Microsoft on Monday said it had extended its partnership with OpenAI, the research lab and creator of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that has sparked widespread fears of cheating in schools and universities. In a company blog post tweeted by CEO Satya Nadella, the tech giant announced a "multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs" that would be "broadly shared with the world." OpenAI's ChatGPT became an internet sensation when it was released without warning in November, allowing users to experiment with its ability to write essays, articles and poems as well as computer code in just seconds. With teachers alarmed by its ability, ChatGPT is banned in universities and school districts - including in New York City and Washington DC - and has sparked nervous debates about the future of office work. California-based OpenAI is also the creator of DALL-E, a program that can swiftly draw up digital images and illustrations at a simple request.

We decided to have some fun with ChatGPT, the scary-good chatbot from OpenAI that's been garnering headlines. We fed it a fake letter, cobbled together with common tropes, and asked it to reply in a few different ways. I'm recently engaged and in the throes of planning my early 2024 wedding. My handsome fiancé, the timing, my mother's own hand-me-down ring--it's all felt like a perfect fairytale. Until I heard what my mother-in-law has in store for us.

On January 18, Time magazine published revelations that alarmed if not necessarily surprised many who work in Artificial Intelligence. The news concerned ChatGPT, an advanced AI chatbot that is both hailed as one of the most intelligent AI systems built to date and feared as a new frontier in potential plagiarism and the erosion of craft in writing. Many had wondered how ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, had improved upon earlier versions of this technology that would quickly descend into hate speech. The answer came in the Time magazine piece: dozens of Kenyan workers were paid less than $2 per hour to process an endless amount of violent and hateful content in order to make a system primarily marketed to Western users safer. It should be clear to anyone paying attention that our current paradigm of digitalisation has a labour problem. We have and are pivoting away from the ideal of an open internet built around communities of shared interests to one that is dominated by the commercial prerogatives of a handful of companies located in specific geographies.

Tel-Aviv-based AI21 Labs launched today Wordtune Spices, a writer-augmentation tool based on generative AI. Selecting from 12 different cues, writers can generate a range of textual options to add to and enhance sentences. Spices can also suggest statistics to strengthen an argument or sharpen a detail. AI21 says Spices is not intended to replace writers but to function as a writing assistant, suggesting additional complete sentences that improve and enhance the text that is being written. It could help refine and enrich the main message of the text, bolster and enrich arguments, and add creative expressions such as a joke or inspirational quote. The Israeli startup claims to have solved one of the major issues with popular applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT which do not give source credit.

Microsoft is once again pouring money into OpenAI as part of an expanded partnership. The tech giant is making a "multibillion dollar" investment that will lead to wider uses of OpenAI's technology, as well as stronger behind-the-scenes support. While the two companies are short on specifics, Microsoft says you can expect "new categories of digital experiences" that include both consumer-facing and business products. The developer-focused Azure OpenAI Service will play a role. The continued union will also see Microsoft boost its investments in supercomputers that accelerate OpenAI's research.

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it is making a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, substantially bolstering its relationship with the startup behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot as the software giant looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence in its products. Microsoft said the latest partnership builds upon the company's 2019 and 2021 investments in OpenAI.

Today, we are announcing the third phase of our long-term partnership with OpenAI through a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world. This agreement follows our previous investments in 2019 and 2021. It extends our ongoing collaboration across AI supercomputing and research and enables each of us to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies. "We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize AI as a new technology platform," said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. "In this next phase of our partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications."

Anyone with even the slightest interest in technology would have witnessed the frenzy following the launch of ChatGPT last November. For many, it illustrated the first step towards the golden age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration into our everyday lives; revolutionising the way in which we conceptualise and interact with technology. Intelligent automation has quietly, but nonetheless irreversibly, become a mainstay for many of the services and industries we use daily. Automation in financial services is one such example. From JPMorgan using bots to respond to internal IT requests, including resetting employee passwords, to Barclays introducing robotics process automation (RPA) across a range of processes, such as accounts receivable and fraudulent account closure, a wave of automation has emerged which redefined the way our industry operates.

Well, I've got good news for you - ChatGPT is here to revolutionize the way we conduct user research. Recently, my team and I have been working on a new patient record interface for a big hospital in Israel (no pressure, right?), and we knew that creating use cases for different types of users was going to be a crucial step in the process. So, Instead of spending hours and hours writing them out by hand, we decided to put AI to the test! We did our brainstorming like usual, we identified the personas, their roles, jobs to be done, and only then we used ChatGPT to generate the use cases, and it was like having a wizard at our disposal! Chat responded with a variety of scenarios that we were able to use in the next brainstorming session.

Recent reports say that Google co-founders are looking for ways to tackle the Open ChatGPT platform. This AI-driven platform is proving to be a threat to Google's search business. Since its inception back in November 2022, some people have turned to it to get answers to various questions. With its training, this AI-driven platform can answer even complex questions to the best of its ability. Sometimes its answers might be wrong, but this doesn't stop it from having a response to give users.