OpenAI has updated one of its sensation chatbots: the ChatGPT.
OpenAI released GPT-4o for ChatGPT on Monday, a new chatbot version that can discuss topics with users in a very humanlike tone. The new version of the chatbot will also have vision capabilities.
What quickly followed the futuristic reveal was a string of jokes on the parallel experience to the movie “Her,” with some even commenting on the new voice of the chatbot as “cringe.”
A big step in future development of AI-powered virtual assistants, which the companies have been racing to develop, indeed.
Since its launch in 2022, hundreds of millions of people have played around with the tool, which is already altering the appearance and feel of the internet to its users.
Users have flocked to ChatGPT to improve their personal lives and increase productivity. Workers have coded programs, composed real estate descriptions, and constructed lesson plans—all with the help of the AI chat tool. Others have made a career for themselves by teaching how to best use ChatGPT.
The plug-ins are available to dozens of associates of the company’s ChatGPT Plus subscription. An Expedia one will help you book a trip, and an OpenTable sample will get you a dinner reservation. Last month, OpenAI elucidated Code Interpreter, a version of ChatGPT that can code and analyze data.
Though the personal tone of conversations with an AI bot like ChatGPT can evoke the experience of chatting with another human being, the technology, which runs on “large language model tools,” doesn’t talk with any sentience and doesn’t “think” the way people do.
That means that even though ChatGPT can explain quantum physics or pen a poem on demand is not precisely on the verge of an AI takeover, according to experts.
“As it’s said, an infinite number of monkeys will eventually give you Shakespeare,” said Matthew Sag, a law professor at Emory University who studies copyright implications for training and using large language models like ChatGPT.
“There’s a large number of monkeys here, giving you impressive things — but there is intrinsically a difference between the way that humans produce language and the way that large language models do it,” he said.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT are armed with a vast amount of data and computational techniques, such that through zillions of predictions and computations, it can use the same to string words into meaning. They exploit not straightforwardly vast amounts of vocabulary and information but, more significantly, the nuances of the understanding of the words in their context, making it possible to mimic speech patterns while sending encyclopedic knowledge.
Whatever the motive, other tech companies are developing their own extensive language model tools, including programs that take in human prompts and devise sophisticated responses.
OpenAI’s chatbot, impressive as it is, has been accused of spreading disinformation, stealing people’s private data on the grounds of needing this data for training, and even motivating cheating and plagiarism for students on their assignments.
Some recent efforts to apply chatbots to real-world services have been troubling. Last year, the mental health company Koko faced criticism after its founder said the company had used GPT-3 to run an experiment giving human-written feedback to users.
Koko cofounder Rob Morris hastened to clarify on Twitter that users weren’t speaking directly to a chatbot, but that AI was used to “help craft” responses.
Reception of ChatGPT by the tech world:
Microsoft is chill with employees using ChatGPT—just don’t share ‘sensitive data’.
Microsoft’s acquisition of the creator of ChatGPT could be the best $1 billion it has ever spent
ChatGPT and technologies like generative AI appear to be writing the blueprint for the next tech boom—the next tech bubble.
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Cerebral Valley’
Guardian’s experiments:
I asked ChatGPT to do my work and write an Insider article. It quickly spat out an alarmingly convincing article full of misinformation.
I got a ChatGPT human matchmaker to help redo my Hinge and Bumble profiles. They helped show me what works.
I used ChatGPT on my Hinge matches. Nobody responded.
I wrote to the effect that I used ChatGPT to write a resignation letter. According to the lawyer—with that one crucial mistake—it could have meant the whole thing was invalid.
Read ChatGPT’s ‘insulting’ and ‘garbage’ ‘Succession’ finale script
An Iowa school district inquired: Does a list of books contain sex scenes? If so, all of the books were banned. For the first evaluation, we put the system to the test, and we came up with a ton of problems.
Latest progress in detecting ChatGPT:
Teachers rejoice! ChatGPT creators unveil a tool to detect AI-written text
A Princeton student developed an app which can—googlecode indication if ChatGPT wrote an essay. The purpose is to catch AI-based plagiarism.
Professors want to ‘ChatGPT-proof’ assignments and are returning to paper exams, insisting on editing history in clampdown on AI cheating.
ChatGPT in society:
BuzzFeed writers reacted with both alarm and enthusiasm to an announcement that artificially-intelligence-created stories are coming to the site.
ChatGPT is testing a paid version — here’s what that means for free users
A top UK private school is changing homework policy as ChatGPT rises as educators worldwide caught between the vision and reality of AI
Princeton computer science professor says don’t panic over ‘bullshit generator’ ChatGPT
DoNotPay’s chief exec seems to think the threat of ‘jail for six months’ means plan to debut AI ‘robot lawyer’ in the courtroom is on ice
Theoretically, you could fight a traffic ticket with a silent AI ‘robot lawyer’ prompting you through lines via AirPods-but things could go off the rails pretty quickly
An online mental health company started to use its version of ChatGPT to help answer messages from the users on a company-sponsored experiment, which has raised ethical concerns and questions on healthcare and AI technology.
What do public figures have to say about ChatGPT and other AI tools?
What Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and 12 other business leaders think about AI tools like ChatGPT
Elon Musk was reportedly ‘furious’ at ChatGPT’s popularity after he left the company behind it, OpenAI, years ago
CEO of ChatGPT maker answers schools’ concerns on plagiarism: ‘We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class.’
A theoretical physicist calls AI the “glorified tape recorder” and people’s fears about it overblown ‘The most stunning demo I’ve ever seen in my life’: ChatGPT impressed Bill Gates Ashton Kutcher says your company will probably be ‘out of business’ if you’re ‘sleeping’ on AI
ChatGPT’s impact on jobs:
AI systems like ChatGPT could threaten 300 million full-time jobs: worldwide. Administrative and legal jobs most at risk, suggest Goldman Sachs reports
Jobs are now requiring experience with ChatGPT — and they’ll pay as much as $800,000 a year for the skill
ChatGPT is coming for our jobs. These ten roles are most likely to be replaced by AI.
AI is going to destroy way more jobs than anyone thinks
It is not AI that will take your job, but someone who knows how to use AI might – Economist.
Four careers where workers will have to seek new jobs by 2030 due to AI and the way we shop nowadays- a McKinsey study says
Companies such as Amazon, Netflix and Meta are paying as much as $900,000 in salary to lure generative AI talent
How AI tools like ChatGPT are changing the workforce:
Ten ways artificial intelligence is Changing the workplace-from writing performance reviews to make the 4-day workweek Possible
Managers who don’t use AI will be replaced by managers who do, IBM exec says
How ChatGPT is changing industries:
ChatGPT is coming for classrooms, hospitals, marketing departments, and everything else as the next great startup boom emerges.
Marketing teams are using AI to generate content, boost SEO and develop branding to help save time and money-study finds AI is coming for Hollywood. ‘It’s amazing to see the sophistication of the images,’ says one of Christopher Nolan’s VFX guys. AI is going to offer every student a personalized tutor, founder of Khan Academy says Recently, it was reported that a law firm was fined $5,000 because one of its lawyers wrote a brief for the court using ChatGPT, which was as saturated with fabricated case references as imaginable.
How humans really use ChatGPT to be more productive:
ChatGPT: The secret wave of workers who use AI on the sly
I talked to my boss using ChatGPT for a week, and she didn’t even notice—just kidding. Here are a few ways I use ChatGPT daily to help me get work done.
I’m a high school mathematics and science instructor, and I use ChatGPT. This has made my work much more manageable.
Amazon employees already use ChatGPT for writing software code. They also found that the chatbot AI can answer some tricky questions from AWS customers and even write training material for studying in the cloud.
How 6 workers are using ChatGPT to make their jobs easier
I’m a freelancer editor. I embraced AI content more of late. Here is how I do it. Also, how much I charge.
How users are using ChatGPT to make money:
How ChatGPT and other AI tools are helping workers earn more money
Here are five ways in which ChatGPT helps me to make more money while completing time-consuming tasks in my business.
‘ChatGPT course instruction’ is the latest side hustle in town. Meet the savvy teachers now making thousands from the lucrative gig.
How People Are Using ChatGPT and Other AI Bots to Side-Hustle Thousands of Dollars — Check Out These 8 Freelance Gigs
A guy tried using ChatGPT to turn $100 into a business, making ‘as much money as possible.’ Here are the first four steps the AI chatbot gave him
WE BUILT A SEVEN F-FIGURE NEWSLETTER WITH CHATGPT, AND HERE IS HOW IT MAKES OUR JOB EAS.
So I pay for ChatGPT, and it’s honestly just like having a personal assistant-i.e. actually available 24/7-for $20/mo. Here are 5 ways it’s helping me make more money.
A worker earning $670 monthly on a side hustle that uses AI says ChatGPT has “cut her research time in half.”
How companies are navigating ChatGPT:
From Salesforce to Air India: Here Are the Companies Using ChatGPT
Amazon, Apple, and 12 others barred employees from using ChatGPT
A consultant shortened pitching time using ChatGPT. They closed in on $128,000 of new contracts—in a mere three months.
An artificial intelligence-powered pop-up restaurant, Luminary, is now open in Australia. That line-up includes everything from bioluminescent calamari to chocolate mousse.
A $3.5 trillion company’s CEO pays more than $2,000 monthly for every employee’s ChatGPT Plus account, claiming it saves ‘hours’ of time.
How People Are Using ChatGPT in Their Personal Lives
ChatGPT sketched a family vacation to Costa Rica. A travel agent revealed three reasons AI won’t replace professionals anytime soon.
A man who hated cardio asked ChatGPT to get him running. He’s now hooked and has lost 26 pounds.
One computer engineering student is working through learning difficulties with using ChatGPT concerning his dyslexia.
How One Coder Used ChatGPT to Find an Apartment in Berlin in Less Than 2 Weeks After Struggling for Months
Food blogger Nisha Vora tried to cook a curry using ChatGPT. She said it was evident the instructions lacked a human touch. Here is how.
According to one study, men are using artificial intelligence to score more dates using richer profiles and custom messages.
Cases Against OpenAI:
As already tense negotiations boil over, a report indicates that The New York Times might hit OpenAI with a plagiarism lawsuit. That’s why comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Two writers explain how OpenAI “ingested” their books to train ChatGPT. They’re suing, and a “wave” of similar court cases may follow. A new lawsuit alleges OpenAI is using “massive amounts of personal data” to train ChatGPT, including medical records and information about children. A radio host has filed a defamation suit against OpenAI for a legal document it created with ChatGPT that accused him of ‘defrauding and embezzling funds’.
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