In February, Opera shared plans to integrate generative AI capabilities into its web browser using ChatGPT. Now, the independent browser maker has launched sidebar integration for both ChatGPT and ChatSonic and has introduced another feature called smart AI Prompts. To get these features, you'll need to update your browser and then go to Easy Setup to toggle on the "AI Prompts" option at the bottom. For the Opera GX browser for games, you also need to have the Early Bird option enabled in your browser settings. Once the option is switched on, you'll see buttons for the chatbots on your sidebar, which you can click if you want to launch them within the browser.

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week. Recently I gave myself an assignment: Come up with a framework for explaining generative AI, such as ChatGPT, in a way that illuminates the full potential of the technology and helps me make predictions about its future. By analogy, imagine that it's the year 1780 and you get a glimpse of an early English steam engine. You might say: "This is a device for pumping water out of coal mines."

We've entered the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape huge swaths of the global economy, and businesses of all sizes are rushing to deploy the game-changing technology. The AI market will approach a staggering $1.4 trillion by the end of the decade, according to a forecast by Fortune Business Insights. Here are the three companies best positioned to capture sizable portions of this booming industry. Investors' excitement for AI reached a fever pitch after Microsoft (MSFT 0.57%) announced a multibillion-dollar partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI in January. Since then, the software giant has moved quickly to add OpenAI's technology to its popular productivity tools and its Bing search engine.

Learn the basics of reinforcement learning and how to implement it using Gymnasium (previously called OpenAI Gym). Gymnasium is an open source Python library originally created by OpenAI that provides a collection of pre-built environments for reinforcement learning agents. It provides a standard API to communicate between learning algorithms and environments, as well as a standard set of environments compliant with that API. Reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning concerned with how intelligent agents ought to take actions in an environment in order to maximize the notion of cumulative reward.

Google has invited people in the United Kingdom and the United States to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it continues on its gradual path to catch up with the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems or computer code on command and have taken the world by storm as the biggest new thing in tech since the advent of the iPhone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff on Tuesday that after testing Bard with 80,000 Google employees, the chatbot would be tested with the UK and US public as a "first step" before going out to more countries in other languages. "As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they'll surprise us," Pichai said in a memo to staff seen by AFP. But the user feedback is critical to improving the product and the underlying technology," added Pichai, who has faced some criticism within the company for rushing to catch up with Microsoft. In the launch, people wishing to play with Bard can sign onto a waiting list at the bard.google.com "We've learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people," Google vice presidents Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins said in a blog post. As exciting as chatbots can be, they have their faults, Hsiao and Collins cautioned. Google has so far proceeded more carefully in its rollout of generative AI to consumers, in contrast to Microsoft's choice to swiftly make the products available despite reports of problems. ChatGPT's OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, which earlier this year said it would finance the research company to the tune of billions of dollars. Asked by AFP how its product was different from ChatGPT, Bard said that unlike its Microsoft-backed rival, it was "able to access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results." The bot also underlined that it was still "under development, while ChatGPT has been released to the public.

Deep generative learning cannot only be used for generating new data with statistical characteristics derived from input data but also for anomaly detection, by separating nominal and anomalous instances based on their reconstruction quality. In this paper, we explore the performance of three unsupervised deep generative models -- variational autoencoders (VAEs) with Gaussian, Bernoulli, and Boltzmann priors -- in detecting anomalies in flight-operations data of commercial flights consisting of multivariate time series. We devised two VAE models with discrete latent variables (DVAEs), one with a factorized Bernoulli prior and one with a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) as prior, because of the demand for discrete-variable models in machine-learning applications and because the integration of quantum devices based on two-level quantum systems requires such models. The DVAE with RBM prior, using a relatively simple -- and classically or quantum-mechanically enhanceable -- sampling technique for the evolution of the RBM's negative phase, performed better than the Bernoulli DVAE and on par with the Gaussian model, which has a continuous latent space. Our studies demonstrate the competitiveness of a discrete deep generative model with its Gaussian counterpart on anomaly-detection tasks. Moreover, the DVAE model with RBM prior can be easily integrated with quantum sampling by outsourcing its generative process to measurements of quantum states obtained from a quantum annealer or gate-model device.

He is an expert in designing and building adaptive music systems utilizing human-in-the-loop machine learning. He holds degrees in Music (Hons) and Science and completed a Ph.D. with a thesis in Adaptive Music Scores for Interactive Media. Since joining Aimi, Patrick has contributed as a named inventor on eight patents regarding various aspects of music analysis and generation. As an accomplished jazz musician and researcher in AI and interactive music, his goal is to create the world's best generative AI models and systems.

When rumors began swirling last month about the Chinese search giant Baidu working on a chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, it seemed like the perfect move. Baidu has invested heavily in artificial intelligence over the past decade and could harness the technology for its leading search engine, as Microsoft has done for Bing and Google says it will do too. Yet when Baidu unveiled Ernie Bot, or 文心一言 "Wenxin Yiyan" in Chinese, in Beijing earlier this month, the news fell flat. Robin Li, Baidu's CEO, admitted halfway through the launch stream that demos of Ernie Bot answering general knowledge questions, summarizing information from the web, and generating images were prerecorded, leading to snarky commentary on Chinese social media. It didn't help that OpenAI had introduced a major upgrade, called GPT-4, to the AI technology that powers ChatGPT only the day before.

In his blog, Mr Gates said he challenged the OpenAI team in 2022 to train an AI that can pass an Advanced Placement (AP) Biology exam - roughly equivalent to an A-level exam - with the strict rule that the AI could not be specifically trained to answer Biology questions.

Last month, Roblox outlined its vision for AI-assisted content creation, imagining a future where Generative AI could help users create code, 3D models and more with little more than text prompts. Now, it's taking its first steps toward allowing "every user on Roblox to be a creator" by launching its first AI tools: Code Assist and Material Generator, both in beta. Although neither tool is anywhere close to generating a playable Roblox experience from a text description, Head of Roblox Studio Stef Corazza told an audience at GDC 2023 that they can "help automate basic coding tasks so you can focus on creative work." For now, that means being able to generate useful code snippets and object textures based on short prompts. Roblox's announcement for the tools offers a few examples, generating realistic textures for a "bright red rock canyon" and "stained glass," or producing several lines of functional code that will that make certain objects change color and self-destruct after a player interacts with them.