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Hunter Biden countersuit against Wilmington computer repairman 'one of the weirdest filings': Turley
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley sounds off on the latest developments on'The Story.' Hunter Biden's countersuit against the computer shopkeeper who turned over a laptop belonging to the first son to authorities and members of the press is "one of the weirdest filings I have read in some time," one legal scholar says. In his lawsuit Biden claims John Paul Mac Isaac illegally distributed his personal data and alleges he invaded his privacy. Isaac has said a man he believed to be Hunter Biden did not return after the 90-day policy window to retrieve his damaged laptop. Biden's suit reportedly claims Isaac violated a Delaware law prohibiting dissemination or exploitation of property within one year's time. George Washington University Law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley said Friday the suit is "like Alice in Wonderland." "It gets curiouser and curiouser because this is one of the weirdest filings I have read in some time because [Hunter is] telling the court this may or may not be my laptop and these files may or may not be my files, but I am egregiously injured by the invasion of my privacy," Turley explained on "The Story with Martha MacCallum."
'We are a little bit scared': OpenAI CEO warns of risks of artificial intelligence
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that developed the controversial consumer-facing artificial intelligence application ChatGPT, has warned that the technology comes with real dangers as it reshapes society. Altman, 37, stressed that regulators and society need to be involved with the technology to guard against potentially negative consequences for humanity. "We've got to be careful here," Altman told ABC News on Thursday, adding: "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this. "I'm particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation," Altman said. "Now that they're getting better at writing computer code, [they] could be used for offensive cyber-attacks." But despite the dangers, he said, it could also be "the greatest technology humanity has yet developed". The warning came as OpenAI released the latest version of its language AI model, GPT-4, less than four months since the original version was released and became the fastest-growing consumer application in history. In the interview, the artificial intelligence engineer said that although the new version was "not perfect" it had scored 90% in the US on the bar exams and a near-perfect score on the high school SAT math test. It could also write computer code in most programming languages, he said. Fears over consumer-facing artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence in general, focus on humans being replaced by machines. But Altman pointed out that AI only works under direction, or input, from humans. "It waits for someone to give it an input," he said. "This is a tool that is very much in human control." But he said he had concerns about which humans had input control. "There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on," he added. "Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it." Many users of ChatGPT have encountered a machine with responses that are defensive to the point of paranoid. In tests offered to the TV news outlet, GPT-4 performed a test in which it conjured up recipes from the contents of a fridge. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, one of the first investors in OpenAI when it was still a non-profit company, has repeatedly issued warnings that AI or AGI – artificial general intelligence – is more dangerous than a nuclear weapon. Musk voiced concern that Microsoft, which hosts ChatGPT on its Bing search engine, had disbanded its ethics oversight division. "There is no regulatory oversight of AI, which is a *major* problem.
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GPT-4 has brought a storm of hype and fright – is it marketing froth, or is this a revolution? Charlie Beckett
The recent flurry, or rather blizzard, of announcements of new variants of generative AI have brought a storm of hype and fright. OpenAI's ChatGPT already appeared to be a gamechanger, but now this week's new version, GPT-4, is another leap ahead. GPT-4 can generate enough text to write a book, code in every computer language, and – most remarkably – "understand" images. If your mind is not boggled by the potential of this, then you haven't been paying attention. I have spent the past five years researching how artificial intelligence has been changing journalism around the world.
Why ChatGPT Could Usher in a New Era of Scientific Discovery
Some of the world's biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce highly readable answers to questions, the publishers are worried that inaccurate or plagiarised work could enter the pages of academic literature. Several researchers have already listed the chatbot as a co-author in academic studies, and some publishers have moved to ban this practice. But the editor-in-chief of Science, one of the top scientific journals in the world, has gone a step further and forbidden any use of text from the program in submitted papers. It's not surprising the use of such chatbots is of interest to academic publishers. Our recent study, published in Finance Research Letters, showed ChatGPT could be used to write a finance paper that would be accepted for an academic journal.
Tech guru behind ChatGPT 'a little bit scared' of his creation: 'Going to eliminate a lot of current jobs'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he was "a little bit scared" of ChatGPT and admitted that his technology would likely destroy "a lot of current jobs." The CEO of the company behind ChatGPT, likely the world's most famous AI chatbot, admitted that he was "a little bit scared" of his company's creation during an interview with ABC News. "We've got to be careful here," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview Thursday. That's because the technology itself, he explained, was extremely powerful and could be dangerous. "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this," the 37-year-old tech guru said.
China's Baidu launches its "ERNIE Bot" AI early in response to GPT
OpenAI's ChatGPT has made the public aware of the insane power, potential and threat of large language models. The ripples from ChatGPT's launch late last year are being felt in every industry – you can't responsibly plan for the future of nearly any business without factoring in how these ludicrously capable and seemingly intelligent bots are going to disrupt nearly every process. When OpenAI released the even more astonishing GPT-4 a couple of days ago, it did so with a measure of trepidation. As outlined in the GPT-4 paper, the language model itself was built and pre-trained some eight months ago, and the company spent that eight months working feverishly to make it safe and sanitized for public consumption. Knowing that many competitors are working on similar AI models, OpenAI recognized that launching this thing would kick off a furious technology race – and that when a "racing dynamic" develops, other companies would be forced by their shareholders and customers to accelerate their own AI programs.
Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI
If not for last week's Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse almost every conversation in tech seems to be centered around AI and chatbots. In the last few days, Microsoft-backed OpenAI released a new language model called GPT-4. Its competitor Anthropic released the Claude chatbot. Google said that it is integrating AI into its Workspace tools like Gmail and Docs. Microsoft Bing has brought attention to itself with a chatbot-enabled search. Last month, the Cupertino-based company held an internal event that focused on AI and large language models.
Council Post: Ways Generative AI Could Revolutionize Your Customer Experience
President of McorpCX and global CX influencer, helping companies radically improve how they connect with (and profit from) their customers. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment. Essentially a broad category of AI algorithms that can create new content based on the data that's been used to train them, it includes text-driven algorithms like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard chatbot, as well as image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney. This means you can ask one of these algorithms a question or to create something, and it does--something new and unique, based on the vast volumes of data they can learn from, interpret and respond to. At a cocktail party a few weekends ago, a friend jokingly asked ChatGPT to "write a country song in iambic pentameter about an accordion and a broken heart."
Creepy AI news anchor with 'skills of a thousand presenters' is unveiled in China... but there's a major catch
CHINA has unveiled its latest technological exploit - an AI news anchor who claims to have the professional skills of a "thousand presenters". The virtual robot journalist, named Ren Xiaorong, now exists to deliver the news and answer questions 24 hours a day, yet there is a catch. The creepily human-like avatar, however clever, can only respond from a pre-written script and also peddles the Chinese Communist Party's official line. Ren has joined China's state-controlled newspaper, People's Daily, as their newest employee and claims to have the skills of "thousands of news anchors". She was unveiled this week as the host of People's Daily app, where she can answer questions relating to the "Two Sessions" government conference.