AI

The article “What Are NSF Fees and Why Do Banks Charge Them?” on CNET is a serviceably written explanation of NSF fees. The byline is simply "CNET Money." If you click the byline, it says: "This article was created using an AI engine and reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff." Continue Reading →

OpenAI has announced plans to begin charging for access to ChatGPT, a widely popular AI-powered chatbot capable of composing essays, emails, poems, and even computer code. In a statement on the company's official Discord server, OpenAI mentioned that they are considering monetizing ChatGPT as a means of securing the tool's long-term sustainability. Continue Reading →

Greetings from Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas. CES® 2023 begins this week, and Las Vegas is starting to get busy. I walked the show floor (all of it) yesterday afternoon, and you can call it the "New CES." Continue Reading →

This is the time of year that everyone makes lofty sci-fi predictions about the future: flying cars, practical AI, nuclear fusion… hold on a sec… these are no longer lofty sci-fi predictions. Continue Reading →

This is absolutely the year of AI, and the announcements are just going to keep on coming. One of the biggest opportunities for value creation in the next few years will be companies that leverage the base layers provided by large language models and finely tune highly-specialized middle layers above them. Continue Reading →

The Register is reporting that China is going to ban AI-generated media without watermarks. The stated goal is to spur growth and ban deception. These rules make AI-generated media a regulated business in China, so in order to get a license to do business, the government will have to approve your tech. Continue Reading →

My Sunday essay, "ChatGPT In Its Own Words," was mostly written by ChatGPT. It's impressive by every measure. I was remiss, though, in not reminding everyone that the system is designed as a research tool and that it is also in "free" pre-release mode. Continue Reading →

AI is experiencing a very visible growth spurt. At the moment, only a handful of companies have the computational power to deal with large models. Is there a plateau coming? And, if so, will it advantage big tech or will AI tools evolve to democratize the industry? Continue Reading →

This morning, I asked ChatGPT to "write 200 words about why Facebook is warning it could ban news in the U.S. if Congress passes a bill that would require the platform to negotiate with and compensate publishers for their content – in the style of Shelly Palmer." Here's what it wrote. Continue Reading →

DeviantArt, the "largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts," announced DreamUp, an AI-powered text-to-image generator service powered by Stable Diffusion. The new service has seriously angered some members of the community, so much so that DeviantArt announced that all hosted images will be "automatically labeled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets." Continue Reading →