The continued success of Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative artificial intelligence approaches highlights the advantages that large information corpora can have over rigidly defined symbolic models, but also serves as a proof-point of the challenges that purely statistics-based approaches have in terms of safety and trustworthiness. As a framework for contextualizing the potential, as well as the limitations of LLMs and other foundation model-based technologies, we propose the concept of a Large Process Model (LPM) that combines the correlation power of LLMs with the analytical precision and reliability of knowledge-based systems and automated reasoning approaches. LPMs are envisioned to directly utilize the wealth of process management experience that experts have accumulated, as well as process performance data of organizations with diverse characteristics, e.g., regarding size, region, or industry. In this vision, the proposed LPM would allow organizations to receive context-specific (tailored) process and other business models, analytical deep-dives, and improvement recommendations. As such, they would allow to substantially decrease the time and effort required for business transformation, while also allowing for deeper, more impactful, and more actionable insights than previously possible. We argue that implementing an LPM is feasible, but also highlight limitations and research challenges that need to be solved to implement particular aspects of the LPM vision.

As generative AI settles into the mainstream, growing numbers of courses and certifications are promising entry into the "hot job" of prompt engineering. Having skills in using natural language (such as English) to "prompt" useful content out of AI models such as ChatGPT and Midjourney seems like something many employers would value. But is it as simple as doing a short course and riding the wave to a six-figure salary? A Washington Post article published in February did a lot to seed the notion that prompt engineers are "AI whisperers" who "program in prose". It dropped some big salary numbers and quoted a job ad by Silicon Valley company Anthropic calling for people who have "a creative hacker spirit and love solving puzzles".

In the past year or so, since the public release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, people have been making their peace with the idea that an omnipotent AI might be on the horizon. Sam Altman, the company's CEO, "believes that people need time to reckon with the idea that we may soon share Earth with a powerful new intelligence, before it remakes everything from work to human relationships," my colleague Ross Andersen reported after the two had several conversations. "ChatGPT was a way of serving notice." But OpenAI isn't Altman's only project, and it's not even his only project with ambitions to change the world. He is also a co-founder of a company called Tools for Humanity, which has the lofty goal of protecting people from the economic devastation that may arise from AI taking human jobs. The company's first major project is Worldcoin, which uses an evil-looking metallic orb--called the Orb--to take eyeball scans from people all over the world.

ChatGPT has proven it can help students with their homework, but now it is helping teachers create those very courses, a computer science professor told Fox News. The United Kingdom-based The Guardian newspaper announced that it was blocking ChatGPT owner OpenAI for being able to trawl content on its website. The Guardian announced in a report on its website last week that it is blocking OpenAI from using the paper's online content, citing concerns that its ChatGPT platform is "using unlicensed content to create its AI tools have led to writers bringing lawsuits against the company and creative industries calling for safeguards to protect their intellectual property." The move comes after OpenAI announced last month that it would enable websites to block the company's web crawler from accessing their content, with many online publishers joining The Guardian in choosing to block the crawler, according to the report. Other outlets listed as blocking the crawler, which uses information on websites to help generate AI content, include CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Times and The Athletic.

Wealthy clients going to a Morgan Stanley financial adviser to discuss their investments may have a different sort of experience in the future: having a chatbot listen to their conversation. After testing it with 1,000 financial advisers for some months, the bank will roll out a generative artificial intelligence bot this month, developed with the makers of ChatGPT, OpenAI. Bankers can use the virtual assistant to quickly find research or forms instead of sifting through hundreds of thousands of documents. The bank is also developing technology which eventually, with clients' permission, could create a meeting summary of the conversation, draft a follow-up email suggesting next steps, update the bank's sales database, schedule a follow-up appointment, and learn how to help advisers manage clients' finances on areas such as taxes, retirement savings and inheritances. The details of the program have not yet been reported.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Microsoft will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks arising out of any claims raised by third parties so long as the company's customers use "the guardrails and content filters" built into its products, the company said. It offers functionality meant to reduce the likelihood that the AI returns infringing content. With the proliferation of generative AI – computer programs capable of generating text, images, sounds, other data – users have raised concerns over the technology's ability to generate content without referencing it to its original authors.

As Meta, the company behind Facebook, continues to develop its generative artificial intelligence tools, you can now request the removal of some of the personal data the company uses to train its AI model. There are a ton of caveats, though. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to build a range of AI features into Meta's platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Despite the popularity of generative AI in Silicon Valley, murky legal questions remain for the technology, and many people are anxious about its rapid advancement. Want to stop Meta from using all of your info to improve its AI?

Governments around the world are rushing to embrace the algorithms that breathed some semblance of intelligence into ChatGPT, apparently enthralled by the enormous economic payoff expected from the technology. Two new reports out this week show that nation-states are also likely rushing to adapt the same technology into weapons of misinformation, in what could become a troubling AI arms race between great powers. Researchers at RAND, a nonprofit think tank that advises the United States government, point to evidence of a Chinese military researcher who has experience with information campaigns publicly discussing how generative AI could help such work. One research article, from January 2023, suggests using large language models such as a fine-tuned version of Google's BERT, a precursor to the more powerful and capable language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. "There's no evidence of it being done right now," says William Marcellino, an AI expert and senior behavioral and social scientist at RAND, who contributed to the report. He and others at RAND are alarmed at the prospect of influence campaigns getting new scale and power thanks to generative AI. "Coming up with a system to create millions of fake accounts that purport to be Taiwanese, or Americans, or Germans, that are pushing a state narrative--I think that it's qualitatively and quantitatively different," Marcellino says.

At leading Swedish university Lund, teachers decide which students can use artificial intelligence to help them with assignments. At the University of Western Australia in Perth, staff have talked to students about the challenges and possible benefits of using generative AI in their work, while the University of Hong Kong is allowing ChatGPT within strict limits. Launched by Microsoft-backed OpenAI on Nov. 30, ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date and prompted the release of rivals like Google's Bard.

The state of California has entered the frenzied and at times confusing race among governments around the world to both regulate and harness the technology known as generative artificial intelligence. On Wednesday morning, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-12-23, a 2,500-word directive that instructs state agencies to examine how AI might threaten the security and privacy of California residents, while also authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools and try integrating them into the state's operations. Generative AI "is a new technology and requires a new class of responsibility," Newsom said in an interview. "There's a Pandora's box being opened here, and we just want it done in a safe way.