AI text generation is the hot ticket right now, and Newegg is ready to jump on the bandwagon. In addition to using the popular ChatGPT program for generating website text like product descriptions and customer service chat, the PC-focused web store is integrating the AI system into its PC Builder tool, which first went live last year. Predictably, the tool was already suggesting builds for gaming desktops that were kind of ridiculous. The AI version of the tool doesn't seem to be any better. As PC Gamer notes, the conversation-style text inputs make ChatGPT and Newegg spit out results that are, quote, "extortionate."

Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other big tech companies are rushing to incorporate generative AI into more of their products as regular people, Wall Street investors and the companies' customers have grown incredibly interested in the technology. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI, a smaller company that kicked off the latest AI wave by publicly launching its DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot. Since then, it has integrated ChatGPT-based tech into its Bing search engine, productivity tools such as Word and Excel and cloud software that it sells to other businesses.

For years now, "artificial intelligence" has been a hot buzzword in the cybersecurity industry, promising tools that spot suspicious behavior on a network, quickly figure out what's going on, and guide incident response if there's an intrusion. The most credible and useful of services, though, have actually been machine learning algorithms trained to spot characteristics of malware and other dubious network activity. Now, as generative AI tools proliferate, Microsoft says it has finally built a service for defenders that's worthy of all the hype. Two weeks ago, the company launched Microsoft 365 Copilot, which builds on a partnership with OpenAI along with Microsoft's own work on large language models. The company is rolling out Security Copilot, a sort of security field notebook that integrates system data and network monitoring from security tools like Microsoft Sentinel and Defender and even third-party services.

There's a long list of tools that AI has been applied to: AI art, AI chatbots, even AI assistants to control your home. Now, Microsoft is adding AI security to the list, too, with its new Security Copilot feature. If you've ever managed (or, likelier, probably haven't) your own security on your PC, you're probably aware of little more than making sure your antivirus is up to date. If your PC is hacked, though, it's an entirely different story. Suddenly, you're thrust into an unfamiliar world which requires several stressful, immediate decisions that you have to make correctly.

With the surging demand for generative AI, this week saw preparatory developments for the next wave of AI. Companies are fast-tracking the development of AI products, and generative AI tools are closer to becoming consumer products than ever before. They are already becoming powerful assistants for writers and programmers and rapidly taking on more challenges. The open-source community is also making significant progress in running local LLMs. For instance, Facebook's LLama model has continued to be a focal point for building in the academic and open source community following the leaked weights on 4Chan.

Artificial intelligence (AI) language models like ChatGPT, BLOOM, and OPT-175B are a hot topic of conversation in academic circles. What are they? Should they be allowed in educational settings? Will they make us dumber? Will their use lead to widespread cheating? Can we use them to promote critical thinking and writing skills? How? To answer these questions, let's ask ChatGPT.

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. As Arthur C. Clarke once put it, any sufficiently advanced technology is "indistinguishable from magic." Some might say this is true of ChatGPT, too -- including, if you will, black magic. Immediately upon its launch in November, security teams, pen testers and developers began discovering exploits in the AI chatbot -- and those continue to evolve with its newest iteration, GPT-4, released earlier this month. "GPT-4 won't invent a new cyberthreat," said Hector Ferran, VP of marketing at BlueWillow AI. "But just as it is being used by millions already to augment and simplify a myriad of mundane daily tasks, so too could it be used by a minority of bad actors to augment their criminal behavior."

This is part two of a two part series. Please see the first part if you're unfamiliar with PyBullet. We'll want our environment to be neatly structured so that others can install it with pip and run it quickly as any other OpenAI Gym environment. A complete tutorial on packaging projects can be found in the Python documentation. The following segment is mostly boilerplate and can be skimmed; it is roughly what is covered here, tailored to out environment -- viewing that link is encouraged.

Young people catch heat for being overly focused on personal identity, but they've got nothing on ChatGPT. Toy with the bot long enough, and you'll notice that it has an awkward, self-regarding tic: "As an AI language model," it often says, before getting to the heart of the matter. This tendency is especially pronounced when you query ChatGPT about its own strengths and weaknesses. "As an AI language model, my primary function is …" The workings of AI language models are by nature mysterious, but one can guess why ChatGPT responds this way. The bot smashes our questions into pieces and evaluates each for significance, looking for the crucial first bit that shapes the logical order of its response.

Administrative and legal sectors are expected to be the most impacted, with 46% of administrative jobs and 44% of legal jobs being substitutable by AI. In contrast, physically-intensive professions such as construction and maintenance have a lower exposure of 6% and 4%, respectively, as reported by CNBCTV18. Meanwhile, AI is also seen as a tool to enhance economic growth. According to Goldman Sachs, AI could potentially increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period. Significant labor cost savings, new job creation, and higher productivity for non-displaced workers are seen as the areas that will boost growth. The research also shows that AI will impact roughly half of the activities people do across all sectors, and nearly all occupations will be affected by automation.