Enlarge / Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft’s modern life and devices group, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 33 with 0 posters participating Share this story Fresh off news of an extended partnership last month, Microsoft has announced a new… Read More: Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing search and Edge browser »
Enlarge / A screenshot of Nothing, Forever showing faux-Seinfeld character Larry Feinberg performing a stand-up act. Nothing Forever reader comments 167 with 0 posters participating Share this story Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been streaming a live, endless AI-generated Seinfeld episode that features pixelated cartoon versions of characters from the… Read More: Endless Seinfeld episode grinds to a halt after AI comic… »
Enlarge / A realistic artist’s depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI reader comments 79 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Reuters reported that AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million active monthly users last month, a mere two months from launch, making it… Read More: ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history, report… »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work. Ars Technica reader comments 93 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT-style text synthesis technology from OpenAI to create individualized quizzes and potentially other… Read More: Pivot to ChatGPT? BuzzFeed preps for AI-written content while CNET… »
Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives… Read More: Fearing ChatGPT, Google enlists founders Brin and Page in AI… »
Enlarge / The OpenAI logo superimposed over the Microsoft logo. Ars Technica reader comments 37 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 and 2021. While the two companies have not officially announced a… Read More: OpenAI and Microsoft announce extended, multi-billion-dollar partnership »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person talking to a secret robot therapist. Ars Technica reader comments 139 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Friday, Koko co-founder Rob Morris announced on Twitter that his company ran an experiment to provide AI-written mental health counseling for 4,000 people without informing them first, The… Read More: Controversy erupts over non-consensual AI mental health experiment »
Enlarge / AI-generated image of a kid using a computer. Ars Technica reader comments 103 with 0 posters participating Share this story New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational news site Chalkbeat. The move comes amid fears from educators that students will… Read More: NYC schools block ChatGPT, fearing negative impact on learning »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More: “Please slow down”—The 7 biggest AI stories of 2022 »
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 69 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep… Read More: No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it… »