AI News: ChatGPT to go bankrupt by 2024, GTA 5 AI Shutdown, AI renders captcha worthless and more
AI Insights: A Week of Innovations, Challenges, and Speculations
Greetings! After an exhilarating week, I’m ready to dive into this week’s AI news. From OpenAI’s financial challenges to Amazon’s AI-driven customer reviews, there’s a lot to cover. Let’s get started!
OpenAI’s Financial Struggles
A recent report reveals that ChatGPT is costing $700,000 per day. Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI seems to be keeping the company afloat.
However, since ChatGPT’s peak in May, the number of users has declined each month. Some attribute this to the summer months when students are out of school. With schools reopening, it’ll be interesting to see if ChatGPT usage rises again. A concerning report from businessstandard.com warns that OpenAI could go bankrupt by the end of 2024 if they don’t turn a profit and if Microsoft stops the cash flow.
Check it out the full article here
Amazon’s AI-Enhanced Customer Reviews
Amazon announced improvements to the customer reviews experience with generative AI. Rolling out to a subset of mobile shoppers in the US, this feature provides an AI-generated summary of overall customer reviews on specific products.
They’re also adding buttons for commonly searched aspects like performance, ease of use, and stability. Clicking on these will generate AI summaries of user opinions. However, if people continue to game Amazon reviews, these summaries may become skewed. It remains to be seen how Amazon will address this issue.
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Google’s Generative Search Experience
Google updated their generative search experience, allowing users to hover over words for definitions and generate summaries of articles. They’ve also enhanced coding capabilities. These features are available on Chrome iOS and Android apps but not yet on the Chrome browser.
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AI Updates to Google Photos
Google Photos now has an AI-curated memories view, allowing users to relive, customize, and share memorable moments. This feature is rolling out in the US and will be available globally soon. Users can even rename memories using AI suggestions.
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OpenAI’s New GPT-4 API Feature and Acquisition
OpenAI announced a GPT-4 API feature for moderation, reducing content policy change cycles to hours. They also acquired Global Illumination, sparking speculation about OpenAI’s potential entry into the gaming world.
Check it out the full articles here and here
Take-Two Shuts Down AI GTA 5 Mod
Take-Two shut down a playable mod for GTA 5 that used in-world AI’s character speech generation tool. The reason for the takedown remains unclear.
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Adobe Express with Firefly: Now Free
Adobe Express with Firefly is now available worldwide and free. Users can access creation tools like text-to-image generators, text effects, and more.
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The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists
The Associated Press set AI guidelines for journalists, emphasizing the responsible use of generative AI. Here are a few key take aways.
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Exciting Research and Launches
Research shows that AI bots can now beat captchas, posing a potential risk
In the near future they’re going to be completely pointless because AI can solve them for you and if you didn’t know captcha actually stands for Completely Automated Public Tiering test to tell Computers and Humans Apart so if you’re like me and didn’t even know that that was an acronym now you know now the fact that these AI Bots can actually beat captchas is sort of a huge risk if people create autonomous Bots that can Brute Force crack into websites and solve captchas it could wreak havoc on a lot of websites we’re gonna have to come up with some sort of new proof of humanity really quickly
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Snapchat’s my AI chatbot glitched
Snapchat’s my AI chatbot glitched out this week and actually posted a random story that looked like a corner of a wall and a ceiling
When people actually tried to chat with Snapchats my AI it just wasn’t responding to them but a spokesperson for Snapchat basically said yep it experienced a temporary outage but it got resolved real quick
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Conclusion
This week has been filled with innovations, challenges, and speculations in the AI world. From potential breakthroughs to ethical considerations, the landscape continues to evolve.
After weeks of conferences, podcasts, and meetings, I’m excited to refocus on creating cool AI content, deep diving into research, and sharing new tools and tutorials. Stay tuned for more, and don’t forget to clap and follow for updates.
See you in the next post, and thank you!
