This article comes from The Technocrat (MIT Technology Review's weekly tech-policy newsletter about power, politics and Silicon Valley). Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Friday. I spoke with a Washington, DC policy professor earlier this week. He told me that both students and colleagues are interested in GPT-4 and generative Ai. What should they be looking at? What … [Read more...]

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have been exposed during the incident. According to a post from the company, a bug in an open source library called redis-py created a caching issue that may have shown some active users the last four digits … [Read more...]

Screenshot: Mitchell Clark / The Verge Microsoft continues to add AI features to its Bing search engine, even outside of the GPT-powered chat features it’s been pushing. According to a feature roundup blog post, Bing will now “craft AI-generated stories” for some searches, giving you a small multimedia presentation about the thing you looked up. The company says it’s a way to let you … [Read more...]

Illustration by Álvaro Bernis / The Verge The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Continue reading… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By: James … [Read more...]

Image: GitHub Microsoft-owned GitHub is overhauling its Copilot system today to integrate OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and bring chat and voice support to its AI pair programmer. GitHub Copilot X is a giant upgrade that includes a new ChatGPT-like experience inside code editors, allowing the chatbot to recognize and explain code and recommend changes and fix bugs. “With Copilot X we’re laying out … [Read more...]

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s been pretty slow in the audio world for the past few weeks — except when it comes to AI, which seems to be progressing at a clip. Today, ChatGPT comes to radio, NPR employees prepare for layoffs, and Spotify expands its … [Read more...]

Bard looks like a search engine, though Google says it isn’t one. | Image: Google “Bard is a complement to search.” That’s how Google describes the relationship between Bard, the new chatbot entering into beta testing today, and its monolithic search engine. The way the company sees it, Bard is less a tool for finding information and more a way to automatically generate ideas and emails. … [Read more...]

Microsoft Business Chat | Image: Microsoft One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat. It’s a chatbot experience that’s able to summarize information pulled from meeting transcripts, recent contacts with customers, entries in your calendar, and more that you can plug into emails for the team or as slides in a presentation. According … [Read more...]

Robin Li, Baidu’s CEO and cofounder, took to the stage in Beijing on Thursday to present the company's Ernie Bot large-language model. He was accompanied by Baidu's image making AI and showed the chatbot examples such as writing marketing copy, solving math problems, answering questions about Chinese literature, or generating multimedia responses. For months, Baidu had been planning for … [Read more...]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By: Oliver HaslamTitle: Microsoft Office Is Getting A GPT-4 Copilot FeatureSourced From: www.redmondpie.com/microsoft-office-is-getting-a-gpt-4-copilot-feature/Published Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:33:22 +0000 … [Read more...]