You can add Duolingo to the growing list of companies jumping on the generative AI craze. On Wednesday, the company announced Duolingo Max, a new, more expensive subscription tier that comes with access to a pair of GPT-4 features. The first of those, "Explain My Answer," allows you to ask Duo, a chatbot named after the company's owl mascot, to spell out why your answer to a question was right or wrong, with the option to ask for additional clarification if you need more help. The second feature, Roleplay, allows you to practice the skills you've learned through Duolingo in a handful of scenarios. Duolingo says no two conversations will be exactly the same, even when you rehearse a situation more than once, and users can earn experience points by completing the practice sessions.

Antimicrobial peptides emerge as compounds that can alleviate the global health hazard of antimicrobial resistance, prompting a need for novel computational approaches to peptide generation. Here, we propose HydrAMP, a conditional variational autoencoder that learns lower-dimensional, continuous representation of peptides and captures their antimicrobial properties. The model disentangles the learnt representation of a peptide from its antimicrobial conditions and leverages parameter-controlled creativity. HydrAMP is the first model that is directly optimized for diverse tasks, including unconstrained and analogue generation and outperforms other approaches in these tasks. An additional preselection procedure based on ranking of generated peptides and molecular dynamics simulations increases experimental validation rate. Wet-lab experiments on five bacterial strains confirm high activity of nine peptides generated as analogues of clinically relevant prototypes, as well as six analogues of an inactive peptide. HydrAMP enables generation of diverse and potent peptides, making a step towards resolving the antimicrobial resistance crisis. Antimicrobial peptides emerge as compounds that can alleviate the global health hazard of antimicrobial resistance. Here, the authors propose HydrAMP, an extended conditional variational autoencoder. HydrAMP generated antimicrobial peptides with high activity against bacteria, including multidrug-resistant species.

Are you looking for a new way to unleash your creativity and create stunning, one-of-a-kind art? Look no further than AI art generators! With the power of generative AI, you can create art that's truly unique and exciting, without having to spend hours drawing or painting. In this post, we'll explore the best free AI art generators available today, from the popular Deep Dream Generator and Artbreeder to the cutting-edge Urza's AI and MidJourney. Each generator offers its own unique features and capabilities, allowing you to explore the vast potential of generative AI and push the boundaries of what's possible in art.

The artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI on Tuesday launched the newest version of its language software, GPT-4, an advanced tool for analyzing images and mimicking human speech, pushing the technical and ethical boundaries of a rapidly proliferating wave of AI. OpenAI's earlier product, ChatGPT, captivated and unsettled the public with its uncanny ability to generate elegant writing, unleashing a viral wave of college essays, screenplays and conversations -- though it relied on an older generation of technology that hasn't been cutting-edge for more than a year. GPT-4, in contrast, is a state-of-the-art system capable of creating not just words but describing images in response to a person's simple written commands. When shown a photo of a boxing glove hanging over a wooden seesaw with a ball on one side, for instance, a person can ask what will happen if the glove drops, and GPT-4 will respond that it would hit the seesaw and cause the ball to fly up. The buzzy launch capped months of hype and anticipation over an AI program, known as a large language model, that early testers had claimed was remarkably advanced in its ability to reason and learn new things.

GPT-4 didn't give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I've been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately. And it has made me wonder whether that feeling will ever fade, or whether we're going to be experiencing "future shock" -- the term coined by the writer Alvin Toffler for the feeling that too much is changing, too quickly -- for the rest of our lives. For a few hours on Tuesday, I prodded GPT-4 -- which is included with ChatGPT Plus, the $20-a-month version of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT -- with different types of questions, hoping to uncover some of its strengths and weaknesses. I asked GPT-4 to help me with a complicated tax problem.

I ALWAYS know there is something fishy going on with a new tech product when journalists start desperately reaching out to science fiction authors to explain it for them. Such is the case with ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot from San Francisco company OpenAI, which has become one of the world's most widely used apps in just a few short months. So many news outlets were asking science fiction writers to weigh in on AI's capabilities that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association had to issue a special media statement on its website, linking to dozens of authors' …

The company behind the ChatGPT app that churns out essays, poems or computing code on command released Tuesday a long-awaited update of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that it said would be safer and more accurate than its predecessor. GPT-4 has been widely awaited ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late November, wowing users with its capabilities that were based on an older version of OpenAI's technology, known as a large language model. "We've created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI's effort in scaling up deep learning," a company blog said, adding that the AI technology "exhibits human-level performance" on some professional and academic tasks. The company said the model is "more creative and collaborative than ever before" and would "solve difficult problems with greater accuracy" than its earlier versions. With its update, text responses from GPT-4 will be more accurate, and--in future--will come from both image and text inputs in a major leap forward for the technology, though this aspect has not yet been released.

Fully intent on being the next Skynet, OpenAI has released GPT-4, its most robust AI to date that the company claims is even more accurate while generating language and even better at solving problems. GPT-4 is so good at its job, in fact, that it reportedly convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve a CAPTCHA for the chatbot. OpenAI unveiled the roided up AI yesterday in a livestream, and the company showed how the chatbot could complete tasks, albeit slowly, like writing code for a Discord bot, and completing taxes. Released with the announcement of GPT-4 is a 94-page technical report on the company's website that chronicles the development and capabilities of the new chatbot. In the "Potential for Risky Emergent Behaviors" section in the company's technical report, OpenAI partnered with the Alignment Research Center to test GPT-4's skills.

OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways. It's more accurate, but it still makes things up. Cade Metz asked experts to use GPT-4, and Keith Collins visualized the answers that the artificial intelligence generated. A new version of the technology that powers an A.I. chatbot that captivated the tech industry four months ago has improved on its predecessor. It is an expert on an array of subjects, even wowing doctors with its medical advice. It can describe images, and it's close to telling jokes that are almost funny.

LinkedIn is the latest platform to hop on the generative AI bandwagon. The company is adding AI-powered "writing suggestions" and job descriptions to its service as it looks for new ways to infuse AI into its platform. The writing suggestions are meant to make it easier to fill out key profile fields that LinkedIn says can otherwise feel "daunting" to complete: the "about" and "headline" sections near the top of each profile. Now, with the new "enhance" tool, LinkedIn Premium subscribers can generate descriptions based on their experience. The company says the tool, which uses the same OpenAI models that power ChatGPT, is meant to preserve "your unique voice and style" and will draw from your job experience and skills, as well as LinkedIn's own "insights" into what makes a good profile.