How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI
OpenAI

How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?

March 22, 20232 min read
GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.
OpenAI

GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.

Get ready for the next wave of language-model mania. OpenAI introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models to widespread excitement. The company showed statistics and examples designed to demonstrate...

March 15, 20233 min read
GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.
OpenAI

GPT-4 Has Landed: Everything you need to know about GPT-4.

Get ready for the next wave of language-model mania. OpenAI introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models to widespread excitement. The company showed statistics and examples designed to demonstrate...

March 15, 20233 min read
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
OpenAI

Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing
OpenAI

Bing Unbound: A roundup of wacky behavior from the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft aimed to reinvent web search. Instead, it showed that even the most advanced text generators remain alarmingly unpredictable. In the two weeks since Microsoft integrated an OpenAI chatbot with its Bing search engine, users have reported...

February 22, 20233 min read
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
OpenAI

Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.
OpenAI

Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.

February 15, 20233 min read
An Image Generator That Pays Artists: Shutterstock's new generative AI tool will pay artists.
OpenAI

An Image Generator That Pays Artists: Shutterstock's new generative AI tool will pay artists.

A top supplier of stock images will compensate artists who contribute training data to its image-generation service.

February 1, 20232 min read
An Image Generator That Pays Artists: Shutterstock's new generative AI tool will pay artists.
OpenAI

An Image Generator That Pays Artists: Shutterstock's new generative AI tool will pay artists.

A top supplier of stock images will compensate artists who contribute training data to its image-generation service.

February 1, 20232 min read
AI Powers Strengthen Ties: Microsoft boosts its investment in OpenAI.
OpenAI

AI Powers Strengthen Ties: Microsoft boosts its investment in OpenAI.

Microsoft deepened its high-stakes relationship with OpenAI. The tech giant confirmed rumors that it is boosting its investment in the research lab that created the ChatGPT large language model and other AI innovations.

January 26, 20232 min read
AI Powers Strengthen Ties: Microsoft boosts its investment in OpenAI.
OpenAI

AI Powers Strengthen Ties: Microsoft boosts its investment in OpenAI.

Microsoft deepened its high-stakes relationship with OpenAI. The tech giant confirmed rumors that it is boosting its investment in the research lab that created the ChatGPT large language model and other AI innovations.

January 26, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
OpenAI

Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
OpenAI

Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.

Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...

January 18, 20232 min read
More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models
OpenAI

More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models

Members of the AI community tested the limits of the ChatGPT chatbot, unleashing an avalanche of tweets that made for sometimes-great, sometimes-troubling entertainment.

December 7, 20223 min read
More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models
OpenAI

More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models

Members of the AI community tested the limits of the ChatGPT chatbot, unleashing an avalanche of tweets that made for sometimes-great, sometimes-troubling entertainment.

December 7, 20223 min read

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