The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using published news articles to train its artificial intelligence chatbots without an agreement that compensates it for its intellectual property. The NYT did not specify how much it seeks in payout from the companies but that "this action seeks to hold them responsible for the billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages." The NYT claims that OpenAI and Microsoft, the makers of Chat GPT and Copilot, "seek to free-ride on The Times's massive investment in its journalism" without having any licensing agreements. In one part of the complaint, the NYT highlights that its domain (www.nytimes.com) It alleges more than 66 million records, ranging from breaking news articles to op-eds, published across the NYT websites and other affiliated brands were used to train the AI models.

We may start to find out in 2024. In the US, there are nine separate class-action lawsuits against AI firms, including OpenAI, Meta and Google parent company Alphabet. One of those, Getty Images vs Stability AI, is also being tried in the High Court in London.

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The "large language models" (LLMs) behind AI tools such as ChatGPT work by ingesting huge amounts of text scraped from the internet, learning the connections between words and concepts, and then developing the ability to predict what word to say next in a sentence, allowing them to mimic human speech and writing. OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have refused to reveal what goes into their newest models, but previous LLMs have been shown to include large amounts of content from news organizations and catalogues of books.

The US news organisation claims millions of its articles were used without permission to train ChatGPT.

I was dreading buying Christmas gifts this year. My family tends to buy things they need as they go, and my sister would kill me if I bought her another sweater. So when my editor suggested I use ChatGPT to plan my Christmas shopping for me and write about it, I jumped at the opportunity. And I figured it was a win-win. If its suggested gifts were good, I wouldn't need to worry about coming up with present ideas for another 12 months! If they were a disaster, it would be a good opportunity to showcase how rudimentary artificial intelligence is (I'm extremely skeptical about the predictions of AI enslaving us in the future).

In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Times said the technology companies exploited its content without permission to create their AI products, including OpenAI's humanlike chatbot ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot. The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users' prompts.

Making dinner reservations can be stressful and time-consuming, but thankfully help may soon be on the way. From as early as next year ChatGPT will be able to call restaurants and make bookings, according to an AI expert. Aidan Meller, director of the Ai-Da robot project, thinks a big update to the popular AI is due in 2024. Mr Meller says that the chatbot will soon be able to take actions in the world, rather than just act as a text editor. The last update to ChatGPT, version 4, came in the Spring of this year and has raised hopes for big improvements in version 5. ChatGPT's next update could give it the ability to call up restaurants and make reservations on your behalf without any need for you to intervene While non-paying users still make do with version ChatGPT 3.5, version 4 brought improved memory and also enabled data-to-text functions.

Microsoft, a notoriously conservative and slow-moving giant, is bringing artificial intelligence right into the heart of Windows. But. after investing a total of $13 billion in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI (and acquiring a 49 percent stake in the process), will AI actually make its products better? Bing Chat officially kicked off its year of AI, while Copilot, assisting with its AI smarts, subsequently launched on Edge, Microsoft 365 products like Word and Powerpoint and eventually Windows 11. While the AI interactions aren't perfect, the one constant around AI is that everything is changing incredibly quickly. Microsoft has already announced Copilot will be upgraded with the more powerful GPT-4 Turbo and Dall-E 3 models.

As wildfire activity reaches record levels, the tech integration company SAIC is developing artificial intelligence technology that can help predict when they'll happen, how to stop them, and how to keep folks safe. A long list of new products and developments made 2023 possibly the biggest year yet for artificial intelligence, with major tech companies breaking into action and everyday consumers becoming increasingly aware of the rapidly developing technology. "2023 was a banner year for AI in that we saw both investment and public interest explode," Samuel Mangold-Lenett, a staff editor at The Federalist, told Fox News Digital. "We also saw how AI can revolutionize every aspect of every major industry. From defense to finance to dating apps, AI proved it's here to stay."