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☆ Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Apple released updates for its iPhone, iPad and Mac software on Wednesday that include a long-awaited ChatGPT integration with Siri. The ChatGPT integration triggers when users ask Siri complicated questions. Apple users don’t need an OpenAI account to make use of the ChatGPT integration, but users can pay for upgraded versions of ChatGPT through Apple. Apple released the first part of Apple Intelligence in October. After updating to the latest Apple software, users who have not yet activated Apple Intelligence can sign up for a waitlist inside the settings app.

Persons: Siri Organizations: Apple, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI

☆ AI is hitting a wall just as valuations reach the stratosphere
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The narrative from Silicon Valley is that the AI train has left the station and any smart investor had better hop on before these products become “superintelligent” and start solving all the world’s problems. Now, some of the leading language models appear to be hitting a wall, according to at least three reports last week. But if we have indeed hit a scaling wall, “it may mean that the the mega-cap technology companies have over-invested” and it’s possible that they could scale back in the near future. That’s the AI optimist/pragmatist view. For a less rosy outlook, I turned to Gary Marcus, NYU professor emeritus and outspoken critic of AI hype.

Persons: CNN Business ’, New York CNN — It’s, OpenAI, ”, that’s, “, Orion “, Ilya Sutskever, ” Sutskever, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, ” Gil Luria, Davidson, it’s, ” Luria, Gary Marcus, ” Marcus, “ LLMs Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Nvidia, Tech, ” Bloomberg, ” Reuters Locations: New York, GPT

☆ Morgan Stanley wealth advisors are about to get an OpenAI-powered assistant to do their grunt work
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The assistant, called Debrief, keeps detailed logs of advisors' meetings and automatically creates draft emails and summaries of the discussions, bank executives told CNBC. Morgan Stanley's wealth management division hosts about 1 million Zoom calls a year, the bank told CNBC. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Morgan Stanley’s new Debrief program, a new AI tool for wealth management advisors based on OpenAI’s GPT-4. In a sense, Morgan Stanley's projects in generative AI amount to a "grand experiment in productivity," said McMillan. Morgan Stanley's wealth management division is one of the world's largest with $5.5 trillion in client assets as of March; the firm wants to reach $10 trillion.

Persons: Bing Guan, Morgan Stanley, Jeff McMillan, Morgan Stanley's, McMillan, Morgan, I'm, Don Whitehead, who's Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC Locations: Houston

☆ OpenAI unveils newest AI model, GPT-4o
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The new model, called GPT-4o, is an update from the company’s previous GPT-4 model, which launched just over a year ago. Rivals including Google and Meta have been working to build increasingly powerful large language models that power chatbots and can be used to bring AI technology to various other products. The OpenAI event came one day ahead of Google’s annual I/O developer conference, at which it’s expected to announce updates to its Gemini AI model. OpenAI executives demonstrate the company's latest large language model, GPT-4o. Free ChatGPT users will have a limited number of interactions with the new GPT-4o model before the tool automatically reverts to relying on the old GPT-3.5 model; paid users will have access to a greater number of messages with the latest model.

Persons: OpenAI, Mira Murati, ” Murati, ChatGPT, “ You’re, Scarlett Johansson, ”, Sam Altman, it’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Monday, San, Rivals, Google, Gemini, Apple, Worldwide Developers Conference, Microsoft Locations: New York, ChatGPT, San Francisco

Here’s a look at the world's first comprehensive set of AI rules:HOW DOES THE AI ACT WORK? The law’s early drafts focused on AI systems carrying out narrowly limited tasks, like scanning resumes and job applications. The astonishing rise of general purpose AI models, exemplified by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, sent EU policymakers scrambling to keep up. Rules for general purpose AI systems like chatbots will start applying a year after the law takes effect. Meanwhile, Brussels will create an AI Office tasked with enforcing and supervising the law for general purpose AI systems.

Persons: Dragos Tudorache, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it’s, ”, Joe Biden, that’s, Xi Jinping, they've Organizations: —, Union, Lawmakers, Artificial Intelligence, Big, ACT, EU, Google, Companies, Global AI, Initiative, United Nations, Group Locations: Romanian, Europe, Brussels, U.S, China, Brazil, Japan

☆ The odds of no interest-rate cuts in 2024 are growing
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today’s big story, we’re looking at the chances of there being no rate cuts this year, and how the markets would react. What's on deck:This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The big storyCuts are canceledAaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty ImagesDon't count your chickens before they hatch and don't price in your rate cuts before they materialize. Last December, Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that three cuts were on the table for 2024, which he reiterated earlier this month. AdvertisementBonds could struggle, though, with further delays on rate cuts raising the risk that debt markets suffer another meltdown like they did last fall.

Persons: —, Mark Zuckerberg, Aaron Schwartz, ”, won’t, Jerome Powell, Phil Rosen, There's, BI’s Yuheng Zhan, NYCB’s, Ark's Cathie Wood, Paul Judge, Tessa Flippin, Claude Grunitzky, Gayle Jennings O'Byrne, Black VCs, Masayoshi Son, OpenAI’s, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, George Glover, Grace Lett Organizations: Service, UFC, Business, Xinhua, Getty, Federal, Paramount, Fed, Big Tech, JPMorgan Private Bank, Discover, Discover Financial, Nvidia, Opportunity, Equity Alliance, Wocstar Fund, Opportunity Fund, Equity Alliance Wocstar, Google, Walmart, Pandora, Home Locations: Japan, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Fox, New York, London, Chicago

☆ The gloves are off among Silicon Valley CEOs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Silicon Valley CEOs are doing battle in public. AdvertisementThe Silicon Valley elite have been at each other's throats a little more than usual lately. AdvertisementThe latest example of this came this week when Mark Zuckerberg derided Apple's Vision Pro headset in an Instagram video. The Vision Pro is a direct competitor to Meta's Quest Pro but Zuckerberg does not appear concerned for now. “If you go back to the PC era, Microsoft’s open model was the winner, and in this next generation Meta is going to be the open model, and I really want to make sure that the open model wins out again.”Zuckerberg has good reason to be on the offense.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Apple's, Zuckerberg, Justin Sullivan, it’s, ” Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s, Bill Gates, ” Elon Musk, Sam Altman, chatbot Grok, Elon Musk, Leon Neal, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, Y, Paul Graham, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, ”, “ Organizations: Vision, Service, Tech, Meta's, Apple, Reality Labs, Microsoft, Google Locations: OpenAI, Zuck

☆ The Year Chatbots Were Tamed
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A year ago, on Valentine’s Day, I said good night to my wife, went to my home office to answer some emails and accidentally had the strangest first date of my life. The date was a two-hour conversation with Sydney, the A.I. alter ego tucked inside Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which I had been assigned to test. I had planned to pepper the chatbot with questions about its capabilities, exploring the limits of its A.I. engine (which we now know was an early version of OpenAI’s GPT-4) and writing up my findings.

Persons: Bing, Kevin Organizations: Sydney Locations: Sydney

☆ For $350, you too can have glasses with 'AI superpowers' (and look like a modern-day Gandhi)
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Brilliant Labs — a Singapore-based startup funded by the creator of Pokemon Go — just released Frame, a $350 pair of non-prescription glasses powered by a multimodal AI assistant called Noa. The glasses project visuals and information directly onto the lenses, so wearers can prompt them with requests for information about almost everything they see or hear. Frame projects visuals and information directly onto the lenses of the glasses. Similarly, the glasses can query both available live web sources and GPT-4 for nutritional information, Tavangar said. The AI startup Humane launched a nearly $700 Ai Pin in November that combines voice command with AI to answer questions, summarize texts, translate languages, and play music.

Persons: —, Noa, they’re, John Lennon, Steve Jobs, Gandhi, Justin Sullivan, OpenAI’s, Bobak Tavangar, Tavangar, ” Tavangar, Pin Organizations: Service, Business, Staff, Labs, buzzy Locations: Singapore

The two companies recently teamed up for the “ABBA Voyage” show in London, in which fans could attend a full concert by the Swedish band — as performed by their digital avatars. He says the band won't be on stage during the virtual performance because “that’s the key thing,” of the future-seeking technology. That’s what you could do with this.”Political Cartoons View All 1277 ImagesIn order to create their digital avatars, who are depicted as a kind of superhero version of the band, Kiss performed in motion capture suits. Aespa, the K-pop girl group, frequently perform alongside their digital avatars — the quartet is meant to be viewed as an octet with digital twins. The band deserves to live on because the band is bigger than we are,” Kiss frontman Paul Stanley said in roundtable interview.

Persons: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, Eric Singer —, George Lucas ’, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, —, “, Kiss, Mark Tuan, ”, Tuan, we’ve, Paul Organizations: New York, Kiss, Industrial, Pophouse Entertainment, Machines Locations: New, Madison, London, Swedish

☆ Silicon Valley saw OpenAI with eyes wide shut
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Anita Ramaswamy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Silicon Valley’s weekend episode with artificial intelligence company OpenAI seems much like the technology: the input is a mishmash, so the output is flawed. The Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) company’s board fired boss Sam Altman, and now, according to reports, may bring him back. OpenAI has been the leader in AI technology, which is bolstering valuations in the face of slowing growth in Silicon Valley. By September, OpenAI was seeking a valuation of nearly triple that, according to Reuters. Yet with or without Altman, OpenAI’s issues are clear and abundant.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, ’, OpenAI’s, chipmaker, chatbot, Brockman, Greg, Lauren Silva Laughlin, Thomas Shum Organizations: Reuters, Microsoft, Stanford, UC Berkley, OpenAI’s, San Francisco, Wall Street, Thomson Locations: Silicon Valley, U.S

☆ It was the most significant week in AI since the launch of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk announced a sarcastic AI ChatGPT rival called Grok coming to his platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The company unveiled a series of AI tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs. Humane’s Ai PinHumane introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin From HumaneHumane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin, a small blinking gadget that attaches to clothing. The Ai pin, which runs on a Snapdragon processor and boasts a Qualcomm AI engine, is packed with depth and motion sensors, features an ultra-wide camera and a laser ink display. The Ai Pin, which starts at $699, will go on sale in the US on Thursday, November 16.

Persons: OpenAI, Elon Musk, ”, Reece Hayden, Hayden, ” Hayden, Here’s, Sam Altman, Altman, Ai, Arun Chandrasekaran, “, Jaap Arriens, xAI, Douglas Adams, Elon, Grok, Musk, Chandrasekaran, Anna Coobin Organizations: CNN, OpenAI, ABI Research, Fortune, Apple, Qualcomm, Gartner, Twitter, Galaxy, Reuters, Amazon, YouTube Locations: Warsaw, Poland, British

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Elon Musk does well when his back is against the wall. His investment in X now fills the longshot role, which leaves him little to lose. Grok, as it is called, has “real-time access to info via the X platform,” Musk noted in a post, which gives it a “massive advantage” over other AI models. Although the product is still being tested, Musk says it already can out-compute OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Meta Platforms' (META.O) Llama 2. X may be near, or already has hit, rock bottom, right where Musk often does his best work.

Persons: Elon, Tesla, Musk, ” Musk, Linda Yaccarino, X, Billionaire Elon Musk, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Twitter, New York Times, Microsoft, New, Billionaire, OpenAI, Thomson

☆ Shares in China's iFlyTek tumble after reports AI-powered device criticised Mao
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An iFlytek company sign is seen at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo (AWE) in Shanghai, China March 23, 2021. It has proposed the compilation of a blacklist of sources that cannot be used to train Chinese AI models. IFlyTek on Tuesday revealed its latest Spark AI model which the company says can rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT in most key areas. Liu said iFlytek’s model could compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 early next year. The company also said that it is working with Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) on an AI model training platform which uses Huawei’s flagship AI chips.

Persons: Aly, Mao Zedong, Baijiahao, Mao, iFlyTek, Liu Qingfeng, OpenAI’s, Liu, Josh Ye, Brenda Goh, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Appliance, Electronics, REUTERS, Reuters, Communist Party, Huawei Technologies, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, iFlytek

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken June 23, 2023. “It is clear over the last three years that transparency is on the decline while capability is going through the roof," said Stanford professor Percy Liang, a researcher behind the Foundation Model Transparency Index. Foundation models are AI systems trained on massive datasets that can perform a variety of tasks from writing to coding. The index’s authors hope that the report will encourage companies to increase their foundation model transparency, and also serve as a starting point for governments grappling with how to regulate the burgeoning field. The index is a project from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s Center for Research on Foundation Models.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Percy Liang, Amazon’s, OpenAI’s, Anna Tong, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, Stanford University, Google, Stanford, Microsoft, Stanford Institute for, for Research, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

☆ A.I. and Blindness: I Have a Choice to Make - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Andrew Leland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Advances in machine vision, like the astonishingly powerful image-recognition capabilities of modern A.I., are erasing even these human actors from the equation. A blind beta tester pointed his camera at a frozen meal, and the A.I. read him the description of the contents on the package, including the date of expiration and the size of the meal. As delighted as blind beta testers of OpenAI’s visual interpreter were, it also made some obvious mistakes: As Kashmir Hill recently reported in The New York Times, OpenAI confidently described a remote control for a blind user, including descriptions of buttons that weren’t there. (According to the World Blind Union, 95 percent of the world’s published knowledge is “locked” in inaccessible print formats.)

Persons: OpenAI’s GPT, OpenAI, “, I’d, Lily, Oscar, who’s Organizations: Virtual Volunteer, The New York Times, World Blind Union, Facebook Locations: Kashmir, The

That has set off a hunt by tech companies for even more data to feed their A.I. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data. “What’s happening here is a fundamental realignment of the value of data,” said Brandon Duderstadt, the founder and chief executive of Nomic, an A.I. “Previously, the thought was that you got value from data by making it open to everyone and running ads. But as the era of easy-to-scrape content comes to a close, smaller A.I.

Persons: OpenAI’s, ChatGPT, ”, Brandon Duderstadt Organizations: Google, Microsoft Locations: upstarts

☆ Google I/O event: first foldable phone, new tablets and more AI features
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Pixel FoldThe Google Pixel Fold is the company's first foray into foldable phones GoogleGoogle became the latest tech company to unveil a foldable smartphone. Like other foldables, the $1799 Pixel Fold features a vertical hinge that can be opened to reveal a tablet-like display. The Pixel Fold is very much a phone first: when it’s unfolded, it opens up into a 7.6-inch screen, and moves on Google’s custom-built 180-degree hinge. Under the hood, the 11-inch tablet is powered by Google’s Tensor G2 chips, which bring long-lasting battery life and AI features to the device. AI features coming to searchGoogle is also moving forward with plans to bring AI chat features to its core search engine amid a renewed arms race over the technology in Silicon Valley.

☆ Google is bringing an AI chatbot to search results. Here's what it's like
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

With the update, the look and feel of Google Search results will be noticeably different. Users can now sign up for a waitlist for the new Google Search, which will first launch in the United States, via the Google app or Chrome’s desktop browser. The new Google Search also offers a Perspectives feature to showcase what other people are buying or thinking about, and factoring that into results. Like ChatGPT, the new Google Search and Bard are built on a large language model. Google previously told CNN that Bard would serve as a separate, complementary experience to Google Search, and planned to “thoughtfully” add large language models to search “in a deeper way” at a later time.

☆ Forget ChatGPT. These Are the Best AI-Powered Apps.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Nicole Nguyen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Type pretty much anything into ChatGPT and it’ll spit out a confident, convincing response. And during long conversations, it can veer into wild tangents. So I started testing apps that use OpenAI’s GPT technology, but aren’t ChatGPT. Language app Duolingo and learning platform Khan Academy now offer conversational, personalized tutoring with this technology. And all Snapchat users just got a new friend on the social network called My AI.

☆ Muse Tax, Built on OpenAI’s GPT, Targets Tax Codes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Steven Rosenbush | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Muse Tax co-founders Colin Horsford, left, and Busayo Ogunsanya, say they believe generative AI can track and analyze constantly evolving tax codes faster than human advisers. Muse Tax Inc., an early-stage startup based in New York, has found another task for artificial intelligence: navigating the complex and quickly changing tax codes that can trip up even experienced accountants. The company is one of many across a range of industries that are starting to figure out how to make use of fast-breaking developments in AI—by connecting to underlying AI platforms through software bridges known as application programming interfaces, or APIs, and building on top of the underlying technology.

☆ AI and the future of work: Everything is about to change
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Suddenly, AI tools, which have long operated in the background of many services, are now more powerful and more visible across a wide and growing range of workplace tools. Google’s new features, for example, promise to help “brainstorm” and “proofread” written work in Docs. A long list of startups are also developing AI writing assistants and image generators. The pitch from tech companies is clear: AI can make you more productive and eliminate the grunt work. Curran said just how much these AI-powered tools will change work depends on the application.

☆ ChatGPT: CEOs at Davos are using it to write work emails
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Davos, Switzerland CNN —Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of online learning provider Coursera, said that when he first tried ChatGPT, he was “dumbstruck.” Now, it’s part of his daily routine. He uses the powerful new AI chatbot tool to bang out emails. Maggioncalda is one of thousands of business leaders, politicians and academics gathered in Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum. He’s also used the platform to write emails and claims no one has noticed the difference. He even had it perform some accounting work, a service for which Tradeshift currently employs an expensive professional services firm.

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