Shutterstock, one of the internet's biggest sources of stock photos and illustrations, is now offering its customers the option to generate their own AI images. In October, the company announced a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of the wildly popular and controversial DALL-E AI tool. Now, the results of that deal are in beta testing and available to all paying Shutterstock users. The new platform is available in "every language the site offers," and comes included with customers' existing licensing packages, according to a press statement from the company. And, according to Gizmodo's own test, every text prompt you feed Shutterstock's machine results in four images, ostensibly tailored to your request.

BuzzFeed Inc. said it would rely on ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences, becoming the latest digital publisher to embrace artificial intelligence. In a memo to staff sent Thursday morning, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said he intends for AI to play a larger role in the company's editorial and business operations this year.

Azure AI is driving innovation and improving experiences for employees, users, and customers in a variety of ways, from increasing workday productivity to promoting inclusion and accessibility. The success of Azure AI--featuring Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure OpenAI Service--is built on a foundation of Microsoft Research, a wide range of Azure products that have been tested at scale within Microsoft apps, and Azure customers who use these services for the benefit of their end users. As 2023 begins, we are excited to highlight 10 use cases where Azure AI is utilized within Microsoft and beyond. Speech transcription and captioning in Microsoft Teams is powered by Azure Cognitive Services for Speech. Microsoft achieved human parity in conversational speech recognition when it reached an error rate of 5.9 percent.

When ChatGPT debuted, it literally stopped the internet. Developed by OpenAI, GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a machine learning model that uses a transformer neural network to generate natural language text. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT has had more than 1 million users since its debut within a few days of its launch on November 30, 2022. Fifteen days later, more than two million users were already testing OpenAI's service. People everywhere were sharing their results on Twitter, LinkedIn and other channels.

Some exercise nuts think they've found a way to do that: by using the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a sort of proxy personal trainer. Created by OpenAI, it can be coaxed to churn out everything from love poems to legal documents. Now these athletes are using it to make all the relentless running more fun. Some entrepreneurs are even packaging up ChatGPT fitness plans and selling them. ChatGPT answers questions in seconds, saving the need to sift through tons of information.

If you find a photo in an article, it probably came from Shutterstock, the largest source of online stock images. Recently, it opened access to AI-generated pictures. The new feature came after the company partnered with OpenAI, the creator of the popular AI image creator DALL-E. It is available to all users with paid Shutterstock subscriptions in "every language the site offers." Also, they do not have to worry about potential intellectual property issues.

He said so himself, in a post-Davos blog post on LinkedIn. ChatGPT "was the buzzword at this year's event," Adani wrote in the post, caveating that he "must admit to some addiction since I started using it." It might be threatening all of our jobs, but ChatGPT can be very fun. Also to Adani's credit, a quick scroll through venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's Twitter feed demonstrates that Adani isn't the only extremely wealthy person who's having a hard time logging off the chatbot. Investors have made their love for generative AI like ChatGPT loud and clear -- particularly on LinkedIn and Twitter, where the hype cycle is alive and well.

The potential is huge, which is why Microsoft is extending its partnership with OpenAI through a "multiyear, multibillion dollar investment"--reportedly a $10 billion outlay that would value the company at near $30 billion. One can imagine a future where everyone has a "generative A.I." assistant that offers quick solutions to business challenges, writes instant computer code based on verbal commands, and conjures up art and video on demand. But the downsides are clear as well. ChatGPT is often wrong, and provides no attribution or sourcing for its information. It has made it instantly easier to saturate the Internet with invasive ads and dubious information, and has opened up a whole new superhighway for cheating in schools.

A professor at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania has given a theoretical B-grade pass to ChatGPT after marking the answers it generated for a final exam in a typical MBA course. OpenAI's chatbot is set an exam by a Wharton professor, but what does the result mean for the future of education?

Early evidence is in usage of a little-discussed tool that can write computer code for programmers, called GitHub Copilot. Opened up to the public in June of last year, the tool drew 400,000 subscribers within a month. On Tuesday, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said that more than 1 million people had used Copilot to date. Microsoft shares dipped slightly in after-hours trade on Tuesday following its forecast that cloud-computing revenue in the current quarter was just below Wall Street expectations. Yet the growth in Copilot is a preliminary indication that people will pay for so-called generative AI, tech that can produce prose, imagery or in this case computer code on command after having learned the skill from vast data.