AI chatbots are one of the top news stories this year, and it's for a very good reason. Businesses finally recognize the link between good AI technology and good customer service outcomes. So anything that expedites customer service resolutions is a very important step forward for businesses. AI technology doesn't just accelerate customer service solutions; it often leaves a more favorable impression on customers than sometimes murky or ego-based human-to-human interactions. This revolution is so powerful that CNN recently covered the history of chatbot technology.

Artificial intelligence has its ups and downs, but the Florida Department of Transportation is using the upside of the technology to improve safety when opening and closing their bridges. "Using technology to improve safety is something big for us and we're doing it," said Pablo Orozco, District 6 Structures Maintenance Engineer with the Florida Department of Transportation. The AI pilot program with the FDOT began in 2019 and is being tested out on the 5th Street Bridge which goes over the Miami River. Engineers showed NBC 6 how the technology works. "When it opens, we have defined an area that is unsafe for pedestrians or any cars or bicyclists and it will stop the bridge from opening if they are in that unsafe area," said Orozco.

Around a year ago, I wrote a column about users' growing frustration with Google Search, as automated summaries, sponsored content, and S.E.O.-tailored spam increasingly crowded out the kinds of useful Web site results that Googling was supposed to produce. Google's search algorithm wasn't directing us to the information that we wanted to find (for instance, in my case at the time, the elusive perfect toaster) so much as bombarding us with the half-baked recommendations of content mills. Yet Google Search has maintained its dominance partly out of habit and partly because no competing service has offered a viable alternative--until now. On February 7th, Microsoft began a beta launch of a version of its search engine, Bing, in the form of an A.I. chatbot, powered by GPT-4, the latest iteration of OpenAI's large-language model ChatGPT. Instead of directing users to external sites, the new Bing can simply generate its own answers to any query.

What a wonderful world for all to see. Photographers from around the globe highlighted the best of our planet as part of the open competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. The World Photography Organisation announced last week the best single shots, all taken in 2022, chosen from more than 415,000 submissions from over 200 countries and territories, according to a press release. The competition was split into 10 categories: Architecture, creative, landscape, lifestyle, motion, natural world & wildlife, object, portraiture, street photography and travel. While 10 individual category winners were named -- and they will be awarded Sony digital imaging equipment and the ability to compete for the Open Photographer of the Year title -- finalists were also given honorable mentions.

AI technology is becoming so popular in the business sector, as it can be used to automate processes and create new, creative solutions. For example, chatbots and virtual assistants that can help businesses improve customer service. By the end of 2023, AI is expected to become even more standard in the workplace, with mind blowing tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT becoming readily available AI is revolutionising the way businesses operate and allowing them to make better decisions faster than ever before. AI is not new, but it has become a hot trend in recent years, and more, so in the last few months with the introduction of ChatGPT there's countless potential applications across various industries, in particular the creative arts. It is significantly changing the way creatives work and has the potential to revolutionise the creative industry by automating certain tasks, providing new tools for creativity, and increasing efficiency in production for artists, designers, writers, photographers, musicians or, directors.

Adobe's suite of photo and video editing software has long leveraged the assistance of machine intelligence to help its human users do their jobs, having employed the Sensei AI system for more than a decade to power features like Neural Filters in Photoshop or Acrobat's Liquid Mode. On Tuesday, Adobe revealed its next generation of AI features, a family of generative models the company has collectively dubbed, Firefly -- the first of which will generate both images and font effects. "Generative AI is the next evolution of AI-driven creativity and productivity, transforming the conversation between creator and computer into something more natural, intuitive and powerful," said David Wadhwani, president, Adobe's Digital Media Business, said in Tuesday's release. "With Firefly, Adobe will bring generative AI-powered'creative ingredients' directly into customers' workflows, increasing productivity and creative confidence for all creators from high-end creative professionals to the long tail of the creator economy." With it, would-be digital artists are no longer limited by their sub-par dexterity or sheer lack of artistic talent -- they will be able to speak into existence professional-quality illustrations using only the power of their words.

AI text generators, also known as language models, are algorithms that use artificial intelligence to generate human-like text based on a given prompt or seed text. These models are trained on vast amounts of text data, learning patterns, and relationships within the data to produce coherent and meaningful responses. AI or ML text generators can be used in a wide range of applications, including chatbots, customer service, content creation, and even creative writing. The Global AI Text Generator Market was valued at USD 360 million in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% during the forecast period of 2023-2032 to reach USD 1,808 million. AI/ML generators can be used to produce responses to user queries in a conversational and natural manner, making them useful in developing chatbots for customer service or online support.

In an ABC News interview this week, he warned "there will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on." OpenAI released its A.I. chatbot ChatGPT to the public in late November, and this week it unveiled a more capable successor called GPT-4. Other companies are racing to offer ChatGPT-like tools, giving OpenAI plenty of competition to worry about, despite the advantage of having Microsoft as a big investor. "It's competitive out there," OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told The Verge in an interview published this week. "GPT-4 is not easy to develop…there are many many companies who want to do the same thing, so from a competitive side, you can see this as a maturation of the field."

The new platform brings together a range of professions to teach industry how to utilise resources within the data arena using artificial intelligence tools ethically.

Generative AI is already looking like the major tech trend of 2023. The ability to generate fresh content via algorithms has been thrust into the public consciousness by the likes of ChatGPT, a chatbot-style technology trained on large language models (LLMs) capable of producing essays, poems, lyrics, news articles and even computer programs. Then there's DALL-E, from the same Microsoft-backed OpenAI that spawned ChatGPT, which serves a similar purpose but for visual creations instead. While some have argued that ChatGPT signals AI's arrival into the mainstream, the truth of the matter is that we're just at the start of a new era of AI-powered applications that will transform just about every facet of industry, from consumer search and stock photography to real estate and content marketing. It's against that backdrop that a fledgling startup called Tavus is looking to make its mark by enabling companies to create "unique" videos tailored to a specific individual, but based entirely on a single initial recording.