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World’s biggest search engine threatened by competition from Microsoft’s Bing.

Google is synonymous with the internet. Millions throng to the search engine every day. From catching up on what’s happening in the world to discovering how to dye your cat green, Google has the answer to everything.

So, it was only a matter of time before the tech giant integrated its widely used search engine with artificial intelligence. This was inevitable, with almost all major tech companies dashing to cash in on the expanding AI space. It has already launched an AI-powered chatbot called Bard, similar to ChatGPT.

Designed to automate GPT tasks, Auto-GPTs aim to make AI autonomous. But how close are we to that?

After the release of GPT-4, the world was barely catching its breath, when a new craze seems to be catching up already. This time it is called AutoGPT, a tool that lets you build artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can complete tasks for you using GPT-4.

Even as some of the top names in the AI industry call for a pause on the release of future iterations of products, the journey to building them has already begun. It is unlikely that the next step in the AI race will be as revolutionary as ChatGPT.

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Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That’s what a developer that goes by “BioBootloader” did by creating Wolverine, a program that can give Python programs “regenerative healing abilities,” reports Hackaday. (Yep, just like the Marvel superhero.)

GPT-4 is a multimodal AI language model created by OpenAI and released in March, available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and in API form to beta testers. It uses its “knowledge” about billions of documents, books, and websites scraped from the web to perform text-processing tasks such as composition, language translation, and programming.

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Recently, the satellite internet service has also helped an Emmy award-winning meteorologist and storm chaser Nick Stewart to live stream a tornado.

Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month — when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered the U.S.-based company to stop processing locals’ data.

The EU’s GDPR applies whenever personal data is processed, and there’s no doubt large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT have hoovered up vast amounts of the stuff off the public internet in order to train their generative AI models to be able to respond in a human-like way to natural language prompts.

OpenAI responded to the Italian data protection authority’s order by swiftly geoblocking access to ChatGPT. In a brief public statement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also tweeted confirmation it had ceased offering the service in Italy — doing so alongside the usual Big Tech boilerplate caveat that it “think[s] we are following all privacy laws.”

“AI is a challenge for global governance,” says a regulations expert.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s internet regulator, proposed rules to govern artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Tuesday.

“China supports the independent innovation, popularization and application and international cooperation of basic technologies such as AI algorithms and frameworks,” CAC said in the draft regulation published on its website.

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Entangled photons of light have been sent through a loop of conventional optical fibre under the noisy New York streets – a starting point to building an unhackable quantum internet.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

An artificial intelligence-generated virtual news presenter that will read internet bulletins has been unveiled by a Kuwaiti media organisation.
On Saturday, “Fedha” appeared as a picture of a woman with her light-colored hair exposed and wearing a black jacket and a white T-shirt on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website.
“Hello, my name is Fedha, and I work for Kuwait News as the country’s first artificial intelligence-based presenter. What sort of news do you like to read? I’d want to hear your thoughts,” she said in traditional Arabic.

#ai #fedha #wion.

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The GPT phenomenon and the future of humanity in the face of advances in Artificial Intelligence.

The Age of Artificial Intelligence is an increasingly present reality in our daily lives. With the rise of technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), the possibility of creating machines capable of performing tasks that were previously exclusive to humans has emerged.

One of these technologies is the Generative Pre-trained Transformer, better known as GPT. It’s the Large Language Model (LLM) developed by OpenAI.

OpenAI was founded in San Francisco, California in 2015 by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel, among others, who collectively pledged $1 billion. Musk resigned from the board in 2018, but continued to be a donor to the project.

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