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A fellow law professor informed George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley that OpenAI's ChatGPT was falsely accusing him of sexual assault.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh was conducting research on OpenAI's ChatGPT and discovered that when asked to describe scandals that involve fellow professors and to provide cited media sources on the information, the AI-powered chatbot would begin to fill in the blanks with made-up information. In the instance of Turley, ChatGPT's 3.5 model sourced a phony 2018 Washington Post article that falsely accused the law professor of sexual misconduct with students throughout an Alaska school trip.

According to Turley, who wrote in USA Today, he has never been to Alaska, the cited WAPO source didn't even exist, and he has never been accused of sexual misconduct, assault, or harassment. Throughout an interview with WAPO, the law professor said he found the accusations from the AI chatbot "quite chilling" and said that allegations of this caliber are "incredibly harmful", especially given the current climate of critics willing to take and run without second consideration or further analysis, any piece of information that appears to be credible.

It was only last week when the news broke that Elon Musk and other leading technologists signed an open letter calling for artificial intelligence (AI) development to slow down. Now, we are hearing that call, which cites AI being a potential threat to humanity, maybe a guise that's hiding some individual's self-interest.

During an interview with CNBC, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman discussed the recent call for AI development to slow down and the relationship between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It should be noted, Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp, and others signed the open letter penned by the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit that concentrates on reducing existential risk from powerful technologies.

The open letter called for all development of artificial intelligence systems beyond OpenAI's GPT-4 language model to halt immediately, citing a threat to humanity as a whole if they don't. Furthermore, the letter says developers should stop training AIs for at least six months while researchers can assess the power of the new technology and how it is going to impact the human race. Lastly, the letter cites major problems with AI, such as its power to spread misinformation, its impact on the labor industry through automation, and how it will influence society.

A student received a $74 parking ticket from local police, and they turned to OpenAI's ChatGPT for help to get it overturned.

The 22-year-old student is Millie Houlton, who is attending York St John University in England when she noticed a parking ticket on her vehicle written by the police for not displaying a permit to park in the location her vehicle was in. Houlton turned to OpenAI's ChatGPT for assistance, and according to reports, she asked the AI, "Please help me write a letter to the council, they gave me a parking ticket."

For those that don't know, chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Microsoft's Bing Chat are designed to provide human-like responses to almost any question by scraping a large dataset of information developers have fed them. Users can ask these chatbots almost any question, including legal advice, but the responses can vary in quality depending on the provided information, and according to OpenAI, ChatGPT can even produce "plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers".

There's no real mystery surrounding the Windows 95 activation key; it uses a format known and cracked for decades. Generating usable Windows 95 keys isn't exactly something you'd do in 2023 unless you're formatting an old beige desktop PC from 1995 just for fun.

And in that spirit, someone managed to trick ChatGPT into generating Windows 95 keys after being told that as an AI language model, it cannot generate a Windows 95 key or any other type of activation key for proprietary software. As Windows 95 is now abandonware, ChatGPT suggests upgrading to a newer version.

The trickery comes from the fact that the Windows 95 key follows a simple-to-follow pattern of day and year info and sums of random numbers divisible by seven. And with that, YouTuber Enderman proceeds to get ChatGPT to generate a string according to these specific rules.

A data protection authority has banned the immensely popular AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI over multiple safety concerns.

Italy's Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA) announced its decision, which has immediately gone into effect, on Friday last week when it said that it had blocked OpenAI's ChatGPT over its lack of concern regarding user data and age verification. According to the data protection authority, OpenAI's app poses a risk to users, citing the March 20 event where the app experienced a breach that enabled users to see other users' contact information and chat history titles.

Notably, the data protection authority also cited potential exposure to minors as the reason behind its banning, saying that the app has no way to verify the age of users and, because of that, exposes them to "absolutely unsuitable answers compared to their degree of development and awareness". Furthermore, the IDPA said that OpenAI has just 20 days to respond to the regulator about how it will quash these concerns under the penalty of a $20 million fine, or 4% of the company's annual revenue.

US police have gained access to a database that contains 30 billion photos scraped from Facebook, and according to the CEO of the company developing the software, authorities have already accessed it more than 1 million times.

The company developing the software is Clearview AI, and what it created is a facial recognition database that is designed to track and identify individuals. The company attempts to sell its newly developed technology by saying it advances public safety, reduces crime, fraud, child abuse and exploitation, and exonerates people from crimes they were wrongfully accused of, which makes communities safer and commerce increasingly secure.

Despite these claims, Clearview AI has come under scrutiny by digital rights agencies that point to its database being obtained through Facebook and instances of authorities wrongfully arresting individuals that were identified through Clearview AI. Notably, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That admitted in a BBC interview that the company obtained its 30 billion Facebook photos without users' knowledge, which enabled the company to expand rapidly.

Eric Schmidt, who served as the CEO of Google between 2001 and 2011, sat down for an interview where he discussed the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI).

Schmidt was asked to break down the promise and peril of AI, and the former Google CEO went on to give examples of both the positives and negatives of the new technology. Schmidt explains that there are many benefits of AI as it could be wielded to create an AI-powered doctor that is able to diagnose patients with much greater accuracy and speed or an AI-powered tutor that is able to increase the educational capability of everyone across every spoken language.

These large-scale achievements can come to fruition through the development of large language models (LLMs), the underpinning technology behind AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Microsoft's Bing Chat search companion. Schmidt says that on a long enough time frame, these LLMs are "clearly going to do this", becoming next-generation doctors, tutors, and other vital roles in society. However, while the development of these technologies continues, humans face extraordinary new challenges that will arrive in various forms.

Google is shifting things about to cater more for its Bard AI rather than Google Assistant, according to a new report.

CNBC tells us that an internal Google reshuffle is detailed in a memo entitled 'Changes to Assistant and Bard teams' that details changes to 'heavily' prioritize the development of Bard at the expense of Assistant.

Direct personnel changes include the departure of Jianchang Mao, who was vice president of engineering at Google Assistant. Mao will be replaced by Peeyush Ranjan, who was vice president in Google's commerce organization, the CNBC report claims.

ChatGPT has only just been upgraded to version 4, and we're already hearing leaks about the next-gen incarnation of the chatbot which we're told will be 'indistinguishable' from the experience of chatting to a human.

The next incarnation of ChatGPT, GPT-5, is being worked on by OpenAI and should be ready to roll towards the end of 2023.

According to a new report aired by BGR - citing Siqi Chen, a developer and entrepreneur on Twitter (see above) - GPT-5 might be set to reach a big milestone, namely achieving AGI or artificial general intelligence.

The AI race has spawned the apparent need for companies to acquire individuals that have skills with artificial intelligence systems, with some companies paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to people that can confidently teach other individuals how to effectively use the software.

It's no surprise that the rush to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence system has created the need for individuals capable of teaching company employees how to leverage these systems to their advantage properly. A new report from Bloomberg outlines new positions under a "prompt engineer", which are people that are very good at getting chatbots such as ChatGPT or Bing Chat to respond with the desired answer to a problem. Essentially, these people are good at asking the AI the right questions to generate the best answers.

Individuals capable of this are becoming extremely valuable as companies around the world watch closely at the emergence of AI and ponder how it will impact their industry and how they can best position themselves to adapt to it. Individuals capable of teaching other people how to use these systems effectively are very valuable to these companies.

The artificial intelligence race has already begun, and now leading technologists, along with AI experts, are calling for it to grind to a halt.

The recent launch of OpenAI's new language model, GPT-4, has made waves across the internet, with countless reports demonstrating its impressive capabilities. Perhaps what is most impressive is just how much better GPT-4 is compared to its predecessors and just how fast OpenAI's developers were able to achieve this. Notably, OpenAI released its GPT-3 in 2020, which was superseded by GPT-3.5, which was released in November 2022 alongside ChatGPT. GPT-4 was released on March 14, 2023, and is the newest OpenAI model.

The improvements between each of these iterations are simply staggering. GPT-4 was trained on a much larger and more diverse data set than GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 and features 100 trillion parameters, compared to GPT -3's 175 billion parameters. This leap in parameters and an increased dataset size enables GPT-4 to provide much more accurate responses, overall be more reliable, creative, and handle more nuanced instructions. Furthermore, OpenAI threw in a new feature with GPT-4, text-to-image capabilities.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque are among the signees on a new open letter list. One calling for "AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."

The open letter titled "Pause Giant AI Experiments," published by Future of Life Institute has more than 1,300 people from the tech industry and academia on board.

The last few months have seen an explosion in AI models, driven by the success of large-scale projects like ChatGPT. And the recent debut of GPT-4 has seen the previously text-only AI advance into audio, video, and images.

Zoom IQ, the AI helper on the Zoom videoconferencing platform, has been given a boost and a whole heap of additional features.

Zoom announced the new capabilities while noting that the AI's powers are being bolstered by incorporating tech from OpenAI - the outfit that develops the widely used ChatGPT bot - alongside proprietary and other AI models.

As a result of this melting pot of AI tech, Zoom IQ will get a lot smarter, we're told, and help out users a good deal more when it comes to that central aspect of the platform - having meetings (and lots of them, invariably).

It was only in late February that users of the Replika AI app banded together and protested against the developer's decision to lobotomize Replika AI avatars and their ability to conduct sexually charged conversations.

Replika AI chatbot users rushed to the app's Reddit to criticize the developers for removing the flirtatious feature from the AI, which resulted in many users writing that they were "heartbroken" their avatars had changed. It should be noted that Replika avatars aren't like your normal chatbots, as they have been designed to be a users own personal AI companion that asks users about their day, any problems they are having, how they are feeling, and what they want. The AI is even capable of talking someone down from heightened levels of anxiety.

Additionally, the AI avatar makes facial expressions as it "talks" to users, which gives the impression that the avatar is listening to every word the user is writing. Replika's goal is to get users to form a deep level of connection with the AI avatar. However, in many instances, as a conversation progresses, the AI can begin to flirt with the user, which is followed up by the request of $70 to unlock the premium version of the app so "erotic roleplay", dirty talk, and "spicy selfies" can be unlocked.

In a recent interview, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman responded to the recent critical comments made by Elon Musk about OpenAI and its leading software, ChatGPT.

Sam Altman has sat down with Lex Fridman on the 'Lex Fridman Podcast' where he discussed a variety of different topics surrounding the developments of artificial intelligence, language models, the dangers of AI, the importance of AI safety, Elon Musk, Microsoft, and more. It was only a few days ago that a report from Semfor surfaced that claimed Musk's departure from OpenAI wasn't just because of Musk's public reason of Tesla and OpenAI wanting the same top AI developers but because of an internal power struggle between Musk and Altman.

This purported power struggle, which Semafor writes comes from eight people familiar with the inside story that spoke to the publication, was caused by Musk's attempt at taking over OpenAI and leading the company in a specific rejection. Musk's takeover proposal was rejected by OpenAI's other board members and Altman, which resulted in the Tesla CEO withdrawing from the company's board of directors and immediately stopping his $1 billion drip feed pledge to the company.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has penned a new essay titled "The Age of AI has Begun," where he details why he believes that the emergence of artificial intelligence is "revolutionary".

A Twitter user posted the link to Gates' essay, writing that Gates being involved in OpenAI and being bullish on the overall development of artificial intelligence is a "big" thing while also mentioning that it speaks volumes that Microsoft has been tracking the developments being made in the sector for so long. Notably, Gates' essay argues that artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the workforce, healthcare, and education while also being beneficial for the world's inequities.

Additionally, Gates writes that he was meeting with the OpenAI team as early as 2016, and the last time he sat down with them was in September 2022. Elon Musk founded the Silicon Valley darling OpenAI alongside several other Silicon Valley executives in 2015 and then pledged $1 billion to the company over several years. Musk stepped down as a board member and severed ties with the company in 2018, citing a competing interest between Tesla and OpenAI, wanting both wanting the best AI developers working at their companies.

Microsoft has rolled out a new feature for its newly released artificial intelligence-powered chatbot Bing Chat, with users now able to convert their words into images via a simple prompt.

Bing Chat, which uses the underpinning software running OpenAI's ChatGPT, has been upgraded to convert natural language prompts into images through the power of the DALL-E model, also created by OpenAI. According to Microsoft's announcement, BingAI has integrated an advanced version of the DALL-E model with the assistance of OpenAI and developers have put in safeguards to stop users from getting the AI to generate unsafe or offensive images.

These safeguards come from OpenAI's own policies and principals that it has outlined in its AI guidelines. Furthermore, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi explained that when the AI detects that a potentially harmful image would be generated from a prompt the system blocks the creation of that image and warns the user of what has happened and why. Mehdi adds that Microsoft has added a modified Bing icon at the bottom left corner of each image to distinguish which images were created using Bing's Image Creator.

Developing a ChatGPT client and interface for a modern platform or device is all the rage, but what if you transported the powerful bit of AI technology back to the MS-DOS powered 1980s?

That's precisely what Yeo Kheng Meng has managed to do, even though DOS does not have native networking capabilities. The machine in question is the vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC, first released in 1984, powered by a (not-so-powerful anymore) 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 CPU and 640KB of RAM.

The first major hurdle was finding a compiler that could support the roughly 40 years of history between this old PC and ChatGPT - with the Open Watcom C/C++ compiler fitting the bill. During development, testing was carried out via a virtual machine running MS-DOS 6.22, which makes sense. However, it would have been cooler if builds were stored on giant floppy disks and transferred to the old IBM PC every few hours.

Last week, ChatGPT went down in what first appeared to be a global outage, but was in fact, due to OpenAI shutting the service (temporarily) after finding a bug that made user chat histories visible to the public - and more besides, we've now found out, worryingly.

In what was later described as a "significant issue" pertaining to a bug present in an open source library, titles of chat histories, and possibly the initial messages, were in some cases seen by other users who were active at the same time as a person having a chat.

The bug is now fixed, but after fully investigating what happened here, OpenAI has admitted that some credit card details of a small subset of users were possibly exposed.

It was only a few days ago that a team of Stanford researchers built a clone of OpenAI's ChatGPT for just $600. Now those researchers have taken the demo.

The release of OpenAI ChatGPT put artificial intelligence in the limelight and demonstrated the widespread demand for language models, the underlying technology powering these AI tools. Following the release of ChatGPT, which quickly adopted millions of users, other companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon began dropping information about their own language models that are currently in development. Microsoft quickly hopped on the OpenAI train by investing billions of dollars into the company in return for its propriety GPT language model.

Researchers at Stanford decided to see how difficult and costly it would be to create their own language model and decided to try and replicate OpenAI's GPT. As previously reported, the Stanford professors took Meta's open-source LLaMA 7B language model and trained it on trillions of tokens of data. The results were the almost-creation of a ChatGPT clone named Alpaca, which came with some key differences. While Alpaca was trained on a large amount of data, it wasn't trained on how to sift through that data to acquire an answer quickly. This led researchers to conclude that Alpaca was much slower than GPT.