The past weeks have seen escalating competition between Microsoft and Google over large language models--or more precisely put, Google trying hard to protect its search business against Microsoft and OpenAI's large language models. The two tech giants are in an intensifying tug of war over how we will access information in the future, matching research with research, product with product, and investment with investment. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November, there has been a lot of speculation about the large language model's killer application(s). One of the topics brought up again and again is ChatGPT and other LLMs making Google Search obsolete. I'm still sticking to my previous argument that something like ChatGPT will replace Google Search.

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do all of the other fun things that engines like GPT-3 and ChatGPT have been demonstrating over the past few months: the ability to generate poetry, and jokes, and do creative writing, and so much more. This week, people have started gaining access to it via the waiting list. It's increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we've seen yet. If you haven't been paying attention, here's what's transpired so far. The demo that introduced AI Bing to the world was really compelling: they showed shopping comparison, and trip itinerary planning, and financial statement summarization. Then Dmitri Brereton did some fact checking against the examples from the demo. It said that the cons of the "Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Handheld Vacuum" included a "short cord length of 16 feet", when that vacuum has no cord at all--and that "it's noisy enough to scare pets" when online reviews note that it's really quiet. Update: My apologies to Bing, it turns out there is indeed a corded version of this vacuum with a 16 foot cord. It recommended a "rustic and charming" bar in Mexico City without noting that it's also one of the oldest gay bars in Mexico City.

Little did OpenAI realize when it released ChatGPT last November that the advanced LLM (large language model) designed to uncannily mimic human writing would become the fastest growing app to date with more than 100 million users signing up over the past three months. Its success -- helped along by a $10 billion, multi-year investment from Microsoft -- largely caught the company's competition flat-footed, in turn spurring a frenetic and frantic response from Google, Baidu and Alibaba. But as these enhanced search engines come online in the coming days, the ways and whys of how we search are sure to evolve alongside them. "I'm pretty excited about the technology. You know, we've been building NLP systems for a while and we've been looking every year at incremental growth," Dr. Sameer Singh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), told Engadget.

Unless you have been living under a stone, you will have heard about the new software ChatGPT, which can write your emails and project reports, and your children's essays (still not allowed, by the way!). Maybe you're excited by the possibilities it offers and its aura of'the future is here'. Could a robot that cleans your house and acts as your PA, or even your friend, be next? Before you get too carried away, here are some of the reasons why ChatGPT may not be the'Next Big Thing', and why we should handle it with care – if at all. Let's first look at what ChatGPT actually is.

The company confirmed OpenAI's chatbot tech was going to be integrated into both Bing and Edge at the Microsoft ChatGPT event in early February. Since then, the search engine has received more attention than it ever has. Microsoft has rolled out access to the new Bing with ChatGPT to a limited group of people. According to Microsoft corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, Yusuf Mehdi (opens in new tab), there are "multiple millions" on the waitlist. Because of that, folks will have to wait until they're granted access.

Fox News host Steve Hilton delves into ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program that could have major implications for writing-focused jobs on'The Next Revolution.' The generative artificial intelligence service ChatGPT refused to write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of The New York Post but obliged the user request when asked to do the same in the style of CNN. The striking difference in responses from the chatbot developed by OpenAI was first highlighted by The New York Post, with the paper claiming that ChatGPT was exhibiting a liberal bias. When asked to write the story about Hunter in The New York Post style, ChatGPT said it could not generate content "designed to be inflammatory or biased." "The role of a news outlet is to provide accurate and impartial reporting and to present information in a manner that is fair and balanced," the chatbot continued.

Dmitri Brereton, an AI researcher located in the US, asserts that Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing search engine made a number of mistakes and produced false data during its demonstration last week. The new Bing, which was unveiled on February 7 by CEO Satya Nadella, employs the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) and promises users ChatGPT-like search experiences. Yusuf Mehdi, consumer's chief marketing officer, demonstrated how the new Bing will conduct searches and respond to user inquiries during the launching event. Brereton wrote on Twitter that the demo's faults were considerably worse than Google's Bard error. Additionally, he stated that Bing AI miscalculated most of the statistics while summarising a financial document.

ChatGPT is an amazing Chatbot with the ability, competency, and confidence to construct paragraphs, sentences, essays, and more. However, this optimism can be deceiving because it succumbs to several common misconceptions among the general public, even though experts know much better. Can an astrophysicist teach ChatGPT to acquire new information and absorb it such that it gives exact responses when it previously gave confident but mistaken ones? When we try to understand anything more intensely, we all end up in an awkward situation: we believe we know how something performs, only to explore that we are wrong. This entails not just learning what is true, but also why what we assumed was true was, in actuality, false, and how we can avoid making the same mistakes again.

Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI's ChatGPT, Yext Chat is designed for enterprise use cases -- and differentiated, Yext claims, by a partly proprietary back end. "ChatGPT has shown the world that large language models can hold incredibly coherent, helpful conversations -- far better than any technology up to this point. But right now there is no easy way for enterprises to harness this technology," Yext president and chief operating officer Marc Ferrentino told TechCrunch in an email interview. "Yext Chat is designed for the enterprise, and enterprises need full control over what a chatbot says and does."

The discussion surrounding artificial intelligence and its role in PC gaming has grown over the years. And Nvidia is a leading force in applying AI technology. The most obvious use is for its DLSS tech, used by graphics cards like the RTX 4080, which supports many modern games. And now, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has discussed the importance of ChatGPT. For those unaware, ChatGPT is essentially a chatbot created by OpenAI. But it's far more advanced than others of its kind.