Motherboard: A Developer Made Software to Turn Anyone Into an ‘AI Girlfriend’—Starting With His Own Partner

Motherboard: A Developer Made Software to Turn Anyone Into an ‘AI Girlfriend’—Starting With His Own Partner. “Developer Enias Cailliau talks to his girlfriend Sacha on Telegram. She sends him voice memos, texts, and even the occasional selfie. But Sacha isn’t actually real, she’s an AI clone of Cailliau’s real-life girlfriend. Cailliau calls the bot GirlfriendGPT and has now shared his code online for anyone to create their own AI girlfriends too.”

United Nations: UNESCO unveils new AI roadmap for classrooms

United Nations: UNESCO unveils new AI roadmap for classrooms. “The UN convened the first ever global meeting with education ministers from around the world to explore risks and rewards of using chatbots in classrooms, announcing on Friday a new roadmap to chart a safer digital path for all.”

Columbia Journalism Review: How the media is covering ChatGPT

Columbia Journalism Review: How the media is covering ChatGPT. “In order to better understand how ChatGPT is being covered by newsrooms, we interviewed a variety of academics and journalists on how the media has been framing coverage of generative AI chatbots. We also pulled data on the volume of coverage in online news using the Media Cloud database and on TV news using data from the Internet TV News Archive, which we acquired via The GDELT Project’s API, in order to get a sketch of the coverage so far.”

Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt launches free online ChatGPT course, shaping the future of AI education

Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt launches free online ChatGPT course, shaping the future of AI education. “Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and associate professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, is making ChatGPT more accessible and useful for the broader public with the launch of his free online Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT course on the Coursera platform.”

Ars Technica: When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star student

Ars Technica: When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star student. “An international team of researchers tested what the software could manage by providing the generative AI program with challenging graduate-level mathematics questions. While ChatGPT failed on a significant number of them, its correct answers suggested that it could be useful for math researchers and teachers as a type of specialized search engine.”

NBC News: New York City public schools remove ChatGPT ban

NBC News: New York City public schools remove ChatGPT ban. “New York City’s Department of Education will rescind its ban on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT — which some worried could inspire more student cheating — from its schools’ devices and networks. The news comes several months after the initial ban was announced.”

Rolling Stone: Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers

Rolling Stone: Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers. “Texas A&M University–Commerce seniors who have already graduated were denied their diplomas because of an instructor who incorrectly used AI software to detect cheating.”

Motherboard: I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart

Motherboard: I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart. “After 35 years of living in relative control of my decisions, I had decided to see what would happen if I asked AI to control my life instead. Years of suboptimal performance, both personally and professionally, and numerous failed attempts at self-improvement had convinced me there had to be a better way, and I wondered if the collective knowledge hidden inside OpenAI’s hit tech product could help me.” I have rarely laughed so hard at an article.

WIRED: ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating the App Store and Google Play

WIRED: ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating the App Store and Google Play. “There are paid versions of OpenAI’s GPT and ChatGPT for regular users and developers, but anyone can try the AI chatbot for free on the company’s website. The scam apps take advantage of people who have heard about this new technology—and perhaps the frenzy of people clamoring to use it—but don’t have much additional context for how to try it themselves.”

Quartz: Police in China have arrested a man for using ChatGPT to create and spread fake news

Quartz: Police in China have arrested a man for using ChatGPT to create and spread fake news. “Police in China have arrested a man accused of using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven text generator, to write a story about a fake train crash, which he then published online. The authorities claimed this is the first arrest related to the use of ChatGPT in China, where the technology is illegal.”

TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new tool attempts to explain language models’ behaviors

TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new tool attempts to explain language models’ behaviors. “It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Even for data scientists, it’s difficult to know why, always, a model responds in the way it does, like inventing facts out of whole cloth. In an effort to peel back the layers of LLMs, OpenAI is developing a tool to automatically identify which parts of an LLM are responsible for which of its behaviors. The engineers behind it stress that it’s in the early stages, but the code to run it is available in open source on GitHub as of this morning.”

Interesting Engineering: New tool uses ChatGPT to make websites using only text-based prompts

Interesting Engineering: New tool uses ChatGPT to make websites using only text-based prompts. “WhimsyWorks, a New York-based company, has unveiled MetaGPT – an app to build websites, apps, and much more using only text-based prompts. This is much like the no-coding website builders that you see around on the internet, except that it is powered by ChatGPT.”