When Microsoft announced the new AI-enabled Bing, which it built on top of OpenAI's GPT models, neither company would confirm which version of GPT was being used beyond saying it was a next-gen version of the model that powered ChatGPT. Today, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a significant update to GPT-3.5. As it turns out, Bing was using it all along. "We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, which we've customized for search," Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi, the company's corporate VP and consumer chief marketing officer, wrote in today's announcement. "If you've used the new Bing preview at any time in the last five weeks, you've already experienced an early version of this powerful model."

The growing potential of generative AI is clouded by its possible harms, prompting some calls for regulation. ChatGPT and other generative AI have taken centerstage for innovation with companies racing to introduce their own respective twists on the technology. Questions about the ethics of AI have likewise escalated with ways the technology could spread misinformation, support hacking attempts, or raise doubts about the ownership and validity of digital content. The issue of ethics and AI is not new, according to Cynthia Rudin, the Earl D. McLean, Jr. professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, statistical science, mathematics, and biostatistics & bioinformatics at Duke University She says AI recommender systems already have been pointed to for such ills as contributing to depression among teenagers, algorithms amplifying hate speech that spurred the 2017 Rohingya massacre in Myanmar, vaccine misinformation, and the spread of propaganda that contributed to insurrection in the United States on January 6, 2021. "If we haven't learned our lesson about ethics by now, it's not going to be when ChatGPT shows up," says Rudin.

New virtual machines for Microsoft Azure allow developers to create generative AI apps that can be scaled to work with thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs. The ND H100 v5 VM series on Azure, which works in tandem with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, boosts the performance of large-scale deployments by companies such as OpenAI, creators of the much talked about ChatGPT, and Nvidia's chips. The new supercomputing system in the cloud provides the type of infrastructure required to handle the latest large-scale AI training models, according to Matt Vegas, principal product manager for Azure HPC and AI at Microsoft. "Generative AI applications are rapidly evolving and adding unique value across nearly every industry," Vegas wrote in a blog post this week. "From the newly released AI-powered Bing and Edge to AI-powered assistance in Microsoft Dynamics 365, AI is becoming a pervasive component of software and how we interact with it. We want to ensure that our AI infrastructure will be there to pave the way."

With programs like ChatGPT and Dall-E going mainstream, New York City is looking for a director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to shape how emerging tools are used in everything from policing to urban planning. The newly defined role under the city's Office of Technology and Innovation, with a salary range of $75,000 to $140,000, will be tasked with finding new AI use cases, educating the public and city departments about upsides and risks, and informing and guiding the city's overarching AI and machine learning policies.

Before OpenAI's ChatGPT emerged and captured the world's attention for its ability to create compelling sentences, a small startup called Latitude was wowing consumers with its AI Dungeon game that let them use artificial intelligence to create fantastical tales based on their prompts. But as AI Dungeon became more popular, Latitude CEO Nick Walton recalled that the cost to maintain the text-based role-playing game began to skyrocket. AI Dungeon's text-generation software was powered by the GPT language technology offered by the Microsoft-backed AI research lab OpenAI. The more people played AI Dungeon, the bigger the bill Latitude had to pay OpenAI. Compounding the predicament was that Walton also discovered content marketers were using AI Dungeon to generate promotional copy, a use for AI Dungeon that his team never foresaw, but that ended up adding to the company's AI bill.

When Sam Altman was sunsetting his first startup in early 2012, there was little indication that his path ahead would parallel that of Silicon Valley's then-wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg. While Altman was weighing his next moves after shutting down Loopt, his location-sharing startup, the Facebook CEO was at the forefront of social media's global takeover and leading his company to a blockbuster initial public offering that valued Zuckerberg's brainchild at $104 billion. But just over a decade later, the tables have dramatically turned. Nowadays, the promise of social media as a unifying force for good has all but collapsed, and Zuckerberg is slashing thousands of jobs after his company's rocky pivot to the metaverse. And it's Altman, a 37-year-old Stanford dropout, who's now seeing his star rise to dizzying heights -- and who faces the pitfalls of great power.

It's been a mere four months since artificial intelligence company OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT and -- not to overstate its importance -- changed the world forever. In just 15 short weeks, it has sparked doomsday predictions in global job markets, disrupted education systems and drawn millions of users, from big banks to app developers. But now it's goodbye to ChatGPT and hello ChatGPT-4 -- an even more powerful tool, sure to send even bigger ripples across the world. So what is GPT-4, how powerful is it, and how can you use it? Here's everything you need to know: Let's start with the name.

New Delhi, March 15: Google has announced new generative AI features for its Workspace apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and Chat. With the new AI features, users will be able to draft, reply, summarise and prioritise their Gmail. In Docs, they will get to brainstorm, proofread, write, and rewrite, while in Slides, they will get to bring their creative vision to life with auto-generated images, audio, and video. Google Unveils New AI Service'Brad' To Compete Against OpenAI's ChatGPT, Know All About It Here. Moreover, in Sheets, users will be able to go from raw data to insights and analysis via auto-completion, formula generation, and contextual categorisation, while in Meet, they will be able to generate new backgrounds and capture notes.

There have been a couple of high-profile incidents in recent years in which cybercriminals have reportedly used voice deepfakes of company CEOs in attempts to steal large amounts of money--not to mention that documentarians posthumously created voice deepfakes of Anthony Bourdain. But are criminals at the turning point where any given spam call could contain your sibling's cloned voice desperately seeking "bail money?" No, researchers say--at least not yet. The technology to create convincing, robust voice deepfakes is powerful and increasingly prevalent in controlled settings or situations where extensive recordings of a person's voice are available. At the end of February, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox published findings that he had recorded five minutes of himself talking and then used a publicly available generative AI service, ElevenLabs, to create voice deepfakes that defeated a bank's voice-authentication system.

In a sign of the times, the Hillsborough mansion recently changed its name from Neogenesis to AGI House. AGI is short for "artificial general intelligence," a phrase popularized by OpenAI to describe the idea of AI that is smarter than a human. OpenAI argues that tools like ChatGPT, which can instantly answer questions or generate text like software code and college essays, or the text-to-image generator DALL-E, can respond to a user's natural language prompt, as steppingstones toward superhuman AI. The term "AGI" has become a watchword for proponents who share the belief that this technological wave of AI will transform the internet.