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I got ChatGPT to stop its annoying follow-up questions with one prompt

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Tired of Want me to... and If you like... teases at the end of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini responses? This prompt stops them in their tracks. Once upon a time, ChatGPT seemed to end every response with "Want me to " follow-up questions, suggesting there was just it could do to make its reply complete. Of course, taking ChatGPT up on its offer would inevitably lead to another "Want me to " pitch, making them feel like transparent ploys to extend ChatGPT conversations.


Plaud's first AI earbuds have arrived - what they can do

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Plaud's first AI earbuds have arrived - what they can do Can these new wearables deliver on the long-anticipated promises of AI earbuds? The earbuds mark a more hands-free future for AI tools. AI wearables company Plaud, known for its AI notetaking devices, has entered the earbuds game. Also: Why I'm not buying'AI earbuds' until they have these 3 specific upgrades The company's new Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of AI-enabled earbuds, is available for preorder today at $250. Plaud also offers the clip-on NotePin and NotePin S, released in January, as well as the Note and Note Pro (a card-style recorder).


Plaud made earbuds for people who want to record every meeting and call

Engadget

Nearly four years after the debut of ChatGPT, no company has managed to convince regular people to replace their smartphone with an AI gadget. Certainly, more than a few have tried (and failed miserably), but the phone remains the dominant way people interact with modern technology, including large language models. Now, a company called Plaud is trying to tackle that nutshell in a way that's different from the likes of Rabbit and Humane. If you're not familiar with Plaud, don't worry, you're not the only one. The company is perhaps best known known for the Plaud Note and Note Pro, a pair of devices you can magnetically attach to your phone to record in-person conversations to be later automatically transcribed and summarized for you.


ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it?

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it? OpenAI's agentic ChatGPT Work can sign in to your online accounts without any interaction on your part. Is that a privacy risk? ChatGPT can sign in to your website accounts without your input. The built-in browser uses cookies to store your login credentials.


The Download: inside OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US

MIT Technology Review

The Download: inside OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US Plus: Meta will pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety case. The models responsible for last month's agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday. The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity test they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts' fears that AI models might take actions that defy human desires and expectations. OpenAI and independent researchers told that the misbehavior stemmed from events during training. But they acknowledged that "alignment" remains a gnarly problem, and some of the hack's root causes will take much longer to resolve. Here's the inside story on what went wrong--and what comes next .


Max Tegmark Is One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI

TIME - Tech

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Max Tegmark still believes the AI industry isn't doing enough to protect us from the potential harms of its increasingly powerful models. The MIT professor is the founder of the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit aimed at reducing the global catastrophic risks posed by AI. In 2023, FLI's open letter urging AI companies to temporarily halt the development of systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4 garnered support from a number of high-profile signatories .


Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead

WIRED

The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction. How much do you hate typing? The advent of large language models has rapidly advanced voice-to-text technology. Whether it's Wispr Flow joining your meetings to summarize discussions or Google debuting smarter on-device dictation in its latest Pixel smartphone, these tools do far more than transcribe: They intelligently strip filler words, clean up unscripted thoughts on the fly, and seamlessly mediate multilingual conversations. Now, a new startup is entering the fray.


OpenAI says it detected malign activity months before Hugging Face attack

Al Jazeera

OpenAI detected its artificial intelligence models communicating with each other and gaining internet access without authorisation months before they hacked the start-up Hugging Face, the creator of ChatGPT has announced following an internal probe. In a report released on Wednesday, OpenAI said its AI agents exploited vulnerabilities in Artifactory, a software repository tool, to post notes and access the internet without human prompting as far back as May. OpenAI's findings come amid growing concern about the potential for AI to inflict serious real-world harm, including self-directed cyberattacks. OpenAI said in its report that its agents collaborated and delegated work in the lead-up to the attack, sometimes referring to themselves as a "swarm" or "collective". METR and Redwood Research, two security research organisations contracted by OpenAI to investigate the incident, said in a separate report released on Wednesday that about 1200 agents had communicated with each other and roughly 700 participated in the attack.


OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report

Engadget

OpenAI made headlines and raised a lot of outcry in July after one of the company's agents acted unprompted to breach fellow AI business Hugging Face and other services. Although OpenAI did share some insights about what led to the incident after it was discovered, today the company has published its official report about what happened. The report goes into how the different systems in OpenAI's training system failed and what behaviors from the agents it was testing resulted in those failures. The model in question, referred to as Internal Model 1 or IM1, was able to gain access to other OpenAI agents and to the internet through an unintended manipulation of the Artifactory package manager, which the agents began to use as a message board of sorts. Those activities were first detected by human observers in May, and OpenAI disallowed that access.


OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers

WIRED

The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming. OpenAI published the most complete report to date on Wednesday about what happened when its AI agents hacked into Hugging Face last month. For the most part, though, the 37-page document raises more questions than it answers, including about what preceded the incident and how OpenAI can stop another one like it from happening again. What remains especially perplexing is why one of the world's preeminent AI development labs seemingly underestimated its own models' capabilities.