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What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona? | Arwa Mahdawi

OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight...

Thu May 16, 2024 13:25
OpenAI co-founder who had key role in attempted firing of Sam Altman departs

Ilya Sutskever helped orchestrate dramatic firing and rehiring of ChatGPT maker’s CEO last yearOpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom.“After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Sutskever said in a post on X. Continue reading...

Wed May 15, 2024 18:10
ACM will take no action against lawyer who hosted websites that used AI to alter legitimate news stories

Regional publisher Australian Community Media’s in-house counsel James Raptis says sites were ‘operated by another person without any involvement or oversight from me’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian Community Media will take no action against its in-house lawyer who has been implicated in the creation...

Wed May 15, 2024 03:58
Google rolls out AI-generated, summarized search results in US

Tech giant also reveals AI assistant in progress, currently called Project Astra, and AI video generator Veo at annual I/O conferenceGoogle will use artificial intelligence to return summarized responses to search engine queries from US users as it continues to infuse generative AI into its most widely used products.The company has been testing “AI...

Tue May 14, 2024 21:03
OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants

System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of SiriIn the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging question has only got more pressing: if AI can do this, why is my phone’s assistant still so bad?On Monday, the gulf grew larger still, as OpenAI announced a new model...

Tue May 14, 2024 21:03
Laughing, chatting, singing, GPT-4o is AI close to human, but watch out: it’s really not human | Chris Stokel-Walker

It is responsive enough to obscure the fact that it is not a sentient being. It comes with biases; it is a corporate product. Remember thatArtificial intelligence is changing things at dizzying speed. About 18 months ago, the tech company OpenAI unleashed its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Within a couple of months, 100 million users were regularly using the...

Tue May 14, 2024 16:42

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