December 1, 2023

Associated Press: Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT

Associated Press: Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT. “City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.”

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December 1, 2023

TechRadar: EVE Online players are creating the first ‘AI empire’ guided by Chat GPT-4

TechRadar: EVE Online players are creating the first ‘AI empire’ guided by Chat GPT-4. “Just when you thought the sci-fi sandbox MMO couldn’t get more interesting after EVE Online was rocked to the core by a single player, pilots joined forces to create the Neural Nexus, an AI-led player corporation. This decision was made with a clear goal in mind. Firstly, it will reduce the reliance on a single leader as AI will now be available to all the corporation players at any time of the day. It also means that the AI leader will keep a clear and consistent vision for what the corporation should be, as well as give new dynamic role-playing opportunities for its members.”

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November 24, 2023

Imperial College London: Altering our language can help us deal with the intelligence of chatbots

Imperial College London: Altering our language can help us deal with the intelligence of chatbots. “Were these LLMs to be used by bad faith actors, for example scammers or propagandists, people could be vulnerable to handing over their bank details in pursuit of connection, or being swayed politically. Now a new paper sets out recommendations to prevent us over-empathising with AI chatbots to our detriment.”

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November 11, 2023

ZDNet: How Google’s AI Bard helped me fix a Gmail technical problem

ZDNet: How Google’s AI Bard helped me fix a Gmail technical problem. “Talking to Bard was fun and easy. It’s not quite as intuitive in its responses as ChatGPT Plus with GPT-4, but Bard works for this sort of problem. I had to guide it a few times, and I had to wait for it to spew a lot of suggestions that were the stock trade of every junior tech support person on the planet (i.e., ‘Try it from a different computer’).”

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November 11, 2023

Hongkiat: Top 10 GPTs by OpenAI So Far (Explained with Examples)

Hongkiat: Top 10 GPTs by OpenAI So Far (Explained with Examples). “At OpenAI’s recent DevDay event, one of the standout announcements was the unveiling of specialized GPTs…. In this article, we’ll delve into ten of the most impactful GPTs launched to date. Having spent a considerable amount of time testing each one, I’ll share insights and sample outputs to give you a taste of what each can offer.”

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November 10, 2023

Northeastern Global News: What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? Here’s why experts don’t like the term

Northeastern Global News: What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? Here’s why experts don’t like the term. “As debate over the true nature, capacity and trajectory of such man-made tools simmers in the background, a leading expert in the field is pushing back against the concept of ‘hallucination,’ arguing that it gets much of how current AI models operate wrong. ‘Generally speaking, we don’t like the term because these models make errors — and we can explain why they make errors,’ says Usama Fayyad, executive director for the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence.”

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November 6, 2023

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies. “On Saturday, Elon Musk announced xAI’s launch of an early beta version of ‘Grok,’ an AI language model similar to ChatGPT that is designed to respond to user queries with a mix of information and humor. Grok reportedly integrates real-time data access from X (formerly Twitter)—and is apparently willing to tackle inquiries that might be declined by other AI systems due to content filters and conditioning.”

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November 5, 2023

Stanford University: What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating?

Stanford University: What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating?. “The launch of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has triggered an alarm for many educators, who worry about students using the technology to cheat by passing its writing off as their own. But two Stanford researchers say that concern is misdirected, based on their ongoing research into cheating among U.S. high school students before and after the release of ChatGPT.”

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November 3, 2023

9to5 Google: Google Bard can now ‘respond in real time’ instead of waiting

9to5 Google: Google Bard can now ‘respond in real time’ instead of waiting . “Large language models (LLMs) aren’t instantaneous, so there’s a delay between prompt and answer. Google is now making Bard feel faster with a ‘respond in real time’ option. As such, ‘Responses will show in real time while in progress.’ There is still a wait wherein you’ll see the rotating Bard sparkle in different colors, but text comes in line-by-line after that.”

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November 2, 2023

Ars Technica: People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality

Ars Technica: People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality. “In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT’s recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice of Her in reality, having hours-long discussions with the AI assistant on the go.”

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