Harun Ozalp | Anadolu | Getty Images The free version of ChatGPT may provide inaccurate or incomplete responses — or no answer at all — to questions related to medications, which could potentially endanger patients who use OpenAI’s viral chatbot, a new study released Tuesday suggests. Pharmacists at Long Island University who posed 39 questions … Read more
Many have dubbed 2023 the year of AI, as the pace of artificial intelligence breakthroughs this year has been fast — and for some, concerning. However, fear didn’t stop people from jumping on the AI bandwagon, a new study confirms. With more than 14 billion visits between September 2022 and August 2023, ChatGPT is the … Read more
A gamer uses a computer powered with an Nvidia Corp. chip at the Gamescon video games trade fair in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Gamescon runs until Sunday, Aug. 27. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s not just human life that will be remade by the … Read more
When you hear the word “hallucination,” you may think of hearing sounds no one else seems to hear or imagining your coworker has suddenly grown a second head while you’re talking to them. But when it comes to artificial intelligence, hallucination means something a bit different. When an AI model “hallucinates,” it generates fabricated information … Read more
Betsie Van der Meer | Getty If you’re a last-minute holiday shopper still checking off the remaining gifts on your list, beware: You could be putting yourself at risk for fraud. “Procrastination is, quite frankly, one of the keys to success for crooks,” Paul Fabara, chief risk officer at Visa, recently told CNBC. “They assume that … Read more
Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Waymo, Alphabet‘s self-driving car unit, is having a relatively good couple of months – at least, compared to one of its key rivals: GM‘s Cruise. Formerly known as the Google self-driving car project … Read more
Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better algorithms, they’ll create superintelligence, right? Yeah, there’s no question that machines will eventually be smarter than humans. We don’t know how long it’s going to take—it could be years, it could be centuries. At that … Read more
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central … Read more
Several Pulitzer Prize winning authors have joined a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT tool, alleging the tech companies used their copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without permission. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by author Julian Sancton in late November, now features Kai Bird, Taylor … Read more
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic, the OpenAI rival founded by ex-OpenAI employees, is in talks to raise a $750 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told CNBC. The round would value Anthropic at up to $18.4 billion, per the source familiar — nearly … Read more
