Motherboard: Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence. “Microsoft is betting heavily on integrating OpenAI’s GPT language models into its products to compete with Google, and, the company now claims, its AI is an early form of artificial general intelligence (AGI).”
Mashable: HustleGPT is a hilarious and scary AI experiment in capitalism. “The internet is overflowing with examples of what GPT-4’s advanced intelligence can accomplish. It can write usable lawsuits, build websites from text prompts, automate online dating, and is generally freaking people out about all the jobs it can replace. [Jackson Greathouse] Hall has taken this a step further by harnessing its capabilities into an age-old ambition that’s the backbone of capitalist society: making money with as little effort as possible.”
Visual Studio Magazine: Microsoft Open Sources Tool for GPT-4-Infused Apps. “Microsoft has open sourced an internal incubation project that can help developers integrate cutting-edge AI models quickly and easily into their apps.”
Engadget: Duolingo’s Max plan offers AI tutoring for $30 per month. “You can add Duolingo to the growing list of companies jumping on the generative AI craze. On Wednesday, the company announced Duolingo Max, a new, more expensive subscription tier that comes with access to a pair of GPT-4 features.”
Engadget: OpenAI’s new GPT-4 can understand both text and image inputs. “Hot on the heels of Google’s Workspace AI announcement Tuesday, and ahead of Thursday’s Microsoft Future of Work event, OpenAI has released the latest iteration of its generative pre-trained transformer system, GPT-4. Whereas the current generation GPT-3.5, which powers OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT conversational bot, can only read and respond with text, the new and improved GPT-4 will be able to generate text on input images as well.”
New York Times: 10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed. “A new version of the technology that powers an A.I. chatbot that captivated the tech industry four months ago has improved on its predecessor. It is an expert on an array of subjects, even wowing doctors with its medical advice. It can describe images, and it’s close to telling jokes that are almost funny. But the long-rumored new artificial intelligence system, GPT-4, still has a few of the quirks and makes some of the same habitual mistakes that baffled researchers when that chatbot, ChatGPT, was introduced.”
Evening Standard: Microsoft says GPT-4 AI is coming next week with video features. “GPT-4, the next large-language model in the company’s GPT-series after GPT-3.5, which underpins ChatGPT, is apparently coming next week. That’s according to Microsoft Germany’s CTO Andreas Braun, who made the announcement at an event on Thursday (March 9). Previous reports have claimed that GPT-4 could arrive as soon as this spring.”
Search Engine Journal: GPT-4 Is Coming: A Look Into The Future Of AI. “GPT-4, is said by some to be ‘next-level’ and disruptive, but what will the reality be CEO Sam Altman answers questions about the GPT-4 and the future of AI.”
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