If artificial intelligence evangelists' predictions pan out, generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are set to transform Hollywood by developing and writing scripts for the next hit TV show, "diversifying" casts with AI-generated actors and generating imagery across multiple mediums, practically instantly, for a fraction of the cost of a real, human artist. But how long will it take for the vision to meet reality, and can a select group of companies -- similar to the rise of Facebook and social media -- be trusted to herald the way? Driving much of the current conversation around AI innovation has been OpenAI, an AI research company with both non-profit and for-profit arms. Just four months after the formal launch of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, industry titans like Bill Gates were ready to hail artificial intelligence as the most revolutionary technology of our time since the advent of cell phones and the internet. Major tech companies like Google and Microsoft have invested hundreds of millions into AI companies, including OpenAI, as executives look to the technology to steward their companies into the future amid an economic downturn that has particularly hit digital native companies hard.

A vulnerability in the redis-py open-source library was at the root of last week's ChatGPT data leak, OpenAI has confirmed. Not only were some ChatGPT users able to see what other users have been using the AI chatbot for, but limited personal and billing information ended up getting revealed, as well. ChatGPT suffered an outage on March 20 and then problems with making conversation history accessible to users. "During a nine-hour window on March 20, 2023, another ChatGPT user may have inadvertently seen your billing information when clicking on their own'Manage Subscription' page," OpenAI notified 1.2% of the ChatGPT Plus subscribers via email. "The billing information another user might have seen consisted of your first and last name, billing address, credit card type, credit card expiration date, and the last four digits of your credit card. The information did not include your full credit card number, and we have no evidence that any customer information was viewed by more than one other ChatGPT user."

The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Calls to suspend new ChatGPT releases and investigate its maker OpenAI over a range of risks for privacy, cybersecurity and disinformation are growing on both sides of the Atlantic. Elon Musk and dozens of AI experts this week called for a pause to updates of ChatGPT.

FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on'America's Newsroom.' Critics who slammed OpenAI's ChatGPT system as "woke" and riddled with liberal bias are creating their own chatbots. Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly assembling a team of artificial intelligence experts to build an alternative to ChatGPT – and other similar ideas may also be in development. The New York Times reported that the founder of Gab, a right-wing social media platform, is working on an AI software with "the ability to generate content freely without the constraints of liberal propaganda wrapped tightly around its code." OpenAI's GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from the company that "exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks," according to the lab.

Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon & Ford administrations; Schmidt, former CEO of Google; Huttenlocher, an acclaimed computer vision research who is currently a dean at MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing. Why it's good: The book's trio of authors brings their expertise in statecraft, business, and academia to explore how AI is set to reshape society. "AI's promise of epoch-making transformations--in society, economics, politics, and foreign policy--portends effects beyond the scope of any single author's or field's traditional focuses," the authors contend in an online preview of the book. In the time since The Age of A.I. was published, a revolution in generative AI has brought us much closer to the promise of artificial general intelligence -- the representation of human cognitive abilities in software-- making the book's discussion of how society will change as machines increasingly perform human tasks all the more relevant.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work, and the finance department is no exception. Chat GPT-4, developed by OpenAI, is a machine learning-based language model designed to understand and generate text in response to user queries. It is emerging as a new tool capable of assisting finance professionals in their daily tasks. After a week of testing Chat GPT-4 on various daily use cases within financial departments, OpenAI's solution stands out for its ability to adapt and offer relevant solutions in various contexts. The presentation of our test results is divided into two parts.

OpenAI's Chat-GPT has garnered many headlines in recent months, and the impending GPT-4 stands to make the AI even buzzier and more remarkable. But with so much focus on Chat-GPT, you might have overlooked the incredible AI art generators supported by GPT, like DALL-E. DALL-E makes beautiful art accessible to anyone. With DALL-E, you can enter a prompt and get instant results, whether you're an artist looking for inspiration, a content marketer, or you need help with website imagery. You can modify individual object attributes, simultaneously control multiple objects and their spatial relationships, and even adjust the perspective and 3D style of images.

OpenAI has taken ChatGPT offline in Italy after the government's Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application's suspected breach of privacy rules. The agency, also known as Garante, accused Microsoft-backed OpenAI of failing to check the age of ChatGPT's users who are supposed to be aged 13 or above. ChatGPT has an "absence of any legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data" to "train" the chatbot, Garante said. OpenAI has 20 days to respond with remedies or could risk a fine of up to 20 million euros ($21.68 million) or 4% of its annual worldwide turnover. OpenAI said it has disabled ChatGPT for users in Italy at the request of the Garante.

In case you have been somewhere else in the solar system, here is a brief AI news update. My apologies if it sounds like the opening paragraph of a bad science fiction novel. On 14 March 2023, OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco and part owned by Microsoft, released an AI system called GPT-4. On 22 March, a report by a distinguished group of researchers at Microsoft, including two members of the US National Academies, claimed that GPT-4 exhibits "sparks of artificial general intelligence". On 29 March, the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit headed by the MIT physics professor Max Tegmark, released an open letter asking for a pause on "giant AI experiments". It has been signed by well-known figures such as Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak, and the Turing award-winner Yoshua Bengio, as well as hundreds of prominent AI researchers.

One objection to conventional AI ethics is that it slows innovation. This presentation responds by reconfiguring ethics as an innovation accelerator. The critical elements develop from a contrast between Stability AI's Diffusion and OpenAI's Dall-E. By analyzing the divergent values underlying their opposed strategies for development and deployment, five conceptions are identified as common to acceleration ethics. Uncertainty is understood as positive and encouraging, rather than discouraging. Innovation is conceived as intrinsically valuable, instead of worthwhile only as mediated by social effects. AI problems are solved by more AI, not less. Permissions and restrictions governing AI emerge from a decentralized process, instead of a unified authority. The work of ethics is embedded in AI development and application, instead of functioning from outside. Together, these attitudes and practices remake ethics as provoking rather than restraining artificial intelligence.