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.
OpenAI worked with visual artists and filmmakers to see what they could do with Sora, its new text-to-video generation platform. The results are a mix of conceptual videos telling stories with surreal characters and recreations of real-life settings.
Director Paul Trillo said he appreciates the lack of budget restrictions. “Sora is at its most powerful when you’re not replicating the old but bringing to life new and impossible ideas we would have otherwise never had the opportunity to see.”
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.
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.
Business Insider reports OpenAI is on track to release the next major version of its AI model in mid-2024. One CEO who’s been demoed GPT-5 said it’s “materially better” than GPT-4, which was released a little over a year ago. OpenAI is apparently still training the model, which will then need to be safety tested and red teamed before public release.
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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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.
The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern has a deep look at Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator — and with it, an interview with CTO Mira Murati, who steadfastly refuses to clarify what data was used to train the system. No wonder, since the explosion of copyright lawsuits against AI companies is quickly becoming an existential risk to them all. 4:25 in the video below:
The company’s legal response to Musk’s lawsuit was just made public and, as we expected, OpenAI refutes the crux of Musk’s argument: that it violated a founding contract with him when it became a commercial entity.
From OpenAI’s court filing, which is really just an official version of its public response to Musk last week:
Were this case to proceed to discovery, the evidence would show that Musk supported a for-profit structure for OpenAI, to be controlled by Musk himself, and dropped the project when his wishes were not followed. Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself.
Blocked terms include “pro choice” and “pro life,” CNBC reported on Friday. The company made changes after one of its engineers complained to the Federal Trade Commission about the safety of its DALLE-3-powered Copilot Designer AI image generator.
Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promised to improve Copilot’s guardrails after explicit, Copilot-created images of Taylor Swift spread on X in January.
