Gizmodo: “OpenAI’s world-famous chatbot is free to rummage through the internet’s darkest corners. The company declared Tuesday that the “Browse with Bing” feature is ready for prime time for those ChatGPT users paying for Plus or Enterprise editions. This lets ChatGPT access up-to-date information, rather than being limited to the training data that was cut off before September 2021. There are several existing plugins and applications that give ChatGPT access to the internet though this official release signals the company thinks its AI’s ethical constraints can withstand open access to the best and worst the internet has to offer. The new feature is available on both web and mobile version to those customers who pay the $20 monthly subscription. ChatGPT is already a feature in Microsoft’s Bing browser, so there’s quite a lot of cross-pollination going on. In that vein, OpenAI’s new AI image generator DALL-E 3 already has ChatGPT integration. The company said Monday it would stick DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT letting users create all the deepfakes and silly art they want through the chatbot’s UI.”
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Daily Archives: October 18, 2023
Can AI detectors save us from ChatGPT?
ZDNet: “I tried 5 online tools to find out With the sudden arrival of ChatGPT, educators and editors are facing a worrying surge of automated content submissions. We look at the problem and what might be done. When I first looked at the question of whether it’s possible to fight back against AI-generated plagiarism, and… Continue Reading
Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models
Scientific American: “Artists and writers are up in arms about generative artificial intelligence systems—understandably so. These machine learning models are only capable of pumping out images and text because they’ve been trained on mountains of real people’s creative work, much of it copyrighted. Major AI developers including OpenAI, Meta and Stability AI now face multiple… Continue Reading
WastewaterSCAN Dashboard
“Participants in WastewaterSCAN are municipal treatment plants in the United States that serve >10,000 people, with some plants serving up to around 4 million people. The goal of analyzing wastewater at this level is to get a picture of infectious disease occurrence at a community population scale. Sampling at this scale covers a population large… Continue Reading
E-Bike Environment and Economics Impact Assessment Calculator
“RMI’s E-Bike Environment and Economics Impact Assessment Calculator for Cities simplifies the process of assessing the impact of mode-shift from electric bikes (e-bikes) for policymakers, transportation officials, advocates, and other interested stakeholders. The tool estimates the impact of e-bikes as a substitute for short vehicle trips, based on a city-wide mode-shift to e-bikes goal; it… Continue Reading
Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It
Wired via PodMust: “Misinformation lives everywhere. False accounts of events, doctored photos, and purposely misleading news stories are quickly shared and passed around on social media, usually by well-meaning people who don’t know they’re sharing incorrect information. It’s a big problem in the best of times, but the stakes become much higher during a heated… Continue Reading
Google Brings Generative AI to Search: Here’s What SGE Can Do
Tech Republic: “…SGE allows Google users to generate AI images and text by typing a prompt into the Google Search bar, working much in the same way as AI-powered text-to-image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E 2 and acting as a rival to Microsoft’s GPT-4 powered Bing Chat. Google said SGE could help in situations where… Continue Reading
How Americans View Data Privacy
Pew Research Center – “In an era where every click, tap or keystroke leaves a digital trail, Americans remain uneasy and uncertain about their personal data and feel they have little control over how it’s used. This wariness is even ticking up in some areas like government data collection, according to a new Pew Research… Continue Reading
Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives
The New York Times Magazine – The Costs of Not Investing in America [read free] “For decades, spending on the future put the nation ahead of all others. What would it take to revive that spirit?…The lack of recent progress is not a result of any physical or technological limits. In other parts of the… Continue Reading
