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Instead of writing myself a bland, general introductory paragraph about what generative AI and ChatGPT are, I asked ChatGPT to explain that to me. Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that are able to generate new content that is similar in style or content to a given input. This can include tasks such as generating text, images, or audio. Generative AI systems are fascinating because they have the potential to create new and creative content that can be used in a variety of applications, such as generating news articles, creating art, or even generating realistic-sounding dialogue for virtual assistants. One of the main milestones in the development of generative AI has been the development of large language models, such as GPT-3 (short for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3").

Educators concerned that the viral popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT will lead to waves of generic-sounding, mostly AI-written essays might have reason to relax. Princeton student Edward Tian devoted a portion of his holiday to writing GPTZero -- an application that can identify text authored by artificial intelligence. Tian posted a couple of proof-of-concept videos on January 2nd demonstrating GPTZero's capabilities. First, it determined that a human authored a New Yorker article; then, it correctly identified ChatGPT as the author of a Facebook post. GPTZero scores text on its "perplexity and burstiness" – referring to how complicated it is and how randomly it is written.

Venture capitalists are in the business of predicting the next big thing, even if they get burned in the process. While everyone piled onto crypto in 2021 -- and many remain bullish about its future despite multiple failures this year -- 2022 saw the rise of generative AI. But as is the case with any transformative new tech, hype is sure to accompany growing adoption, and generative AI has garnered so much attention and money that many VCs already feel the budding sector will be the next bubble. TechCrunch recently surveyed more than 35 investors working in different geographies, investment stages and sectors about how they were feeling about next year. One of our questions sought their prediction of where the next bubble would be, and almost half of those surveyed mentioned generative AI.

When the pandemic lockdowns started, I predicted bad things for art. Stuck in quarantine, the art commentariat flocked to every digital craze under the sun. What else were we going to talk about but pixels and bits? After all, digital utopians thrive on institutional collapse. 'Art as we know it will be fundamentally disrupted by blockchain', was a common refrain.

Generative AI bots have been taking the internet by storm, allowing anybody with a network connection to put in a prompt and watch a piece of software complete it. The latest trendy bot is ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, which has generated conversations, scripts, text-based games, and even fully-fledged articles to varying degrees of success. DALL-E 2 and Midjourney are other popular programs that produce images based on text prompts, and there are countless more. There are a lot of ethical questions surrounding the use of AI-based tools in creative work, but in video game development, they're only getting more popular. According to George Jijiashvili, an analyst at Game Developer sibling company Omdia, AI tools will be "the hottest topic in games tech" in game development over the next year, with startups launching to fill the space.

OpenAI, the research lab behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot, is in talks to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at around $29 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, making it one of the most valuable U.S. startups on paper despite generating little revenue. Venture-capital firms Thrive Capital and Founders Fund are in talks to invest in the deal, which would total at least $300 million in share sales, the people said. The deal is structured as a tender offer, with the investors buying shares from existing shareholders such as employees, the people said.

Microsoft is reportedly in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI. The Information reported the news on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans. Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, in the hopes of challenging Google's search engine, the Information reported. Microsoft said in a blog post last year that it planned to integrate image-generation software from its image creation software, Dall-E 2, into Bing. OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.

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Artificial intelligence got creative in 2022, generating impressive text, videos and pictures from scratch. It is also our top tech prediction for 2023. But aside from being a source of fascination, it is also one of fear. Beyond writing essays and creating images, AI will affect every industry from banking to health care but it is not without its biases, which can prove harmful. This is how AI may evolve in 2023 and what to watch out for.