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☆ Sam Altman unveils the hotly anticipated GPT-4, an AI model he says 'can pass a bar exam and score a 5 on several AP exams'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled the much-anticipated GPT-4 model. He said it is "still flawed, still limited," but can "pass a bar exam and score a 5 on several AP exams." Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. Loading Something is loading. Those who pay for OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus can give GPT-4 a whirl starting today, but there's a waitlist for the GPT-4 API.

☆ Chat GPT-4: OpenAI wants to make its chatbot even more powerful
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Nearly four months after OpenAI stunned the tech industry with ChatGPT, the company is releasing its next-generation version of the technology that powers the viral chatbot tool. GPT-4 can also read, analyze or generate up to 25,000 words of text, and write code in all major programming languages, according to the company. OpenAI described the update as the “latest milestone” for the company. GPT-4 is the latest version of OpenAI’s large language model, which is trained on vast amounts of online data to generate compelling responses to user prompts. “We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search,” Microsoft said on Tuesday.

☆ I designed the hat Beyoncé wore in the Renaissance tour promo. Now I'm working up to 15 hours a day to meet my Etsy waitlist of 6,000.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now Misbin works 12 to 15 hours a day to keep up with the waitlist of 6,000 for the disco-ball hat. On February 1, I sold 70 disco-ball hats at an increased price of $350 each. I'm a hat decorator first and foremost, and I'm not willing to sacrifice the quality of my product to sell more of them. Thanks to their help, I've cut about an hour off the process of making a disco-ball hat, so at five hours per hat, I can usually make around 15 a week. At the end of the day, I didn't create the disco-ball hat.

☆ OpenAI wants to make ChatGPT even more powerful with GPT-4
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Here's the 8-page pitch deck that a startup helping government contractors navigate subcontractor compliance used to raise $2.5 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

GovForce is a software startup that helps government contractors with compliance. GovForce used this 8-page pitch deck to raise a $2.5 million seed round. This software startup is helping government contractors keep tabs on the companies it outsources work to. GovForce offers government contractors software that allows them to continually monitor the compliance of its subcontractors through a dashboard. Read the 8-page pitch deck GovForce used to raise a $2.5 million seed round.

☆ ChatGPT is coming to Slack
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Next time you’re wondering how to respond to a colleague on Slack, you may be able to ask ChatGPT for help. Salesforce, the company behind Slack, announced Tuesday that it’s partnering with OpenAI to launch a ChatGPT app for the workplace messaging platform. The new tool will use the AI chatbot to “deliver instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance directly in Slack,” according to Salesforce. The move to bring ChatGPT to Slack is just the latest example of the AI chatbot finding its way into more services. Salesforce and OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT app for Slack.

☆ Get ready to post on Slack with ChatGPT. The viral AI chatbot is coming to the popular workplace messaging app.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Salesforce is giving its Slack workplace messaging app the ChatGPT boost that can speed up posting. Microsoft shook up its Bing search engine last month with an OpenAI-powered chatbot that transfixed users. The tool would help users write faster, review outlines of longer Slack chats, and mine channels for information, according to the company. Salesforce also said its AI tool called "Einstein GPT" will help clients use AI-generated content for customer service and marketing purposes. The company said that Slack users will have "granular controls" over access to data, and that ChatGPT's model won't learn from Slack data.

☆ ChatGPT isn't the only cool AI tool made by OpenAI — check out DALL-E, Whisper, and Codex
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

DALL-E, OpenAI's AI art generator, creates images based on detailed text descriptions from a person. Just months earlier, OpenAI removed the waitlist for its generative AI art generator, DALL-E, which grew to over 1.5 million daily users. The tool sparked controversy among artists who debated what DALL-E, and other AI art generators like it, could mean for people in creative jobs. DALL-EScreenshot of DALL·E search for "astronaut fish swimming in an ocean in outer space, digital art" DALL·E/OpenAIJust months before ChatGPT launched, OpenAI removed the waitlist for its generative AI art generator, DALL-E. The AI art generator creates original images called "generations" from detailed text prompts input by a person.

☆ Bing's AI chatbot now has three different conversation styles. Here's how each responded to 5 basic questions.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft's new Bing added three conversation styles to its chatbot: creative, balanced, and precise. Each mode is designed to respond in different tones, though they were pretty inconsistent. Each of the modes responds to questions in different tones, according to Bing. Responses in "creative" mode are meant to be "original and imaginative" and filled with "surprise and entertainment," per Bing. From writing a text to a distant friend to generating a song about tech layoffs in Beyoncé's voice, Insider asked Bing's new styles five questions that we'd asked the old version.

☆ Fledgling social media sites are competing to be the next Twitter as users abandon the legacy platform. These are the frontrunners.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gabor Cselle, co-founder & CEO is a former Group Product Manager at Twitter. Funding: T2 has raised $1.1 million from angel investors, Cselle told Insider. "I was like, 'maybe now's the time,'" Cselle told Insider, who reached out and partnered with Oh on their new build. "Usually the safety has come after something bad happens," Oh told Insider. The T2 website name will change so as not to evoke Terminator associations, Cselle told Insider.

☆ 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.)

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☆ Instagram's top exec says paid blue-check verification could 'help small creators get a leg up,' as he defends Meta Verified
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta is testing a monthly paid subscription called Meta Verified on Facebook and Instagram. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri answered questions about the test and its impact on creators. Meta Verified, a paid subscription that grants users a blue check and streamlined customer service, is already stirring up controversy among creators. "And so we're just testing to see if it is compelling to small creators because we want to help small creators get a leg up." Here were the 3 main takeaways from Mosseri's answers to users' questions about Meta Verified:

☆ 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.

☆ SpaceX invites customers to try global roaming Starlink service, which costs $800 upfront and works almost anywhere on land
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SpaceX unveiled in an email to customers its global roaming service for Starlink internet. The service costs $200 per month and $599 for the Starlink kit, emails appear to show. "Global Roaming services are contingent on regulatory approvals," SpaceX said in the email, linking to its map, which shows where Starlink is authorized. PC Mag reported that SpaceX also sent the email to waitlist customers in countries where the satellite internet service isn't available yet, including Greenland. The rollout of the $200 roaming service comes after SpaceX said it had struggled to fund Starlink, especially during the Ukraine war.

☆ 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 pushing you to set Bing and Edge as your defaults to get its new OpenAI-powered search engine faster is giving off big 1990s energy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Shona Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft was once king of computing, with more than 90% market share. Microsoft has integrated some OpenAI deep-learning technology into Bing, its ailing competitor to Google, so that the search engine can answer questions in a more nuanced way. And rather than just returning a list of results, Bing will present the information in a more useful way. What is less futuristic is Microsoft's maneuvering to juice its own market share as much as possible. Microsoft is juicing Bing's market share right now Shona Ghosh/InsiderAt present, Bing's share of the search market is a mere 3%, according to data firm Stat Counter.

☆ Microsoft's chief technology officer says he uses the new AI-powered Bing to decode his teenage daughter's use of Gen Z slang like 'rizz' and 'bussin'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft's CTO said he uses the new AI-powered Bing search engine to understand his teenage daughter's slang. In a recent interview, he praised the search engine, saying he misses it whenever he doesn't have access. Microsoft unveiled its new AI-powered Bing in collaboration with OpenAI last week. The overhauled search engine will feature similar technology that backs OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT, though OpenAI has promised Bing will be "more powerful." There's currently a waitlist to gain admittance to the new search engine, so Insider looked up the definitions the old-fashioned way: on Google.

☆ With Twitter upended by Musk, these services see an opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Like Twitter, it offers a social feed of posts with 280-character limits. The list of newer entrants in the markets includes apps created by former Twitter employees, a startup backed by one of Musk’s Twitter investors, and a service from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The service launched publicly in June of last year, after Musk offered to buy Twitter. (As part of the acquisition, Musk took Twitter private and the company no longer reports user numbers in quarterly securities filings.) Though controversy remains, many Twitter users may feel less urgency to jump ship today than in late October.

☆ Microsoft's AI-powered Bing can now write cover letters, and it shows how fast the technology is evolving
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Wednesday, Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing search engine refused Insider's request to write a cover letter. By Thursday, it complied with the request and produced a cover letter. Microsoft rolled out the souped-up Bing search engine on Tuesday. In response, Bing said: "I'm sorry, but I cannot write a cover letter for you. BingLess than 24 hours later, it reversed course: Bing agreed to help me write cover letters.

☆ See Bing's breakout week in charts as Microsoft taps new ChatGPT technology to go after Google's search lead
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft unveiled an updated Bing search engine on Tuesday, powered by the tech behind ChatGPT. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled an updated Bing search engine powered by the technology behind ChatGPT. Google app downloads, remained steady between 300,000 to 320,000 per day in the same period, Apptopia data shows. In the end, all this is about gaining a higher share of the highly lucrative search engine market. As of February 9, Google had 93.21% of the worldwide search engine market.

☆ The inside story of how Microsoft caught up with Google on AI, and the unlikely executive who made it happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

With OpenAI technology, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is challenging Google's online search monopoly. "Who'd have thought, even just a few months ago, that Google would be on their back foot," said Soma Somasegar, a former Microsoft executive. Google was also busy incorporating machine-learning and other AI technology into popular products such as Google Photos, Google Translate, and its search engine. Microsoft's new Bing search engine uses a newer version of GPT-3 to answer complex questions. Microsoft's positive feedback loopThe OpenAI deal laid the foundation for Microsoft to catch Google in the AI race.

☆ Shopify just made its move into generative AI and said it's the first of many new features it plans to roll out this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Shopify is making its first step into generative AI with the launch of Shopify Magic. Shopify Magic uses AI to automatically write product descriptions. Shopify is stepping into generative artificial intelligence with the launch of Shopify Magic, a tool that generates product descriptions using large language models. The rapid rise of AI chatbot ChatGPT, which, like Shopify Magic, relies on LLMs, has fueled investment in other generative AI startups. Shopify Magic is the Canadian e-commerce company's first foray into generative AI, but it has indicated that more features are on the way.

☆ Humans need to be 'unquestionably' in charge of powerful AI to keep things from getting out of control, Microsoft CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said "powerful" AI models need to be used where humans are in charge. Nadella told CBS Mornings that new AI models need to be "more safe" and "more explainable" first. In an interview with CBS Mornings, Nadella said that these powerful AI models need to be used in a way "where humans are unambiguously, unquestionably" in charge to keep them from going out of control. Before thinking about safety and alignment, Nadella said people need to think about what AI is being used for. "The first set of categories in which we should use these powerful models are where humans unambiguously, unquestionably, are in charge," Nadella said.

☆ We tried the AI-powered version of Microsoft Bing. Its huge, user-friendly search box and detailed responses make it so much better than Google.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft announced the integration of an AI language tool into its search engine Bing. It accounts for around 93% of the global search engine market, compared with around 3% for Bing, according to Statcounter, a web analytics service. But if Microsoft's multi-billion bet in OpenAI pays off, the new Bing search engine could knock Google from its perch. Bing gave us three destinations, which was the perfect amount of suggestions as it didn't require us to do a lot of sifting through the options. Microsoft's search engine felt like we had our own personal assistant somehow.

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