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Windows Central points out that a switch to GPT-4 Turbo on the free tier of Microsoft’s AI assistant means searches on Copilot will be more current, and answers can be more thought out. GPT-4 Turbo was trained on data until April 2023 and can understand more complex questions.
However, for those who prefer the older model, Pro accounts can toggle between GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4.
I stand by this statement every time I read about AI companion platforms, even if that’s not their stated goal. I talked to Verge EIC Nilay Patel on Decoder about AI dating, its potential pitfalls, and why people still fall in love with chatbots.
9to5Google points out a recent update to Google’s Gemini chatbot that lets people edit and fine-tune its responses directly on the chatbox.
The Gemini update page explains the addition from March 4th:
We’re launching a more precise way for you to tune Gemini’s responses. Starting in English in the Gemini web app, just select the portion of text you want to change, give Gemini some instruction, and get an output that’s closer to what you are looking for.
The privacy-focused Brave browser launched its AI assistant, Leo, last year on the desktop, and now it’s available for Android, following other mobile AI-connected browsers like Edge and Arc (only on iOS).
Leo promises summaries, transcriptions, translations, coding, and more (while acknowledging that LLMs may “hallucinate” erroneous info). As for privacy, Brave claims, “Inputs are always submitted anonymously through a reverse-proxy and are not retained or used for training.”
The partnership also lets developers on Gemini for Google Cloud (not to be mistaken for Gemini the chatbot) access Stack Overflow directly. The new features will be available in the first half of 2024.
Stack Overflow, which laid off 28 percent of its staff last year amid the boom in AI coding, will be able to use Google’s AI services to help “accelerate content approval process and further optimize forum engagement experiences.”
When you open Microsoft Copilot, you’ll notice a new list of Copilot GPTs tailored for fitness training, designing, planning vacations, and helping you cook. You’ll also be able to create your own Copilot GPTs soon, as Microsoft corporate vice president Jordi Ribas says the feature is currently in testing.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, in a keynote during the Mobile World Congress, acknowledged the model applied a range of people for images “too bluntly.” Hassabis said Gemini’s photo generation feature, which was paused last week, is being fixed to offer a more narrow range of people for historical accuracy.
The Vergecast team threw out some ideas yesterday for what random names Google will use for future chatbots. I like “Fancy Geoff.”
Give it a listen if you want to catch up on stuff like Gemini’s first big controversy, The adventures of Apple and the post-quantum cryptography, and your place in Reddit’s AI-training corpus. Also, two lightning rounds!
PyRIT, or Python Risk Identification Toolkit, can point human evaluators to “hot spot” categories in AI that might generate harmful prompt results.
Microsoft used PyRIT while redteaming (the process of intentionally trying to get AI systems to go against safety protocols) its Copilot services to write thousands of malicious prompts and score the response based on potential harm in categories that security teams can now focus on.
One of OpenAI’s employees showed off another of the company’s new text-to-video generator’s abilities.
This is some impressive AI creation of course, but what in blue blazes is happening in the upper right frame here?