Our First Test of Meta’s AI Image Generator Was a Flop

Screenshot: Meta Meta released a standalone AI image generator on Wednesday that will convert your text-based queries into fantastical, high-resolution images in mere seconds. The free tool, Imagine with Meta AI, is powered by Emu, the company’s image foundation model. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked Meta rolled out this product … Read more

Sam Altman’s Return, the Mysterious Q, and More Top AI News of the Week

Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal that every company in Silicon Valley is currently racing to achieve. AGI refers to a hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently … Read more

OpenAI Chaos Delays GPT Store to 2024

OpenAI is delaying the launch of its GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios. Sam Altman told an audience at DevDay that the GPT Store would launch in November. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked “In terms of what’s next, we are … Read more

Happy Birthday, ChatGPT

Screenshot: OpenAI Part of OpenAI’s success comes through funding from a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft. It wasn’t long before the aging tech behemoth launched its own AI-powered tools in the form of a new chat feature on its unloved search engine Bing. Bing Chat (launched renamed Microsoft co-pilot) launched in February 2023. In its first … Read more

Elon Musk Shares Mysterious Letter About Sam Altman

Elon Musk tweeted a link to a strange letter Tuesday, supposedly written by former OpenAI employees detailing “a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.” Altman and Brockman, OpenAI’s CEO and president, were fired and then rehired in a dramatic failed coup that played out over the last five days. … Read more

The Week When AI Got High on Its Own Supply

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Whatever you believe about the future of AI, there’s probably a cult out there for you. Ideological factions have been drawing lines for years and they each seem to bring pseudoreligious trappings with them. If you believe AI will inevitably kill everyone on the planet you might want to join … Read more

Former OpenAI Exec Announces ChatGPT Voice Now Available to All

OpenAI’s former President and Chairman Greg Brockman announced that ChatGPT Voice is now available to all users Tuesday afternoon. Users can now speak with ChatGPT, and it will talk back, announced Brockman on X, just days after OpenAI’s leadership was ousted. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech “ChatGPT Voice rolled out for … Read more

The Best of OpenAI’s New GPTs, Ranked

Screenshot: ChatGPT If you don’t have time for the 3 hour Huberman Lab podcasts, fear no more. Ask Dr. Huberman, the GPT version of the cold-plunge-promoting neurobiology professor with a popular health podcast, who is trained on every episode of Huberman Lab. Simply ask it questions specific to your health concerns, and you’ll get great … Read more

Russian Spyware Company Uses ChatGPT for Surveillance

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech This week, Forbes reported that a Russian spyware company called Social Links had begun using ChatGPT to conduct sentiment analysis. The creepy field by which … Read more

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-4 Turbo During First-Ever DevDay

Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company’s first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4’s context limits. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech Altman also … Read more