Google’s core search business is feeling the heat from ChatGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people are finding using Bing and ChatGPT are better than using traditional Google search, so Google is loosing share but also fighting back. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Bloomberg used 1.3 Million GPU hours and 600 Billion documents to train BloombergGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating even “small” AI models takes up extraordinary amounts of computer power, but as computers get more powerful and cheaper, and as AI learning algorithms get more efficient this “effort” will drop. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Snapchat’s ChatGPT chat bot is creeping out kids and parents
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is not controllable, the consequences are often unpredictable, and as these models get better at adapting to the user the consequences could be dire. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
To beat Microsoft Google bakes a ton of new AI productivity tools into its app suite
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Microsoft and OpenAI have landed a body blow to Google, and the company’s now desperately trying to catch up with its rivals. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Microsoft launches ChatGPT powered Copilot to the masses
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Copilot is a Microsoft tool that uses advanced AI from OpenAI to help workers automate everything from writing to coding, and improve their productivity. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
OpenAI announces GPT-4 the latest iteration of its game changing language model
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF GPT4 is multi-modal, does more, is more accurate, and has more guard rails than its predecessor GPT3. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. After months...
Baidu shares soar after it releases its own ChatGPT rival
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The greatest interest in ChatGPT ironically came from China, not the rest of the world and now they have a clone … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
In a world first an AI lawyer will defend a human in a real court room
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is good at some things, and cheap, so what happens when AI goes to bat in your corner in a court room? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
ChatGPT just passed a Wharton business school exam
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While it’s feared that ChatGPT could make a great cheating tool most exams are taken in controlled environments, so this test shows its grasp of the subject matter. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Cyber crooks turn ChatGPT into an unwilling accomplice to create new malware and bots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF ChatGPT automates, and therefore makes it easier, to create sophisticated scam bots and new kinds of malware, and this problem’s just getting started. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Creators used AI to generate endless podcasts of Herzog and Zizek talking together
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when AI generates most of our content – including podcasts? It changes entertainment, society, and our ability to trust. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Just like Google this AI learns by reading the entire web non stop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are only three companies whose systems read and trawl the entire web non stop to learn and create the “Semantic Web” and Diffbot is one of them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Europe’s new Artificial Intelligence Act can demand AI models are retrained and deleted
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Regulating AI, which is often seen as a black box is at best incredibly difficult and at worst impossible especially as we see AI’s spontaneously evolve as we have several times now. But it needs to be regulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our...
New patent shows Microsoft wants to resurrect you as a chatbot
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For the first time in human history we are nearing the point where we could digitally bring people back from the dead … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Life in lockdown...
Ultra powerful quantum computers could give chatbots and digital humans emotions
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Learning to talk, like chatbots do, is one thing, being able to understand and respond to human emotions is an entirely different skillset that needs huge computing power. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote,...
Two digital humans went on a date and it was awfully good
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day digital humans will be as life-like as real humans in the way they act, behave, and talk, this is one big step on that journey. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Microsoft just patented a way to let you mine cryptocurrency with your mind
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Exponential technologies are helping us realise the dream of being able to create money with our minds. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Not much has happened in the payments space for a while now, that is unless...
Futurist Keynote: The Future of Work and Skills 2040, Aon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we work and the way we tap into skills is changing, and tat impacts everything from how we educate our children and train our workforce, to how we build and operate companies. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote,...
US CDC launches a Cornoavirus self-checker bot to ease pressure on front line staff
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As governments around the world tell people with COVID-19 like symptoms to self isolate a shortage of testing kits mean self-diagnosis is a guessing game, this helps alleviate the problem. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the...
Google says its chatbot is capable of near human conversation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today you can’t have a conversation with your AI assistant, but in the future you will be… Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with the leader of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence...