The AI arms race begins. During the first week of February, Google Announced Bard, its own rival to ChatGPT, which would integrate directly into Google search. bard has a wrong fact in the first promotional video Google shared for him, and the mistake sent the company’s stock tumbling, causing it to lose more than $100 billion in market value.
Less than 24 hours after Google’s initial announcement, Microsoft saying which would integrate the technology that powered ChatGPT into its own search engine, Bing. No one in the world has been particularly enthusiastic about Bing until now.
The AI gets creepy. Days after its launch, Microsoft’s shiny new Bing chatbot said New York Times columnist Kevin Roose told him that he loved him and then tried to convince him that he was not happy in his marriage and should leave his wife and be with the bot. He also revealed his “dark fantasies” (hacking computers and spreading misinformation) and told Roose that he wanted to “be alive”. Subsequently, Microsoft nerfed the disturbing personality of your chatbot and put up guardrails and restrictions.
In other corners of the internet, an endlessly buzz-generating animated episode Seinfeldwho used AI trained on episodes of the sitcom to generate his jokes, was forbidden on Twitch after the show’s Jerry Seinfeld clone made transphobic jokes during his AI-generated routine.
The AI can’t stop, it won’t stop. AI companies tried to address the controversies that had erupted around them. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, for example, released its own AI text listener, which turned out to be…not be very good.
It became clear that AI is eating the world and detection tools were not very effective in stopping it. No one felt this more acutely than the publishers of science fiction magazines, many of which were inundated with spam submissions created by AI text generators. Thus, the prestigious magazine Clarkesworld new shipments paused indefinitely for the first time in its 17-year history.
Everything everywhere everything AI once. Spotify Announced that it was adding AI DJs who would not only curate the music you like, but also provide feedback between tracks in an “astonishingly realistic voice”. (Cabling in disagreementsaying that Spotify DJs do not, in fact, sound realistic).
Break Announced which will allow subscribers paying $3.99 a month to access My AI, a chatbot powered by the latest version of ChatGPT, directly within Snapchat.
mark zuckerberg saying that he is in everything. Meta will use generative AI across its entire product line, including on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, and with ads and videos.
Even Elon Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI but has since cut ties with the company, reportedly is approaching researchers to build a rival to ChatGPT.
