SCROpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced during a Reddit AMA on Thursday that the company likely won’t release GPT-5, its next major AI model, in 2023 due to the increasing complexity of these models. Altman cited “limitations and hard decisions” in allocating compute resources as the reason for the delay, despite “some very good releases coming …
Generative AI is blurring the distinction between content and data, argues Robert Rose in an article for the Content Marketing Institute. As AI gains prevalence, companies will need people in new roles to guide how AI-generated insights are transformed into meaningful value rather than settling for “good enough” AI-produced content. Rose asserts that while AI …
In an experiment, journalist Kashmir Hill let AI chatbots and tools make daily decisions for her for one week, as described in The New York Times. The generative AI systems saved time by quickly offering advice on meals, clothing, activities, and more, but their choices seemed to favor blandness and statistical averages over individuality. While …
Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Here”, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, uses artificial intelligence to depict the main characters at various ages from 18 to 80. AI-powered visual effects company Metaphysic created digital masks of the actors that could be applied to their faces in real-time during filming, enabling the filmmakers to see the de-aging …
ChatGPT Search, the AI-powered search engine developed by OpenAI, offers an intriguing glimpse into the future of web searching. However, after testing the product for a day, Maxwell Zeff found that it struggles with the short, navigational queries that make up the bulk of searches on Google, often providing unreliable or irrelevant results. While ChatGPT …
AI startup Anthropic, known for their Assistant Claude, is urging governments to take action on AI policy within the next 18 months to mitigate the growing risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems. In a post on their official website, the company argues that narrowly-targeted regulation can help realize the benefits of AI while preventing …
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet are set to spend a combined total exceeding $200 billion in 2024 to develop artificial intelligence, a record amount according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Bergen and Lynn Doan. Despite delivering mixed financial results, the companies plan to invest even more next year to secure high-end chips and build …
AI search tools that summarize information from across the web could replace traditional search engines, potentially disrupting the digital economy. According to an article by Benjamin Brooks, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, AI search poses a threat to content creators by diverting web traffic away from the original sources. Brooks argues …
Many recently announced “AI agents” are actually sophisticated automation systems, according to Brian Evergreen and Pascal Bornet writing for VentureBeat. True AI agents can research, reason, decide and act to achieve a goal with full autonomy, while automation simply follows predefined recipes when conditions are met. Identifying genuine agency requires looking at a system’s behavior …
Amazon has been working to upgrade its Alexa voice assistant with artificial intelligence to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the project has faced repeated delays. According to Austin Carr and Matt Day reporting for Bloomberg, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tested a prototype in summer 2023 and was initially optimistic, but the planned launch was pushed …