Getty Images | Aurich Lawson reader comments 56 with On top of Wednesday’s news that Nvidia earnings have performed far better than expected, Reuters reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expects the AI boom to last well into next year. As a testament to this outlook, Nvidia will buy back $25 billion of shares—which happen… Read More »
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 »
Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS’s Austin, Texas, offices in 2022. Washington Post / Getty Images reader comments 79 with There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That’s not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are… Read More »
Enlarge / If this kind of thing raises your eyebrows, there’s a whole lot more inside a ribbon bar for you. reader comments 71 with If you’re decent in Python (or aspire to be) but don’t have the chops for advanced data work in Excel, Microsoft now offers the kind of peanut butter-and-chocolate combination that… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of the Ottawa Food Bank warehouse. Ottawa Food Bank reader comments 80 with Late last week, MSN.com’s Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the “cannot miss” attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft’s AI… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 96 with In response to recently enacted state legislation in Iowa, administrators are removing banned books from Mason City school libraries, and officials are using ChatGPT to help them pick the books, according to The Gazette and Popular Science. The new law behind the ban, signed by Governor Kim Reynolds, is… Read More »
Benj Edwards / Snap Inc. reader comments 65 with It’s not Halloween yet, but some users of Snapchat feel like it is. On Tuesday evening, Snapchat’s My AI chatbot posted a mysterious one-second video of what looks like a wall and a ceiling, despite never having added a video to its messages before. When users… Read More »
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 »
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 »
reader comments 28 with Earlier this week, videoconferencing company Zoom made headlines for a recent terms of service update that implied that its customers’ video calls could be used to train AI models. Those terms said that “service generated data” and “customer content” could be used “for the purpose of product and service development,” such… Read More »