In the last 24 hours alone, we've had hoaxes, FTC complaints and… ads. We'll get into how Microsoft is bringing ads to its Bing chatbot – bound to happen – while OpenAI may have to halt ChatGPT releases in the face of FTC complaints. The nonprofit research organization, Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), says OpenAI's models are "biased, deceptive" and threaten privacy and public safety. The CAIDP says OpenAI also fails to meet Commission guidelines calling for AI to be transparent, fair and easy to explain. There's no guarantee the FTC will act on the complaint.

ChatGPT, the dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language, has become another icon in the disruptor ecosystem. Gaining over 1 million registered users in just 5 days, it has become the fastest growing tech platform ever. ChatGPT generates impressively detailed human-like written text and thoughtful prose, following a text input prompt. In addition, ChatGPT can write and hack code which is a potential major headache from an infosec point of view and has set the Web3 community on fire. Following the hype around ChatGPT, the race is now on between OpenAI's Chat GPT and Google's LaMDA to be the market leading NLP search tool for users and corporations moving forward.

Artificial intelligence offers exciting new ways to work and learn, but there are reasons to be careful. In nature, sometimes the prey becomes the predator. But in the case of larvae of the Epomis beetle, it wriggles around to attract frogs, then latches on and sucks the life out of them. This is how I'm feeling about artificial intelligence and ChatGPT in higher education just now. The positives are blinding us to the risks.

While some prominent voices in the tech industry are calling for a temporary pause in ChatGPT's upgrades, the CEO of America's largest crypto exchange Coinbase made it clear he opposes the move. "Count me among the people who think this is a bad idea," Brian Armstrong wrote in a recent tweet. "There are no'experts' to adjudicate this issue, and many disparate actors will never agree. Committees and bureaucracy won't solve anything." Armstrong's comments came shortly after the publication of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than GPT-4, the latest iteration of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot created by OpenAI.

There are a number of AI players in the market right now, including ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing AI Chat, and many more. However, all of them require you to have an internet connection to interact with the AI. What if you want to install a similar Large Language Model (LLM) on your computer and use it locally? An AI chatbot that you can use privately and without internet connectivity. Well, with the new Alpaca model released by Stanford, you can come close to that reality.

TaskMatrix.AI is an AI ecosystem that can connect foundation models with millions of APIs for task completion. Unlike most previous work that aimed to improve a single AI model, TaskMatrix.AI focuses more on using existing foundation models (as a brain-like central system) and APIs of other AI models and systems (as sub-task solvers) to achieve diversified tasks in both digital and physical domains. Visual ChatGPT is just an example of applying TaskMatrix.AI to the visual domain.

Microsoft has launched a tool to help cyber security professionals identify breaches, threat signals and better analyse data, using OpenAI's latest GPT-4 generative artificial intelligence model. The tool, named Security Copilot, is a simple prompt box that will help security analysts with tasks like summarising incidents, analysing vulnerabilities and sharing information with co-workers on a pinboard. The assistant will use Microsoft's security-specific model, which the company described as "a growing set of security-specific skills" that is fed with more than 65 trillion signals every day. The launch comes amid a flurry of announcements from Microsoft to integrate AI into its most popular offerings. The company has sought to outpace peers through multi-billion dollar investments in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, which recently released GPT-4 to perform a range of tasks from creating a real website through a hand-drawn mock-up to helping individuals calculate their taxes.

In our mind we're being thoughtfully quick,

Speed up your daily workflows by getting AI to write Python code in seconds. On March 14, 2023, OpenAI launched GPT-4, the newest and most powerful version of their language model. Within just hours of its launch, GPT-4 stunned people by turning a hand-drawn sketch into a functional website, passing the bar exam, and generating accurate summaries of Wikipedia articles. It also outperforms its predecessor, GPT-3.5, in solving math problems and answering questions based on logic and reasoning. ChatGPT, the chatbot which was built on top of GPT-3.5 and released to the public, was notorious for "hallucinating."

Inquiry-based learning (actuated by inquiry-based teaching questions) and project-based learning have long been recognized as powerful ways to engage students in meaningful, authentic learning experiences. By empowering students to ask questions, explore ideas, and create their own solutions, these approaches foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills that can benefit students long after they leave the classroom. As a teacher, I've seen firsthand the transformative impact that project-based learning and inquiry teaching can have on students. But I've also recognized the challenges that come with implementing these approaches effectively. From designing engaging projects to managing student inquiry, there are many factors that can make or break the success of these teaching strategies.