This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You

This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You

More than a decade of dating apps has shown the process can be excruciating. A new app is trying to make dating less exhausting by using artificial intelligence to help people skip the earliest, often cringey stages of chatting with a new match. On Volar, people create dating profiles by messaging with a chatbot instead … Read more

OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

WIRED’s request for the documents promised in OpenAI’s IRS filings fell to the counsel for its nonprofit to decide on. Their denial and new policy of withholding those documents extends an existing trend of dwindling openness at a project founded on transparency. OpenAI once published extensive detail about its AI inventions but has more recently … Read more

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

“A process called reinforcement learning from human feedback is used right now in every state-of-the-art model,” to fine-tune its responses, Baum says. Most AI companies aim to create systems that appear neutral. If the humans steering the AI see an uptick of right-wing content but judge it to be unsafe or wrong, they could undo … Read more

Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

Delange said that open source language models are improving rapidly and can be better than OpenAI’s market-leading GPT-4 for some specialized tasks. But he noted that many of the best open source models have come from outside the US, saying that 01.AI could be positioned to benefit from innovations that spring up around its model. … Read more

Zuckerberg says Meta training next generation of AI models

Zuckerberg says Meta training next generation of AI models

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the company is training its next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models and hopes to make it accessible to everyone through products such as AI smart glasses. “Today I’m bringing Meta’s two AI research efforts closer together to support our long-term goals, building general intelligence, open sourcing it … Read more

An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. After his high-profile departure, … Read more

How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store

How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store

Get ready to share your custom chatbot with the whole world. Well, at least with other ChatGPT Plus subscribers. OpenAI recently launched its GPT Store, after it delayed the project following the chaos of CEO Sam Altman’s firing and reinstatement late in 2023. While OpenAI’s GPT Store shares some similarities to smartphone app marketplaces, it … Read more

With NFTs Dead, The Car Industry Pivots To AI

With NFTs Dead, The Car Industry Pivots To AI

Photo: Mercedes-Benz As cars have become more technologically advanced, traditional auto shows have become less important. In their place, automakers are largely focusing on events like the Consumer Electronics Show, and this year was no different. Thankfully, people finally realized that non-fungible tokens are stupid, so this year, companies went all-in on a new trend — … Read more

AI models frequently ‘hallucinate’ on legal queries, study finds

AI models frequently ‘hallucinate’ on legal queries, study finds

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models frequently produce false legal information, with so-called “hallucinations” occurring between 69 percent to 88 percent of the time, according to a recent study. Large language models (LLMs) — generative AI models, like ChatGPT, that are trained to understand and produce human language content — have previously been known to “hallucinate” … Read more

OpenAI launches new store for custom chatbots

OpenAI launches new store for custom chatbots

OpenAI officially rolled out the GPT Store on Wednesday, two months after the company first debuted GPTs – customized versions of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. Since then, OpenAI said in a blog post Wednesday, users have created more than 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT. After initial delays from leadership tumult in the … Read more