Looks like it's not just teachers and professors who are worried about ChatGPT. Last week, investment bank JP Morgan announced it was cracking down on the use of OpenAI's AI-powered chatbots as part of restrictions imposed around third-party software. Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are also restricting the use of ChatGPT by employees. IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services is a little more optimistic, saying generative AI platforms like ChatGPT will create an "AI co-worker" and not replace jobs. The Microsoft-backed software, for sure, is not going anywhere.

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.

If you read my work you probably know that I publish my articles first and foremost in my AI newsletter, The Algorithmic Bridge. What you may not know is that every Sunday I publish a special column I call "what you may have missed," where I review everything that has happened during the week with analyses that help you make sense of the news. Semafor reported two weeks ago that, if everything goes according to the plan, Microsoft will close a $10B investment deal with OpenAI before the end of January (Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, announced the extended partnership officially on Monday). There's been some misinformation about the deal which implied that OpenAI execs weren't sure about the company's long-term viability. Leo L'Orange, who writes The Neuron, explains that "once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid to Microsoft and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI."

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Generative AI is poised to be the free world's next great gift to authoritarians. The viral launch of ChatGPT -- a system with eerily human-like capabilities in composing essays, poetry and computer code -- has awakened the world's dictators to the transformative power of generative AI to create unique, compelling content at scale. But the fierce debate that has ensued among Western industry leaders on the risks of releasing advanced generative AI tools has largely missed where their effects are likely to be most pernicious: within autocracies. AI companies and the U.S. government alike must institute stricter norms for the development of tools like ChatGPT in full view of their game-changing potential for the world's authoritarians -- before it is too late. So far, concerns around generative AI and autocrats have mostly focused on how these systems can turbocharge Chinese and Russian propaganda efforts in the United States.

Microsoft, so long big tech's dull but wealthy uncle, has seized the zeitgeist by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its search engine, Bing. It has made the most of the explosion of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney that can automatically generate text, images and code. There are many reasons why the application of AI to search is intriguing. On a human level we suddenly have an interface that seems straight out of sci-fi: a dialogue-based personal assistant that can search the web for us and answer our questions. On a business level, Microsoft has shown us that these tools have the potential to shake up the online search market which is expected to be worth $256bn (€242bn) this year, and which is dominated by Google.

So which generative AI tool should you choose? There's no right or wrong answer here since each platform has its own pros and cons. On balance, we'd recommend Bing as it's the most feature-rich outside of image generation and coding suggestions. GitHub Copilot, meanwhile, is currently the best ChatGPT alternative for coding, but it's not free.

In a fair world, technology should be accessible to all and used for humanity's betterment. However, there is a growing concern that AI could be monopolised for vested interests by large corporations. This is why open sourcing is paramount. ChatGPT, the popular chatbot by OpenAI, has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in AI. In just five days since its launch, approximately one million individuals engaged with the bot and it is expected that the number will soon reach the billion mark.

These AI mishaps show how far this new technology still has to go. The use of artificial intelligence is growing at a tremendous rate, especially with the recent release of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT. Although AI comes with its perks, it also comes with its mishaps. That has especially been proven true with OpenAI's other artificial intelligence invention known as DALL-E. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER No, DALL-E is not the cousin of the beloved PIXAR robot WALL-E. DALL-E is a digital imaging learning model that was released back in 2021.

We (finally) killed the Hadoop box to reflect the gradual disappearance of the OG Big Data technology – the end of an era! We decided to keep it one last time in the MAD 2021 landscape to reflect the existing footprint. Hadoop is actually not dead, and parts of the Hadoop ecosystem are still being actively used. But it has declined enough that we decided to merge the various vendors and products supporting Hadoop into Data Lakes (and kept Hadoop and other related projects in our open source category). Speaking of data lakes, we rebranded that box to "Data Lakes/Lakehouses" to reflect the lakehouse trend (which we had discussed in the 2021 MAD landscape) In the ever-evolving world of databases, we created three new subcategories: GPU-accelerated Databases: Used for streaming data and real-time machine learning.