The upstart ChatGPT heralded an advent of conversational-AI platforms that can passably converse with humans based on a wide range of inputs. In addition to ChatGPT, which is made by the Microsoft-backed nonprofit OpenAI, other big tech companies are getting into the game with competing projects from Google (Bard) and Facebook (LLaMA). The rise of AI to kitchen-table prominence raises a question: Are insurance companies, which have been transforming digitally for years, ready to invest further in large language models and turn their precious customer relationships over to a chatbot? Forrester Principal Analyst Indranil Bandyopadhyay says that a big AI revolution in insurance isn't going to happen overnight. "I don't see the majority of the insurance industry going and jumping into these emerging technologies. It will take some time," Bandyopadhyay says.

The excitement over generative AI--and AI in general--has reached the multi-trillion-dollar healthcare industry, driven by the news of ChatGPT passing the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) and the rapid introduction of new healthcare-related AI applications. Bill Gates, for example, is recommending the use of generative AI tools for primary diagnoses of patients. While acknowledging that AI will inevitably misdiagnose patients, Gates argues that the upside is worth it. Preventing misdiagnoses that can impact, at the very least, a patient's quality of life, depends a lot on the quality and availability of the health data that is fed into the AI model. The current excitement notwithstanding, the development of AI healthcare solutions has been severely constrained by the dearth of comprehensive and representative real-world health data.

Generative AI models are all the rage these days thanks in large part to OpenAI and their latest gpt-3 and gpt-4 models. Seemingly everyone has heard of their now famous and shockingly human-like chatgpt interface. Even my grandmother has tried it out and she still has a corded home phone and sends me emails from her @hotmail.com The rapid pace of development around these large language models (LLMs) has been nothing short of incredible. ChatGPT recently broke the record as the fastest-growing consumer application in history, hitting 100 million users in its first two months.

FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on Americas Newsroom. Advanced artificial intelligence platforms could pose a danger to election security as soon as 2024, with some experts speculating they could become a major source of misinformation. "We should be scared s---less,"Gary Marcus, professor emeritus of cognitive science at New York University and an AI expert, told Fortune last week. The comments come just months after a Twitter account named the Chicago Lakefront News posted a photo of Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas along with a faked recording in which Vallas appears to downplay police shootings by arguing that "in my day" police officers would kill as many as 18 people in their career and "no one would bat an eye." The logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT, taken on Jan. 23, 2023. "This'Defund the Police' rhetoric is going to cause unrest and lawlessness in the city of Chicago.

OpenFortune, one of the fastest growing media platforms that delivers creative advertising via fortune cookies at 47,000 restaurants in the U.S., has announced a transformational shift in their content creation strategy by embracing OpenAI's ChatGPT for writing fortune messages. This move will enable OpenFortune to effectively provide an unlimited number of completely new, unique fortunes to millions of consumers dining at restaurants and at home, all while maintaining the integrity of traditional fortune cookies. Throughout the 100 year history of the fortune cookie, only several thousand fortunes have been in circulation. After extensive market research, OpenFortune determined that the AI-driven platform produces never-before-written and more appealing fortunes, at an exponentially faster rate. This ensures that people are less likely to receive the same message as their dining companion and creates a more personalized fortune cookie experience.

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The CEO of ChatGPT-creator OpenAI said Monday that the company is aiming to open an office in Japan in the near future and expand its business in the country. "We hope to spend much more time (in Japan) and hope to engage with the wonderful talent and build something great for Japanese people and make the models better," Sam Altman said after a short meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo. Altman didn't offer any additional details on the timing of the opening of a new branch, only saying that the company would likely offer further details in a few months. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind's greatest invention--Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is "qualitatively different," "transformational," "revolutionary," "will change everything,"--they say. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a major upgrade of the technology behind ChatGPT called GPT4. Already, Microsoft researchers are claiming that GPT4 shows "sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" or human-like intelligence--the Holy grail of AI research.

When U.S. tech firm OpenAI rolled out Whisper, a speech recognition tool offering audio transcription and translation into English for dozens of languages including Maori, it rang alarm bells for many Indigenous New Zealanders. Whisper, launched in September by the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, was trained on 680,000 hours of audio from the web, including 1,381 hours of the Maori language. Indigenous tech and culture experts say that while such technologies can help preserve and revive their languages, harvesting their data without consent risks abuse, distorting of Indigenous culture, and depriving minorities of their rights. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

You know something strange is afoot when Elon Musk comes out in favor of tech regulation. Or when Kevin McCarthy and a left-wing Joe Biden appointee agree that one particular issue is a priority. These are not people who tend to agree on, well, anything. But such are the nascent, topsy-turvy politics of artificial intelligence. AI is not really a single issue you can be for or against the way you can with, say, guns or abortion.