China’s Baidu, which ranks among the world’s top tech firms and operates the country’s most popular search engine, has launched an AI that it says will pose competition to OpenAI’s iconic ChatGPT.
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GOODBYE GOOGLE. PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO AI FOR INTERNET SEARCHES, WOLF SAYS
About 13 million American adults are using ChatGPT, TikTok, and other AI-powered search tools instead of Google, Bing, and the usual engines, a number that will grow to 90 million by 2027, according to data from consulting firm Activate.
ENGINEERS ARE TRANSFORMING AIs FROM ASSISTANTS INTO AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
ChatGPT’s most popular uses so far are as an artist, assistant, brainstorming partner, and researcher. However, when engineers at Nvidia, the company making specialized AI chips, opened the hood and began tinkering with its engine, they found a much more sophisticated and capable entity than they had expected.
AI “GUARDRAILS” WEAKER THAN THOUGHT, STUDY FINDS
In developing their artificial intelligence systems, Google, OpenAI, and other creators installed so-called guardrails that would keep their AIs from disseminating hate speech or disinformation and committing similarly unacceptable acts.
SOCIETY IS UNPREPARED FOR SPEED OF AI TRANSITION, EXPERTS SAY
By 2030, “AI will do 80 percent of 80 percent of all jobs we know of today,” renowned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said last week at the Tech Live conference, sponsored by The Wall Street Journal.
BILL GATES’S NEW AI WILL CURATE YOUR ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE
Today’s AIs can suggest books, movies, podcasts, and television shows to suit your tastes—but not the way Bill Gates’s new “Pix” chatbot will.
AI MAKES FERTILE GROUND FOR HACKERS, CYBERCRIMINALS
Hackers are combining AI with encryption tools to make cyberattacks even more stealthy as well as more devastating, Tom Burt, Microsoft’s vice-president for security, told The Wall Street Journal.
AMAZON FORMS $4-BILLION PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC
Amazon has committed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an AI startup founded by siblings who formerly worked for OpenAI in the development of ChatGPT.
OpenAI MAY START MAKING ITS OWN CHIPS
OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT and started the current AI revolution, is mulling a plan to make its own chips, people familiar told Reuters.
IBM ASSUMES LEGAL LIABILITY FOR AI CLAIMS AGAINST ITS CUSTOMERS
IBM has promised customers using its AI platform that the company will shield them against legal claims or penalties they could incur from content creators alleging the AI has violated their intellectual property rights.