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James Vincent

James Vincent

Former Senior Reporter

Former Senior Reporter

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    OpenAI told its employees not to boast about ChatGPT’s success.

    That’s according to a new report into the chatbot’s origins from The New York Times. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, is worried that “too much hype for ChatGPT could provoke a regulatory backlash or create inflated expectations for future releases” (as we’ve previously reported).

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    James Vincent
    James Vincent
    James Vincent
    Bing bong. Who’s that? GPT-4.

    Semafor reports that Microsoft’s search engine Bing could be integrating GPT-4 — the as-yet-unannounced successor to OpenAI’s language model GPT-3.5, which powers ChatGPT.

    It’s certainly plausible given the increasingly-cosy relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI. Semafor reports that news could arrive in the “coming weeks” so keep your eyes peeled — and your search engines primed.

    James Vincent
    James Vincent
    Forget about ChatGPT — meow there’s CatGPT.

    Look, there’s a lot going on with AI chatbots right now. Are they good? Are they bad? Will they destroy society’s educational norms, pollute the web with misinformation, and put me out of a job? Who knows. Which is why CatGPT is a much more relaxing alternative to ChatGPT. No thinking, no words, just meow meow meow.

    James Vincent
    James Vincent
    Forget Atlas — this is the Boston Dynamics robot that might actually take your job.

    Boston Dynamics is best know for Spot and Atlas, but don’t forget the company also sells Stretch — a machine does what we think of as “proper work,” aka moving boxes in warehouses.

    The latest video from the company highlights Stretch’s appeal, which is less about backflips and more about boring things like safety and usability. Trust me, this is the real scary stuff.

    James Vincent
    James Vincent
    Baidu could beat Google and Microsoft to launching a chatty AI search engine.

    The Chinese tech giant is planning to “roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT” in March, says Bloomberg News.

    There’s few details available, but Baidu reportedly plans to integrate the AI chatbot with its search engine. With Google and Microsoft working on similar products, it seems we’re heading into a new age of AI-empowered search.