Photo: Vitor Miranda (Shutterstock) OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which it says is specifically designed for businesses. “We believe AI can assist and elevate every aspect of our working lives and make teams more creative and productive,” the company said in a blog post published Monday. “Today marks another step towards an AI assistant for … Read more
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.” The results are part of Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience. … Read more
Photo: Aaron Jackson (AP) The news industry has been trying to figure out how to deal with the potentially disruptive impact of generative AI. This week, the Associated Press rolled out new guidelines for how artificial intelligence should be used in its newsrooms and AI vendors are probably not too pleased. Among other new rules, … Read more
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained with massive amounts of text. Michael Sellitto, head of geopolitics and security at Anthropic, says this also gives the systems a “gigantic potential attack or risk surface.” Microsoft’s head of red-teaming, Ram Shankar Sivu Kumar, … Read more
Zoom, the company that normalized attending business meetings in your pajama pants, was forced to unmute itself this week to reassure users that it would not use personal data to train artificial intelligence without their consent. A keen-eyed Hacker News user last week noticed that an update to Zoom’s terms and conditions in March appeared … Read more
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking of the moon, how could we forget commercial spaceflight?) And the AI boom is likely to further expand tech firms’ power and riches. Yet on Capitol Hill, some powerful Republicans … Read more
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI feature, which I’ve been testing … Read more
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week that it could establish a new advantage by harnessing artificial intelligence. “We have the largest fleet of military hardware in the world,” Wang told the House Armed Services Subcommittee … Read more
Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) Ever since it debuted last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been the hottest product in tech. It started the so-called “AI revolution”, launched scores of new companies and has experienced explosive growth on a global scale. However, it seems the honeymoon phase may finally be over. Netflix passwords, ChatGPT can’t detect … Read more
Picture: TatnattanPhotos (Shutterstock) Netflix passwords, ChatGPT can’t detect AI and no more CoTweets | Editor’s Choice ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to “embrace the benefits” of this “new frontier.” It is a classic example of what my colleague Punya … Read more