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Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23
Read more: Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23It’s been quite an eventful week for AI, especially OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The company was sued in yet another class action lawsuit for possible copyright infringement and privacy violations, and was subject to a wide-reaching Civil Investigative Demand from the FTC. To top it all off, some media articles questioned whether GPT-4 got “dumber”…
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WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAI
Read more: WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAIA day after the FTC’s investigation of OpenAI became public, the WSJ Editorial titled “Lina Khan’s Artificial Intelligence” questions her authority to investigate OpenAI. Khan is the Chair of the FTC. The WSJ Editorial focuses especially on the FTC’s authority to investigate potential defamation propagated on ChatGPT: “Does this standard also apply to what the New…
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Elon Musk launches new xAI company
Read more: Elon Musk launches new xAI companyElon Musk, who was one of the original founders of OpenAI until he left, has announced the launch of a new company called xAI. According to the website, “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday,…
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FTC investigates OpenAI amidst privacy & defamation concerns
Read more: FTC investigates OpenAI amidst privacy & defamation concernsThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to OpenAI. The CID spans 20 pages, listing 49 questions OpenAI must answer, plus 17 different items OpenAI is asked to turn over relevant documents. The FTC’s inquiry covers two main areas: (1) privacy and the handling of personal data/information, and (2) the…
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The EU’s AI Act (PDF download)
Read more: The EU’s AI Act (PDF download)The EU is marching ahead with its comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence. Earlier this month, the EU Parliament passed amended text to the AI Act, originally proposed by the EU Commission. If passed, the EU touts that the AI Act “will be the world’s first rules on Artificial Intelligence.” According to the EU Parliament: “Before…
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Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job losses
Read more: Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job lossesSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, testified before Congress. The tone he struck was surprising. Altman wanted Congress to regulate AI, warned of its dangers with the potential of causing “significant harm to the world,” and conceded that there will be job losses but was optimistic AI technology would also create new…
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Sarah Maas’ book cover for House of Earth and Blood is AI artwork. Does it get a US copyright?
Read more: Sarah Maas’ book cover for House of Earth and Blood is AI artwork. Does it get a US copyright?Today, we’re seeing the book publishing industry starting to rely on AI-generated artworks. Bloomsbury Publishing, a big independent publisher, is publishing the UK version of Sara J. Maas’ bestseller House of Earth and Blood with an image of a wolf from Adobe Stock images, which discloses that the image of the wolf was “generated with…
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Is Bard better than ChatGPT & Microsoft in financial advice?
Read more: Is Bard better than ChatGPT & Microsoft in financial advice?Based on our quick test using financial investment questions, we surmise that none of the three (Google Bard, ChatGPT, and Microsoft) has a clear edge, no pun intended.
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Is Google’s Bard & new AI search going to cannibalize Google’s ad revenue? We asked Bard.
Read more: Is Google’s Bard & new AI search going to cannibalize Google’s ad revenue? We asked Bard.Earlier this week, we asked ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 the following question: Will ChatGPT and AI integration into online search, including in Google’s own search, cannibalize the total ad revenues of Google, given that people won’t need to visit websites or click through to get the information they want? Today, we asked Bard the same…
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Should you pay for ChatGPT Plus, GPT-4? Comparing GPT 3.5 v. 4
Read more: Should you pay for ChatGPT Plus, GPT-4? Comparing GPT 3.5 v. 4OpenAI now offers ChatGPT 4 only through its Plus subscription service of $20 a month. According to OpenAI, the upgrade yields better results: “In a casual conversation, the distinction between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 can be subtle. The difference comes out when the complexity of the task reaches a sufficient threshold—GPT-4 is more reliable, creative, and…