A vulnerability in the redis-py open-source library was at the root of last week's ChatGPT data leak, OpenAI has confirmed. Not only were some ChatGPT users able to see what other users have been using the AI chatbot for, but limited personal and billing information ended up getting revealed, as well. ChatGPT suffered an outage on March 20 and then problems with making conversation history accessible to users. "During a nine-hour window on March 20, 2023, another ChatGPT user may have inadvertently seen your billing information when clicking on their own'Manage Subscription' page," OpenAI notified 1.2% of the ChatGPT Plus subscribers via email. "The billing information another user might have seen consisted of your first and last name, billing address, credit card type, credit card expiration date, and the last four digits of your credit card. The information did not include your full credit card number, and we have no evidence that any customer information was viewed by more than one other ChatGPT user."

The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Calls to suspend new ChatGPT releases and investigate its maker OpenAI over a range of risks for privacy, cybersecurity and disinformation are growing on both sides of the Atlantic. Elon Musk and dozens of AI experts this week called for a pause to updates of ChatGPT.

ChatGPT has proved enormously popular since its launch at the end of last year. People have used the artificial intelligence for all manner of things, from writing work reports to creating diet plans to applying for jobs. But what can't the bot do? MailOnline looks at five functions that ChatGPT is unable to perform, from playing the popular online game Wordle to remembering its own name. It also cannot give advice on prescription medicines or write accurate news articles -- although some supporters say it is only amount of time until it can do the latter.

Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more popular on the internet, and we hear about new AI advancements almost every day. However, most of the news we hear about AI developments is related to ChatGPT. This might come as a surprise to some, as even trillion-dollar tech companies are still lagging behind OpenAI when it comes to AI technology. However, Google is now looking to change this. The CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced that they will be upgrading Bard AI to more capable models next week.

By now, plenty of us know that artificially intelligent virtual assistants like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard can pull off sensational stunts, such as winning coding contests, passing bar exams and professing love to a tech columnist. But I wondered: How helpful are the bots, really, as actual assistants? Older A.I. bots like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa had more than a decade to improve, but they ended up stagnating and are now used mostly for setting timers and playing music. ChatGPT and Bard, on the other hand, use so-called large language models that recognize and generate text based on enormous data sets scraped off the web. They are trained to compose sentences on the fly as if they were human, which potentially makes them far more versatile as assistants.

Microsoft is introducing new chat applications that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help cybersecurity teams thwart assaults and avert intrusions. They are a part of the most recent wave of AI software releases from Microsoft and go by the name Copilots. The most recent version of Copilot uses data specific to security to find links between hacking components more quickly, as well as OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 language system. It can, for instance, be used to find connections between a questionable email, a malicious software file, or the vulnerable areas of a system. The Security Copilot depends on data from governmental agencies and Microsoft experts who keep an eye on nation-states and cybercriminal organisations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work, and the finance department is no exception. Chat GPT-4, developed by OpenAI, is a machine learning-based language model designed to understand and generate text in response to user queries. It is emerging as a new tool capable of assisting finance professionals in their daily tasks. After a week of testing Chat GPT-4 on various daily use cases within financial departments, OpenAI's solution stands out for its ability to adapt and offer relevant solutions in various contexts. The presentation of our test results is divided into two parts.

Google is hoping to usher a new era of searching for information on the internet with its new AI chatbot, Bard. The tech giant has rush-released Bard just months after the release of its hugely successful rival ChatGPT created by California AI firm OpenAI, backed by Microsoft. Microsoft has been melding ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, which once posed a rival to Google Search before falling well behind. Google execs are said to have declared a'code red' – an emergency situation – over fears ChatGPT could now end Google's $150-billion-a-year search business monopoly. MailOnline has fed both bots the same seven questions to see how their skills compare – and whether Google's solution can quell the hype around ChatGPT.

OpenAI has taken ChatGPT offline in Italy after the government's Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application's suspected breach of privacy rules. The agency, also known as Garante, accused Microsoft-backed OpenAI of failing to check the age of ChatGPT's users who are supposed to be aged 13 or above. ChatGPT has an "absence of any legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data" to "train" the chatbot, Garante said. OpenAI has 20 days to respond with remedies or could risk a fine of up to 20 million euros ($21.68 million) or 4% of its annual worldwide turnover. OpenAI said it has disabled ChatGPT for users in Italy at the request of the Garante.

In case you have been somewhere else in the solar system, here is a brief AI news update. My apologies if it sounds like the opening paragraph of a bad science fiction novel. On 14 March 2023, OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco and part owned by Microsoft, released an AI system called GPT-4. On 22 March, a report by a distinguished group of researchers at Microsoft, including two members of the US National Academies, claimed that GPT-4 exhibits "sparks of artificial general intelligence". On 29 March, the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit headed by the MIT physics professor Max Tegmark, released an open letter asking for a pause on "giant AI experiments". It has been signed by well-known figures such as Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak, and the Turing award-winner Yoshua Bengio, as well as hundreds of prominent AI researchers.