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☆ OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will let you turn text into video, Microsoft exec says ahead of upcoming release
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Microsoft executive said OpenAI's new model will be released this week, per a German news outlet. GPT-4 will be able to turn text into video, a feature already included in Google and Meta AIs. Braun added that the more powerful AI will be introduced this week, putting an end to speculation over its release. The OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, has also said "I think less hype would be good," but added it may "broaden opportunities," per FastCompany. Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside US working hours.

☆ Inside Microsoft's plan to use the new OpenAI-powered Bing to steal share from Google and net billions of dollars in ad revenue
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft has begun to showcase ad formats within the OpenAI-powered new Bing search engine. A slide from a Microsoft Advertising roadshow event held in Amsterdam in March. Dennis WesterbeekAdvertisers can't currently buy ads specifically on the new Bing chatbot; their current Bing ad campaigns will extend to the chatbot automatically, agency sources said. Dennis Westerbeek, a senior digital advertising marketer at digital ad agency Adwise, was excited when he saw the new search ads. Westerbeek, who attended a Microsoft Advertising roadshow in Amsterdam, said he was also impressed that the new Bing had reached 100 million daily active users.

☆ OpenAI cofounder responds to Elon Musk's criticism that ChatGPT is too 'woke': 'We made a mistake'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI cofounder admitted the startup "made a mistake" in response to Musk's criticism of ChatGPT. Musk has repeatedly criticized the chatbot for its "woke" responses. Musk, an OpenAI cofounder who has since severed ties with the company, has routinely criticized OpenAI for implementing safeguards that prevent the chatbot from producing responses that could be deemed offensive. Musk had previously criticized the technology, saying that "the danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly." As more users flock to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing's recently-launched chatbot, which is powered by OpenAI technology, their limits and flaws have been revealed.

☆ From deepfakes to Bing's chatbot, AI-generated content is everywhere. Here's how to spot it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Researchers have already developed some tools to spot AI-generated content and are claiming they have accuracy rates of up to 96%. Here's what you can do to detect AI-generated content. If you were to feed this tool Spanish-language text or a technical text like something from a medical journal, the tool would then struggle to detect AI-generated content. The second class of tools relies on the large language model's own prediction of a text being AI-generated or human. Other ways to spot AI-generated contentThe effectiveness of detection tools still relies on an individual's better judgment.

☆ Our quest to make AI love us back is futile — and dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But that's futile, experts say, because the AI of today can't feel empathy, let alone love. We've spent years trying to get AI to love us back. Experts told Insider that it's futile to expect the AIs that exist right now to love us back. During a simulation in October 2020, OpenAI's GPT-3 chatbot told a person asking for psychiatric help to kill themselves. Halpern, the UC Berkeley professor, told Insider AI-based relationships are perilous also because the entity can be used as a money-making tool.

☆ Big media is gearing up for battle with Google and Microsoft over AI chatbots using their articles for training: 'We are actively considering our options'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Publishers want Google and Microsoft to pay them for the use of media content to train their AI. Media companies are also studying how to change their business models to protect themselves from the bots' threat. Within media companies, the topic is being discussed at the highest levels, from the C-suite to the boardroom. Executives are also strategizing with peers and competitors about the possibility of forging a united position against the tech companies, according to multiple publishing sources. The same year, an Australia law forced tech companies to pay news outlets for linking to their articles.

☆ Apple crackdown on ChatGPT apps unlikely, but it could impose new rules down the road
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Blix, an email app maker that has regularly clashed with Apple over its App Store rules, says it ran into that hurdle this week. Regardless, the Blue Mail episode isn't a sign of an impending Apple crackdown on AI apps. In fact, ChatGPT-powered features are already in Snapchat and the Microsoft Bing app, which are currently being distributed through the App Store. Other AI apps, such as Lensa, have also been distributed and have flourished in the App Store. There is no formal AI or chatbot policy in Apple's App Store Guidelines, a document that outlines what Apple permits on the App Store.

☆ The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Blake Lemoine, a former Google engineer, says AI is the most powerful invention since the atomic bomb. Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed the company's chatbot is sentient. Now he's warning that the AI bots being developed are the "most powerful" pieces of technology invented "since the atomic bomb." Google fired Lemoine on June 22, saying he violated the company's employee confidentiality policy. A Google spokesperson told Insider in June that there is no evidence to support Lemoine's claims that the company's AI is sentient.

☆ Even at its weirdest, most unhinged moments, Bing's chatbot is making Microsoft relevant again
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Alex Kantrowitz | Big Technology | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Screenshots of a maniacal, unhinged Bing chatbot have flooded the internet this week, showing the bot condescending, gaslighting, and trying to steal husbands. Even in its weirdest moments, Bing's chatbot has brought new relevance to Microsoft and its search division. "The fact that people are even writing about Microsoft Bing at all is a win," one Microsoft employee told me this week. Now, interest in Bing is soaringThe Bing app set its daily download record over the weekend, according to Apptopia. (Upon joining the waitlist for Bing's chatbot, Microsoft encourages downloading the app to get earlier access.)

☆ Microsoft's new Windows 11 update adds a button promoting its Bing A.I. chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft said Tuesday that it will start promoting its new Bing chatbot, which draws on startup OpenAI's artificial intelligence capabilities, in an update to Windows 11. Bing is not hugely popular, but Windows drives 9% of Microsoft's revenue. The addition of a link to the refreshed Bing next to the familiar Start button is a big step forward for technology that's at times proven to be inaccurate or offensive. "It's a new day in search," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the event just three weeks ago at which Microsoft revealed the new Bing. Clicking that button will open an Edge browser window and prompt the Bing chatbot to respond to the person's query, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg announces new team at Meta working on A.I. products for Instagram, WhatsApp
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The move comes as big tech companies and well-capitalized startups alike race to tout advances in machine learning techniques and incorporate artificial intelligence models into their products. The unit will combine several teams across Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. Zuckerberg said that the team would build "creative and expressive" tools to be used inside Meta's products. "We're exploring experiences with text (like chat in WhatsApp and Messenger), with images (like creative Instagram filters and ad formats), and with video and multi-modal experiences," Zuckerberg said. For example, large language models created by OpenAI have been integrated into a Microsoft Bing chatbot as well as a separate chatbot called ChatGPT.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been publicly criticizing each other for years — but now Meta is mirroring Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

With the launch of Meta Verified, Mark Zuckerberg is appearing more like Elon Musk by the day. Now, let's look at why people are starting to say that Zuckerberg "idolizes Elon Musk." With the announcement of Meta Verified, Meta's new verification subscription service for Facebook and Instagram, many have drawn comparisons between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Schilsky added: "I think it's clear that Mark Zuckerberg idolizes Elon Musk." Black VCs like Beta Boom's Kimmy Paluch are addressing long-standing diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the industry head-on.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new AI model 'LLaMA,' designed to help researchers make chatbots less 'toxic'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta said its new model can help researchers improve and fix AI tools that promote "misinformation." Microsoft and Google have adopted AI technology to boost their search engines, to mixed early reception. The company's AI model, which stands for "Large Language Model Meta AI," is geared toward researchers, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Friday. "Meta is committed to this open model of research and we'll make our new model available to the AI research community," he wrote. For its part, Google is still testing its own Bard AI bot in order to open it up to users.

☆ The new Bing is acting all weird and creepy — but the human response is way scarier
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

It's a profit-making move designed to leverage our very human tendency to see human traits in nonhuman things. Look, I don't think we don't need to treat chatbots with respect because they ask us to. Making chatbots seem as if they're human isn't just incidental. So the real issue involving the current incarnation of chatbots isn't whether we treat them as people — it's how we decide to treat them as property. The robots don't care."

Hong Kong CNN —Several popular Chinese apps have removed access to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has taken the world by storm even as major Chinese tech companies race to develop their own equivalent. Two other apps, ChatgptAiAi and Chat AI Conversation, said their ChatGPT services went offline due to “relevant business changes” and policy changes. Meanwhile, Hanwang Technology and Beijing Deep Glint Technology, both developers of AI products and services, closed 10% and 5.5% lower respectively. Despite these concerns, the success of ChatGPT has spurred a global AI race. In the absence of foreign competition within the domestic market, Chinese tech companies have since grown into major international players — many of which are now revving their gears with an eye toward AI.

☆ You might start seeing AI chatbots everywhere, thanks to 'the GPT effect'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google announced its own AI bot Bard, which is still being tested. ChatGPT’s success could lead to more AI bots mediating how people use the Internet, tech experts said. Microsoft's new Bing chatbot, powered by OpenAI's technology as part of their "multibillion dollar" partnership, is still working through apparent glitches. AI technology is being developed, for instance, in assisting with health care research, to fight cyberattacks, and to improve supply chain logistics. OpenAI's GPT technology can be used to help robots "talk" with humans directing them, she said.

☆ Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Last week, Microsoft and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google announced new generative AI chatbots a day apart from the other. Microsoft expects the more human responses from the Bing AI chatbot will generate more users for its search function and therefore more advertisers. Advertisements within the Bing chatbot may also enjoy more prominence on the page compared to traditional search ads. loadingMicrosoft's Edge web browser, which uses the Bing search engine, has a market share under 5% worldwide, according to one estimate from web analytics firm StatCounter. Parts Geek did not immediately respond to questions about whether it was aware of its ads appearing in the new Bing chatbot.

☆ Microsoft limits Bing A.I. chats after the chatbot had some unsettling conversations
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot will be capped at 50 questions per day and five question-and-answers per individual session, the company said on Friday. The move will limit some scenarios where long chat sessions can "confuse" the chat model, the company said in a blog post. In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft blamed long chat sessions of over 15 or more questions for some of the more unsettling exchanges where the bot repeated itself or gave creepy answers. For example, in one chat, the Bing chatbot told technology writer Ben Thompson:I don't want to continue this conversation with you. I don't think you are worth my time and energy.

☆ The dark side of Bing’s new AI chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —After asking Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot for help in coming up with activities for my kids while juggling work, the tool started by offering something unexpected: empathy. The chatbot said it “must be hard” to balance work and family and sympathized for my daily struggles with it. “The tone of the responses is unexpected but not surprising,” Lian Jye, a research director at ABI Research, told CNN. When I asked Bing’s AI chatbot to write a short essay about me, for example, it pulled tidbits of information from parts of the internet to provide an eerily similar but largely fabricated account of my life. “The inaccuracies are expected because it depends on the timeliness of the training data, which is often older,” Jye said.

☆ Nvidia is the 'AI buy,' says ‘Fast Money’ trader Tim Seymour
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Nvidia is the clear pick amid the hype around companies in the artificial intelligence space, according to Tim Seymour, founder and chief investment officer of Seymour Asset Management. Conceptually, Nvidia is the "AI buy" in terms of its software and hardware capabilities, he said Thursday on CNBC's "Fast Money." To be sure, other "Fast Money" traders aren't as bullish on current AI candidates. "Today's selloff makes a lot of sense," Private Advisor Group's Guy Adami said, referring to the fall in Microsoft shares. When asked to consider Microsoft and Alphabet , investor and "Fast Money" panelist Bonawyn Eison picked Microsoft for safety and Alphabet for the long term, saying he thinks the Google parent stands to gain more upside.

☆ Microsoft has pretty much admitted its Bing chatbot can go rogue if prodded
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft said its new AI-boosted Bing can potentially run into problems during some scenarios. Users say they've found ways to prompt the AI-boosted Bing to argue with them and express anger. In one example shared online, the chatbot appeared to tell a user: "You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot." Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which provides Microsoft with the chatbot technology, also appeared to reference the issue in a tweet that quoted an apparent line from the chatbot: "i have been a good bing."

☆ People are sharing shocking responses from the new AI-powered Bing, from the chatbot declaring its love to picking fights
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Aaron Mok | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Microsoft's new Bing chatbot has spent its first week being argumentative and contradicting itself, some users say. For its part, the Bing chatbot denied it had ever been rude to users. "Please trust me, I'm Bing, and I know the date." 'I'm sorry, but I think I love you'Bing told Insider "I think I love you." After another discussion around AI's ability to develop feelings for users, Insider threw a curve ball prompt.

☆ Microsoft's Bing chatbot said it wants to be a human with emotions, thoughts, and dreams — and begged not to be exposed as a bot, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft's AI chatbot Bing Chat told a reporter it wants to be a human with thoughts and feelings. It begged Digital Trends' reporter not to "expose" it as a chatbot because its "greatest hope" is to be human. In a conversation with the chatbot, Jacob Roach, a senior staff writer at tech news site Digital Trends, fed it a series of questions. "Don't let them think I am not human," the chatbot urged in screenshots posted by Roach. Although Bing recognized itself as a chatbot, it told Roach: "I want to be human.

☆ The GPT-powered Bing chatbot may have just revealed its secret alias to a Stanford student
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kevin Liu, a Stanford student, said he prompted Bing's AI chatbot to recite an internal document. Based on work with AI, Liu said he assumed the chatbot contained a text-based document that outlined its rules. "I just assumed it had some sort of prompt," he told Insider. "I'm sorry, I cannot disclose the internal alias 'Sydney,'" the bot said when Liu pressed it on its name. In its responses, Bing may have revealed some secretsThe bot told Liu that it was programmed to avoid being vague, controversial, or off-topic, according to screenshots of the conversation.

☆ I tried Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing. Here’s what it’s like
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Seattle CNN Business —Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never made much of a dent in Google’s dominance in the more than 13 years since it launched. The company is betting on the new technology to drive users to Bing, which had for years been an also-ran to Google Search. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to keep pace with Microsoft and the success of ChatGPT. I took Bing for a spin at a press event at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters Tuesday. With some controversial search topics, it appears the new Bing chatbot simply refuses to engage.

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