How ChatGPT and Other LLMs Work—and Where They Could Go Next
AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard are certainly having a moment—the next generation of conversational software tools promise to do everything from taking over...
Meet ChatGPT’s Right-Wing Alter Ego
Elon Musk caused a stir last week when he told the (recently fired) right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson that he plans to build “TruthGPT,” a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT....
6 Tips for Using ChatGPT to Brainstorm Better
LinkedIn influencers use ChatGPT as a brainstorming aid, should you? OpenAI’s chatbot responds in a conversational tone to text prompts, and millions of users continue to experiment...
Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election
Some deepfakes of political figures have emerged in recent years, such as one of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his troops to surrender that was released last...
Noah Raford Can Help You Prepare for a Not-So-Nice Future
Archival audioclip (Back to the Future): I’m from the future. Lauren Goode: Alright, I’m gonna ask the question that everyone’s wondering about: What is a futurist? Is this a...
How Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Came to Be—and Where It’s Going Next
Jordi Ribas hasn’t taken a day off since last September. That month, the Microsoft search and AI chief got the keys to GPT-4, a then secret version...
ChatGPT Can Help Doctors—and Hurt Patients
“Medical knowledge and practices change and evolve over time, and there’s no telling where in the timeline of medicine ChatGPT pulls its information from when stating...
Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data
A potential roadmap to pricing could come from Elon Musk, who this month hiked prices for access to Twitter data. They start at $42,000 per month for...
Let the AI Coding Wars Begin!
The big news this week was a call from tech luminaries to pause development and deployment of AI models more advanced than OpenAI’s GTP-4—the stunningly capable language...
In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
Stone, a signatory of the letter, says he does not agree with everything in it, and is not personally concerned about existential dangers. But he says advances...