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AI: Facebook owner Meta announces its rival to ChatGPT will be free to use | Science & Tech News
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The owner of Facebook has announced plans to make its version of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT free for researchers and companies to use. The latest version of Meta’s large language model, called LLaMa 2, will rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers the chatbot app. The technology came to the fore last November after the…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT under investigation by Federal Trade Commission | Business News
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The US competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the creator of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an examination into the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, seeking to find out what the company’s data privacy rules are and what action it takes to stop its technology from giving wrong information.…
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Elon Musk launches long-awaited AI start-up in a bid to rival ChatGPT | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The Twitter owner has brought in a team of engineers from other tech firms he is hoping to challenge in the artificial intelligence sphere. Musk has warned for months about AI’s potential for “civilisational destruction”, arguing…
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Lawyers used ChatGPT to help with a case – it backfired massively | Science & Tech News
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Two New York lawyers have been fined after submitting a legal brief with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT. Steven Schwartz, of law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, admitted using the chatbot to research the brief in a client’s personal injury case against airline Avianca. He had used it to find legal precedents supporting the…
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Keir Starmer reveals he gets ChatGPT ‘masterclasses’ from his teenage son | Science & Tech News
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Sir Keir Starmer has revealed he gets ChatGPT lessons from his son as the Labour leader gets to grips with the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking at London Tech Week, Sir Keir said he was “really struck” by the rapid rate of change in the sector, which could present “incredible opportunities” to modernise the…
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Who is Sam Altman? The OpenAI boss and ChatGPT guru who is now one of AI’s biggest players | Science & Tech News
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He was a tech whizz before he left primary school, dropped out of one of America’s top universities, and now appears to be spearheading a revolution that could change our lives forever. So far, so Silicon Valley. And like so many of the billionaire entrepreneurs that have emerged from that infamous stretch of sunny California,…
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ChatGPT upgraded with Bing search data to give chatbot real-time knowledge | Science & Tech News
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ChatGPT is gaining access to real-time internet search data that will let it provide answers based on up-to-date news and current affairs. Microsoft announced OpenAI’s chatbot will be integrated with its Bing search engine, effectively allowing it to trawl through the entire internet when responding to queries. It addresses one of the key limitations of…
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ChatGPT will make marking coursework ‘virtually impossible’ and shows exams ‘more important than ever’ | Science & Tech News
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Marking coursework will become “a virtually impossible task” in the age of ChatGPT and make exams more vital than ever, education experts have said. OpenAI’s chatbot has taken the internet by storm since launching late last year, amassing more than 100 million monthly active users and attracting a multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft. It is a…
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ChatGPT banned in Italy pending data protection investigation | Science & Tech News
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ChatGPT has been banned in Italy while the country’s data protection authorities investigate its collection of user information. The chatbot, which is operated by OpenAI and financially backed by Microsoft, has amassed more than 100 million monthly active users since launching late last year. It has threatened to upend everything from search engines to creative…
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What is OpenAI’s GPT-4 and how does it improve upon ChatGPT? | Science & Tech News
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OpenAI has launched the latest incarnation of its wildly successful online chatbot ChatGPT. Dubbed GPT-4 (ChatGPT is powered by GPT-3.5), the headline feature of the new model is its ability to recognise and explain images. For example, the chatbot could come up with recipes based on a picture of the inside of a fridge, so…