OpenAI releases GPT-4. Martha the biggest AI story OpenAI GPT-4 was launched. The company's latest Big Language model, used in products like ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing, is currently the smartest version of the technology to pass the SAT math section and the Uniform Bar exam. It's also smart enough to create a working website based on a photo of a hastily pencil sketch on a piece of paper, and can suggest recipes just by looking at a photo of the ingredients in your refrigerator.
The launch of GPT-4 occurred during the noisiest week in AIsandwiched between Google's announcement of bringing generative AI capabilities to Google Docs, Sheets and Gmail and Microsoft's announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will infuse Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint with ChatGPT-style capabilities.
Some experts are concerned about the inexorable pace of AI development, calling it a “circus” and telling BuzzFeed News that they are concerned that “move fast and break things“Facebook's one-time motto has come back into vogue in Silicon Valley.
The petitioners are calling for a pause in the development of AI. But it wasn't just a handful of experts who were concerned. More than 1,000 experts and leaders in the field of artificial intelligence, including Elon MuskApple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostak signed the petition ask companies to pause development of artificial intelligence systems for at least six months.
“In recent months, artificial intelligence labs have found themselves in a runaway race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one—not even their creators—can understand, predict, or reliably control,” said a letter posted on the website of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that aims to minimize the social risks associated with technology.
However, it soon became clear that some of the names on the letter, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had not originally signed it.
An image of the Pope created by artificial intelligence has taken the internet by storm. The guy who created the fake image of Pope Francis in a white puffer jacket using Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence tool, told BuzzFeed News that he was tripping over mushrooms when this idea came to his mind. The photo, which fooled many people into thinking it was real, demonstrated the potential of generative artificial intelligence to create chaos and spread misinformation.
The fashion for AI funding has begun. Silicon Valley is facing layoffs, but artificial intelligence startups are making dollars. Character.AI, a service that allows people to create their own chatbots from famous personalities such as Joe Biden And Super Mario, raised $150 million from leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz at a $1 billion valuation. Another AI startup called Adept raised $350 million from investors including General Catalyst and Spark Capital. And a few days later, Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence search engine based in San Francisco, announced that raised $25.6 million from New Enterprise Associates. People who support Perplexity include many former artificial intelligence researchers at Google, as well as Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist.
Bing's AI-powered chatbot gets more advertising. How will you make money if you shake up the search engine with AI? Microsoft trying to find out. In a blog post, the company said it was “exploring the possibility of advertising in chat.” It's not entirely clear what they'll look like, but at least one user saw it when a Bing chatbot snuck into search results for the cheapest Honda.
