Yesterday, Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun was quoted as saying that GPT-4 will be introduced next week and will include multimodal models. The report, which ran in the German news outlet Heise, instantly led to renewed online chatter about the possibility of GPT-4's debut, less than four months after the GPT 3.5 series, which ChatGPT is fine-tuned on, was released. Coincidentally, deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, also made comments yesterday about ChatGPT and the potential of multimodal models. In a virtual Q&A titled "What's Lacking In ChatGPT? Bridging the gap to human-level intelligence," Bengio said that current work on multimodal large neural nets, that have images or video as well as text, would "help a lot" with the'world model' issue -- that is, that models need to understand the physics of our world. He also warned that market pressures will likely push tech companies towards secrecy rather than openness with their AI models, and that the "media circus" around ChatGPT is a "wake-up call" about the potential of powerful AI systems to both do good for society as well as create significant ethical concerns.

Over the last decade, the concept of "games as a service" has revolutionised the way the interactive entertainment industry works. From the subscriptions introduced by massively multiplayer online adventures such as World of Warcraft to the seasonal battle passes of current online shooters, we're seeing a huge amount of focus on games that can sustain a lucrative community of players over several years. But where does that leave more offbeat ideas and concepts that couldn't support years' worth of play? Where does it leave the single-player narrative adventure – the blockbusting genre that brought us titles such as Metal Gear Solid, Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect? It's a genre Sony has supported through funding the studios that make games such as The Last of Us, Spider-Man and God of War.

In 2013, Alistair Shepherd asked everyone in a business-school pitch competition to complete a survey with questions inspired by online-dating sites. It asked things like "Do you like horror movies?" and "Do spelling mistakes annoy you?" Shepherd predicted how well the eight teams would collaborate internally and how they would ultimately fare. He ended up ranking all eight correctly. What made for a great team? Those in which people had the most tolerance for their teammates' perspectives--and those in which people had the greatest diversity in personalities. Mr. Shepherd's experiment represents an attempt to get beyond the usual approach to workplace chemistry.