Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance

Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance

Teams is not the only product into which Microsoft is implanting machine intelligence. On March 16th the software giant announced that almost all its productivity software, including Word and Excel, were getting the same treatment. Two days earlier, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced a similar upgrade for its productivity products, such as Gmail and Sheets. […]

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Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance

Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance

Teams is not the only product into which Microsoft is implanting machine intelligence. On March 16th the software giant announced that almost all its productivity software, including Word and Excel, were getting the same treatment. Two days earlier, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced a similar upgrade for its productivity products, such as Gmail and Sheets. […]

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Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s AI armies are huge, yet struggling to innovate

Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s AI armies are huge, yet struggling to innovate

Exclusive new data from a London-based analytics startup show that the five biggest tech firms have an estimated army of 33,000 people working directly on AI research and development, with Amazon boasting the largest pool of AI-focused employees, at 10,113. Microsoft Corp. has 7,133 AI staff and Google has 4,970, according to Glass.ai, which used […]

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Baidu cancels planned product launch of its ChatGPT-rival

Baidu cancels planned product launch of its ChatGPT-rival

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has cancelled a planned livestreamed product launch related to its ChatGPT-rival. According to a report by Reuters, the company has advertised its AI chatbot – Ernie bot as being open to media and the public. The webcast was scheduled for Monday afternoon. But as per the report, it was switched […]

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OpenAI CEO responds to Elon Musk’s criticism of the company. Here’s what he says

OpenAI CEO responds to Elon Musk’s criticism of the company. Here’s what he says

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has responded to Elon Musk after being criticized by him. Musk, who is one of the initial founders of OpenAI, had recently tweeted that the company had become a “maximum profit company” that was not in line with his intentions. Musk’s comments were prompted by a tweet questioning why […]

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ChatGPT’s formulaic academic content still detectable by AI tools, finds study

ChatGPT’s formulaic academic content still detectable by AI tools, finds study

A recent study has found that while ChatGPT’s academic style content is more advanced than previous innovations, it still follows a relatively formulaic structure, making it easily detectable by many existing AI-detection tools. Researchers from Plymouth Marjon University and the University of Plymouth, UK, noted that these results should prompt university faculty to explore methods […]

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OpenAI addresses ‘chat title’ bug and global outage, reveals root cause

OpenAI addresses ‘chat title’ bug and global outage, reveals root cause

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it resolved a bug that allowed a few users to view the conversation history titles of others using the popular chatbot. To fix the issue, access to chat history between 1 am PDT and 10 am PDT on March 20 was restricted. CEO Sam Altman confirmed the fix via Twitter. […]

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ChatGPT gets plugin support, allows you to get restaurant suggestions, order groceries and more

ChatGPT gets plugin support, allows you to get restaurant suggestions, order groceries and more

Elon Musk-backed OpenAI has introduced plugin support for ChatGPT. With this, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot will now be able to access the web, interpret codes and bring you data from custom knowledge bases.  The update was shared by Steve Nouri, a data science leader and AI influencer on his social media profiles.  “Just in: […]

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ChatGPT-owner OpenAI fixes ‘significant issue’ exposing user chat titles

ChatGPT-owner OpenAI fixes ‘significant issue’ exposing user chat titles

ChatGPT-owner OpenAI said on Wednesday it had fixed a bug that caused a “significant issue” of a small set of users being able to see the titles of others’ conversation history with the viral chatbot. As a result of the fix, users will not be able to access their chat history between 1 am PDT […]

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