Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a pixel art hospital with empty windows. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 83 with Share this story On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” Midjourney reader comments 15 with Share this story On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a cloud computing service called Bedrock, reports Reuters. The move comes as competitors Microsoft and Google integrate… Read More »
reader comments 45 with Share this story The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the tech giants from global regulators. Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft,… Read More »
reader comments 228 with Share this story As soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger. Ruiter, a local councillor, has parked in the rain outside a half-finished Microsoft data center that rises out of the flat North Holland farmland.… Read More »
Enlarge / Microsoft 365 Copilot will attempt to automate content generation and analysis in all of the former Microsoft Office apps. reader comments 67 with Share this story Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft 365 Copilot, its rumored effort to build automated AI-powered content-generation features into all of the Microsoft 365 apps. The… Read More »
Ars Technica reader comments 63 with Share this story As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model’s emergent capabilities—including “power-seeking behavior,” self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was “ineffective at the… Read More »
Enlarge / The 1982 TV series Knight Rider featured a car called KITT that a character played by David Hasselhoff (pictured) could talk to. Getty Images reader comments 54 with Share this story In the 1982 TV series Knight Rider, the main character can have a full conversation with his futuristic car. Once science fiction,… Read More »
Enlarge / The current Outlook for Mac email client. reader comments 56 with Share this story Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the “ground up” redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook will continue to be a “native Mac app,” and not a “Progressive Web App (PWA)” like the one the… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of a GPT-powered robot worker. Ars Technica reader comments 47 with Share this story On Monday, Microsoft bundled ChatGPT-style AI technology into its Power Platform developer tool and Dynamics 365, Reuters reports. Affected tools include Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder, both of which have been updated to include GPT… Read More »
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 »