For decades, the captcha has been demarcating the line between a human and computer. But now that line appears to be blurring. Bots can now solve Captchas faster and more accurately than humans, a study has found. A paper titled “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs” collected the solving time and accuracy of […]
OpenAI Acquires Company That Builds A Virtual AI World
The rise of generative AI has reignited interest in the simulation theory, which postulates that the world we live in is actually a simulation created by a more advanced civilization: the theory says that as civilizations advance, they’re able to create life-like simulations of themselves, which in turn create simulations of themselves, which makes it […]
AI Town Is Virtual Town Where AI Characters Talk And Socialize
The simulation theory postulates that the world we live is essentially a simulation created by a more advanced civilization: the theory says that as civilizations advance, they’re able to create life-like simulations of themselves, which in turn create simulations of themselves, which makes it quite unlikely that the world we’re living is base reality. It’s […]
How To Prevent Your Site’s Data Being Used By OpenAI To Train Its Models
OpenAI has already built the world’s best AI products by training them on large parts of the internet, but now it’s revealed how users and websites can prevent their data from being used to train further iterations of its models. OpenAI has launched a web crawler named GPTBot that will collect data from the internet […]
Academic Papers Are Cropping Up With The Phrase “As An AI Language Model”, Indicating Widespread AI Plagiarism
ChatGPT is being used for all kinds of purposes, but not all of them might be equally legitimate. Academic papers have started popping up with the phrase “As an AI language model.” As discovered by Twitter user Andrew Kean Gao, there are several papers on Google scholar with this particular phrase. “As an AI language […]
ChatGPT’s Usage Falls For Second Consecutive Month After May Peak
ChatGPT had created history by becoming the fastest product in history to reach 100 million users, but it seems that some of the initial enthusiasm is now ebbing away. The monthly visits to ChatGPT’s website have fallen for the second consecutive month since its launch in November last year. In May, ChatGPT had registered nearly 1.9 billion […]
Zoom Updates Its Terms of Service, Can Now Use Meetings Data For Training AI Models
As LLMs have become more ubiquitous in recent times, companies are looking to collect all the data they possibly can to train their own. Zoom has updated its Terms of Service to be able to use all data collected from meetings on its software platform to be able to train AI models. “You consent to […]
ChatGPT Appears To Hallucinate If Made To Output Its End Of Text <|endoftext|> Token
In fairytales of yore, there were often magic incantations that stopped great forces merely through their utterance — no sooner than the words were spoken, would magical beings come to a grinding halt. In the 21st century, something very similar seems to be happening with LLMs. Twitter users have discovered that ChatGPT glitches if cleverly […]
GPT-4 Generates Better Ideas Than Elite College Students: Study
It’s already known that AI can be creative: it can generate poems, create art and solve puzzles. But it appears that AI can be better than some of the best human minds in being creative. GPT-4 can generate better ideas than elite college students, a study has found. “We compare the ideation capabilities of ChatGPT-4, […]
ChatGPT Generates Strange Responses When Letter ‘a’ Is Entered A 1000 Times
ChatGPT might be solving McKinsey case studies and spatial reasoning problems, but it still trips up in some odd ways. Twitter users have discovered that ChatGPT appears to glitch and return odd answers when it’s presented with the input of the letter ‘a’ repeated a thousand times. For instance, when a user entered ‘a’ 1000 […]