The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
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GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate.
TikTok Pushed by U.S. to Resolve National Security Concerns
The demand hardens the White House’s stance toward the popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.
Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine Could Include Cyberattacks, Microsoft Says
Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian government.
OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model’s emergent capabilities—including “power-seeking behavior,” self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was “ineffective at the autonomous replication task,” the nature...
Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an advisory posted on Tuesday, Rubrik CISO Michael Mestrovich said an investigation into the breach found that the intruders gained access to mainly...
Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile for $1.35B
Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things would happen. I like to think the message was intended for me, too, because today, my beloved low-cost wireless carrier, Mint Mobile,...
Meta, Facebook’s Parent, to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers
It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November. Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has declared 2023 the “year of efficiency.”
AI Funding Frenzy Escalates
In just weeks, a gold rush into artificial intelligence start-ups has become a full-blown mania.
10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed
OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways. It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up.