Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 41 with Share this story On Thursday, OpenAI announced a plugin system for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The plugins give ChatGPT the ability to interact with the wider world through the Internet, including booking flights, ordering groceries, browsing the web, and more. Plugins are bits of code that… Read More: ChatGPT gets “eyes and ears” with plugins that can interface… »
reader comments 24 with Share this story On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude, a large language model (LLM) that can generate text, write code, and function as an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. The model originates from core concerns about future AI safety and Anthropic has trained it using a technique it calls “Constitutional AI.” Two… Read More: Anthropic introduces Claude, a “more steerable” AI competitor to ChatGPT »
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: Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of… »
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: OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the… »
Ars Technica reader comments 154 with Share this story On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat has been running on GPT-4… Read More: OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks »
Ars Technica reader comments 65 with Share this story Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called “llama.cpp” that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run… Read More: You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on… »
reader comments 18 with Share this story Joining a recent parade of companies adopting generative AI technology, Discord announced on Thursday that it is rolling out a suite of AI-powered features, such as a ChatGPT-style chatbot, an upgrade to its moderation tool, an open source avatar remixer, and AI-powered conversation summaries. Discord’s new features come… Read More: Discord hops the generative AI train with ChatGPT-style tools »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. Ars Technica reader comments 46 with Share this story Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. It is available for free today… Read More: Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new… »
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: Microsoft aims to reduce “tedious” business tasks with new AI… »
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: AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities »