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Air Canada held responsible for chatbot’s misleading advice on airfares

Summary Air Canada must compensate a British Columbia passenger after its chatbot misled him about airfares. The man relied on the chatbot’s information about airfares when booking a flight to his grandmother’s funeral, CTV News reports. Specifically, he wanted to know about special bereavement fares for flights due to a death in the family. The …

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Reddit signs $60 million annual deal for training data, capitalizing on AI boom

Summary Reddit has signed a $60 million annual contract with an unnamed AI company to use the platform’s content to train its AI models. According to Bloomberg, Reddit disclosed this in advance to potential investors, who are expected to support its planned IPO with a valuation of at least five billion US dollars. The deal …

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Donald Trump GPTs and Tweet Generators slip through OpenAI’s GPT moderation net

Summary Update from February 17, 2024: GPT chatbots like “Trump Tweet Generator” or “Trump” are still online. New similar bots are popping up as well. OpenAI is still not responding to inquiries about whether and how these GPTs conflict with OpenAI’s promise to strictly control the use of its AI technology in the run-up to …

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OpenAI’s quest to trademark “GPT” hits a wall at the US Patent and Trademark Office

Summary The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied OpenAI’s trademark application for the acronym “GPT”. The Patent Office stated that GPT is “merely descriptive” and expresses a characteristic of the company’s product. “GPT” stands for General Pretrained Transformer, the name of the technology underlying the large language models. The Transformer technology used in …

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son aims to raise $100 billion for a new AI chip company to rival Nvidia

AI in practice Feb 17, 2024Feb 17, 2024 Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is planning to raise as much as $100 billion for a new AI chip company …

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OpenAI is now worth 80 billion and likely made a bunch of new millionaires

Summary OpenAI has closed another investor deal and probably made a lot of new millionaires. According to the New York Times, OpenAI is now valued at a minimum of $80 billion. The newspaper, which is suing OpenAI for possible copyright infringement, cites several sources familiar with the matter. The transaction is a so-called “tender offer” …

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Microsoft predicts three key AI trends for 2024

Summary Microsoft predicts three AI trends for 2024: small language models (SLMs), multimodal AI, and AI in science. Compared to LLMs, SLMs are much smaller AI models that are streamlined for efficiency. They are more accessible and affordable and can be better adapted to produce valuable results for specific use cases, particularly through fine-tuning with …

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Stable Cascade looks like a more efficient and higher quality successor to Stable Diffusion

Summary Stable Cascade is a new text-to-image model from Stability AI, now available as a Research Preview. Stable Diffusion has been a massive success for Stability AI and its partners: The open-source model has been downloaded millions of times and is the basis for countless AI image apps. With Stable Cascade, Stability AI is now …

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OpenAI is reportedly developing AI web search to compete with Google

Summary Microsoft and OpenAI’s visions for a new chatbot web search have not yet come to fruition. But OpenAI is apparently planning a new attempt. According to a source at The Information, OpenAI is developing its own web search product that will compete directly with Google. The product is said to be based at least …

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OpenAI and Microsoft thwart “state-affiliated” attackers’ malicious use of AI

Summary OpenAI and Microsoft have taken down five state-affiliated threat actor accounts that were using AI services for malicious cyber activity. Specifically, the five actors were from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. They used OpenAI models for tasks such as researching companies and cybersecurity tools, translating technical articles, debugging code, and creating malicious scripts …

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