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."

Tech research company OpenAI has just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program, called GPT-4, and demonstrated some of the language model's new abilities. Not only can GPT-4 produce more natural-sounding text and solve problems more accurately than its predecessor. It can also process images in addition to text. But the AI is still vulnerable to some of the same problems that plagued earlier GPT models: displaying bias, overstepping the guardrails intended to prevent it from saying offensive or dangerous things and "hallucinating," or confidently making up falsehoods not found in its training data. On Twitter, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the model as the company's "most capable and aligned" to date.

During an AI-focused press event today, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, its latest push to embed its suite of productivity and enterprise apps with AI. Currently in testing with select (around 20) commercial customers, Copilot combines the power of AI models including OpenAI's recently announced GPT-4 with business data and Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. "Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement. Copilot handles different tasks depending on the app in which it's used. For example, in Word, Copilot writes, edits, summarizes and generates text, while in PowerPoint and Excel, Copilot turns natural language commands into designed presentations and data visualizations.

GPT-4 is "multimodal", which means it can generate content from both image and text prompts. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GPT-4 AND GPT-3.5? GPT-3.5 takes only text prompts, whereas the latest version of the large language model can also use images as inputs to recognize objects in a picture and analyze them. GPT-3.5 is limited to about 3,000-word responses, while GPT-4 can generate responses of more than 25,000 words. GPT-4 is 82% less likely to respond to requests for disallowed content than its predecessor and scores 40% higher on certain tests of factuality.

OpenAI's latest release, GPT-4, is the most powerful and impressive AI model yet from the company behind ChatGPT and the Dall-E AI artist. The system can pass the bar exam, solve logic puzzles, and even give you a recipe to use up leftovers based on a photo of your fridge – but its creators warn it can also spread fake facts, embed dangerous ideologies, and even trick people into doing tasks on its behalf. Here's what you need to know about our latest AI overlord. GPT-4 is, at heart, a machine for creating text. But it is a very good one, and to be very good at creating text turns out to be practically similar to being very good at understanding and reasoning about the world. And so if you give GPT-4 a question from a US bar exam, it will write an essay that demonstrates legal knowledge; if you give it a medicinal molecule and ask for variations, it will seem to apply biochemical expertise; and if you ask it to tell you a gag about a fish, it will seem to have a sense of humour – or at least a good memory for bad cracker jokes ("what do you get when you cross a fish and an elephant?

A new paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research describes how generative models such as DALL-E 2, a novel deep learning model for text-to-image generation, could represent a promising future tool for image generation, augmentation, and manipulation in health care. Do generative models have sufficient medical domain knowledge to provide accurate and useful results? Dr. Lisa C Adams and colleagues explore this topic in their latest viewpoint titled "What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?" First introduced by OpenAI in April 2022, DALL-E 2 is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has gained popularity for generating novel photorealistic images or artwork based on textual input. DALL-E 2's generative capabilities are powerful, as it has been trained on billions of existing text-image pairs off the internet.

Microsoft pressed on with its AI revolution on Thursday, announcing that it would apply the powers behind ChatGPT to its iconic Excel, Word and Outlook programs. The Redmond, Washington giant has been swiftly adopting language-based AI, showing less caution than its rivals despite early problems such as chatbots giving disturbing responses or blatantly inaccurate information. Microsoft's latest chatbot, called Copilot, will put ChatGPT-like abilities to work in offices, churning out meeting transcripts, calendar entries or PowerPoint slides almost instantaneously. The thrust of the new release is that generative AI, the term for ChatGPT style capabilities, will function as an assistant for users of Microsoft's popular workplace software and not unilaterally take over office tasks. "You could say we've been using AI on autopilot and with this next generation of AI, we are moving from autopilot to copilot," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a virtual release event.

There's nothing more romantic than having an AI-powered bot write your vows for you. Earlier this month, wedding planning platform Joy launched a new OpenAI-powered "Wedding Writer's Block" tool that uses AI technology to generate a draft for one of the most important speeches of your life. The AI assistant is designed to help write vows and wedding toast speeches, among other "wedding-related wordage," the company claims, like a love story for your wedding website or thank-you notes, or if you're stuck on how to politely decline a wedding invite. There are also several different tones that the draft can be written in. For instance, if you want to sound like William Shakespeare or maybe a pirate for some reason.

"The ChatGPT Phenomenon" is a book that explores the inner workings of OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT. Written by computer science expert, Jake Reynolds, the book delves into the technical details of how ChatGPT works, and how it has revolutionized the field of natural language processing. The book starts by introducing the reader to the basics of language models and the history of artificial intelligence, setting the stage for the emergence of ChatGPT. The author then goes on to explain the architecture of ChatGPT and how it differs from other language models, highlighting its unique strengths and capabilities. As the book progresses, the author provides practical examples and case studies of how ChatGPT is being used in various industries, such as chatbots, content creation, and language translation.

As expected, Ernie Bot (the name stands for "Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration;" its Chinese name is 文心一言, or Wenxin Yiyan) performs particularly well on tasks specific to Chinese culture, like explaining a historical fact or writing a traditional poem. But the highlight of the product release was Ernie Bot's multimodal output feature, which ChatGPT and GPT-4 do not offer (OpenAI has bragged about GPT-4's ability to analyze a photo of the contents of a refrigerator and come up with recipe suggestions, but the model generates only text). Li showed a recorded interaction with the bot where it generated an illustration of a futuristic city transportation system, used Chinese dialect to read out a text answer, and edited and subtitled a video based on the same text. However, in later testing after the launch, a Chinese publication failed to reproduce the video generation. The Chinese public has been hungry for a ChatGPT alternative; both OpenAI and the Chinese government have barred individuals in China from using the American chatbot. But so far, Ernie Bot has been made available only to an extremely select pool of Chinese creators.