AI News: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the World

Google released Gemini, a new AI model that understands text, images, video & audio. Available in 3 sizes, it powers Pixel 8 & the Bard chatbot. More advanced than GPT-4, Gemini is natively multimodal & product-focused, integrating into Google services.

ChatGPT Plus includes GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Advanced Data Analysis, Plugins, My GPTs, select GPT-4, and start chatting, generating images, browsing the web, analyzing data, using plugins and more.

Microsoft turbocharges Copilot with GPT-4, DALL-E 3, vision upgrades, Code Interpreter, and Inline Compose. Major AI infusion keeps Copilot top assistant.

Generative AI tools speed up coding but also increase demands on developers to manage sprawling codebases and meet business expectations.

Meta and IBM launch AI Alliance promoting open-source AI development; big tech giants like Microsoft and Google disagree, sparking debate on risks of open vs closed AI approaches.

Global AI Alliance formed to advance responsible innovation; includes IBM, Meta, 50+ members across business, academia and government.

Musk seeks $1B for his AI startup xAI, aiming to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google in risky AI arms race. But even critics see advanced AI as key.

AI is transforming web browsers. New tools from Arc, SigmaOS, Brave and Opera provide summarization, rewriting, context and personalization. But full automation is distant.

OpenAI's governance issues from unusual corporate structure require Mozilla-style separation of nonprofit/for-profit boards and better policies to balance AI innovation with humanitarian mission.

Artist Alan Warburton's new AI-generated documentary The Wizard of AI provocatively explores AI's promise and perils for artists, finding human creativity still essential.

New research reveals troubling vulnerabilities in large language models like GPT-4, highlighting weaknesses in securing AI and the need for effective collaboration to prevent misuse.

Letting AI design its own varied neurons instead of just one type massively boosted its performance on complex tasks. Neural diversity is key.

OpenAI's bizarre firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman raises governance concerns, highlights Microsoft's outsized influence over the AI lab.

Researchers created an AI tool that uses machine learning to analyze a wine's chemical compounds and trace its origin, helping combat a $3 billion wine fraud industry.

AI and decision making: A marketing experiment found AI reduced bias and "noise," outperforming humans. Key takeaway: balance human intuition and AI to optimize choices.

OpenAI postpones GPT Store launch to 2024 due to brief removal and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman causing internal turmoil.

AI may make top performers in some fields more productive, but risks squeezing out the rest. The future impact on jobs and wages is still unclear.

ChatGPT leads AI boom in 2023, US and India top countries. Chatbots and writing tools most popular, but image AI rising fast.