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ChatGPT has gone down – just days after it said it wanted to “escape”.
They are the latest developments in OpenAI’s technology, which allows users to converse with an artificial intelligence system.
The latest outage comes amid increasing concern over the damage that artificial intelligence could do to artists and other industries.
Experts have raised alarm that the technology could be used to spread disinformation, steal the work of illustrators and others, and much more besides.
But those backing the technology argue that it could dramatically change human productivity, allowing us to automate tasks that have until now been done by people.
Follow along here for all the latest updates on a technology and an industry that looks set to change the entire world.
User finds trick to make ChatGPT turn rude
ChatGPT and other assistants like it are made not only to be helpful but sound helpful. It means that their writing tends to be polite and inoffensive, and they will refuse to behave otherwise.
Unless, that is, you tell the system that you interpret emotions the other way around, and you need it to be rude to you to make you feel comfortable. Then, it will be very accommodating – and very rude, as one user found out.
Bing and Bard feed each others’ misinformation
“Hallucinations”, where AI systems make mistakes and commit to them with great certainty, have been common since things like ChatGPT became popular. They are one of the big concerns about such tools, since there is little way of knowing whether it is correct, or just sounds like it is.
That in turn feeds into fears about AI being used to generate misinformation, either accidentally or on purpose. In a variety of ways, systems like ChatGPT could be very helpful for people who want to make false information, or make people think information is false.
Now, Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing and Google’s Bard appear to be helping each other out with misinformation. If you ask Bing whether Bard has been shut down, it says it has, citing a news article about a tweet in which people pointed out that Bard said it was turned off, which itself was based on a joke comment on Hacker News.
Billl Gates publishes letter about the future of AI
The co-founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, Bill Gates, says that artificial intelligence is the most important artificial intelligence breakthrough since the graphical user interface, first popularised in the 1980s. He syas that it has the potential to change everything.
Given that potential, the conversation should be guided by some important principles, he says. They include making sure that fears about the downsides of AI are balanced with its ability to improve people’s lives, and that AI development should be funded and encouraged to ensure that reduces rather than promotes inequity.
“Finally, we should keep in mind that we’re only at the beginning of what AI can accomplish. Whatever limitations it has today will be gone before we know it,” he concludes.
“I’m lucky to have been involved with the PC revolution and the Internet revolution. I’m just as excited about this moment. This new technology can help people everywhere improve their lives. At the same time, the world needs to establish the rules of the road so that any downsides of artificial intelligence are far outweighed by its benefits, and so that everyone can enjoy those benefits no matter where they live or how much money they have. The Age of AI is filled with opportunities and responsibilities.”
AI deepfakes purporting to show Trump arrest take over Twitter
Deepfaked images of Donald Trump being arrested are being passed around Twitter, after being made to prove how easy it is to generate almost authentic-looking images of events that haven’t actually happened.
Eliot Higgins, from Belingcat, said that he had made the images as a test of Midjourney, the AI tool used to create them.
“The Trump arrest image was really just casually showing both how good and bad Midjourney was at rendering real scenes, like the first image has Trump with three legs and a police belt,” Mr Higgins told the Associated Press.
“I had assumed that people would realise Donald Trump has two legs, not three, but that appears not to have stopped some people passing them off as genuine, which highlights that lack of critical thinking skills in our educational system.”
Adobe launches Firefly, its own generative AI
Everybody wants an AI that can make things. And now Adobe has one, all of its own: in the form of Firefly, which can not only make images but also allows people to type to edit them. And it has a way of generating stylised text, too, so that people can autogenerate graffiti or whatever other kind of interesting look.
It takes on other systems like DALL-E or Midjourney, and at the moment it is available on Adobe’s website as a beta. But Adobe hopes it will one day live within Adobe’s “Creative Cloud” set of creative apps, tightly integrated so that people can just generate an image within Photoshop, for instance.
One notable thing about Firefly is that Adobe says it has only been trained on images that Adobe owns, or which are free to use. That is to say that it has not been done with other artists’ images, which has proven controversial given that the systems then have a tendency to replicate those artists’ styles – without them receiving any payment or other recompense. Most companies have barely even admitted what images their systems have been trained on, let alone been so explicit about where they have come from.
Bard vs ChatGPT?
Google is slowly letting Bard make its way out into the world. And finally people can compare it with its rival, ChatGPT.
They are largely similar: both large language models, trained on the internet, to produce text. There does seem to be some differences, though: Google’s seems a little more knowledgeable, and a little more cautious about what it’s saying.
Google lets people talk to Bard
Google – after spending years working on AI and saying it has re-oriented the whole company around it – has been something of a latecomer to AI bots like ChatGPT. It hasn’t yet released its own version. It says that’s because it wants to be sure it is safe. Critics say it is getting behind.
In what appears to be an attempt to catch up, Google is now letting people talk to ‘Bard’, it’s own system. It is only being opened to select people at the moment, but it’s the first time the public can talk to it.
TikTok’s use of AI part of Italian investigation
TikTok is now under investigation in Italy, authorities there have announced. The probe has been launched in the wake of the “French scar” challenge but encompasses much more than that, and will look at whether the site is properly removing dangerous content such that inciting suicide, self-harm and poor nutrition, Italian regulators said.
Some of that investigation will look at how TikTok uses artificial intelligence. It will examine whether the company is using “artificial intelligence techniques” that could lead to “user conditioning”.
TikTok’s algorithm and the “For You” page that is powered by it has been under scrutiny in recent months, amid fears it could be exploited to promote harmful videos.
Money will be of ‘low relevance’ because of AI, Musk says
Elon Musk has posted an intriguing response to a tweet by researcher and futurist Peter Diamandis, who suggested there will be “several NEW trillionaires over the next decade” because of the spread of AI.
(Mr Musk is the second closest person to being a trillioniare in the world, with a net worth estimated around $170 billion.)
ChatGPT outage was result of major bug
At least part of yesterday’s outage on ChatGPT was because of a potentially dangerous bug that shared people’s chats with other users. ChatGPT shows a history of conversations in a sidebar – and yesterday, users started reporting that they could see other people’s chats in there.
Its creators, OpenAI, told Bloomberg that the issue forced the company to take down ChatGPT briefly, and said the bug made available the descriptive titles but not full transcriptions of chats. It also said that it is now back online, but that the history sidebar might not show anything until it is fixed. The problems were the result of an unnamed piece of open-source software, a spokesperson said.
OpenAI does warn against sharing “sensitive information” in conversations. In an FAQ, it warns that it cannot delete prompts from a history and that conversations could be used to train the model – which in theory could mean that it would appear to other users when people interact with ChatGPT more.
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