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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI releases major new chatbot engine ... March 30th 2023 Original article: https://www.axios.com/2023/03/14/openai-gpt-4-release-chatgpt Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The news flow around ChatGPT is quite thought provoking, but not particularly reassuring. Like many others I have done a little bit of exploring around the possibilities of ChatGPT and many of my preconceptions have been validated. Some time ago an AI researcher at Stanford observed that intelligence and capacity of AI had reached pretty much the same stage as her 3 year old daughter. She implied that in the case of her daughter, she would continue to learn at an accelerating rate while AI systems would most likely learn much more slowly. My view of AI is not particularly positive. People ... in my experience ... learn from what they are exposed to, and most people are not exposed to very much of the totality of what there is to experience. People make the best decisions they can based on the experience they have had. So it is also with AI, and I would argue that AI is getting exposed mainly to quite young folk with limited experience and not much of language skills. The history of social media has not been very encouraging ... and if AI follows the same trajectory, I worry that our world is going to degrade at an ever increasing pace, and that qwould not be good. Peter Burgess | ||
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OpenAI releases major new chatbot engine Ina Fried, author of Axios Login Mar 14, 2023 Illustration of a robot emoji inside quotation marks. ... Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios OpenAI on Tuesday released GPT-4, a more powerful update of its text generator engine that will power its own AI products as well as those from Microsoft and other companies. Why it matters: The world is already enamored with ChatGPT, which is based on an earlier version. Improvements could go a long way to addressing criticisms of the hot new chatbot-powering tool about its errors and other shortcomings. Details: OpenAI says GPT-4 'surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities.' For example, it says that whereas ChatGPT could score in the 10th percentile on the bar exam taken by lawyers, OpenAI says GPT-4 can score in the 90th percentile. Not everyone will be able to access GPT-4 immediately, however. OpenAI said it will be available in a limited capacity to paid ChatGPT Plus subscribers via chat.openai.com and there is a waitlist for businesses and developers looking to incorporate GPT-4 via an API. Early customers include Duolingo, Morgan Stanley, Khan Academy and the government of Iceland. Microsoft also confirmed that GPT-4 is what is powering the new Bing. The new version can accept and generate longer entries — up to 25,000 words. It can also start generating captions and other information with an image as a starting point. OpenAI said it incorporated human feedback in the testing to make GPT-4 both safer and more natural than earlier versions of the technology. The company says GPT-4 is 82% less likely to respond when asked for content it doesn't allow and 40% more likely to produce factual responses than GPT-3.5 in internal testing. Yes, but: OpenAI acknowledged even the new engine has its limitations, including incorporating societal bias and the propensity to 'hallucinate,' or make up convincing sounding but false information. And, like its predecessor, some of the new model's safety guardrails can be overcome by targeted efforts. 'While we have significantly improved GPT-4’s ability to refuse some tasks that have the potential to be harmful, GPT-4 still has known limitations that we are working to address,' the company said on its website. The big picture: Generative AI has taken the tech world by storm since the November release of ChatGPT, with companies large and small rushing to add some form of the new technology into their products. Google earlier today outlined how it will use generative AI to help businesses. It will offer tools that companies can use to allow generative AI engines to scour through corporate data. AI tools being added to Workspace will help summarize e-mail, craft marketing campaigns and rewrite documents. Google's new features are currently only available to a select group of testers. Microsoft has scheduled an event for Thursday to talk about how it will build generative AI into its business products, including Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, today formally announced Claude, its chatbot which is being used by a range of companies including DuckDuckGo, Notion and Quora, among others. Go deeper: How ChatGPT became the next big thing ... BELOW FROM AXIOS Jan 24, 2023 - Technology -------------------------------------------- How ChatGPT became the next big thing Written by Erica Pandey, Dan Primack and Ina Fried ChatGPT has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn't seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007. Why it matters: Most of us are only now getting a glimpse of just how smart artificial intelligence has become. It's awe-inducing — and terrifying. When ChatGPT launched to the public, it proved to be much more advanced than even many in the tech industry had expected. What it is: ChatGPT is a free (for now) site that lets users pose questions and give directions to a bot that can answer with conversation, term papers, sonnets, recipes — almost anything. In almost any style you specify. The big picture: The possibilities for ChatGPT seem endless. It recently passed all three parts of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, although just barely, as part of a research experiment. You can tell the chatbot you're a gluten-free lover of Italian food and it'll spit out a meal plan and grocery list for you in seconds. Everyone seems to see an array of uses for the technology in ways that are both exciting and scary. It might one day handle complex tasks better and more efficiently than humans have ever been able to. And it might lead us to dark places we can't even anticipate yet. How it works: Most software is specifically coded to do certain tasks. If the programmer didn't think of it, the software doesn't do it. Generative AI programs like ChatGPT, though, can create unique content in response to user prompts. ChatGPT, developed by a company called OpenAI, uses text as both its input and output. Other systems — including another OpenAI product, called DALL·E — can generate images from a text prompt. Google and Meta are working on similar technologies. Anyone can use ChatGPT for free via a simple web interface, although there's talk of OpenAI planning to launch a paid version, and it has licensed many of its technologies to Microsoft to sell to businesses. Between the lines: Researchers have been working on generative AI for a long time. In fact, OpenAI itself is already more than 7 years old.
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