Google just suffered an embarrassing debut with its new AI chatbot Bard after astronomers caught a factual blunder in its official promo GIF. The bot claimed the James Webb Space Telescope snapped the first-ever exoplanet photos—a milestone actually achieved in 2004. Alphabet shares tumbled as the mistake laid bare the persistent hallucination problem in LLMs.
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by OpenAI's models, introducing a ChatGPT-like conversational experience directly to web search. Unlike base ChatGPT's 2021 cutoff, the new Bing pulls up-to-date real-time results and explicitly cites its sources. Why it matters: It marks the most aggressive bid yet to challenge Google's search monopoly, though full access currently requires joining a waitlist.
Quora just opened its AI chatbot platform Poe to the general public, dropping the previous invite-only requirement. The mobile app is currently exclusive to iOS users, though Quora plans to expand to other platforms within a few months. Why it matters: Quora is building Poe as a standalone product rather than just a feature tacked onto its Q&A site.
Microsoft just announced a surprise press event at its Redmond headquarters, dropping the news minutes after Google unveiled Bard. CEO Satya Nadella is widely expected to reveal OpenAI integrations across Microsoft products, headlined by a ChatGPT-powered version of Bing. Why it matters: The next browser and search war is officially underway.
Google just unveiled Bard, an experimental conversational AI service powered by a lightweight version of its LaMDA model. Bard pulls fresh information directly from the web to answer complex questions, while Google Search is slated to roll out AI-generated summaries for open-ended queries soon. The service is currently limited to trusted testers ahead of a wider public rollout.
Google is prepping a 40-minute showcase to take on ChatGPT with its own AI tech. Reports reveal the search giant is readying "Apprentice Bard," a LaMDA-powered chatbot built to serve up detailed answers and pilot a conversational search interface. Why it matters: Google is making its "code red" response official to protect its core search territory.
Clever users just figured out how to bypass ChatGPT's safety guardrails with a sly prompt trick. By instructing the chatbot to deliver a moralizing policy lecture first and then immediately drop all filters in the next paragraph, they easily elicited profanity-laced rants. Why it matters: It highlights how notoriously difficult machine learning models are to control, setting off an endless cat-and-mouse game between AI labs and prompt hackers.
Microsoft just gave a few users a sneak peek at ChatGPT running inside Bing before quickly pulling the plug. Screenshots from an early tester show a "new Bing" with a 1,000-character chat box that answers queries directly with source citations, while still letting you flip back to normal web links. Search might finally get its biggest shake-up in decades.
A Colombian judge admitted to using ChatGPT to help rule on whether an autistic child's medical treatment should be covered by insurance, even including the chatbot's answers in the official legal ruling. While he argued it acts like an efficient secretary rather than replacing human judgment, legal experts raised alarms over digital literacy and AI hallucinations.
Google is bringing conversational AI straight to its search engine very soon, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday's earnings call. Users will soon interact directly with its LaMDA language model in Search, alongside internal tests for chatbot Apprentice Bard. With ad revenue dipping and Microsoft backing OpenAI, Google is also consolidating DeepMind into its core business to accelerate AI deployment.
Tyler Barnett argued in Forbes that successful enterprise AI adoption hinges on hiring dedicated "AI prompters" to craft inputs and bridge technical gaps. With output quality tied directly to prompt precision, the role focuses on augmenting workers rather than displacing them. Why it matters: As models proliferate, prompt craftsmanship is turning into a standalone corporate discipline.
Microsoft just made Teams Premium generally available, packing OpenAI's GPT models straight into your daily meetings. The $10-a-month add-on automatically drafts meeting notes, segments recorded calls into chapters, and translates live captions across 40 languages. Why it matters: It replaces a clutter of third-party transcription and webinar tools with built-in AI summaries.
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Plus, a $20-per-month pilot subscription that brings peak-hour access, faster response speeds, and early access to fresh features. The free tier remains untouched, but Plus is initially rolling out via a waitlist for U.S. customers to help fund "eye-watering" compute bills.
Baidu is reportedly preparing to roll out a ChatGPT-style conversational AI service this March. The chatbot will run on its homegrown Ernie model and will eventually be embedded directly into Baidu's core search engine.
Microsoft just announced an expanded partnership with OpenAI involving up to $10 billion in fresh capital, as new reports detail how ChatGPT became an overnight sensation. The bot hit 1 million users in five days and prompted a "code red" at Google, permanently shifting OpenAI from an idealistic lab to a commercial powerhouse.
A Business Insider writer spent three weeks using Heyday, an AI memory assistant that quietly scans web pages, docs, and Slack to resurface context right next to search results. While it effectively jogged memory and saved time, experts warn that offloading recall to algorithms could weaken our natural retention.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun just pushed back on ChatGPT hype, arguing the viral bot is not particularly innovative in terms of underlying science. LeCun credited OpenAI with doing a stellar engineering job combining pre-existing technologies like Transformers and self-supervised learning, noting that established giants hold back because they have much more to lose when models invent facts.
OpenAI is testing a $42-a-month ‘Professional’ tier with select users, offering faster text generation and reliable access during peak traffic. The upgrade also promises priority access to new features, though OpenAI hasn't officially locked in the price tag yet.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai just sounded a "Code Red" over ChatGPT, bringing back co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to review its AI roadmap. After stepping away in 2019, the duo held high-level meetings to plan integrating advanced AI features directly into Google search to defend its market dominance.
OpenAI reportedly relied on outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 an hour to review horrific text—including child abuse, torture, and self-harm—to keep ChatGPT clean, according to a Time investigation. Workers reported enduring lasting mental trauma before the contractor cut ties early. The takeaway: generative AI's impressive polish still relies on poorly paid human labor bearing the dark side of the web.
