Alibaba Invites Businesses to Test Its ChatGPT-Like AI Chatbot: Report

Tech giant Alibaba is seeking companies to test its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot, business publication STAR Market Daily reported on Friday, joining the rush to emulate the explosive success of ChatGPT. The free-to-use ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) application created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, was released to the public last November and can generate articles … Read more

India Among Top 3 Markets for ChatGPT-Powered Bing Search Engine, Says Microsoft

India has emerged as one of the top three markets for Microsoft’s new Bing preview, which has ChatGPT incorporated into it, and is its biggest image creator market, a senior company official has said, asserting that the search engine is much better than its rival Google. Powered by ChatGPT, Microsoft launched the new Bing preview … Read more

India Has No Plans to Bring Any Law for Regulating AI Growth in the Country

The government is neither considering to bring any law nor has any plans to regulate the growth of artificial intelligence in the country, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written submission to the Lok Sabha said there are ethical concerns and risks around artificial intelligence, and the government … Read more

Meta’s New AI Model SAM Will Let Select Individual Objects From Within Image

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company’s research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects … Read more

Bill Gates Says Pausing AI Development Will Not Solve Challenges Ahead

Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology. The technologist-turned-philanthropist said it would be better to focus on how best to use the developments in AI, … Read more

AInstein Robot With ChatGPT Brings AI Technology to Cyprus Classrooms: Details

High school students and their tutors in Cyprus have developed a prototype robot powered with ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology to harness and improve teaching experiences in the classroom. Named AInstein, the squat robot created by three Pascal Schools in Cyprus stands roughly the size of a small adult and looks like a sculpted version of … Read more

ChatGPT’s ‘iPhone Moment’ Poses a New Threat to Google

Just as we were getting used to the idea of ChatGPT writing emails and conducting research, OpenAI has upgraded it with capabilities that make it even more of a threat to big tech companies such as Google. ChatGPT’s new plugins, released last week with relatively little fanfare, are a major leap forward for the technology. In … Read more

‘Glaze’ Software Can Thwart Copycat AI Tools From Stealing Artist Styles, Researchers Say

Researchers at the University of Chicago have released free “Glaze” software that they say can thwart efforts by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to copy an artist’s style. The program makes tiny changes to digital images that, while invisible to human eyes, act as a “style cloak” when they are posted online, the team behind the … Read more

ChatGPT Generates ‘Formulaic’ Academic Text, Can Be Picked Up by Existing AI-Detection Tools: Study

Academic style content produced by ChatGPT is relatively formulaic and would be picked up by many existing AI-detection tools, despite being more sophisticated than those produced by previous innovations, according to a new study. However, the findings should serve as a wake-up call to university staff to think about ways to explain to students and … Read more