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: Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI »
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: Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the… »
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: New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing »
reader comments 41 with On Thursday, OpenAI announced that all paying API customers now have access to the GPT-4 API. It also introduced updates to chat-based models, announced a shift from the Completions API to the Chat Completions API, and outlined plans for deprecation of older models. Generally considered its most powerful API product, the… Read More: OpenAI launches GPT-4 API for everyone »
Enlarge / Comedian and author Sarah Silverman. reader comments 261 with On Friday, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI and Meta, accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material to train AI language models such as ChatGPT and LLaMA. Other authors represented include Christopher Golden and… Read More: Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists” »
Enlarge / An AI-generated chatbot flying like a superhero. Stable Diffusion / OpenAI reader comments 14 with On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a sizable update to its large language model API offerings (including GPT-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo), including a new function calling capability, significant cost reductions, and a 16,000 token context window option for the gpt-3.5-turbo model.… Read More: OpenAI rolls out big chatbot API upgrades for developers »
Enlarge / Visitors and attendees during the AI-created worship service in Fürth, Germany. In St. Paul Church, a service created by ChatGPT. Daniel Vogl/picture alliance via Getty Images reader comments 110 with On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fürth, Germany, reports… Read More: AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a laughing robot.” Midjourney reader comments 78 with On Wednesday, two German researchers, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released a paper that examines the ability of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to understand and generate humor. In particular, they discovered that ChatGPT’s knowledge of jokes is fairly limited: During a test run,… Read More: Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and… »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “AI taking over the world.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 121 with On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed by executives from OpenAI and DeepMind, Turing Award winners, and other AI researchers warning that their life’s work could potentially extinguish all of humanity. The… Read More: OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence… »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 27 with On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public… Read More: Among AI dangers, deepfakes worry Microsoft president most »