OpenAI today announced that it has reached an agreement to bring back Sam Altman as CEO and appoint new board members after nearly all of its employees threatened to quit over his surprise sacking. Minutes after Sam Altman announced his decision to return as OpenAI CEO, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said they have discussed the matter and agreed that this is 'a first essential step' to build a 'more stable, well-informed, and effective governance' in OpenAI. Altman had shot to fame with the launch of ChatGPT last year, which ignited a race to advance AI research and development.
AI tools like ChatGPT have posed serious threats to research ethics and scholarly honesty. This article is an attempt to explore this potential threat to the sanctity, originality and integrity of research, especially research in social sciences. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that can generate human-like texts instantly with stunning accuracy and wisdom in response to prompts and is capable of having cognitive conversations from scholarly perspectives. Governments around the world need to take punitive actions against the abuses of such AI tools in research.
OpenAI's chatbot has upended teaching, writing, technology, and many other sectors since its arrival in November. This week, Meta announced the launch of Llama 2, a huge new AI model, through a partnership with Microsoft. Early impressions suggest Llama 2 stacks up pretty evenly against ChatGPT. OpenAI may need to come to terms with that before Llama 3 is released.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to introduce tech subjects such as AI, coding, and data science to the curriculum for students in classes VI to VIII. This is a departure from the current practice of offering skill subjects only after class XI. The CBSE has released a circular listing over 33 skill subjects, including Augmented Reality (AR), Financial Literacy, Kashmiri Embroidery, Mass Media, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Microsoft and Nuance are planning to roll out a version of their Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) app that is fully automated and incorporates GPT-4. The software promises to generate notes in seconds but accuracy, liability and even issues like how the note gets formatted may make some doctors hesitate. The software giant is hoping the fully automated version will scale much faster than the previous version. But the real question for success is: will doctors cede control to imperfect machines to get a few minutes of their lives back?
Amitabh Bachchan, who is known to keep pace with the technology, recently mentioned his desire to use ChatGPT to write his daily blogs. The legendary actor penned his thoughts on the same in his blog. The actor may soon join the bandwagon to write his blog on Tumblr. Amitabh Bachchan recently injured himself while shooting for Project K. The film is a bilingual film shot simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu languages across various locations.
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has warned against the rush to deploy AI without proper oversight. He said in an interview that the urgency to deploy AI in a beneficial way is necessary, but it can be very harmful if deployed wrongly. He urged global tech companies to come together and develop standards and appropriate guardrails to ensure the safety and security of their organizations and customers.
It's getting easier to manipulate images but there's little financial incentive for companies to invest in tools to detect fakes. AI technology can be used to detect deepfakes with 96% accuracy, but the global market for deepfake detection is only valued at $3.86 billion. Big tech companies and startups have poured billions into generative AI, but detection tools are still in development. There's little legal or financial incentive to invest in deepfake detection, leaving consumers in the dark.