SnapChat rolls out AI chatbot to all users for free
Snapchat is expanding access to its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot — My AI — to all of its 750 million monthly users for free, The Verge reports.
The AI language model can be added to groups by mentioning it with an @ command, and...
Venture firm warns ChatGPT and other AI tools could leak corporate secrets
Companies using generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT could be putting confidential customer information and trade secrets at risk, according to a report from Team8, an Israel-based venture firm.
The...
Elon Musk plans to build ChatGPT rival
Elon Musk wants to create a rival to artificial intelligence phenom ChatGPT.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday, Musk confirmed that he has plans to create a “third option” in the AI race between Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI and Alphabet...
Google CEO warns AI race could harm humanity
Alphabet Inc. and Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the push to adopt artificial intelligence technology must be well-regulated to avoid potential harmful effects.
Asked in a 60 Minutes interview...
Google working on an "all-new" AI-powered search engine — Report
Google is working on an "all-new" AI-powered search engine in the face of heightened competition from Microsoft and OpenAI, the New York Times reports.
While still in the early stages, Google's new search engine will try to...
Elon Musk founds potential new AI startup
Elon Musk has incorporated an entity called X.AI in the state of Nevada, potentially laying the groundwork for a startup that could pursue his artificial intelligence ambitions.
Musk and Jared Birchall, who operates Musk’s family office, incorporated...
OpenAI launches bug bounty program for ChatGPT
OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 (R366,981) to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
The AI company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that it has rolled...
Alibaba opens up testing of AI tool to corporate customers
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is inviting users to test the company’s in-house artificial intelligence tool, the latest attempt from a Chinese tech behemoth to rival OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT.
The company’s cloud computing unit is...
Stability AI CEO using ChatGPT as a therapist
While most of the tech industry stumbles under the weight of rising interest rates, it’s boom times for artificial intelligence startups.
Take Stability AI, the company that popularised the Stable Diffusion image generator, and which has been in...
Tech ethics group wants investigation into OpenAI's GPT training
A prominent tech ethics group plans to file a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission urging the regulator to halt further commercial deployment of new generations of artificial intelligence technology that powers the...
ChatGPT-powered PC parts picker fails to impress
Online PC hardware store Newegg recently launched a beta of its PC parts picker that comes with ChatGPT-powered suggestions, but getting advice from a human PC building expert might be the better way to go.
ChatGPT was previously found to be...
The Age of AI has begun — Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates believes that artificial intelligence (AI) is as revolutionary a technology as mobile phones, computers, and the Internet.
In an extensive opinion piece on his GatesNotes personal blog, Gates...
ChatGPT leaked payment details to wrong users
OpenAI has explained how a bug in ChatGPT's Redis open-source client library exposed some ChatGPT Plus subscribers' payment details to other users.
The company took ChatGPT offline last week after it became aware of a flaw that allowed some users...
OpenAI's ChatGPT gets access to the web for the first time
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's capabilities significantly by adding support for plug-ins, giving it live access to the web for the first time.
The company opened a plug-in waitlist and started giving access to "a small set of users" on...
GPT-4 launch is noteworthy, but not groundbreaking
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid...
How ChatGPT can help push universities to change
The Covid-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much bigger challenge.
Assessment can take many forms, from essays to...
Microsoft 365 gets Copilot — AI-powered automation for Office apps
Microsoft has revealed Copilot, an artificial intelligence-powered tool for Microsoft 365 that can create content in Office apps using text prompts.
It combines large language models with user data in the Microsoft Graph —...
OpenAI onboards Stripe payments for ChatGPT monetisation
OpenAI will use Stripe Inc. to take payments and subscriptions for its artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and Dall-E, which it’s trying to monetize after capturing the public imagination.
The firm, which launched the latest version of...