Hyperscalers’ AI chip capacity is heavily underutilized
Most of the AI capacity at major cloud providers remains unused. As a result, AWS, Microsoft and Google are missing out on billions of dollars in revenue, TechInsights analyst Owen Rogers asserts. Full utilization of AI hardware, however, is tough to achieve.
TechInsights estimates that with sev... Read more
Will Microsoft be forced to curtail its Copilot plans?
Microsoft Copilot now boots up automatically for some Insider Preview members. At the same time, Microsoft seems to be making room for competing AI assistants. An option for alternative chat providers offers hope for Google and others to provide AI functionality on Windows as well. The question rem... Read more
How AI can be trained to deceive, even after safety training
LLMs can engage in intentional malicious behaviour, even when current methods to promote their safety are employed. Such behaviour can be deeply persistent, Anthropic research shows.
Anthropi'sc researchers have presented these findings in their paper "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs tha... Read more
“GPT Store poses threat to privacy and security”
This week, OpenAI launched the long-awaited GPT Store. It also announced ChatGPT Team, which is aimed at small-scale organizations. However, data security is in question, believes Alastair Paterson, CEO of Harmonic Security.
Custom GPTs will now be able to be distributed through the GPT Store. P... Read more
OpenAI launches GPT Store and new subscription for small businesses
Update, Laura Herijgers, 11/1/2024, 2:31 pm: OpenAI's GPT Store was officially launched yesterday, later in the afternoon. Techzine previously discovered some indications of the possible launch, but there was no word from OpenAI yet.
There is also a new, paid version of the chatbot: ChatGPT Team... Read more
Generative AI faces existential crisis over copyright concerns
Generative AI has dominated the tech world over the last year. Criticism of this form of AI is plentiful, but rarely does it pose any threat to the continuous development of the technology. However, copyright claims pose an existential crisis for generative AI in its current form.
Right at the e... Read more
OpenAI offers publications $1M to $5M to license content for AI training
OpenAI is offering publications just $1 million to $5 million annually to use their articles for AI training. This is in contrast to Apple, whose deals with news organizations include deals of at least 50 million dollars.
Recently, OpenAI struck a deal with Axel Springer, which publishes Politic... Read more
ChatGPT is a bad doctor, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone
ChatGPT is found to make errors 83 percent of the time when performing pediatric diagnoses, a study conducted by JEMA Pediatrics found. Nevertheless, generative AI is a promising technology for health care, the researchers argue.
The research focused specifically on ChatGPT in its GPT-4 guise. O... Read more
Newly launched Articul8 to push enterprise AI adoption towards Intel
Intel is launching a new independent AI software company with investment firm DigitalBridge. The brand new Articul8 is going to help enterprise customers adopt generative AI. Given the close relationship it maintains with Intel, it looks like it will primarily seek to drive integrations with the ch... Read more
GitHub Copilot Chat makes AI programming assistance even more nimble
GitHub Copilot aims to help programmers do their jobs faster. It recently made Copilot Chat generally available, a "core part" of its own developer platform, according to GitHub.
With Copilot Chat, a programmer can interact with an AI assistant to translate code to another programming language, ... Read more