OpenAI’s ChatGPT automatically blocks conversations containing certain individuals’ names, according to reporting by Benj Edwards for Ars Technica. The blocking mechanism appears to be a response to defamation concerns and legal threats, with confirmed blocks on names including Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, and Jonathan Zittrain. The article explains that Hood’s case, involving false claims about …
Spanish bank BBVA has deployed 3,000 ChatGPT Enterprise licenses since May 2023, with employees creating nearly 3,000 custom GPTs across various departments. According to reporting by Isabelle Bousquette for The Wall Street Journal, while 80% of users report saving over two hours weekly, the bank faces challenges integrating the AI tool with complex internal systems. …
A new study from the University of California, Riverside reveals that ChatGPT’s computer systems consume approximately two liters of water for 10-50 queries, four times more than previously estimated. The research, to be published in Communications of the ACM, shows that data centers require substantial water for cooling their AI servers, which generate intense heat …
AnyChat, a new development tool, enables seamless integration of multiple large language models (LLMs) through a single interface. Developer Ahsen Khaliq, machine learning growth lead at Gradio, created the platform to allow users to switch between models like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Meta’s LLaMA without being restricted to one provider, as reported by …
Jakob Uszkoreit, one of the authors of the influential 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need,” reveals insights about the development of transformer technology in an interview with Ars Technica’s Benj Edwards. The paper, written by eight Google researchers, introduced the transformer architecture that now powers most modern AI systems including ChatGPT and various audio …
OpenAI has enhanced its ChatGPT desktop applications with significant new features, including third-party app integration for Mac users. According to product lead Alexander Embiricos, as reported by Emilia David for VentureBeat, Plus and Teams subscribers can now directly access VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, and iTerm2 from within ChatGPT. The update responds to observed user behavior …
During the 2024 US election, OpenAI’s ChatGPT directed around 2 million users to trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press for election information, according to a blog post by the company. As reported by Devin Coldewey for TechCrunch, the AI chatbot also sent about 1 million people to CanIVote.org for voting-related questions and …
OpenAI has acquired the domain name Chat.com for an undisclosed amount, TechCrunch reports. The domain, which was registered in 1996 and is one of the oldest on the web, now redirects to OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT. According to a post on X-Twitter by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, who sold the domain last year …
OpenAI 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 …
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 …