CEO Sam Altman announced an age-prediction system and new parental controls in a blog post on Tuesday. OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots . The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an " age-appropriate " system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user's parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are unreachable, the system may contact the authorities.

OpenAI is beta testing a new workspace interface for ChatGPT called Canvas. The AI giant unveiled its new ChatGPT workspace on its official blog and it's currently available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users. Enterprise and Edu users will be able to access Canvas sometime next week. Canvas is a virtual interface space for writing and coding projects that allow users to consult with ChatGPT on certain portions of a project. A separate window opens besides the main chat space and users can put writing or code on this new "canvas" and highlight sections to have the model focus on and edit "like a copy editor or code reviewer," according to the blog.

OpenAI has started rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature. Starting today, a small number of paying ChatGPT users will be able to have a tete-a-tete with the AI chatbot. All ChatGPT Plus members should receive access to the expanded toolset by the fall of this year. In an announcement on X, the company said this advanced version of its Voice Mode "offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions." We're starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users.

Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on'Special Report.' Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI has introduced the ability to turn off chat history in its popular chatbot ChatGPT. In a Tuesday blog post, the company said conversations that are started when chat history is disabled will not be used to train and improve its models and will not appear in the history sidebar. The controls are found in the ChatGPT settings and can be changed at any time. The mode rolled out ot all users.

Analysis OpenAI this week introduced ChatGPT plugins, a way to extend the scope of its chatbot language model beyond the slurry of internet training data to bespoke business information. So wary is OpenAI of all the ways that ChatGPT and its other models can misfire that the company begins its announcement by reassuring readers that its cautious rollout follows from its desire to address "safety and alignment challenges." It does so with good reason – large language models (LLMs), referred to euphemistically as artificial intelligence or just AI, are seen by some to be venomous constructs that must be contained. LLMs are also limited to whatever information can be accessed or derived from their training data. As OpenAI puts it, "This information can be out-of-date and is one-size fits all across applications. Furthermore, the only thing language models can do out-of-the-box is emit text. This text can contain useful instructions, but to actually follow these instructions you need another process."

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-3, which can "write" sentences that read nearly like they were written by a human, can be prompted to perform a range of writing tasks given only a few examples of the tasks. For example, LLMs have been used to create marketing materials and video game levels in addition to recipes, poetry, and movie scripts. But because LLMs learn to write from examples taken from sometimes toxic communities, they can fall victim to parroting misinformation, sexism, ageism, racism, and conspiracies. Efforts have been made to combat toxicity in LLMs -- with mixed results.