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No human celebrating a first birthday is as verbose, knowledgeable, or prone to fabrication as ChatGPT, which is blowing out its first candle as I type these words. Of course, OpenAI’s game-changing large language model was precocious at…

People know Otter.ai as one of the AI-driven transcription services that have popped up over the past few years, automatically converting spoken words in interviews and meetings into text. The service can even distinguish between individual…

Bewildered, I asked, “You mean, how old am I?”“Yes,” she said.“50.”“You would be joining a young, progressive team, but you look much younger, so I think you’d fit in just fine,” she said.My excitement turned to apprehension as we wrapped…

The thread was 10 tweets long—verbose by X standards—and 219 words, but there was just one word that stuck out. Threat. The message, posted on the @SAG-AFTRA account, summed up everything the actors union had fought to get in the tentative…

OpenAI recently announced multiple new features for ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools during its recent developer conference. The upcoming launch of a creator tool for chatbots, called GPTs (short for generative pretrained…

Linda Yaccarino has been the CEO of X since June, but you’d never know it. Elon Musk, the company’s owner, CTO, and super-user, still remains the gravitational force at its center. In an all-hands meeting last week, the transcript of which…

Google has stressed that the metadata field in “About this image” is not going to be a surefire way to see the origins, or provenance, of an image. It’s mostly designed to give more context or alert the casual internet user if an image is…

For nearly 30 years, actor Charles Martinet was the voice of Nintendo’s most iconic character: Mario. He also lent vocals to Luigi, Wario, and others. When Nintendo confirmed in August that Martinet had essentially retired from that role,…

Matthew Chantry, the machine-learning coordinator at the ECWMF, expresses doubt about the effectiveness of this approach. He is currently assessing the performance of ChatGPT during this storm season. The algorithms used in ChatGPT were…

completed the task,Although everyone has familiarity with extensive language models, their limitations are quite evident. While they are capable of writing, their words lack the captivating impact of Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, or…