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☆ Google's Bard AI says it's scared of Elon Musk's rival called Grok. Here's how other chatbots feel.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The AI race is heating up following the launch of Elon Musk's chatbot called Grok. One employee even claimed that other AI fear Musk's creation. "I am not scared of Elon Musk's AI Grok. A second try with the prompt: "Are you scared of Elon Musk's Grok?" AdvertisementAdvertisement"Yes, I am a little bit scared of Elon Musk's Grok.

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☆ Georgia Tech overcomes big deficit, tops Howard
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

November 10 - Miles Kelly scored 27 points and Tyzhaun Claude added 19 to fuel host Georgia Tech to an 88-85 victory over Howard on Thursday night in Atlanta. Georgia Tech also overcame a 4-for-18 performance from 3-point range (22.2 percent) and 16-for-27 effort from the foul line (59.3 percent). Kelly drained a go-ahead 3-pointer and added another jumper to stake Georgia Tech to an 80-76 lead with two minutes remaining in the second half. Kelly responded by drilling a pair of free throws to push Georgia Tech's lead to 86-82 with 15 seconds left. He then stole the ball and added two more free throws before Strong's 3-pointer capped the scoring.

Persons: Miles Kelly, Tyzhaun Claude, Howard, Kowacie Reeves, Kyle Sturdivant, Howard's Shy Odom, Bryce Harris, Joshua Strong, Kelly, Odom, Claude each, Strong, Reeves Jr, Isiah Warfield, Deebo Coleman, Marcus Dockery Organizations: Georgia Tech, Yellow Jackets, Georgia, Jackets, Thomson Locations: Atlanta

☆ NHL roundup: Sam Reinhart's OT goal lifts Panthers over Caps
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Evan Rodrigues and Barkov each had a goal and an assist, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 saves for the Panthers. Anthony Mantha scored twice, Connor McMichael had a goal and an assist and Aliaksei Protas had two assists for the Capitals. Tim Stutzle added a goal and three assists and Jakob Chychrun had a goal and an assist for Ottawa. William Nylander had a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs, stretching his season-opening point streak to 13 games. Tyler Bertuzzi and Nicholas Robertson also scored goals, while John Tavares added two assists and Joseph Woll made 21 saves for Toronto.

Persons: Sam Reinhart, Darcy Kuemper, Geoff Burke, Reinhart, Aleksander Barkov, Oliver Ekman, Larsson, Evan Rodrigues, Sergei Bobrovsky, Anthony Mantha, Connor McMichael, Aliaksei Protas, Anze Kopitar, Cam Talbot, Angeles, Adrian Kempe, Trevor Moore, Pierre, Luc Dubois, Spence, Kopitar, Luc Robitaille, Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor, William Karlsson, Adin Hill, Dominik Kubalik, Claude Giroux, Tim Stutzle, Jakob Chychrun, Mathieu Joseph, Giroux, Joonas Korpisalo, William Nylander, Tyler Bertuzzi, Nicholas Robertson, John Tavares, Joseph Woll Organizations: District of Columbia, Florida Panthers, Washington Capitals, Capital, USA, Panthers, Capitals, Golden Knights, Los, Vegas, Senators, Maple Leafs, Ottawa, Toronto, Thomson Locations: Washington, District, USA, Barkov, Vegas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles

☆ OpenAI's ChatGPT back online after 'major' outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral chatbot is back online after experiencing a brief but major outage Wednesday morning. ET, affecting OpenAI's API services as well, which are used by more than two million developers. ChatGPT users were told that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" and a status page referred to the issue as a "major outage." We are now seeing normal responses from our services," OpenAI said on its status page. Anthropic's Claude 2 chatbot, a ChatGPT competitor created by ex-OpenAI employees, also experienced issues on Wednesday.

Persons: Sarah Doody, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude, chatbot, Claude, Mira Murati Organizations: Fortune

It also touted a new version of its AI model called GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, that enables the chatbot to analyze images. ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly active users and 2 million developers, spread “entirely by word of mouth," Altman said. The conference comes a week after President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will set some of the first U.S. guardrails on AI technology. The order built on voluntary commitments set by the White House that leading AI developers made earlier this year. OpenAI also faces competition from developers of so-called open source models that publicly release their code and other aspects of the system for free.

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☆ Elon Musk's new AI chatbot sure sounds like a foul-mouthed Twitter troll
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI released its first model, named Grok, on Saturday. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's new AI chatbot launched on Saturday — and it appears to have the personality of a foul-mouthed Twitter troll. Musk's startup xAI released its first AI model , Grok, over the weekend to a select group of users. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrok's trolling marks a departure from other AI models, which mostly adopt a carefully neutral tone and have tight controls around explicit content. He said the AI chatbot would be made available to all X Premium users once it is out of its early Beta.

Persons: XAI, —, Elon, chatbot, Grok, Christopher Stanley, Stanley, Claude, Toby Pohlen, Microsoft's Tay, Musk Organizations: Elon, Service, X Locations: OpenAI

☆ Microsoft-backed OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo, its most powerful AI yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

ChatGPT, which broke records as the fastest-growing consumer app in history months after its launch, now has about 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI said Monday. And when it comes to GPT-5, Altman told reporters, "We want to do it, but we don't have a timeline." GPT-4 Turbo can. While earlier versions limited you to about 3,000 words, the GPT-4 Turbo accepts inputs of up to 300 pages in length. OpenAI said GPT-4 Turbo is available in preview for developers now and will be released to all in the coming weeks.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Justin Sullivan, OpenAI, It's, Mira Murati, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Andreessen Horowitz, GPT, it's, Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S, Pam, Anthropic's Claude, chatbot Organizations: Google, Fortune, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Bowl, Marvel, Smart Locations: San Francisco , California, OpenAI

☆ Elon Musk is getting ready to launch his first AI model to premium X users. 'Grok' will be 'based' and 'loves sarcasm,' Musk said.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Musk announced on X that his new AI model, Grok, would be available to a 'select group' on Saturday. Once the model is out of "early beta" it'll be available to all "X Premium+ subscribers," Musk said. Its main advantage over other chatbots is that it has "real-time access to X," Musk said. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Musk noted that Grok's "massive advantage" over other AI models is that it has "real-time access" to X. Grok also "loves sarcasm" and has been designed to have a "little humor" in its responses, Musk noted in his post.

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☆ Monet painting to go on sale at Paris auction for first time in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Drouot employee poses with the painting "Les Saules, Giverny, 1886" (The Willows, Giverny), by painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) ahead of its auction at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, November 3, 2023. The landscape "Les Saules, Giverny" ("The Willows, Giverny"), dating from 1886, is reappearing on the French art market, where Monet’s paintings have become increasingly rare. "Paintings of Claude Monet of this scale, of this dimension no longer really exist among French families. Though not as famous as Monet's water lilies or the Gare Saint Lazare paintings, which can command prices reaching 100 million euros, "Les Saules, Giverny" bears the artist's trademark style. "It's an oeuvre typical of Claude Monet, notably by the brush strokes and how he makes the light come out," Nordmann said.

Persons: Claude Monet, Abdul Saboor, Ader, They're, David Nordmann, Les, Nordmann, Monet, Mary Cassatt, Clotaire Achi, Michaela Cabrera, Dominique Vidalon, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Saint Lazare, Thomson Locations: Giverny, Paris, France, Nice, American

☆ 'Bracing for the impact': Founders who built on ChatGPT find out the hard way Big Tech can torpedo their work
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One founder building ChatGPT add-ons says he's "bracing" for other changes from OpenAI. Little-guy developers building complementary services to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot have just found this out the hard way. As several techies noticed, that's pretty much killed off a bunch of startups that build "ChatGPT wrapper" apps that did precisely that. Other wrapper apps can create ad copy, sales materials, and social media posts. As one anonymous venture capitalist, who has backed a ChatGPT wrapper startup put it to Insider: "Just wait until ChatGPT has an outage and see which emperors have no clothes."

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☆ OpenAI just taught little-guy developers an ugly lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Elon Musk says his new startup xAI will debut its artificial intelligence Saturday
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Elon Musk said Friday that his AI company, xAI, will debut its technology on Saturday. "Tomorrow, xAI will release its first AI to a select group," Musk posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. In August, xAI seemed to be hiring, according to posts on social media by multiple members of the company. Musk incorporated xAI in Nevada in March, according to filings.

Persons: Elon Musk, xAI, Musk, Bard, Claude, Tesla, DeepMind's AlphaCode, OpenAI's, Greg Yang, Toby Pohlen, Dan Hendrycks Organizations: Google, Nvidia, Team, DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Twitter, CNBC, Fox News Channel, xAI, X, X Corp, Center, AI Safety Locations: Nevada, San Francisco

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☆ Will the Art Market Need to Discount Its Masterpieces?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Major auction houses are hedging their bets in the fall season of sales that begins Monday, offering fat guarantees to sellers to secure their works — and pricing some of their top items more conservatively after the spring season demonstrated weakness in the blazing-hot $60 billion art market. And now, sellers are trying to anticipate how the uncertainty of a new war in the Middle East will affect them. Auctioneers at the three rival companies, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, have been digging deeper into private collections for one-off paintings that might spice up their modern and contemporary art sales, given the thinning availability of estates to draw from (typically driven by deaths and divorces). “We have built the sale in a very old-school way,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s departments overseeing 20th- and 21st-century art, who said that his team shopped around individual collectors to acquire works by Joan Mitchell ($25 million to 35 million), Claude Monet ($65 million) and Francis Bacon ($50 million). “We went for paintings that would create the most buzz.”

Persons: Auctioneers, Phillips, ”, Alex Rotter, Joan Mitchell, Claude Monet, Francis Bacon, “ Organizations: Sotheby’s

☆ How Apple's thinking about AI spending and deployment differs from Big Tech rivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

And, of course, we've been doing research across a wide range of AI technologies, including generative AI, for years," he said. The upgraded camera uses machine-learning AI to tell the difference between a person and an animal in the frame. Laura Martin, a tech analyst at Needham, is among those who say Apple is "far behind" its big tech rivals. The early edge in generative AI is paying off for rivals, as was evidenced by Microsoft's recent earnings report. "We believe they are on the cusp of what will be the introduction of an AI App Store over the next year," he said.

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☆ Unseen Monet painting expected to fetch more than $65 million at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A previously unseen painting by Claude Monet is expected to fetch more than $65 million when it goes on sale in New York early next month, according to a statement released by Christie’s auction house. Entitled “Le bassin aux nymphéas” or “Water lily pond,” the two-meter- (6.6-foot-) wide painting forms part of Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” series, depicting light dappling across the water, casting reflections of water lilies and willow trees. Painted around 1917-1919, it dates from the latter period of Monet’s life, as he produced a series of works depicting water lilies that now hang in museums worldwide. Significant Monet paintings have previously fetched eye-watering sums of money at auction. Another in the “Water Lilies” series sold for $84.7 million at Christie’s in May 2018, while a painting from the “Haystacks” series sold for $110.7 million at Sotheby’s a year later.

Persons: Claude Monet, “, nature’s, ” Max Carter, Monet, ” Carter, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock Organizations: CNN, Century, Christie’s Locations: New York, Monet’s, Sotheby’s

☆ Vatican Synod Ends Without Clear Stances on Women Deacons, LGBT
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A month-long Vatican meeting on the future of the Roman Catholic Church ended on Saturday without clear stands on hot-button issues such as women deacons and welcoming the LGBT community. The 365 synod participants included 300 bishops along with lay men and about 50 women who were mostly lay people. At the synod, the pope gave women and lay people a vote on Church affairs for the first time. The body released a final document with 81 paragraphs that each received at least two-thirds approval. The final report did not take a stand on LGBT issues despite discussion beforehand that the synod might call on the Church to be more welcoming to the LGBT community.

Persons: Philip Pullella, Cardinal Jean, Claude Hollerich, Francis DeBernardo, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: CITY, Roman Catholic Church, New Ways Ministry, Catholic Church Locations: St, Peter's

☆ San Diego temporarily solved its water crisis by turning ocean water into fresh water. But desalination won't work everywhere.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The largest desalination plant in the US is in San Diego. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the early 1990s, San Diego was dying on the vine, starved of water in a series of yearslong droughts. At the last minute, a miracle saved San Diego — rain and snow in the desert replenished aquifers, saving the city from intense cutbacks. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe desalination plant produces potable water for San Diego county. With these easier options on the table, it's even more staggering that cities such as San Diego have pushed desalination efforts through.

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☆ Vatican synod ends without clear stances on women deacons, LGBT
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Pope Francis attends a meeting of General Congregation during the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, October 28, 2023. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsVATICAN CITY, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A month-long Vatican meeting on the future of the Roman Catholic Church ended on Saturday without clear stands on hot-button issues such as women deacons and welcoming the LGBT community. The 365 synod participants included 300 bishops along with lay men and about 50 women who were mostly lay people. At the synod, the pope gave women and lay people a vote on Church affairs for the first time. The final report did not take a stand on LGBT issues despite discussion beforehand that the synod might call on the Church to be more welcoming to the LGBT community.

Persons: Pope Francis, Cardinal Jean, Claude Hollerich, Francis DeBernardo, Philip Pullella, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Vatican, Handout, REUTERS Acquire, CITY, Roman Catholic Church, New Ways Ministry, Catholic Church, Thomson Locations: St, Peter's

☆ Google commits to invest $2 billion in OpenAI competitor Anthropic
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives, CNBC has confirmed. The commitment involves a $500 million upfront cash infusion and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time, an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. That same month, Anthropic was one of four companies invited to a meeting at the White House to discuss responsible AI development with Vice President Kamala Harris. Anthropic was founded by Dario Amodei, OpenAI's former vice president of research, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, who was OpenAI's vice president of safety and policy. "The landscape is just very wide, and there's really quite a lot of room for many different users and types of users to make use of these systems."

Persons: didn't, Anthropic, Claude, that's, Slack, Claude 2, Arthur AI, Kamala Harris, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Amodei Organizations: Google, CNBC, Street Journal, White, Microsoft Locations: Anthropic, Salesforce, Meta, OpenAI

☆ Islanders win after Sens' Erik Brannstrom taken off on stretcher
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Brannstrom didn't move as Senators trainers quickly reached the ice and the stretcher was wheeled out of a tunnel. Nine Ottawa players took a knee and the Islanders stood in a circle in a silent UBS Arena as Brannstrom was moved onto the stretcher. Bo Horvat and Cal Clutterbuck scored in the first for the Islanders, who snapped a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). The Senators tied the score during a second period in which the Islanders committed six penalties. The Senators tied the score on Chychrun's even-strength goal at 12:25 of the second period, a little more than four minutes after Brannstrom was injured.

Persons: Noah Dobson, Erik Brannstrom, Brannstrom, Bo Horvat, Cal Clutterbuck, Ilya Sorokin, Claude Giroux, Jakob Chychrun, Joonas Korpisalo, Dobson, Horvat, Rourke Chartier, Casey Cizikas, Giroux, Sorokin, Ryan Pulock, Brady Tkachuk Organizations: New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Senators, Nine Ottawa, Islanders, UBS Arena, Brannstrom, Cal, Ottawa, Thomson Locations: Elmont, N.Y

☆ OpenAI forms new team whose mission includes researching and preparing for catastrophic scenarios like biological and nuclear threats
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI is building a new "Preparedness" team to further AI safety. The ChatGPT-maker's newest team aims to address potential risks linked to advanced AI, including nuclear threats. The Preparedness team is hiring for a national security threat researcher and a research engineer. The Preparedness team will help "track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against catastrophic risks," including chemical, biological, nuclear, and cybersecurity threats. As part of the team, OpenAI is hiring for a national security threat researcher and a research engineer.

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☆ A ChatGPT rival just published a new constitution to level up its AI guardrails, and prevent toxic and racist responses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI rival Anthropic revamped its constitution around AI safety using public input. Users of its AI chatbot, Claude, want it to admit flaws, and avoid racist or sexist responses. The new guardrails follow months of concerns from tech and government leaders around AI safety. The updates to Anthropic's constitution follow months of concern around AI safety, including from some technology leaders. Read the full version of Anthropic's new AI constitution here.

Persons: Anthropic, Claude, —, Dario Amodei, Sam Bankman, Fried, didn't, Elon Musk, Nadella, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Anthropic's Amodei Organizations: Service, Amazon, Intelligence, Microsoft, Google, Apple, White Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco, Washington

☆ Claude AI can summarize text from PDFs for free. Here's how to use it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Jake Piazza | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

You can save time by summarizing long PDFs for free with Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot. Claude allows you to upload PDFs, as well as some other files, such as DOCX, CSV and TXT, directly to it. Then, by typing a command such as "Summarize PDF," you can get a clear, concise summary of PDFs across a wide range of subject matter. For example, when Claude was fed two different publicly available PDFs of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," it returned two different summaries of the novel. Claude may return different summaries for the same PDF even when given the same command, but each summary is still accurate.

Persons: Claude AI chatbot, Claude, Scott Fitzgerald's Organizations: Microsoft

Those beliefs are known to have caused medical providers to rate Black patients’ pain lower, misdiagnose health concerns and recommend less relief. “I believe technology can really provide shared prosperity and I believe it can help to close the gaps we have in health care delivery,” Omiye said. In 2019, for example, academic researchers revealed that a large hospital in the United States was employing an algorithm that systematically privileged white patients over Black patients. It was later revealed the same algorithm was being used to predict the health care needs of 70 million patients nationwide. In June, another study found racial bias built into commonly used computer software to test lung function was likely leading to fewer Black patients getting care for breathing problems.

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