longer-form content. Almost… Read More »

We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets

Enlarge / A world-exclusive interview between man and machine. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 66 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what… Read More »

Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack

Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a “prompt injection… Read More »