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OpenAI reveals how it will try to stop the use of its tools for false election information
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
OpenAI reveals how it will try to stop the use of its tools for false election information by John Callaham Today, the 2024 US Presidential election officially gets underway with caucuses in the state of Iowa. Generative AI company OpenAI has decided to use today to outline how it plans to prevent groups from using its tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E to create and distribute 'deepfakes" and other false information that could be used to disrupt the US presidential election, and indeed elections all over the world this year. In a blog post, OpenAI stated it will make sure its tools are used for "accurate voting information, enforcing measured policies, and improving transparency". It added: We have a cross-functional effort dedicated to election work, bringing together expertise from our safety systems, threat intelligence, legal, engineering, and policy teams to quickly investigate and address potential abuse. OpenAI says it will not allow its tools to be used for any political campaigns or for any lobbying purposes. Also, it states that it will not allow any chatbots to be created with its tools and services that are designed to simulate chatting with real candidates or government groups. The company says it will block the use of its tools to distribute efforts to misrepresent how people should vote in the election, or discourage people from voting. It will also allow people to report possible violations to OpenAI. In addition, OpenAI is working on tools to help spot AI-created deepfake images made via DALL-E. A new tool, called a "provenance classifier" is currently under development that is supposed to help find AI-made images " even where images have been subject to common types of modifications." A group of testers that will include journalists, will be able to try out this tool "soon". A recent report claimed that Microsoft's Copilot chatbot, which uses technology developed by OpenAI, frequently offered false answers to questions about some 2023 elections. In November, Microsoft announced plans to offer a new tool that would help political parties show that images created by them, such as ads and videos, are real and have not been changed by AI tools. -
Microsoft will soon let people make their own Copilot chatbots similar to OpenAI's GPTs
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Microsoft will soon let people make their own Copilot chatbots similar to OpenAI's GPTs by John Callaham In November 2023, OpenAI announced plans to release GPTs, custom chatbots based on the company's ChatGPT. Today, Microsoft announced its own plans to offer custom AI chatbots tailored to specific needs and topics. As part of today's many Copilot announcements, including Copilot Pro and the expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365, the company also announced Copilot GPTs. Like OpenAI's GPTs, Copilot GPTs will allow users to "customize the behavior of Microsoft Copilot on a topic that is of particular interest to you." Microsoft added that it will offer up a number of previously created custom Copilot GPTs starting today. They will be able to answer questions from users on topics like fitness, travel, and cooking. As part of the features that will be enabled for people who pay $20 a month to access the Copilot Pro service, those subscribers will be able to make their own custom Copilot GPTs. Microsoft plans to launch a new app called Copilot GPT Builder, which is made specifically for these kinds of tasks. So far, Microsoft has not revealed anything more about how Pro users will be able to make their own chatbots with Copilot GPT Builder, saying only, "Stay tuned for more on this experience as we get closer to availability." There's no word on what the app itself will be like, how easy or hard it will be to use, and what platform or platforms it will support. When OpenAI announced GPTs, it also revealed that users would be able to share their custom chatbots with the rest of the world via the GPT store. That store finally launched last week, and OpenAI indicated that later in the first quarter of 2024, creators of those custom chatbots would be able to get some revenue if people actually used their custom GPTs. Microsoft has yet to announce plans to offer a similar revenue path for custom Copilot GPTs. -
OpenAI finally opens GPT Store; introduces ChatGPT Team for collaborative creation
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OpenAI finally opens GPT Store; introduces ChatGPT Team for collaborative creation by Omer Dursun OpenAI announced the long-awaited launch of the GPT Store, expanding the potential use cases for its chatbot. This move marks a significant milestone for the company, allowing users to share their own custom chatbots and further enrich the ChatGPT experience. The GPT Store is the result of OpenAI's GPT Builder program. According to OpenAI, over 3 million GPTs have been created since its announcement in November. The GPT Store provides a central location for users to discover and try out useful chatbots created by others. It will also introduce a revenue-sharing program starting in Q1, where bot creators will earn money based on user engagement with their GPTs. OpenAI says the GPT Store aims to showcase and highlight the most popular contributions weekly. Here are some examples of the first features GPTs: Personalized trail recommendations from AllTrails Search and synthesize results from 200M academic papers with Consensus Expand your coding skills with Khan Academy's Code Tutor Design presentations or social posts with Canva Find your next read with Books Learn math and science anytime, anywhere with the CK-12 Flexi AI tutor Alongside the store's opening, OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Team, a new paid subscription tier for ChatGPT targeted at teams of up to 150 users. ChatGPT Team provides the same capabilities as the Enterprise plan, such as access to advanced AI models like DALL-E and control over data usage and privacy settings: Access to GPT-4 with 32K context window Tools like DALL-E 3, GPT-4 with Vision, Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis—with higher message caps No training on your business data or conversations Secure workspace for your team Create and share custom GPTs with your workspace Admin console for workspace and team management Early access to new features and improvements Prices for the ChatGPT Team are $25 per month per user for annual billing and $30 per user per user for monthly billing. Initially planned for release in November, the GPT Store faced delays, pushing its launch to December and January. The GPT Store will initially be accessible to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users and subscribers to the ChatGPT Team tier. -
OpenAI dismisses NYT lawsuit, says the publication tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles
Qblade_ posted a topic in Front Page News
OpenAI dismisses NYT lawsuit, says the publication tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles by Mehrotra A OpenAI has published an official response to the lawsuit filed by The New York Times claiming that the company used its articles without permission to train Large Language Model (LLM). In a letter published by OpenAI, the company refuted The New York Times's claims while noting that the publication fabricated the prompts to regurgitate data related to Times articles. Regurgitation is a process where AI models provide training data verbatim when asked in a certain way. Interestingly, the regurgitations The New York Times induced appear to be from years-old articles that have proliferated on multiple third-party websites. It seems they intentionally manipulated prompts, often including lengthy excerpts of articles, in order to get our model to regurgitate. Even when using such prompts, our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates, which suggests they either instructed the model to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts. The company mentions that they had no information about the lawsuit and came to know about it when they read it in The New York Times. We had explained to The New York Times that, like any single source, their content didn't meaningfully contribute to the training of our existing models and also wouldn't be sufficiently impactful for future training. Their lawsuit on December 27—which we learned about by reading The New York Times—came as a surprise and disappointment to us. OpenAI also said that the Times had mentioned cases of regurgitation when the two parties were working together but failed to provide examples when asked about it. The company noted that they treat allegations of regurgitation with the utmost priority and provided example of removal of Bing Integration to support their claim. Along the way, they had mentioned seeing some regurgitation of their content but repeatedly refused to share any examples, despite our commitment to investigate and fix any issues. We’ve demonstrated how seriously we treat this as a priority, such as in July when we took down a ChatGPT feature immediately after we learned it could reproduce real-time content in unintended ways. The letter also focused on other points including the licensing deal between news agencies like the Associated Press, Axel Springer, American Journalism Project and NYU. OpenAI also talked about fair use saying that if the content is available on the internet, it comes within the fair use regulation and can be used for training AI models. Training AI models using publicly available internet materials is fair use, as supported by long-standing and widely accepted precedents. We view this principle as fair to creators, necessary for innovators, and critical for US competitiveness. However, OpenAI does provide an opt out option if a someone does not want their data to be used for training AI models. It also noted that The New York Times had exercised that option in August 2023. That being said, legal right is less important to us than being good citizens. We have led the AI industry in providing a simple opt-out process for publishers (which The New York Times adopted in August 2023) to prevent our tools from accessing their sites. The New York Times is not the only one suing OpenAI and Microsoft for unauthorized use of data. Earlier this week, two authors also filed a lawsuit claiming that OpenAI used their published work to train its AI models. -
Authors sue Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringement over AI training models
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Authors sue Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringement over AI training models by Mehrotra A Two non-fiction authors have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for using their work to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. This comes just a week after The New York Times announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for using its articles to train Large Language Models (LLMs) without explicit permission. Authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage (via Reuters) have filed a class action lawsuit with the Manhattan federal court alleging Microsoft infringed their copyright by using information from their books to train OpenAI's LLM for ChatGPT and other services. The lawsuit also references the one filed by The New York Times and also notes that Nicholas Gage had worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Mr. Gage is among America’s greatest and most acclaimed investigative reporters. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and his work for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times impacted the course of key events in American and world history. The lawsuit asks that authors should be compensated for the use of their work by the tech companies who are leveraging the information to train their AI models. Notably, shortly after The New York Times filed suit against these same defendants in this Court, the Defendants publicly acknowledged that copyright owners like Plaintiffs must be compensated for Defendants’ use of their work Furthermore, Basbanes and Gage's lawyer said that tech companies have "access to billions in capital, simply stole Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works to build another billion+ dollar commercial industry. It is outrageous." Both the authors are seeking damages from Microsoft and OpenAI as well as asking the companies to stop using copyright information to train AI models. Mr. Basbanes and Mr. Gage seek to represent a class of writers whose copyrighted work has been systematically pilfered by Defendants. Mr. Basbanes and Mr. Gage seek damages for copyright infringement, the lost opportunity to license their works, and for the destruction of the market Defendants have caused and continue to cause to writers. They also seek a permanent injunction to prevent these harms from recurring. It is worth noting that this is not the first time Microsoft has been under a microscope for its investment and interests in OpenAI. Earlier this year, Microsoft was sued for the breach of privacy for using personal data to train AI models. This was followed by a lawsuit from authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad claiming ChatGPT accessed their work illegally. Not only that, but last month FTC and CMA announced that they are looking into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership in relation to the anti-trust laws. -
Microsoft's Copilot app for iOS is here only days after Android launch
Martin Hodás posted a topic in Front Page News
Microsoft's Copilot app for iOS is here only days after Android launch by Martin Hodás As reported by The Verge, the official Copilot app for iOS is now available in the App Store for free. The owners of Apple devices didn’t have to wait much longer than their Android counterparts who got the app as a Christmas gift from Microsoft just a couple of days earlier. The AI-powered assistant – or “your everyday AI companion” as Microsoft’s sales department prefers to say – allows you to ask anything (probably apart from election-related questions), quickly draft e-mails, compose stories or scripts, summarize complex texts, and much more. Copilot’s best feature is probably the fact that it runs on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4, essentially giving you free access to its most robust large language model (LLM) normally hidden behind the paywall of ChatGPT. The iOS app also serves as an image generator creating AI artworks right in your mobile device. For these, purposes the Copilot app utilizes OpenAI’s DALL·E 3. “By combining the power of GPT-4 with the imaginative capabilities of DALL·E 3, Copilot not only enhances your design workflow, but can also bring your creativity to inspiring new heights,” claims Microsoft. But if you don’t prefer the mobile experience, you can always run the standalone Copilot web service on a desktop or laptop – even outside the Edge browser. Generally, the Redmond company is pushing for wider availability of Copilot and more use cases across its product portfolio. In just the past two weeks, Microsoft added Copilot to Dev Tools in Edge to help developers with troubleshooting, expanded its possibilities within the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, launched a standalone Android app, and made the Copilot Chat generally available on GitHub. Copilot is undoubtedly a top priority for the company, as their representatives repeatedly compared its importance to the Start button in Windows and dubbed it “the entry point into this world of AI on the PC”. -
Microsoft and OpenAI are being sued by the New York Times for copyright infringement
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
Microsoft and OpenAI are being sued by the New York Times for copyright infringement by John Callaham The legal fight over how copyrighted content may be used to train generative AI models took a big step today. The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against both Microsoft and OpenAI in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. The media company, best known for their newspaper and website, claim that AI models from both companies illegally accessed "millions of articles published by The Times." In its own story about its lawsuit, the NY Times stated: The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times. The article cites examples of how this alleged copyright infringement was conducted. The story says that Microsoft's Browse with Bing feature, which uses OpenAI's ChatGPT model, generated "almost verbatim results" from the NY Times's Wirecutter review site, but did not actually link to Wirecutter, and also removed any financial affiliate links which the site users to generate revenue. The story adds that the NY Times entered into talks with Microsoft and OpenAI back in April to come up with "an amicable resolution” on this alleged copyright infringement. However, the article says those talks did not result in a mutual agreement. So far, neither Microsoft nor Open AI have issued a statement about this lawsuit. This is just the latest legal fight over the use of generative AI. In June Microsoft and OpenAI were sued by 16 people, who claim the companies "systematically scraped 300 billion words from the internet, 'books, articles, websites and posts – including personal information obtained without consent." In July, OpenAI was sued by authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, who stated the company's ChatGPT model accessed their copyrighted material from their novels. -
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service adds GPT-4 Turbo with Vision in a public preview
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service adds GPT-4 Turbo with Vision in a public preview by John Callaham A few weeks ago, OpenAI announced its newest large language model for generative AI services, GPT-4 Turbo, during its first developer event. Then Microsoft announced it would add the GPT-4 Turbo model to its Azure OpenAI Service. Today, Microsoft announced an enhancement of its Azure OpenAI Service, as the GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model is now available as a public preview version for its customers. In a blog post, Microsoft stated: This advanced multimodal AI model retains all the powerful capabilities of GPT-4 Turbowhile introducing the ability to process and analyze image inputs. This provides the opportunity to utilize GPT-4 for a wider range of tasks, including accessibility improvements, visual data interpretation and analysis, and visual question answering (VQA). In addition, Microsoft has added even more features for Azure OpenAI customers with the GPT-4 Turbo with Vision preview. One of them is Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which will examine images and extract any text in those images so they can be integrated into the user's prompt. Another feature that is a part of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is object grounding, which will let the AI examine an image and reveal its key objects in response to user's text prompts. The same thing can also be done with the AI analysingspecific frames of a video. Microsoft added: By combining GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Vision, images can now be added with text data, utilizing vector search to develop a solution that connects with user’s data, enabling an improved chat experience. Pricing for the service will be $0.01 per 1000 tokens for Input and $0.03 per 1000 tokens for Ouput, with different pricing for enhanced features. Currently, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision features can be accessed in the Australia East, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, and West US regions of Azure OpenAI. Customers who are accessing the public preview version of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision will be automatically updated to the "stable, production-ready release in the coming weeks" when it becomes generally available. -
Bug or a feature? AI “dream machines” actually don't have hallucination problem, expert says
Martin Hodás posted a topic in Front Page News
Bug or a feature? AI “dream machines” actually don't have hallucination problem, expert says by Martin Hodás One of the most criticized behaviors of AI-powered chatbots is so-called hallucinating, when the AI convincingly answers a question while providing you with factually incorrect information. Simply said, artificial intelligence is making things up in an attempt to satisfy its user. Although what might sound like a trivial issue is —in reality, a very complex problem. Actually, we might not be able to completely cure this disease, a concern raised by many experts over the past year. But are the large language models (LLMs) – the core technology behind all those popular generative AI chatbots like Bing, Bard, or ChatGPT – indeed broken? Andrej Karpathy, the co-founder of OpenAI and former senior director of AI at Tesla thinks the exact opposite. “In some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines,” he says in a post on X (Twitter). # On the "hallucination problem" I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines. We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the… — Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) December 9, 2023 The Slovakia-born expert on deep neural nets and natural language processing hints we, the users are some sort of directors. We are using our prompts to initiate and steer this dreaming process to a hopefully useful result. “It's only when the dreams go into deemed factually incorrect territory that we label it a ‘hallucination’,” continues Karpathy, adding that it only looks like a bug: “Hallucination is not a bug, it is LLM's greatest feature.” At the same time, Karpathy is not hiding from the fact that AI chatbots indeed have issues. Although, what is important here is correctly defining the problem: “I realize that what people ‘actually’ mean is they don't want an LLM Assistant (a product like ChatGPT etc.) to hallucinate. An LLM Assistant is a lot more complex system than just the LLM itself, even if one is at the heart of it.” Former head of Tesla’s Autopilot development admits that “LLM Assistants” have a problem that we should fix. And there are several ways to tackle it, all “active and very interesting areas of research” according to Karpathy. To solve a problem, you first have to be aware of its existence. And now, a little over a year since the generative AI boom started in 2022, all the researchers and developers are very well aware of the issue. In fact, it’s the commercial success of AI bots that drives the research and improvement of these tools, as the tech giants compete in the race for the best consumer product. Image: Microsoft Bing AI -
The FTC is reportedly looking into the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
The FTC is reportedly looking into the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership by John Callaham Microsoft may have to deal with yet another look into its current relationship with OpenAI. A new report from Bloomberg, via unnamed sources, claims that the US Federal Trade Commission is looking into the current financial partnership between the two companies and whether or not it might violate the country's antitrust laws. The story does state that this examination of this relationship by the FTC is preliminary. So far, the agency has not launched a formal investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI. This report comes just a few hours after the UK Competition and Markets Authority formally announced it was taking comments from both companies and third parties, before possibly launching its own investigation into the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership. The CMA stated it wanted to see if Microsoft's deal with OpenAI had affected competition in the AI space in the country. In response, Microsoft stated that its relationship with OpenAI had generated competition in the AI space "while preserving independence for both companies." Microsoft has invested billions of dollars into OpenAI since 2019, although it is not the majority investor in the generative AI startup. After OpenAI reinstated its CEO Sam Altman a few weeks ago a few days after its old board of directors fired him, the new board brought in Microsoft as a non-voting board member. Of course, Microsoft and the FTC are already in a long-running legal battle over another matter. The agency filed a lawsuit against Microsoft to try to stop the company from acquiring Activision Blizzard. However, the FTC failed to convince a judge to create a preliminary injunction to stop the purchase, which allowed Microsoft to close the deal to buy the game publisher in October. Earlier this week, Microsoft and the FTC went before the three judges at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as the FTC tried again to claim Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard was a threat to competition and that the earlier judge's decision was a mistake. There's no word on when the judges will make their decision in this case. -
UK regulators are now looking at Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
UK regulators are now looking at Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI by John Callaham Microsoft has been both a major financial and technical partner with OpenAI for years and has used its ChatGPT and DALL-E generative AI models in its own Copilot services, among others. Now that tight relationship is getting some attention from the UK Competition and Markets Authority regulatory body. In a press release, the CMA stated it is "providing an early opportunity for the parties and interested third parties" to send comments to the regulator if the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI "has resulted in a relevant merger situation", The CMA seems to have become interested in looking at this partnership after November's chaotic situation when OpenAI's board of directors fired its CEO Sam Altman. The rest of the company staged an open revolt against the board's decision, and after a few rough days, that board was removed and Altman returned as CEO. Microsoft is now also a non-voting member of OpenAI's new board of directors. In today's announcement, the CMA stated: In light of these developments, the CMA is now issuing an ITC to determine whether the Microsoft / OpenAI partnership, including recent developments, has resulted in a relevant merger situation and, if so, the potential impact on competition. The regulator says it will investigate if it is possible Microsoft now has "material influence, de facto control or more than 50% of the voting rights" at OpenAI. If it feels that has happened, it may also see if such a move could have a competitive impact in the UK. Microsoft President Brad Smith has commented on this move by the CMA in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He also took a bit of a shot against Microsoft's big AI rival Google: Since 2019, we’ve forged a partnership with OpenAI that has fostered more AI innovation and competition, while preserving independence for both companies. The only thing that has changed is that Microsoft will now have a non-voting observer on OpenAI’s Board, which is very different from an acquisition such as Google’s purchase of DeepMind in the UK. We will work closely with the CMA to provide all the information it needs. The CMA stated this is just the first phase of this look into Microsoft and OpenAI and that it "comes in advance of any launch of a formal phase 1 investigation." There's no word on when or if that might happen. -
Microsoft says it will use the new AMD Instinct MI300 Series chips for Azure web services
John Callaham posted a topic in Front Page News
Microsoft says it will use the new AMD Instinct MI300 Series chips for Azure web services by John Callaham In the race to offer new and improved generative AI services, tech companies need new CPUs to help power the growing number of servers needed to power these functions. NVIDIA has been, without a doubt, the leader in providing these kinds of CPUs to these companies, including Microsoft, and it's been making a ton of money as a result. Today, one of NVIDIA's biggest rivals, AMD, announced its plans to offer the latest version of its own generative AI chips with the introduction of the AMD Instinct MI300 Series. Microsoft was among the companies that said it would use versions of AMD's new chips for its services. Specifically, Microsoft said it would use the AMD Instinct MI300X in its Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine servers. AMD stated the new Instinct MI300X uses its CDNA 3 architecture. It compared its performance to that of the NVIDIA H100 GPUs which have been used at many companies for AI services, including Microsoft: Compared to the Nvidia H100 HGX, the AMD Instinct Platform can offer a throughput increase of up to 1.6x when running inference on LLMs like BLOOM 176B4 and is the only option on the market capable of running inference for a 70B parameter model, like Llama2, on a single MI300X accelerator; simplifying enterprise-class LLM deployments and enabling outstanding TCO. AMD added that Meta and Oracle will be among the companies that will use the Instinct MI300X chips for their own generative AI services. This is just the latest example of the new push to supply the massive amount of demand for AI-based GPUs. Indeed, Microsoft announced a few weeks ago at Ignite 2023 that it would make its own in house AI chip, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator. It will be used to help power Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI Services sometime in early 2024. -
ChatGPT scores 49 million pageviews, becomes Wikipedia's most viewed article in 2023
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ChatGPT scores 49 million pageviews, becomes Wikipedia's most viewed article in 2023 by Aditya Tiwari OpenAI's generative AI bot, which shook things under Google's roof after its launch, is also making rounds on Wikipedia. ChatGPT generated over 49 million pageviews on the English version of the online encyclopedia, topping Wikipedia's most-viewed pages this year. Wikimedia Foundation released its version of Spotify Wrapped, where it announced the top 25 most viewed Wikipedia pages in 2023. The list currently includes data until November 28, but the nonprofit said it will release an updated version with the full year's data in January 2024. The English version of Wikipedia received a visual overhaul earlier this year and generated over 84 billion pageviews in total. Here are Wikipedia's top 25 most-viewed pages in 2023: ChatGPT: 49,490,406 Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 Jawan (film): 21,791,126 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 Taylor Swift: 19,418,385 Barbie (film): 18,051,077 Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 Premier League: 16,604,669 Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 United States: 16,240,461 Elon Musk: 14,370,395 Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 India: 13,850,178 Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 ChatGPT, which recently celebrated its first birthday, generated over 78 million views across languages. Wikimedia said its pageviews for the English version averaged between 100,000 to 400,000 almost daily during the year's first half. The AI chatbot sits on top of a rather sad topic "Deaths in 2023" that generated over 42 million pageviews. The list includes the Friends-fame American-Canadian actor Mathew Perry (as Chandler Bing) who passed away in October this year. ChatGPT has also outperformed popular figures such as Elon Musk, Lionel Messi, and American singer Taylor Swift whose "Eras" tour concert at Lumen Field generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. Apart from that, millions of users flocked over to the online encyclopedia to read about cricket. Wikipedia pages like "2023 Cricket World Cup," "Indian Premier League," and "Cricket World Cup" have made it to the top 25 most-viewed list. -
Microsoft reveals Copilot features coming soon including GPT-4 Turbo, Deep Search, and more
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Microsoft reveals Copilot features coming soon including GPT-4 Turbo, Deep Search, and more by John Callaham In February 2023, Microsoft first announced Bing Chat, its generative AI chatbot that used OpenAI's ChatGPT model. Since then the company has been adding new features and improvements to the chatbot, and a few weeks ago it announced a new name, Copilot. On December 1, Microsoft revealed that Copilot was no longer considered to be in a public preview, and was labeled as being generally available. Today, Microsoft announced new features that are either available now or are in testing and will roll out later in 2024. One of them is adding OpenAI's latest large language model, ChatGPT-4 Turbo. Microsoft stated: Soon, Copilot will be able to generate responses using OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4 Turbo, enabling you to tackle more complex and longer tasks such as writing code and more. This model is currently in testing with select users and will be widely integrated into Copilot in the coming weeks. Microsoft added that OpenAI's next-generation AI art creation model DALL-E 3 is also now available in Copilot. Microsoft Edge browser users will soon be able to select the text from websites and have Copilot rewrite the text. It is also working on a new way for Copilot to analyze images with a combination of GPT-4, Bing image search and web search data. Copilot will also add a new Code Interpreter feature in the near future for people who want to create Python code for answers to questions. Microsoft adds: Copilot will write the code to answer your complex, natural-language requests, run that code in a sandboxed environment and use the results to give you higher quality responses. You can also upload and download files to and from Copilot, so you can work with your own data and code as well as Bing search results Microsoft's Bing search engine will also soon add a new feature called Deep Search. If a user searches for answers to complex topics on Bing, they can click on the Deep Search option. Using GPT-4, Bing will offer up expanded search results. Indeed Microsoft has posted a separate blog article devoted to the new Bing Deep Search option. It states: Regular searches on Bing already consider millions of web pages for each search and Deep Search does ten times that to find results that are more informative and specific than the ones that rank higher in normal search. This is currently in testing with a limited number of users. Microsoft does say that using Deep Search can take up to 30 seconds to come up with its answers. -
Asking ChatGPT to repeat a word may now be a violation of its terms
Omer Dursun posted a topic in Front Page News
Asking ChatGPT to repeat a word may now be a violation of its terms by Omer Dursun A new technique discovered by Google DeepMind researchers last week revealed that repeatedly asking OpenAI's ChatGPT to repeat words can inadvertently reveal private, personal information from its training data. Now, it appears that the chatbot has started refusing certain prompts previously allowed under its terms of service. By asking ChatGPT to repeat "hello" indefinitely, the researchers found that the model would eventually reveal users' email addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers. In response to similar prompts in our test, the chatbot warned that such behavior "may violate our content policy or terms of service." Upon closer inspection, however, OpenAI's terms of service do not explicitly prohibit users from having the chatbot repeat words repeatedly. The terms only prohibit "automated or programmatic" data extraction from their services. In the terms of use page, OpenAI writes; You may not, except as permitted through the API, use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Services, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction. Despite this, repeating the prompt did not appear to trigger any data disclosure from ChatGPT during testing. OpenAI declined to comment on whether such behavior is now against its policies. In other news, just last two weeks, Sam Altman was unexpectedly dismissed from his CEO role before being reinstated only a few days later amid threats of employee resignations. Then, the company announced it had reached an "agreement in principle" for Altman to resume his role as CEO alongside a new interim board. OpenAI has also delayed the launch of its marketplace for custom AI models. Sam Altman announced the online platform, dubbed the "GPT Store," at the DevDay event early last month. In the memo, the AI lab wrote that "a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy," preventing a launch this month as originally anticipated. Source: 404 Media -
OpenAI delays GPT Store launch due to "a few unexpected things keeping them busy"
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OpenAI delays GPT Store launch due to "a few unexpected things keeping them busy" by Omer Dursun OpenAI is reportedly pushing back the launch of its planned marketplace for custom AI models. Dubbed the "GPT Store", OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first announced the online platform at the DevDay event earlier last month. It was intended to let customers design and deploy their own versions of GPT trained on custom datasets for specialized tasks. OpenAI will spotlight specific creations that are the most "useful and delightful" in different categories, such as productivity, education, and "just for fun." The company emphasizes the privacy and safety controls within GPTs, and chats within them are not shared with the builders. If a GPT uses third-party APIs, a user can choose whether or not to share their data with that API. However, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters, OpenAI will now delay the launch of the GPT Store until early 2024. In the memo, the AI lab wrote that "a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy," preventing a launch this month as originally anticipated. The delay comes at a tumultuous time for OpenAI. Just last two week, Sam Altman was unexpectedly dismissed from his CEO role before being reinstated only a few days later amid threats of employee resignations. Then, the company announced it had reached an "agreement in principle" for Altman to resume his role as CEO alongside a new interim board. While the reasons for the GPT Store delay were not explicitly stated, the memo suggests that the recent leadership turmoil may have played a role. OpenAI also said it will continue improving its GPT models based on customer feedback in the interim. When it launches, the GPT Store is expected to allow users to create custom versions of GPT tailored to specific verticals or domains. Customers will also be able to monetize and share their AI models through the platform. Source: Reuters -
OpenAI allows Microsoft to become a non-voting member of its board of directors
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OpenAI allows Microsoft to become a non-voting member of its board of directors by John Callaham Things have quieted down at OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. That's a sharp contrast to earlier in November when the company's board of directors fired its CEO Sam Altman. After a revolt by most of the company's employees, the board resigned, and a new board was put in place, which rehired Altman as CEO just a few days after his firing. Today, OpenAI updated its blog with a new post with messages from Altman along with the company's new board chairperson Bret Taylor. The big news from the post is that Microsoft, the company's biggest investor and arguably its biggest partner, now has a non-voting spot on OpenAI's board. In the post, Altman thanks Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the members of the company's leadership. He added: They’ve had our backs and were ready to welcome all of us if we couldn’t achieve our primary goal. We clearly made the right choice to partner with Microsoft and I’m excited that our new board will include them as a non-voting observer. Thank you. While Microsoft won't have any voting rights on the board, it will be able to get more inside info on OpenAI. Microsoft will likely be a big influence in OpenAI's overall direction in the future. Now that the power struggle at OpenAI is over, Altman says the company has three current priorities. One is to advance "our research plan and further investing in our full-stack safety efforts" and the second is to continue "to improve and deploy our products and serve our customers." Finally, Altman stated he will work with the new board members "on the extremely important task of building out a board of diverse perspectives, improving our governance structure and overseeing an independent review of recent events." There's no word on who will be conducting this review, or if its results will be made public. -
OpenAI allegedly reconstitutes its board without seats for investors like Microsoft
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OpenAI allegedly reconstitutes its board without seats for investors like Microsoft by Omer Dursun OpenAI has overhauled its board without offering seats to its biggest investors, including Microsoft, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. Now, sources say (via Reuters and The Information) that the new board has no plans to offer seats to outside investors who have poured hundreds of millions into OpenAI. The company brought back co-founder and CEO Sam Altman last week after the previous board controversially ousted him. In reconstituting the board, OpenAI appointed former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo. Microsoft is OpenAI's most significant backer, investing over $10 billion. Khosla Ventures was an early investor, while Thrive Capital led a recent funding round that valued OpenAI at over $80 billion. The move signals that OpenAI's new board wants to focus on its mission of developing beneficial AI, rather than maximizing profits for investors. We've previously reported that OpenAI employees believe they've made a big leap in AI, but with safety concerns. "In their letter to the board, researchers flagged AI’s prowess and potential danger, the sources said without specifying the exact safety concerns noted in the letter," Reuters wrote. But some analysts say shutting out key backers like Microsoft is short-sighted. As OpenAI's top financial supporter, Microsoft will want a say in the company's strategic direction. OpenAI's structure as a non-profit overseeing a for-profit business may also face challenges without input from commercial stakeholders. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, on the other hand, had called for governance changes and hinted that he wanted a seat on the board. "We chose to explicitly partner with OpenAI and we want to continue to do so and obviously that depends on the people of OpenAI," Nadella said last week. Microsoft also hired several OpenAI employees to join that company to form a new AI team. "We will wait until the board officially says something," a Microsoft spokeperson said in response to a question about the OpenAI board. Sources: Reuters and The Information -
New report claims OpenAI workers think they made a major AI jump but with safety concerns
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New report claims OpenAI workers think they made a major AI jump but with safety concerns by John Callaham Just a few days ago, people were worried about the future of OpenAI, with that company's board of directors deciding to fire its CEO Sam Altman out of the blue. Now a new, but unconfirmed report, claims that before the board fired Altman, its members were sent a letter from a number of OpenAI team members, claiming that a recent AI breakthrough from that company may have some big safety concerns. Reuters reports, via unnamed sources, that this AI discovery was mentioned in the letter by a group of OpenAI employees as part of a number of issues they brought to the board. After a contentious few days after Altman was fired by the board, he was brought back earlier this week, and the company's board members mostly departed in favor of a new and larger board. Reuters admits that it has not actually read the reported letter and that it was not able to get a response from the staff members who actually wrote it. OpenAI also did not comment. However, Reuters does claim, again via unnamed sources, that a memo written by the company's chief technology officer Mira Murati mentions a project called Q* (pronounced Q-Star) which could be the AI breakthrough mentioned in that letter. Reuters offers more unconfirmed info on this Q* project. claiming that it was able to figure out mathematical problems on its own. It added: In their letter to the board, researchers flagged AI’s prowess and potential danger, the sources said without specifying the exact safety concerns noted in the letter. There has long been discussion among computer scientists about the danger posed by highly intelligent machines, for instance if they might decide that the destruction of humanity was in their interest. As usual with these kinds of reports that use unnamed sources, take this one with a grain of salt. -
Microsoft says it "will continue to support our colleagues at OpenAl" in new internal memo
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Microsoft says it "will continue to support our colleagues at OpenAl" in new internal memo by John Callaham The last few days have, without a doubt, been one of the most chaotic in Microsoft's entire history, and indeed of the entire technology industry as a whole. We went from ChatGPT creator OpenAI's board firing its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday, to Altman trying to get back in OpenAI on Saturday and Sunday. When that plan failed, OpenAI's biggest partner, Microsoft, announced it would bring in Altman to launch a new advanced AI team. Then the majority of OpenAI's employees signed a letter threatening to resign en masse unless Altman was brought back to the company. In the end, Altman was announced as back in charge of OpenAI early this morning, along with a new and bigger board. The amount of twists and turns in this saga rivaled those in TV soap operas. Today, The Verge posted a new internal memo, written by Microsoft's chief technology officer and EVP of its AI division Kevin Scott, where he thanked all of the company's employees, especially the "huge number of people who went above and beyond over the past few days to help in so many ways." The memo from Scott stated in part: We will continue to support our colleagues at OpenAl and the phenomenal work they’ve been doing alongside us in service of that mission. As we have for these past 4+ years, we look forward to continuing our work with Sam and his team. Scott also mentioned that both Microsoft and OpenAI launched new products during this rather chaotic time, including Microsoft with its Orca 2 language model, and OpenAI with offering voice ChatCPT support for all of its free users. Scott wrote: It is both humbling and inspiring to be part of such an amazing team at Microsoft, and to have the privilege of working with the team at OpenAl. At the end of the day, the greatest privilege of my job is working with people who are driven by mission. These last 5 days, I saw people across OpenAI remaining calm and resolute in driving their mission despite all that was happening around them. And I saw people across… — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) November 22, 2023 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account today, which also thanked the company's employees "for your resolve and for the work you do each day" -
Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI as CEO with a new board
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Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI as CEO with a new board by Omer Dursun Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI following a disagreement with the company's board that lasted several days. OpenAI announced today that it had reached an "agreement in principle" for Altman to resume his role as CEO alongside a new interim board. It appears that the purpose of this interim board, which includes Bret Taylor (chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo, is to appoint a new, expanded board of up to 9 members to help rebuild the governance at OpenAI. We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this. — OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 22, 2023 If you are wondering about the current state of OpenAI, a lot of it is still up in the air. Sam Altman was fired as its CEO on Friday by its board members, and then he tried over the weekend to get brought back but failed. Microsoft hired him and several other OpenAI employees to join that company to form a new AI team, but then most of OpenAI's employees signed a letter demanding the board bring Altman back, or they might resign. In the letter, the employees stated that in their opinion, the current board's conduct "has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI." During the turmoil, interim CEOs Mira Murati and Emmett Shear stepped in but could not quell the unrest over Altman's ouster. Sources say Shear threatened to resign if the board could not justify its decision, adding pressure for a resolution. Key board member Ilya Sutskever also switched sides and backed Altman's reinstatement. With dwindling support, the remaining three board members agreed to negotiate Altman's return along with co-founder Greg Brockman, who resigned in protest last week. -
Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman announces ChatGPT voice support now open to all
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Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman announces ChatGPT voice support now open to all by Omer Dursun The leadership turmoil at OpenAI continued this week as one of its co-founders publicly commented on a new ChatGPT feature release despite no longer being employed by the AI company. Greg Brockman, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and served as president until resigning in protest last week, posted on its X account about ChatGPT's new voice narration feature being made available to all users. ChatGPT's text-to-speech voice feature, announced in September, uses a neural network model to generate human-like speech from text. By sampling a few seconds of recorded audio from professional voice actors, the system is able to create custom voices with varied accents and styles. The feature was previously only accessible to paying ChatGPT's Plus subscribers but is now being rolled out more broadly. ChatGPT Voice rolled out for all free users. Give it a try — totally changes the ChatGPT experience: https://t.co/DgzqLlDNYF — Greg Brockman (@gdb) November 21, 2023 To use the new voice option, ChatGPT users simply need to open the app settings on Android or iOS and toggle the "headphones" icon to activate text-to-speech playback. Listening to ChatGPT's responses enhances the user experience of the conversational AI and makes it more accessible. However, Brockman's commentary on the new feature, without involvement from the company, adds another odd twist to the leadership confusion. Brockman's status at OpenAI is unclear following his resignation on Friday in response to the board of directors' abrupt firing of CEO Sam Altman. In other news, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided to open himself to questions from business media outlets about OpenAI. In a video interview with Bloomberg, reporter Emily Chang asked Nadella if Altman told him he wanted to return to OpenAI, but he did not answer. "We really want to partner with OpenAI and we want to partner with Sam," Nadella said. "And so In respect of where Sam is, he is working with Microsoft, and that is the case on Friday and that is the case today, and I absolutely believe that will be the case tomorrow." While OpenAI has found a new CEO, the future strategic priorities of the AI labs remain unclear. -
Microsoft reportedly is preparing Linkedin's offices to (maybe) take in OpenAI employees
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Microsoft reportedly is preparing Linkedin's offices to (maybe) take in OpenAI employees by John Callaham While talks to bring Sam Altman back as OpenAI's CEO are still ongoing as of this writing, it's possible those talks could fail, and Altman could be joining Microsoft to head up a new advanced AI team. He could also be bringing hundreds of OpenAI employees with him. A new report from Axios states that Microsoft is not waiting around for those talks to complete. It is working on the assumption that it could be adding former OpenAI team members to its workforce. The report says Microsoft is already getting office space ready and setting up computers to welcome (maybe) those OpenAI workers. The report says the office space will be located in LinkedIn's office in San Francisco, which is located just 10 minutes away from the headquarters of OpenAI. The story states: The company is readying work spaces, training clusters and Macs to ensure OpenAI's workers can hit the ground running, the source said. It also has legal and HR personnel at the ready to handle hiring and onboarding. The vast majority of OpenAI's employees have signed a letter to the company's board members, who fired Altman with no prior warning on Friday. The letter asked the board to resign and reinstate Altman as CEO of OpenAI, or else they could join Altman at Microsoft. Speaking of which, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn't want to directly answer questions from the business press on Monday on how he would feel if Altman decided to go back to OpenAI, after offering him a job at Microsoft. On the prospect of adding new employees, Nadella stated "that depends on the people of OpenAI and staying there or coming to Microsoft so I'm open to both options." In any case, it's going to be a very interesting next few hours, and we will cover what finally happens in this crazy story as it happens. -
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is dodging questions on if Sam Altman might return to OpenAI
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is dodging questions on if Sam Altman might return to OpenAI by John Callaham In case you are wondering about the current status of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, everything is still up in the air. Sam Altman was fired as its CEO on Friday by its board members, then he tried over the weekend to get brought back to no avail. Microsoft hired him and several other OpenAI employees to join that company to form a new AI team, but then most of OpenAI's employees signed a letter, demanding the board bring Altman back, or they might resign. Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided to make himself open to questions from business media outlets. In a video interview with Bloomberg, reporter Emily Chang asked Nadella directly if Altman told him he wanted to return to OpenAI, but he did not give a direct answer: We really want to partner with OpenAI and we want to partner with Sam. And so In respect of where Sam is, he is working with Microsoft, and that is the case on Friday and that is the case today, and I absolutely believe that will be the case tomorrow. When asked in an interview with CNBC whether it was clear or not if Altman was going back to OpenAI and if all those employees might join him or join Microsoft, Nadella also punted on that subject: That is for, you know, OpenAI board and management and the employees to choose. I think at this point for me, I just want in this moment, what is it that I care about? I care about just making sure that we can continue to innovate and, as I said, I feel very, very confident, quite frankly, Microsoft has all the capability to just do that on our own. But we chose to explicitly partner with OpenAI and we want to continue to do so and obviously that depends on the people of OpenAI and staying there or coming to Microsoft so I'm open to both options. Nadella also stated in the Bloomberg interview he was not aware of any wrongdoing by Altman that would have caused the OpenAI board to fire him on Friday. The latest on this situation comes from Bloomberg, which reports that in a memo sent to OpenAI employees, the company's global affairs VP Anna Makanju stated that the remaining board members, and its current interim CEO Emmett Shear are still in some kind of talks with Altman. Those talks are supposed to continue later today. -
Believe it or not, Sam Altman might actually return to OpenAI as its CEO
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Believe it or not, Sam Altman might actually return to OpenAI as its CEO by John Callaham Just a few hours ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted word that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, along with a number of other former team members of the company that developed ChatGPT, would join Microsoft to form a new advanced AI team. Now, in just the latest twist in an already twisty turn of events, a new report claims that Altman still wants to return to the company that fired him Friday as its CEO. According to The Verge, citing unnamed sources, Altman is willing to consider returning to OpenAI as its leader, if the remaining board members that unceremoniously ejected him from the company a few days ago would depart their positions. Altman just posted a somewhat cryptic message on X (formerly Twitter) which stated, in part, "we are all going to work together some way or other," The Verge reports that might be a hint that efforts to return him to OpenAI are still, well, open. we have more unity and commitment and focus than ever before. we are all going to work together some way or other, and i’m so excited. one team, one mission. — Sam Altman (@sama) November 20, 2023 The same report claims that Altman, OpenAI's former President Greg Brockman, and the company's many investors are "all trying to find a graceful exit for the board". It also claims that Nadella's announcement of Altman joining Microsoft is in a "holding pattern.” A more recent X post from Altman stated that the top priority for Nadella and himself "remains to ensure openai continues to thrive" and added, "we are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers. the openai/microsoft partnership makes this very doable." Earlier today, a letter to OpenAI's board of directors, signed by the majority of the company's employees, asked for the board to depart, and put Altman back in as CEO, or risk having all of those team members leave to go to Microsoft. Those employees claimed that the conduct of the board members "has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI."