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Things are certainly moving fast in the world of AI, but nobody is entirely sure where, and thereâs carnage at the crossroads. This week has seen most of the major players collide with something, the most dramatic being Elon Muskâs high-speed conflict with data scrapers who forced Twitter into go-slow mode (see AI Roundup, below). Meanwhile, OpenAI has also fallen victim to AIâs popularity, as theyâve been forced to shutter Browse with Bing, one of the most impressive and useful features of ChatGPT.
Browse with Bing gave ChatGPT Plus users access to live web-browsing AI functionality, drastically improving the botâs ability to provide accurate, contemporary information, but it seems Browse with Bing was too powerful. Reddit users discovered that they could employ the engineâs search tools to break through content paywalls online; why pay a monthly subscription for a news website when you could ask ChatGPT to read it for you for free? OpenAI claims Browse with Bing is being closed temporarily âout of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content ownersâ, and hopefully it will soon be back in action.
Of course, doing right by content owners is a hot topic right now, especially for Google, who updated its terms and conditions this week to assert who the content owners are. The search giant now explicitly states that it will use âpublicly available dataâ from the âopen webâ to train its new AI products such as Google Bard, but as Elon Musk will tell you, exactly what constitutes âpublicly available dataâ is a matter of some debate. Many analysts are surprised by Googleâs aggressive approach in this rapidly warming climate of copyright lawsuits, and itâs interesting to contrast their methods with Apple. Googleâs mobile rivals seem to be avoiding the AI crossroads entirely, or at least waiting for the dust to settle before making their own approach. Following the events of the last week, with social media sites grinding to a halt and chatbots having to disable their most useful features, Appleâs caution suddenly seems a lot more sensible.
One other major tech player whoâs had a bad week is IBM, who launched âAI Commentaryâ at the Wimbledon tennis tournament with some fanfare, despite the commentary being - and thereâs no nice way of putting this - unlistenable. Sports fans hoping to add a little AI excitement to the contest shouldnât despair, though, as we have a fascinating in-depth look at how AI is revolutionizing sport, on and off the field!
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Twitterâs ongoing technical problems spiraled out of control last week, all but closing the site for several days, and Elon Musk has blamed data-scraping by AI firms for the outages. Can Twitter recover?
In what is sure to be a landmark case for the industry, two authors have filed the first lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming that ChatGPT 'ingested' their books.
A post by AI Weirdness blogger Janelle Shane examines the best efforts of the latest AI detectors to identify AI content and finds these modern-day Blade Runners are not up to the job.
Researchers claim they can tell whether a song will be a hit or a flop with 97% accuracy by monitoring listeners' heartbeats. Predicting chart hits is a classic popular science trope, but can AI make it work?
Industry analyst Benedict Evans takes a clear-eyed look at the future of employment in an AI-powered world, and questions whether this technological revolution will be different from previous upheavals.
Bloomberg checked in with the US military, who are putting AI applications through their paces both on and off the battlefield, with âdozens of companiesâ currently testing AI-enabled tech for the Pentagon.
