Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. From its inception in 2015, OpenAI has always made it clear that its central goal is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). Its stated mission is "to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." This past Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman authored a blog post titled "Planning for AGI and Beyond," which discussed how the company believes the world can prepare for AGI, both in the short and long term. Some found the blog post, which has a million "likes" on Twitter alone, "fascinating."

HONG KONG, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has set up a development team to work on a ChatGPT-like chatbot, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. ChatGPT's uncanny ability to create cogent blocks of text instantly has sparked worldwide frenzied interest in the technology behind it called generative AI. Although Microsoft-backed OpenAI does not allow users in China to create accounts to access the chatbot, the open AI models behind the programme are relatively accessible and are increasingly being incorporated into Chinese consumer technology applications. A number of Tencent rivals including Alibaba Group (9988.HK) and Baidu Inc (9888.HK) have also announced they are working on their own offerings. Tencent's product, to be called "HunyuanAide", will incorporate the company's AI training model named "Hunyuan", said the people who were not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking use cases that are transforming industries across a wide swath of the world's economy. From infrastructure that "self-heals" to radically reimagined (and touchless) customer service and experience; from large scale hyper-personalization to automatically created marketing messages and images leveraging Generative AI tools like ChatGPT--it is all a reality today. These AI solutions can powerfully augment and sometimes radically outperform most traditional business roles. This article is a collaborative effort by Joshan Abraham, Jorge Amar, Yuval Atsmon, Miguel Frade, and Tomás Lajous, representing views from McKinsey's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice. The impact from these solutions is becoming evident.

While a picture might speak a thousand words, it only takes a few words in a text box to generate a picture these days, one that might even be considered top notch artwork. Artificial intelligence (AI) is to thank for this, or perhaps to blame. While artificial intelligence has long produced art, recent tools such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, have given rise to an AI generated art boom that allows even the most uncreative among us to produce intricate, abstract, or lifelike pieces by merely entering a few words into a text box. For some, the potential and possibilities of these AI tools to democratise craftsmanship and make creativity more accessible to everyone fills them with excitement, for others it fills them with dread and a moral panic about real artists being replaced by machines, an angle that is often pushed by the news media. Dillah Zakbah, creative director and partner at BBH, says that while much has been written in the press from a position of AI replacing human talent, not much has been looked at or said about it from the point of view of using it as a tool.

It began with a tweet of a bar graph depicting a sharp rise in the month of February: Neil Clarke, the publisher and editor in chief of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld, had plotted out the publication's past few years of plagiarized and spammy submissions. Until late 2022, the bars are barely visible, but in the past few months--and especially this month--the numbers climb dramatically, mostly due to AI-generated content. Clarke wrote a post laying out the situation entitled "A Concerning Trend." Five days and a massive amount of online chatter later, Clarkesworld announced it's closing submissions for now. Clarke says they've seen this problem growing for a while, but they took the time to analyze the data before talking about it publicly.

The voluntary recommendations were put together by the Partnership on AI (PAI), an AI research nonprofit, in consultation with over 50 organizations. PAI's partners include big tech companies as well as academic, civil society, and media organizations. The first 10 companies to commit to the guidance are Adobe, BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, Bumble, OpenAI, TikTok, Witness, and synthetic-media startups Synthesia, D-ID, and Respeecher. "We want to ensure that synthetic media is not used to harm, disempower, or disenfranchise but rather to support creativity, knowledge sharing, and commentary," says Claire Leibowicz, PAI's head of AI and media integrity. One of the most important elements of the guidelines is a pact by the companies to include and research ways to tell users when they're interacting with something that's been generated by AI.

I have a part-time job that is quite good, except for one task I must do--not even very often, just every other week--that I actively loathe. The task isn't difficult, and it doesn't take more than 30 minutes: I scan a long list of short paragraphs about different people and papers from my organization that have been quoted or cited in various publications and broadcasts, pick three or four of these items, and turn them into a new, stand-alone paragraph, which I am told is distributed to a small handful of people (mostly board members) to highlight the most "important" press coverage from that week. Four weeks ago, I began using AI to write this paragraph. The first week, it took about 40 minutes, but now I've got it down to about five. Only one colleague knows I've been doing this; we used to switch off writing this blurb, but since it's become so quick and easy and, frankly, interesting, I've taken over doing it every week.

Just last January, I drew a cartoon showing a couple marketers (as legless avatars) standing in a virtual world under a banner that reads, "welcome to our brand experience in the metaverse!" One is saying to the other, "I'm sure consumers will show up ANY minute now." The breathless excitement around all things Web3 --from NFTs to crypto to blockchain to the metaverse -- is quieter now. But the Generative AI hype train is full steam ahead. From startups to marketers at large CPG companies to VC, the pivot to AI is whiplash-inducing, even compared to the last few whiplash years.

Whether it's to write a research paper, solve calculus questions, write a code, debate about world affairs or find a date online, Chat GPT-3 is the latest AI generative technology that promises to accomplish all of this. The technology is created by Open AI and answers questions on a wide variety of topics in multiple languages. In this article, we show you how to connect your Bot Libre bot to GPT-3 using OpenAI's API, and a Self script in your bot. Another option if you already have an existing bot is to import the "GPT-3" script from the Bot Libre Script library, from your bot's Scripts page select "Import". From your bot's Admin Console, select "Scripts" and edit the "proxy" script.

Over the past ten years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have steadily crept into the Art Industry. From Deepfakes to DALL·E, the impact of these new technologies can be longer be ignored, and many communities are now on the edge of a reckoning. On one side, the potential for modern AIs to generate and edit both images and videos is opening new job opportunities for millions; but on the other is also threatening a sudden and disruptive change across many industries. The purpose of this long article is to serve as an introduction to the complex topic of AI Art: from the technologies that are powering this revolution, to the ethical and legal issues they have unleashed. While this is still an ongoing conversation, I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in better understanding these phenomena--especially journalists who are keen to learn more about the benefits, changes and challenges that that AI will inevitably bring into our own lives.