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Archives for November 2023

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Microsoft is now using some Oracle infrastructure to help with Bing Chat.

Even Microsoft needs some extra GPUs for its AI tools, and it’s turning to Oracle to get them as part of a multi-year deal, as reported by The Register.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Michael Bay directs MS Paint.

A fitting use of transformer models: using AI to Michael Bay-ify any movie scene! But as the fine users of Metafilter note, you can give anything a dose of Old Bay. The possibilities are endless and filled with robot arms.

MS Paint directed by Michael Bay INT. HIGH-TECH COMPUTER LAB - NIGHT  A polished, glowing surface. Closeup: the PC logo is reflected in a pair of glasses. The reflection trembles - it’s a DRAMATIC ZOOM of the MS PAINT LOGO. The monitor screen is filled with white. A cursor dances.  ALAN (mid-30s, nerdy but rugged) sits solemnly behind the computer. Sweat trickles down his forehead. He takes a deep breath, clicks on the paintbrush tool. A low, haunting rendition of the “Transformers” theme plays.
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
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The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen.

Nilay Patel
Jon Porter
Jon Porter
Mozilla is testing an AI chatbot to help you shop.

After acquiring FakeSpot earlier this year, Mozilla is putting its product review smarts to work in a new AI chatbot that’s designed to answer your questions about products you’re considering buying. Fakespot Chat is Mozilla’s first LLM, and can respond to questions on a product’s “quality, customer feedback, and return policy.” Click here to try it yourself.

Screenshot of Fakespot’s AI chatbot.
Example questions being asked about Apple’s third-gen AirPods.
Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta won’t let political advertisers use its new generative AI tools for ads.

Reuters has the story. Seems like a wise idea ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Meta revealed the tools in October.

Alex Heath
Alex Heath
OpenAI’s GPT builder interface is dead simple to use.

Here at DevDay, I’ve been watching demos of OpenAI employees building custom GPT agents. It’s impressively simple to build one with zero coding knowledge. I watched one GPT be built in maybe three minutes and it just worked.

The fact that these are made using entirely natural language means, I think, that people will make a lot of them. OpenAI wants that so it can become the first true AI platform, though it still needs to figure out how to transparently compensate creators.

What OpenAI’s GPT builder interface looks like.
OpenAI
Alex Heath
Alex Heath
More on how OpenAI is going to pay GPT creators.

I’m here at OpenAI’s DevDay, where the press just had a roundtable Q&A with CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati. When asked how the company is going to calculate its payouts to creators for the use of their custom GPTs through its store, Altman was clear that all that is still being figured out:

“We’re going to start with just sharing a part of the [ChatGPT] subscription revenue overall. There will be a tier based off how many active users you have, plus some category bonuses. I expect that to evolve a lot.”