reader comments 80 with Last week, OpenAI published tips for educators in a promotional blog post that shows how some teachers are using ChatGPT as an educational aid, along with suggested prompts to get started. In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don’t work, despite frequently being… Read More: OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work »
reader comments 13 with On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it will host its first-ever developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. The one-day event hopes to bring together hundreds of developers to preview new tools and discuss ideas with OpenAI’s technical staff. Launched in November, ChatGPT has driven intense interest in… Read More: OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference hopes to draw “hundreds of developers”… »
reader comments 87 with Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and began to replace their work with AI translations of English-language articles, reports The Verge. Former Gizmodo writer Matías S. Zavia publicly mentioned the layoffs, which took place via video call on August 29,… Read More: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch… »
Enlarge / Thirst for the “.ai” domain has put Anguilla on the global technology map. reader comments 23 with Anguilla, a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean, may bring in up to $30 million in revenue this year thanks to its “.ai” domain name, reports Bloomberg in a piece published Thursday. Over the past… Read More: AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold… »
reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of its Duet AI assistant across its Workspace apps, including Docs, Gmail, Drive, Slides, and more. First announced in May at Google I/O, Duet has been in testing for some time, but it is now available to paid Google Workspace business users (what Google calls… Read More: Google’s $30-per-month “Duet” AI will craft awkward emails, images for… »
reader comments 40 with On Monday, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Enterprise, an AI assistant aimed at businesses that offers unlimited access to GPT-4 at faster speeds. It also includes extended context windows for processing longer texts, encryption, enterprise-grade security and privacy, and group account management features. Building on the success of ChatGPT, which launched just nine… Read More: The new spreadsheet? OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Enterprise for businesses »
Getty Images reader comments 16 with On Tuesday, OpenAI announced fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo—the AI model that powers the free version of ChatGPT—through its API. It allows training the model with custom data, such as company documents or project documentation. OpenAI claims that a fine-tuned model can perform as well as GPT-4 with lower cost… Read More: You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via… »
Getty Images reader comments 25 with On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, and text-to-text translations for “up to 100 languages,” according to Meta. Its goal is to help people who… Read More: Meta’s “massively multilingual” AI model translates up to 100 languages,… »
sakchai vongsasiripat/Getty Image reader comments 28 with ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington discovered a botnet powered by ChatGPT operating on X—the social network formerly known as Twitter—in May of… Read More: Crypto botnet on X is powered by ChatGPT »
Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 114 with In early August, The New York Times updated its terms of service (TOS) to prohibit scraping its articles and images for AI training, reports Adweek. The move comes at a time when tech companies have continued to monetize AI language apps such as ChatGPT and Google… Read More: The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its… »