reader comments 56 with Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to train the AI models behind ChatGPT, such as GPT-4. Earlier this week, some sites quickly announced their intention to… Read More: Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge »
reader comments 123 with When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled dangerous recipe suggestions, reports The Guardian. The bot is a product of the New Zealand-based PAK’nSAVE grocery chain and uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to craft its recipes. PAK’nSAVE intended the… Read More: AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread… »
MirageC/Getty Images reader comments 78 with ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information, or step-by-step instructions for building an improvised bomb. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last week showed that adding a… Read More: Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up… »
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: OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate… »
reader comments 27 with On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to… Read More: Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android »
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: ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of… »
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: Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t… »
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: Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of… »
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: Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that… »
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: Microsoft 365’s Copilot assistant for businesses comes with a hefty… »