If it sounds a bit like an evolved version of a voice assistant like Apple's Siri, that's because it is. "Siri was basically this but just a much smaller scale, and because it was a much smaller scale it couldn't get to similar level of sophistication," says Henry Innis, chief executive of Australian AI marketing analytics start-up Mutinex. A common indicator of the sophistication of an AI system is how many parameters -- the values that control how it learns and ingests information -- it has. Apple doesn't disclose how many Siri has but the progression of OpenAI's systems gives an indication of how fast things are moving. OpenAI's GPT-2 system, released in 2019, had 1.5 billion.

In brief OpenAI released a new language model named ChatGPT this week, which is designed to mimic human conversations. The model is based on the company's latest text-generation GPT-3.5 system released earlier this year. ChatGPT is more conversational than previous versions. It can ask users follow-up questions and refrain from responding to inappropriate inputs instead of just generating text. Some examples show ChatGPT won't provide dangerous advice when prompted and can try to correct wrong statements.

It's the little engine that could … bring down Google and perhaps the human race. A tech company has developed a state-of-the-art AI chatbot so sophisticated that it could render search engines -- not to mention countless jobs -- obsolete. Unveiled last week by the OpenAI company, ChatGPT has already amassed more than 1 million users worldwide with its advanced functions, which range from instantaneously composing complex essays and computer code to drafting marketing pitches and interior decorating schemes. It can even whip up poems and jokes -- an ability previously thought to be relegated to humans. In fact, ChatGPT's capabilities have sparked fears that Google might not have an online search monopoly for much longer.

Who knew artificial intelligence could be so entertaining? Case in point is ChatGPT, a free AI chatbot that has probably been all over your social feeds lately. "Who was George Washington Carver?" But it can get creative, too: "Write a movie script of a taco fighting a hot dog on the beach" generates a thrilling page of dialogue, humor and action worthy of YouTube, if not quite Netflix: Taco: "So you think you can take me, hot dog? You're nothing but a processed meat product with no flavor."

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Imagine if Siri could write you a college essay, or Alexa could spit out a movie review in the style of Shakespeare. OpenAI last week opened up access to ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with users in an eerily convincing and conversational way. Its ability to provide lengthy, thoughtful and thorough responses to questions and prompts – even if inaccurate – has stunned users, including academics and some in the tech industry. The tool quickly went viral. On Monday, Open AI's co-founder Sam Altman, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, said on Twitter that ChatGPT crossed one million users.

OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do--from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. As the erudite machinery turns into a viral sensation, humans have started to discover some of the AI's biases, like the desire to wipe out humanity. Yesterday, BleepingComputer ran a piece listing 10 coolest things you can do with ChatGPT. And, that doesn't even begin to cover all use cases like having the AI compose music for you [1, 2]. Within six days of its launch, ChatGPT surpassed a million users to the extent its servers couldn't keep up.

Runway's cofounders (from left) Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz and Cristóbal Valenzuela are immigrants who met while studying as art students at New York University. Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million valuation, Forbes has learned. Felicis is leading the new funding, the sources said, which comes on the heels of a boom in generative AI that has captured the public's attention in recent months thanks to releases that also include OpenAI's Dall-E and ChatGPT. Runway quickly emerged as one of the buzziest startups in the mix with its video editing software, for which the company has been releasing a bevy of generative AI features. For example, from a photo of a forest, a user can type a short text phrase into Runway's software and instantly conjure a lake or a castle among the trees.

Many observers are marveling at ChatGPT's prospects as a replacement for traditional search engines, and human jobs like tutoring and economics punditry. But while this chatbot can in some cases be more helpful in tackling a coding problem than your Intro to Python 101 classmates, it probably isn't coming for your 9-to-5 any time soon. It even says so itself.

There has been a surge of interest in what generative AI can do. But what does this technology really mean for the legal sector? To find out we must navigate a path between'Death of the Lawyer 2.0' hysteria and those who dismiss the whole thing as a gimmick. Artificial Lawyer looks at what this tech can really do. Generative AI (gen AI), working via Large Language Models such as OpenAI's GPT-3, can do some amazing things.