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☆ OpenAI wants you to think GPT-4o is your new best friend
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhether you like it or not, Sam Altman just let you know you're getting an AI best pal. Advertisement"I see you're rocking an OpenAI hoodie, nice choice," ChatGPT told a user in one demo. the AI bot said, before delivering a story about a robot named Bite in dramatic, singing, and robotic voices, depending on the request from the user. This is where AI labs are leading us: to a near future of AI as coworker, friend, and ubiquitous presence," Mollick wrote on Substack. AdvertisementIt's something its rivals will pay close attention to, with the possibility of a new battle emerging between companies trying to release the most human, friendly AI bot they can.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Altman, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Jonze's, ChatGPT, Barrett —, he'd, Joaquin Phoenix's, Samantha, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, OpenAI, Mustafa Suleyman, Siri Organizations: Service, Business, Wharton University, Microsoft, Apple

☆ ChatGPT just made AI more human, and it should make its rivals nervous
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The AI company basically planted a flag in the sand emblazoned with two words aimed at its Big Tech rivals: your move. The newest version of the AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI's new flagship AI model GPT-4o, can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. AdvertisementAll the while, the voice assistant maintained a lighthearted and cheerful tone. In another instance, ChatGPT said the researcher was making it blush when he said he was talking about how "useful and amazing" ChatGPT was. Meanwhile, Amazon had plans to release an "Alexa Plus" paid version of the voice assistant that's powered by generative AI, Business Insider's Eugene Kim first reported.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Scarlett Johansson, Spike, Mark, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Alexa, Apple's Siri, Siri, There's, Insider's Eugene Kim Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Business, Warner Bros, Google, Apple, Amazon Locations: ChatGPT

☆ I've made over $50,000 building AI tools for businesses. My main challenge: managing clients' expectations.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The 25-year-old's mission is to help clients make more money using large language models. Now, I run a consultancy that tries to help companies grow using AI — and business has been booming. Most projects use AI models from leading LLM providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. My main advice for businesses interested in adopting AI is to familiarize yourself with large language models and how they could be used to address specific pain points. After that, collect as much data as possible — from meeting recordings to marketing materials — that can be used to fine-tune the AI models.

Persons: Sasha Aptlin, —, ChatGPT, I've, that's Organizations: Service, Founders Locations: Dubai and New York, chatbots, San Francisco

☆ John Malkovich on (Really) Being John Malkovich
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Photo Illustration by Bráulio Amado Talk John Malkovich on (Really) Being John MalkovichThere’s a scene in that modern classic of screwball existentialism, “Being John Malkovich,” from 1999, in which John Malkovich, playing a version of himself, enters a portal that others have been using to climb inside his mind. If we take style to mean a manner of doing something, could you articulate the John Malkovich style? John Malkovich in “The New Look.” AppleThe book has a long interview with you where you say: “I’m capable of belief, at least inside the theater. Malkovich and Spike Jonze on the set of “Being John Malkovich” (1999). There’s evidence out there that there’s something going on behind the eyes of John Malkovich.

Persons: Bráulio Amado, John Malkovich, “, ”, Malkovich, Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Dior, Lucien Lelong, it’s, I’ve, you’re, It’s, you’ve, I’m, Terry Johnson’s, Freud, Dalí, Spike Jonze, John Malkovich ”, Charlie, Charlie Sheen’s, You’ve, John Clifford, You’re, I’d, Bergman, Gore, Carl, Steve, Dustin Hoffman, —, I’ll, Joan Didion, Andreas Rentz Organizations: Apple, Christian, Venice Film, Miramax, Library Locations: Venice, Cannes, New Jersey, “

☆ ‘Happy Days’ Got Us Unstuck in Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mention “Happy Days” to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand) and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but a lunchbox. To remember “Happy Days” is to remember your youth, which was also the function of “Happy Days” when it premiered in 1974. Now “Happy Days” is 50 years old. Last year, that series’s sequel, “That ’90s Show,” created a ’90s version of the ’70s version of the ’50s. “Happy Days” was nostalgic because the teenagers weren’t smoking weed.

Persons: Henry Winkler, greaser, Arthur Fonzarelli, Spike Jonze, Buddy Holly, ” Organizations: Smithsonian Locations: Wisconsin

☆ Ezra Klein on ‘Her’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

commentary is missing: These systems are going to upend our relationships long before they remake our economies. That’s going to be a hurdle for anyone who wants to replace a lawyer or a researcher with an A.I. Conducting oversight for a system that’s more eloquent and knowledgeable than you are is going to be tough. America is, by any historical standard, unimaginably rich and powerful, and yet we’ve lost what matters most: community and connection. That’s the America these A.I.

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☆ Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the early 1980s, Nicolas Cage got his first big breaks in Martha Coolidge’s “Valley Girl” and Amy Heckerling’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” films that zeroed in on the peculiar allure of his dopey bad boy persona. Watching him was like eating a banana split: You tasted something nutty, sweet, indulgent, all-American. Since then, few actors have been able to match how nimble a polymorph Cage is in genre, how easily he power-bounces between action (“National Treasure”), comedy (“Moonstruck”) and horror (“Pay the Ghost”). He’s done the same for a who’s who of boundary-pushing directors, including the Coen brothers (“Raising Arizona”), David Lynch (“Wild at Heart”) and Spike Jonze (“Adaptation”). Each is rated on a scale of bees — one for sleepy, five for loony — in honor of the insects that tortured him in the 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man.”

☆ YouTuber Casey Neistat let ChatGPT direct and write one of his vlogs: 'That was the worst video I've ever made'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

YouTuber Casey Neistat, popular for vlogging about his NYC life, asked ChatGPT to write him a script. Neistat asked GPT-4 to write a vlog that takes place in downtown Manhattan, and includes his wife. YouTuber Casey Neistat asked the latest version of ChatGPT to write a script for his latest vlog, and the resulting dry dialogue is unintentionally hilarious. Neistat asked GPT-4, which is available via OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus, to write a three to four minute video that includes dialogue and a shot list for downtown Manhattan in the daytime. "Let's take a quick look inside Brookfield Place, one of my favorite spots in downtown Manhattan," Neistat reads, while shaking his head in disagreement.

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