ChatGPT has been temporarily banned in Italy due to privacy concerns and faces a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint in the U.S. that calls for new releases of ChatGPT to be halted. According to the Associated Press, the Italian Data Protection Authority will maintain the ban "until ChatGPT respects privacy." The problem with user data being visible to others during ChatGPT's March 20 outage was mentioned as the reason for this action. No details were shared about how this ban would be enforced or whether it would affect OpenAI partners that use ChatGPT, such as Microsoft's Bing Chat. ChatGPT: how to use the AI chatbot everyone's talking about OpenAI and ChatGPT logos are marked do not enter with a red circle and line symbol.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been moving at an unbelievable speed in recent months, with the launch of various tools and bots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, and more. Yet this rapid development is causing serious concern among seasoned veterans in the AI field -- so much so that over 1,000 of them have signed an open letter calling on AI developers to slam on the brakes. The letter was published on the website of the Future of Life Institute, an organization whose stated mission is "steering transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks." Among the signatories are several prominent academics, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. The article calls for all companies working on AI models that are more powerful than the recently released GPT-4 to immediately halt work for at least six months.

Microsoft has revealed its thoughts on how artificial intelligence (AI) could shape how we work in the years to come -- and how it plans to help guide those changes. The announcement was made by Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro at a company event titled The Future of Work with AI. As the name suggests, the show was focused on how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect how we work, both now and in the future. More specifically, the tech giant discussed how it will add AI smarts into its suite of Office apps. In PowerPoint, for example, you will be able to use an AI-powered Copilot that can create entire presentations for you with just a few text prompts.

Bing Chat and ChatGPT are two of the latest natural language chatbots to become widely available, and both are competing for your attention and text prompts. Both AIs are based on similar language models, but there are some distinct differences between them, making the ChatGPT versus Bing Chat debate one well worth having. If you want to play around with these two exciting tools, here's everything you need to know to pick the right one for you. Both Bing Chat and ChatGPT are available for general use, but the way you access them is a little different. GPT-4 claims to be 40% better at producing'factual responses' Microsoft's Bing Chat: how to join the waitlist now ChatGPT is widely available and accessible through the main OpenAI website.

You've no doubt heard of the scam where the perpetrator calls up an elderly person and pretends to be their grandchild or some other close relative. The usual routine is to act in a distressed state, pretend they're in a sticky situation, and ask for an urgent cash transfer to resolve the situation. While many grandparents will realize the voice isn't that of their grandchild and hang up, others won't notice and, only too keen to help their anxious relative, go ahead and send money to the caller's account. A Washington Post report on Sunday reveals that some scammers have taken the con to a whole new level by deploying AI technology capable of cloning voices, making it even more likely that the target will fall for the ruse. To launch this more sophisticated version of the scam, criminals require "an audio sample with just a few sentences," according to the Post.

These days, it seems like there's nothing AI programs can't do. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence, deepfakes have done digital "face-offs" with Hollywood celebrities in films and TV shows, VFX artists can de-age actors almost instantly, and ChatGPT has learned how to write big-budget screenplays in the blink of an eye. Pretty soon, AI will probably decide who wins at the Oscars. Within the past year, AI has also been used to generate beautiful works of art in seconds, creating a viral new trend and causing a boon for fan artists everywhere. TikTok user @cyborgism recently broke the internet by posting a clip featuring many AI-generated pictures of Breaking Bad. The theme here is that the characters are depicted as anime characters straight out of the 1980s, and the result is concerning to say the least.

Facebook was already a giant, time-consuming leviathan; smartphones and the iPad were a daily part of people's lives; The Walking Dead was a big hit on televisions across America; and the most talked-about popular musical artists were the likes of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. So pretty much like life as we enter 2020, then? The span of time between 2010 to 2020 brought some of the most amazing technological advances the world has ever seen, so in the spirit of reflection, we've compiled a series of stories that take a look back at the previous decade through a variety of different lenses. One place that things most definitely have moved on in leaps and bounds, however, is on the artificial intelligence front. Over the past decade, A.I. has made some huge advances, both technically and in the public consciousness, that mark this out as one of the most important ten year stretches in the field's history.

When it comes to things like showing us the right search results at the right time, A.I. can often seem like it's darn close to being able to read people's minds. But engineers at Russian robotics research company Neurobotics Lab have shown that artificial intelligence really can be trained to read minds -- and guess what videos users are watching based entirely on their brain waves alone. "We have demonstrated that observing visual scenes of different content affects the human brain waves, so that we can distinguish the scene categories from [one another] by analyzing the corresponding EEG (electroencephalogram) signal," Anatoly Bobe, an engineer of Neurorobotics Lab in Moscow, told Digital Trends. "We [then] created a system for reconstructing the images from EEG signal features." The researchers trained the A.I. by showing it video clips of different objects, alongside the brain wave recordings of the people watching them. This allowed the deep learning neural network to learn the features commonly seen in brain wave activity when people were viewing particular types of video content.

Here's a scenario scary enough to warrant a horror movie: An artificial intelligence that is able to accurately predict your chances of dying in the next year by looking at heart test results, despite the fact that the results may look totally fine to trained doctors. The good news: The technology might just wind up saving your life one day. "We have developed two different artificial intelligence algorithms that can automatically analyze electrical tracings from the heart and make predictions about the likelihood of a future important clinical event," Brandon Fornwalt, from Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider Geisinger, told Digital Trends. In addition to the likelihood of death in a year, the algorithms can also predict the development of an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation. The neural networks were trained on a data set consisting of 1.77 million electrocardiogram (ECG) results from close to 400,000 people.

At its Ignite conference this year, Microsoft is continuing its A.I. push. By further integrating artificial intelligence into its Microsoft 365 applications -- including its Office suite products such as Outlook and Excel -- the company wants to offload some of the heavy human lifting to its Cortana digital smart assistant to help you stay productive. By bringing its A.I. smarts to Outlook on iOS, Microsoft is showing how you can truly go hands-free and eyes-free and still stay on top of your email. With the launch of a new Play My Emails feature, Outlook users on iPhone and iPad will be able to have Cortana read out emails using natural language technology. For commuters, this feature can save you time during your morning and evening commute, as Cortana will be able to read your email messages to you while you're driving, a move that places Microsoft's digital assistant in direct competition with music and audiobooks for your ear time.