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OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. Midjourney reader comments 38 with On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI’s official… Read More »

ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a chatbot in front of library shelves. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 18 with On Thursday, OpenAI announced a new beta feature for ChatGPT that allows users to provide custom instructions that the chatbot will consider with every submission. The goal is to prevent users from having… Read More »

Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced

Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 38 with On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that purports to show changes in GPT-4‘s outputs over time. The paper fuels a common-but-unproven belief that the AI language model has grown worse at coding and compositional tasks over the… Read More »

Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues

Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images) reader comments 30 with OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to concerns about its ability to potentially recognize specific individuals, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. When OpenAI announced… Read More »

Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cybernetic llama. Midjourney reader comments 54 with On Tuesday, Meta announced Llama 2, a new open source family of AI language models notable for its commercial license, which means the models can be integrated into commercial products, unlike its predecessor. They range in size from 7 to 70… Read More »

Microsoft 365’s Copilot assistant for businesses comes with a hefty price tag

reader comments 54 with A few months ago, Microsoft previewed Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new service that promised to integrate generative AI features into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and the other productivity apps formerly known as Microsoft Office. Among other things, Copilot promises to automate the creation of documents and emails, summarize meeting notes,… Read More »

Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies about AI rules before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Win McNamee reader comments 42 with OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT AI assistant, has come under scrutiny by the US Federal Trade Commission… Read More »

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. REBECCA BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 152 with On Wednesday, Elon Musk formally announced the formation of xAI, a company aimed at understanding “the true nature of the universe”… Read More »

New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing

reader comments 8 with On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude 2, a large language model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT that can craft code, analyze text, and write compositions. Unlike the original version of Claude launched in March, users can try Claude 2 for free on a new beta website. It’s also available as a commercial API… Read More »