Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a slow, buggy, boring-looking chat bot that frequently makes things up and cuts off in the middle of answers. But it communicates as well or better than most humans, and writes code as well. It does both in a range of languages, sho… Continue reading Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?

Interview: Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to

Remington Scott’s CV in Hollywood movies is extraordinary, placing him at the bleeding edge of motion capture in some of the most transformative projects in movie history. He supervised and directed motion capture for Gollum/Smeagol in Peter Jackson’s … Continue reading Interview: Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to

ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes

Language model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is quite out of date, with the cutoff being late 2021. That’s where all of ChatGPT’s “knowledge” … Continue reading ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes

The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

Six months ago, only researchers and boffins were following the development of large language models. But ChatGPT’s launch late last year sent a rocket up humanity’s backside: machines are now able to communicate in a way pretty much indistinguishable … Continue reading The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600