With ChatGPT unveiled in November, the tech industry has been working tirelessly to come up with their own version of "generative" artificial intelligence (AI). Google, Elon Musk, Meta, everyone is working on the Open AI tool killer. Now Alibaba, one of the largest e-commerce and cloud computing companies in the world, has recently unveiled its own generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, named Tongyi Qianwen. The model is similar to ChatGPT, the popular AI platform developed by OpenAI that can generate natural language texts based on user inputs. Alibaba plans to integrate Tongyi Qianwen into all its business applications soon, starting with its smart speaker Tmall Genie and its workplace messaging platform DingTalk.

This year millions of people have tried--and been wowed by-- artificial intelligence systems. When it launched last November, the chatbot became an instant hit among students, many of whom started using it to write essays and homework. Alarmed by an influx of AI-generated essays, schools around the world moved swiftly to ban the use of the technology. But there's an unexpected upside: ChatGPT has forced schools to quickly adapt and start teaching kids an ad hoc curriculum of AI 101. The big hope is that educators and policymakers will realize just how important it is to teach the next generation critical thinking skills around AI. Read the full story.

Now, the US government is trying to get a handle on things. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is asking for public comments on possible regulations to hold AI creators accountable. The measures will ideally help the Biden administration ensure these models work as promised "without causing harm," the NTIA says. Hopefully, they'll also speak to experts, too, and not just rely on the anonymous internet public. Get our daily audio briefings, Monday through Friday, by subscribing right here.

Artificial Intelligence poses both risks and rewards, but developers should be weary of technologies that could threaten "scary" outcomes, AI technologist says. The capacity of artificial intelligence systems to learn things even when they aren't explicitly taught those things will pose a significant challenge both to the companies creating and marketing these tools, and federal regulators tasked with protecting consumers who use them, a member of the Federal Trade Commission predicted. "Personally, and I say this with respect, I do not see the existential threats to our society that others do," FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said in recent speech made available this week. "Yet when you combine these statements with the unpredictability and inexplicability of these models, the sum total is something that we as consumer protection authorities have never reckoned with." Bedoya was speaking to the International Association of Privacy Professionals about the tendency of generative AI systems to pick up knowledge and intuition about subjects even when programmers aren't focusing on those topics.

Recorded Future, the intelligence company, announced the immediate general availability of the world's first AI for intelligence. With Recorded Future AI, organizations can get automatic assessments of their threat landscape in real time and take immediate action. Recorded Future has trained the OpenAI GPT model on a decade of expert insight from Insikt Group, the world's foremost threat intelligence analyst team, and combined that with the world's largest intelligence holdings built from over 100 terabytes of text, images, and technical data, the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud. The unique combination of the structured, real-time Intelligence Graph and GPT's language skills brings automated intelligence to a whole new level. "Ten years ago, we built Recorded Future to go beyond search, and organize the internet for analytics. We achieved that mission with the Intelligence Cloud, with its growth matching the speed of the internet and enabling countries and the world's foremost organizations with intelligence. Now, with Recorded Future AI, we believe we can eliminate the cyber skills shortage and increase the capacity for cyber readiness by immediately surfacing actionable intelligence."

Auto-GPT is a program that can update itself automatically using large language models like GPT-3.5. "Self-Prompting" or "Auto-Prompting" is technical jargon for this: the idea is to automate large language models to create useful agents.

OpenAI is turning to the public to find bugs in ChatGPT, announcing a "Bug Bounty Program" to reward people who report any security flaws, vulnerabilities or other issues within the AI system. The bounty is open to anyone from actual researchers to general people who just like exploring technology. Rewards come in the form of cash prizes with "low-severity findings" starting at $200 and "exceptional discoveries" going all the way up to $20,000. Bugcrowd, a bug bounty platform, is handling submissions and payouts. Google and Apple are among the tech companies that have previously implemented bug bounty programs.

Up until six months ago, artificial intelligence might not have squeaked into the top five areas of climatetech for most people. But the Cambrian explosion of large language models -- led by ChatGPT -- has suddenly hooked hundreds of millions of users, offered mind-boggling creative capabilities that have surprised almost everyone, and kicked off an AI arms race in the tech world. What are the most compelling applications for AI in energy? This week, we feature a live conversation with Priya Donti, MIT professor and executive director of Climate Change AI; Amy Francetic, managing general partner at Buoyant Ventures; and Jesse Morris, CEO of the Energy Web Foundation. In this episode, recorded at Greentown Labs in the Boston area, we explore the wide range of AI applications for grid modeling, renewable energy integration, research & development, and product development.

The fuss around artificial intelligence(AI) has recently been the bone of contention. In fact, AI is disrupting virtually all sectors. Imagine if we get to a point where AI does all your tasks for you. And you'd ask–what would be left for me to do? Sure, you'd still have to feed yourself and, perhaps, take your bath yourself. Who assigns those to AI? We're at such an exciting point in the world, and one of the generative AI tools making rounds recently is ChatGPT.

What is AI_GPT and its possible future role? ChatGPT is being heralded as a revolution in'artificial intelligence' (AI) and has been taking the media and tech world by storm since launching in late 2022. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT is "an artificial intelligence trained to assist with a variety of tasks." More specifically, it is a large language model (LLM) designed to produce human-like text and converse with people, hence the "Chat" in ChatGPT. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.