Author: Benj Edwards
Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed "Microsoft Copilot." The company also announced it will support OpenAI's recently released GPTs, which are custom roles for
YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement
On Tuesday, YouTube announced it will soon implement stricter measures on realistic AI-generated content hosted by the service. "We’ll require creators to disclose when they've created altered or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI
People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says
A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science on Monday
AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study
On Tuesday, the peer-reviewed journal Science published a study that shows how an AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called
Nvidia introduces the H200, an AI-crunching monster GPU that may speed up ChatGPT
On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which
OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo: Larger memory, lower cost, new knowledge
On Monday at the OpenAI DevDay event, company CEO Sam Altman announced a major update to its GPT-4 language model called GPT-4 Turbo, which can process a much larger amount of text than GPT-4 and features
OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles
On Monday, OpenAI announced "GPTs," a new feature that allows ChatGPT users to create custom versions of its AI assistant that
Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies
On Saturday, Elon Musk announced xAI's launch of an early beta version of "Grok," an AI language model similar to ChatGPT that is designed to respond to user queries with a mix of
“Catastrophic” AI harms among warnings in declaration signed by 28 nations
On Wednesday,
Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian
On Tuesday, The Guardian accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll beside one of its articles on the Microsoft Start website. The poll, created by an AI model on Microsoft's news
Biden issues sweeping executive order that touches AI risk, deepfakes, privacy
On Monday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that outlines the federal government's first comprehensive regulations on generative AI systems. The order includes testing mandates for advanced AI models to
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality
In 2013, Spike Jonze's Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality
In 2013, Spike Jonze's Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to
University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade
On Friday, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a research paper outlining "Nightshade," a data poisoning technique aimed at disrupting the training process for AI models, reports MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat.
“Do not open robots,” warns Oregon State amid college food delivery bomb prank
On Tuesday, officials at Oregon State University issued a warning
US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban
On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in
Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others on AI transparency in new report
On Wednesday, Stanford University researchers issued a report on major AI models and found them greatly lacking in transparency, reports Reuters. The report, called "The Foundation Model Transparency Index," examined models (such as
Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster
On Friday, researchers from Nvidia, UPenn, Caltech, and the University of Texas at
Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS
Not long after OpenAI first unveiled its DALL-E 3 AI image generator integrated into ChatGPT earlier this month, some users testing the feature began noticing bugs in the ChatGPT app that revealed internal prompts shared between