OpenAI says free and Plus subscribers can now use the feature without giving over their chats to train its models.
With chat history on, users can pick up previous chats where they left off, and the chatbot will reply as though they never stopped. The company also says users can start one-off chats that aren’t saved in the history.
The WSJ reports that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Google’s Sundar Pichai also have a seat on the board, which the Department of Homeland Security formed to promote AI safety and security. Other members include academics, civil rights leaders, and government officials, according to the WSJ.
If it pushes through, the European Commission could look into whether Microsoft’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI restricts competition, Reuters reports. The commission floated the possibility of an investigation in January.
The partnership between the two companies already drew scrutiny from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the Federal Trade Commission in the US.
OpenAI’s Batch API now lets users upload a file of bulk queries to the AI model, like categorizing data or tagging images, with the understanding that they won’t need immediate attention. Promising results within 24 hours lets them run when there is unused compute power, and keeps those pricey GPUs humming around the clock.
OpenAI chose Tokyo for its first office in Asia as it expands its footprint outside of the US. The company is also releasing a version of GPT-4 in Japanese.
The Knight Rider Historians channel used ChatGPT, Amazon Polly, and a Raspberry Pi to make the world’s most annoying version of KITT, the AI that helps David Hasslehoff from its home inside the fictional Pontiac Firebird Trans Am from the Knight Rider series.
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ChatGPT Plus will be able to give more thought-out answers and understand longer prompts thanks to GPT-4 Turbo. The updated model, released on preview in November, trained on data until April 2023, so its knowledge base is also more recent.
The Intercept reports that Microsoft gave a presentation to the Department of Defense that explained how it could use OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT last year. One such use could be for DALL-E to assist in envisioning the battlefield.
The reference to computer vision training suggests artificial images conjured by DALL-E could help Pentagon computers better “see” conditions on the battlefield, a particular boon for finding — and annihilating — targets.
OpenAI softened its stance on military use for its technology this year, so it’s interesting that Microsoft offered up its products to the DOD.
The stock image company has had deals to let OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Amazon train on its images, Reuters wrote yesterday while reporting that Apple got in on the action.
Each of the deals reportedly initially ranged from $25 million to $50 million, but Shutterstock’s CEO, Jarrod Yahes, told the outlet most companies expanded them later.
