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Speaking to the University of Chicago’s Federalist Society chapter, Judge John Bush of the 6th Circuit opined on how AI could bolster originalism, a judicial philosophy that attempts to interpret the Constitution as the 18th century founders would have.
He was also pretty bullish on how AI will advance legal corpus linguistics, something I can only describe as “Scalia but with search engines.” In 2022, Nicole Wetsman wrote about how it played a huge role in overturning the mask mandate.
Perplexity’s chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko tells Adweek the company is considering adding sponsored suggested questions to its platform. If users continue to search for more information on the same topic, Perplexity could start serving up suggested queries from brands. Shevelenko said the feature will be coming this year.
AI-powered search platforms like Perplexity are trying to compete with Google, but they still need to figure out a search business model that works.
The House is removing and blocking Copilot from “all House Windows Devices” after the Office of Cybersecurity determined that it risked “leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” reported Axios.
The House cited similar concerns when it restricted the use of ChatGPT in congressional offices last year and declared that no non-ChatGPT chatbots were authorized yet. A Microsoft spokesperson told Axios that meeting “federal government security and compliance requirements” with AI tools like Copilot is on its roadmap for “later this year.”
ChatGPT already included links to websites, but they were relegated to quotation marks at the end of a paragraph. Now, a new update makes links easier to see by actually hyperlinking words in the AI bot’s responses to questions, something other chatbot search resources like Perplexity have been doing.
The feature will be available for paying subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise.
The company said Grok 1.5, the first release since open-sourcing the model, performed significantly better in coding and math-related reasoning than its previous version. xAI’s testing showed Grok 1.5 outdid models like Claude 2, Gemini Pro 1.5, and GPT-4 in some problem-solving benchmarks.
Grok 1.5 will be available to early users of the model on X soon.
This comes as part of Amazon’s deal to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, starting with an initial $1.25 billion last September. Anthropic is the AI company behind the Claude 32 family of models, which the company claims outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
The marketing team for the longtime sci-fi series halted its use of generative AI for Doctor Who marketing emails following complaints, reports Deadline.
As part of a small trial, marketing teams used generative AI technology to help draft some text for two promotional emails and mobile notifications to highlight Doctor Who programming available on the BBC.
We followed all BBC editorial compliance processes and the final text was verified and signed-off by a member of the marketing team before it was sent. We have no plans to do this again to promote Doctor Who.
The Information reports Meta has had issues keeping AI talent and has resorted to hiring researchers without an interview. Meta has been losing researchers to Google’s DeepMind, OpenAI, and Mistral, which was founded by former Meta engineers.
One reason could be the salaries AI researchers could earn. Meta reportedly pays AI researchers up to $2 million, which is less than the $5 million to $10 million paid by OpenAI.
Instead of opening a Meta AI conversation, users would be able to start typing in the search bar to get answers from the chatbot. WABetaInfo spotted the feature in a new Android WhatsApp beta update (2.23.25.15).
The AI company is scheduled to meet with a number of studios, talent agencies, and media executives in Los Angeles next week to discuss partnerships, sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg. Getting more filmmakers familiar with Sora, OpenAI’s upcoming text-to-video generator, is a major goal of the meetings.
Although Sora is still awaiting a public release later this year, Bloomberg reports that a few A-list directors and actors have already been given access.
WSJ reports Apple’s held talks with Baidu to power AI technology for iPhones in China. That’s not surprising, given China’s strict rules for AI bots covering their output, data used for training, and storage of user data.
So instead of ChatGPT or Google Gemini (like Apple reportedly discussed using everywhere else), Samsung similarly partnered with Baidu to bring its AI chatbot Ernie to the Galaxy S24 in China earlier this year.
The Information reports on GPT Store developers disappointed by a lack of customers for their ChatGPT-style products and limited analytics support. One developer claims his role-playing chatbot “could have gotten more traffic by partnering with a small influencer on TikTok” after being featured for two weeks.
Verge reporter Emilia David had questions about the value of the GPT Store after struggling to “find a use” for chatbots made by other users, and it’s not clear if there are any great answers yet.
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Claude 3 Haiku can now be accessed through claude.ai, Amazon Bedrock, and Perplexity Labs. It will be available on Google’s Vertex AI soon.
Anthropic previously said that even though Haiku was smaller than Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet, it still reads dense research papers “in less than three seconds.”