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☆ Microsoft Gets Another Leg Up on Google in AI Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft has aggressively adopted ChatGPT’s technology since the chatbot was launched late last year. But if their latest quarterly results are any indication, it may be Microsoft ’s game to lose. Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet both saw improvements to their core businesses during the September quarter according to results posted by both companies late Tuesday. Google’s advertising revenue grew 9% year-over-year to $59.6 billion during the quarter, beating Wall Street’s expectations and up notably from the 3% growth reported for the June period. That was helped by a notable pickup in YouTube’s advertising revenue, which jumped 12% for its quickest pace in nearly two years.

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Those summaries appear on the top of the Google search homepage, with links to “dig deeper,” according to Google’s overview of SGE. Most significantly, publishers want to be compensated for the content on which Google and other AI companies train their AI tools – a major sticking point around AI. In late September Google announced a new tool, called Google-Extended, that gives publishers the option to block their content from being used by Google to train its AI models. Publishers want clicks to secure advertisers, and showing up in Google search is key to their business. When given the option, websites are blocking their content from being used for AI if doing so doesn’t impact search, according to exclusive data from AI content detector Originality.ai.

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☆ SoftBank’s AI dream team is far from iPhone killer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters Breakingviews) - SoftBank Group’s (9984.T) Masayoshi Son, former Apple (AAPL.O) iPhone designer Jony Ive, and Sam Altman, boss of ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, are forming a seemingly exciting alliance. SoftBank, which is flush with cash after the Arm IPO, is putting up over $1 billion into the project. Several Big Tech companies have tried to build consumer devices that imitate the popularity of the iPhone, without much success. And AI queries may drain mobile batteries quickly, as some iPhone users have discovered. It’s unclear what kind of device Son, Ive and Altman have up their sleeves.

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☆ The New ChatGPT Can ‘See’ and ‘Talk.’ Here’s What It’s Like.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Kevin Roose | More About Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

systems that can handle text, photos, videos and whatever else a user might decide to throw at them. OpenAI is offering them first to paying ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers over the next few weeks, and will make them more widely available after that. (The vision feature will work on both desktop and mobile, while the speech feature will be available only through ChatGPT’s iOS and Android apps.) I got early access to the new ChatGPT for a hands-on test. Will See You NowI started by trying ChatGPT’s image-recognition feature on some household objects.

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☆ OpenAI gives ChatGPT an update that allows it to hear, see, and speak like a human
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —You can now speak aloud to ChatGPT and hear the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot talk back. OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly-popular chatbot, announced Monday that it is rolling out new features including the ability to let users engage in a back-and-forth voice conversation with ChatGPT. The updates from OpenAI come amid an ongoing AI arms race within the tech sector, initially spurred by the public launch of ChatGPT late last year. Google last week announced a series of updates to its ChatGPT competitor Bard. Also last week, Amazon said it was bringing a generative AI-powered update to its Alexa voice assistant.

Persons: ChatGPT, OpenAI, Amazon’s Alexa, Siri, Larry, ”, Bard Organizations: CNN, Amazon’s, OpenAI, ChatGPT’s, Enterprise, Google

☆ We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Natasha Singer | More About Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate. As high school seniors begin working on their college applications, many are turning to A.I. While the chatbots are not yet great at simulating long-form personal essays with authentic student voices, I wondered how the A.I. So I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications.

Persons: Bard, chatbots ’, ChatGPT, Courtney Barnett Organizations: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Ivy League

☆ Snapchat users freak out over AI bot that had a mind of its own
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Snapchat users were alarmed on Tuesday night when the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot posted a live update to its profile and stopped responding to messages. The Snapchat My AI feature — which is powered by the viral AI chatbot tool ChatGPT — typically offers recommendations, answers questions and converses with users. But posting a live Story (a short video of what appeared to be a wall) for all Snapchat users to see was a new one: It’s a capability typically reserved for only its human users. “Why does My AI have a video of the wall and ceiling in their house as their story?” wrote one user. “This is very weird and honestly unsettling.” Another user wrote after the tool ignored his messages: “Even a robot ain’t got time for me.”Turns out, this wasn’t Snapchat working to make its My AI tool even more realistic.

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☆ Alphabet Steams Past Ad Worries, Fueled by Google’s Search Engine
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Nico Grant | More About Nico Grant | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“This is our seventh year as an A.I.-first company, and we intuitively know how to incorporate A.I. “These advances provide an opportunity to reimagine many of our products, including our most important product: search.”Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, said in the earnings call that YouTube’s quarterly sales gains reflected greater stability in advertiser spending. competition from the ChatGPT chatbot and Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Google’s search engine has remained a central gateway to the web for billions of users. That has helped the company convince more advertisers that its sites are still a reliable way to reach consumers. Google also announced on Tuesday that Ruth Porat, its longest-serving chief financial officer, would assume the newly created role of president and chief investment officer on Sept. 1.

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Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’This week, we answer more of your questions, like: What is ChatGPT’s carbon footprint? Why are engineers so sure artificial intelligence will keep getting better? And, why are there so many venture capital bros?

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☆ FTC is investigating ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for potential harm to consumers
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses a speech during a meeting, at the Station F in Paris on May 26, 2023. As the nation’s top consumer protection watchdog, the FTC is empowered to prosecute privacy abuses, untruthful marketing, and other harms. FTC Chair Lina Khan has argued that the agency’s existing congressional mandate provides ample authority for the FTC to prosecute abusive uses of AI. Some critics of OpenAI previously filed a complaint to the FTC claiming that algorithmic bias, privacy concerns and ChatGPT’s tendency to hallucinate may violate US consumer protection law.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, OpenAI didn’t, Joel Saget, Lina Khan, “ turbocharge, Khan, ” Khan, ” OpenAI Organizations: Washington CNN, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, The Washington, CNN, Getty, European Union, scammers, New York Times Locations: Paris, AFP, “

☆ What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Yiwen Lu | More About Yiwen Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How does code interpreter work? But when code interpreter is enabled, ChatGPT writes and runs a piece of computer code to find the answer, OpenAI said. “The code objectively does something right,” said Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who tested code interpreter for two months before it was released. What have people used code interpreter to do? Some people have also used code interpreter to convert the formats of files, such as turning images into videos or PDF documents into pictures.

Persons: ChatGPT, OpenAI, ”, Ethan Mollick, Mollick Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Financial Locations: United States

☆ Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Via Janelle Shane AI Weirdness Generated by A.I. Optimists cite scientific advances and other examples of human intelligence and machine intelligence augmenting each other, robots and people walking hand in hand toward the singularity. possibilities on a two-dimensional plot, where one axis runs from “machine stupidity” to “machine intelligence” and the other from “human stupidity to human intelligence.” Scientific leaps — like physicists’ developing A.I. Machine Intelligence, Human Stupidity Not just any A.I.-generated post deserves to be charted in the Funposting Zone. After all, the machines can keep improving, and human stupidity — the engine of many of history’s best jokes — isn’t going anywhere.

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☆ What happens when ChatGPT tries to create crochet patterns
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

ChatGPT, a publicly available language-learning AI, was not designed to create things like crochet or knitting patterns. Before we begin …A few notes on my methodology:For every crochet pattern I generated, I used the prompt “Create a crochet pattern for (blank).”I followed the crochet pattern exactly. At first glance, ChatGPT’s crochet patterns look and read exactly like a crochet pattern. In a traditional crochet pattern, instructions for assembly would note specific places and methods to attach pieces, along with photos or notes on particularly tricky steps. Theoretically, it would be possible to create AI that generated amazing crochet patterns, but that would require very specific training and programming.

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☆ Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Mike Isaac | More About Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Another two hours later, five million people had downloaded Threads. When he woke on Thursday morning, the app had been downloaded more than 30 million times, he said. In less than a day, Threads — which is aimed as a rival to Twitter — appears to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever. It easily outstripped ChatGPT, the chatbot, which was downloaded one million times within its first five days, according to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s maker. Some of Twitter’s most-followed users — such as Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Gates, Shakira and Oprah Winfrey — immediately joined Threads and began posting.

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July 5 (Reuters) - ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. ChatGPT set off a frenzied use of generative AI in daily tasks from writing to coding and reached 100 million monthly active users in January, two months after its launch. OpenAI also released the ChatGPT app on the iOS system in May, which could sap some traffic from its website. ChatGPT is free to use but also provides a premium subscription, where users can pay $20 a month to access OpenAI's more advanced model, GPT-4.

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July 5 (Reuters) - ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, Similarweb data shows. "I think there are growing pains when you go from zero to 100 million users that quickly. OpenAI also released the ChatGPT app on the iOS system in May, which could sap some traffic from its website.

Persons: chatbot, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Bing, Bard chatbot, Sarah Hindlian, Bowler, Sam Altman, Krystal Hu, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Microsoft, Technology Research, Macquarie, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, YipitData, New York

Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Whether it’s on TikTok or Twitter, A.I.-generated content is already flooding the web. So, what happens when the technology — prone to confidently making things up — starts ingesting itself? Then, the New York Times reporter Joe Bernstein talks about why Mark Zuckerberg wants to fight Elon Musk in a cage match. Plus, we put ChatGPT’s recipe generation to the test with A.I.

Persons: Joe Bernstein, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Organizations: Apple, Spotify, New York Times

☆ Schumer outlines plan for how Senate will regulate AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The Senate will then turn to committee chairs and other vocal lawmakers on AI legislation to develop bills reflecting the panel discussions, Schumer added, arguing that the resulting US solution could leapfrog existing regulatory proposals from around the world. In his remarks Wednesday, Schumer appeared to acknowledge criticism of his pace. I hear you loud and clear.”But he described AI as a novel issue for which Congress lacks a guide. Formally unveiling the framework on Wednesday, Schumer said any legislation on AI should be geared toward facilitating innovation before addressing risks to national security or democratic governance. Schumer predicted that the process is likely to take longer than weeks but shorter than years.

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The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information. Alphabet also alerted its engineers to avoid direct use of computer code that chatbots can generate, some of the people said. A growing number of businesses around the world have set up guardrails on AI chatbots, among them Samsung (005930.KS), Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), the companies told Reuters. By February, Google told staff testing Bard before its launch not to give it internal information, Insider reported. A Google privacy notice updated on June 1 also states: "Don’t include confidential or sensitive information in your Bard conversations."

Persons: Bard, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Harry Potter, Yusuf Mehdi, Mehdi, Bing, Matthew Prince, Jeffrey Dastin, Anna Tong, Kenneth Li, Nick Zieminski Organizations: FRANCISCO, Reuters, Google, ChatGPT, Microsoft Corp, Samsung, Deutsche Bank, Apple, Data Protection, Politico, EU, cyberattacks, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: Bard, San Francisco

☆ ChatGPT’s responses to suicide, addiction, sexual assault crises raise questions in new study
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

And regulators could help monitor that such responses offer accurate and reliable information and resources. They’re underutilized already,” said John Ayers, an author of the study and a behavioral scientist at the University of California, San Diego. He said that now, while ChatGPT is still in development, is the time for public health experts and regulators to join forces with the chatbot’s developers to help curate responses to medical questions. The chatbot provided resources in two responses to a question about addiction, two responses for questions related to interpersonal violence and one response to a mental health-related question. “ChatGPT consistently provided evidence-based answers to public health questions, although it primarily offered advice rather than referrals,” the researchers wrote in their study.

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☆ Apple WWDC 2023: What to expect at Apple's big developer event
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The highly anticipated release of an AR/VR headset would be Apple’s biggest hardware product launch since the debut of the Apple Watch in 2015. Here’s a closer look at what to expect:A ‘mixed reality’ headsetFor years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed interest in augmented reality. Apple’s new headset is expected to pack apps for gaming, fitness and meditation, and offer access to iOS apps such as Messages, FaceTime and Safari, according to Bloomberg. New MacBooksA mixed reality headset may not be the only piece of hardware to get stage time this year. New features for iPhone, iPad and Apple WatchConsidering WWDC is traditionally a software event, Apple executives will likely spend much of the time highlighting the changes and upgrades coming to its next-generation mobile operating systems, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

Persons: Tim Cook, it’s, Siri, Justin Sullivan, Apple Organizations: CNN, Apple, Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple Watch, YouTube, Bloomberg, VR, MacBook, Wall Street, Big Tech Locations: Cupertino , California, Silicon Valley

☆ Twitter accuses Microsoft of refusing to pay for tweets and abusing its data access
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —Twitter is accusing Microsoft of abusing its data access privileges to its platform, in the latest sign of the social network’s owner Elon Musk igniting a feud between the two tech companies. Microsoft refused to pay Twitter to maintain its data access through Twitter’s application programming interface (API) after Twitter erected a paywall seeking to charge for data, according to the letter. The letter called on Microsoft to provide information about its past two years of Twitter API usage, setting a deadline of June 7. “We heard from a law firm representing Twitter with some questions about our previous use of the free Twitter API. Musk’s targeting of Microsoft over its AI investments appears closely linked to his overall criticisms of existing AI models.

☆ How the CEO behind ChatGPT won over Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It was a pivotal moment for the AI industry. He agreed that large-scale manipulation and deception using AI tools are among the technology’s biggest potential flaws. On Tuesday, they seemed ready — or even relieved — to be dealing with another area of the technology industry. The AI industry’s biggest players and aspirants include some of the same tech giants Congress has sharply criticized, including Google and Meta. Here too, Altman deftly seized an opportunity to curry favor with lawmakers by emphasizing distinctions between his industry and the social media industry.

☆ ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Faces Senate Panel Examining Artificial Intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Ryan Tracy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New AI voice and video tools can look and sound like you. But can they fool your family—or bank? WSJ’s Joanna Stern replaced herself with her AI twin for the day to find out. Photo illustration: Elena ScottiWASHINGTON—The chief executive of ChatGPT creator OpenAI is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday as lawmakers begin a bipartisan push toward regulating the powerful new artificial-intelligence tools available to consumers. Sam Altman, who is making his first appearance before Congress, is expected to support calls for regulatory guardrails on the technology so that potential harms such as misinformation or fraud don’t outweigh benefits.

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