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Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack

Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack

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A weird new development. TerrorGPT Las Vegas police officials have revealed that active duty Green Beret soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself and blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck just outside the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas last week, used generative AI — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT — to plan his attack. As the Associated Press reports, a review of Livelsberger’s queries on ChatGPT suggests he was not only researching explosive targets, but was also studying the speed of bullets, how far they would travel, and even whether fireworks were legal in Arizona (they are, but only 27 days of the year). It’s a weird new development — and one that shows, yet again, that every new technology is eventually subsumed into the darkest corners of society for violent and twisted purposes. “This is the first incident that I’m aware of on US soil where ChatGPT is utilized to help an individual build a particular device,” said Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sheriff Kevin McMahill during a press conference. “It’s a concerning moment.” Wake Up …

It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on 0 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

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“People use it much more than we expected.” Fiscal Shortage While trying its darndest to become profitable, OpenAI is still falling comically short — which, since it’s the 800-pound gorilla in the nascent AI industry, should probably give pause to its rivals both large and small. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, CEO Sam Altman admitted an “insane” fact: that the company is “currently losing money” on ChatGPT Pro subscriptions, which run $200 per month and give users access to its suite of products including its o1 “reasoning” model. “People use it much more than we expected,” the cofounder wrote, later adding in response to another user that he “personally chose the price and thought we would make some money.” Though Altman didn’t explicitly say why OpenAI is losing money on these premium subscriptions, the issue almost certainly comes down to the enormous expense of running AI infrastructure: the massive and increasing amounts of electricity needed to power the facilities that power AI, not to mention the cost of building and maintaining those data centers. Way back …

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

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OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it’s released. These improvements appear to have come from scaling test-time compute, something we wrote about last month, but OpenAI also says it used a new safety paradigm to train its o-series of models. On Friday, OpenAI released new research on “deliberative alignment,” outlining the company’s latest way to ensure AI reasoning models stay aligned with the values of their human developers. The startup used this method to make o1 and o3 “think” about OpenAI’s safety policy during inference, the phase after a user presses enter on their prompt. This method improved o1’s overall alignment to the company’s safety principles, according to OpenAI’s research. This means deliberative alignment decreased the rate at which o1 answered “unsafe” questions – at least ones deemed unsafe by OpenAI – while improving its ability to answer benign ones. Graph measuring o1’s improved alignment compared to Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4o (Image Credit: OpenAI) As AI …

Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses

Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses

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Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until five or six in the morning. He fueled this with a lot of alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine (the latter a habit shared by many of his actors). While working on “Taxi Driver,” he would stuff a pistol under his pillow when he eventually did go to sleep. At other times, he’d keep a loaded one on his desk. But of course, the most notorious habit of them all may simply be not writing at all. Call it writer’s block or procrastination, but it now seems that the AI chatbots designed to ape human wordsmiths are picking up this very writerly flaw. That was the experience of filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain, who tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — they key word being “tried,” because the OpenAI chatbot repeatedly made up excuses for why it couldn’t deliver on time. It …

How to use ChatGPT to summarize a book, article, or research paper

How to use ChatGPT to summarize a book, article, or research paper

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blackred/Getty Images Sometimes it can be hard to get all your reading done, especially with ADHD diagnoses on the rise. If you’re tasked with a school or work project and you’re pressed for time (or focus), artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT can help summarize long articles, research papers, and books to make them a bit more accessible.  Also: You can now talk to ChatGPT on the phone – no Wi-Fi needed ChatGPT has come a long way from its launch in 2022, especially since it got web browsing last spring. However, all AI chatbots can make mistakes — don’t rely entirely on ChatGPT’s summary for your understanding of a text. Though ChatGPT now provides citations, they aren’t always correct. Plus, an AI system won’t interpret more abstract concepts or literature the way a human mind can, meaning it won’t necessarily capture certain themes or details. Think of ChatGPT as a tool that can help make a dense text more approachable. If you’re using it to help with other parts of your work, such as writing, tread …

Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions

Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions

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Thank you so much to all the readers who tuned in live to participate in the second installment of our question and answer series focused on artificial intelligence. I was thrilled to see so many questions come in before the event, as well as all the questions that were dropped into the chat during our conversation. Missed the broadcast? We’ve got your back. Below is a replay of this event that WIRED subscribers can watch whenever. Also, the livestream from the first one is available here. I started off the chat with a couple quick demos showing how to use the image and voice features built into chatbots, including an example of how it’s possible to interact with ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode as a kind of Duolingo-style language learning tool. For a deeper dive into a few of the live questions we discussed, I’d suggest checking out my AI advice column for December, tackling questions about proper attribution for generative tools and how to teach the next generation about AI. If you’re interested in experimenting …

Over 70 per cent of students in US survey use AI for school work

Over 70 per cent of students in US survey use AI for school work

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Many children in the US seem to be using chatbots to help them with their schoolwork Photononstop/Alamy Seven in 10 secondary school students have used large language models (LLMs) for their studies, according to a survey of more than 300 US pupils. “I realised that a lot of the people around me were using large language models, and more specifically ChatGPT, for a lot of school assignments,” says Tiffany Zhu, an 11th-grade student (equivalent to year 12 in the UK) at The Harker School in San Jose, California. Source link

Can ChatGPT help tackle teacher workload?

Can ChatGPT help tackle teacher workload?

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More from this theme Recent articles Generative AI is weaving its way into the fabric of our daily lives. From answering questions to even creating art, tools like ChatGPT offer accessible and free-to-use support for a wide range of needs. So it’s not surprising that generative AI has captured the attention of teachers, school leaders and policymakers. Many in the sector are already embracing this technology, with nearly half (42 per cent) of teachers reporting using AI tools to help with their work. Yet, despite its growing use, there has been little guidance or evidence on how best to utilise tools like ChatGPT in schools in England. There’s a clear need for more information to help make sure that these tools are used effectively and ethically, and without any detrimental impact on teaching quality. To address some of these gaps, we commissioned the first major trial of teachers’ use of ChatGPT in schools in England. The trial, led by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), focused on one pressing issue: teacher workload. We wanted …

how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

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The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on how we live and work in future. But they haven’t appeared from nowhere and have a much longer history than most people realise. In fact, most of us have already been using the approaches they are based on for years in our existing technology. LLMs are a particular type of language model, which is a mathematical representation of language based on probabilities. If you’ve ever used predictive text) on a mobile phone or asked a smart speaker a question, then you have almost certainly already used a language model. But what do they actually do and what does it take to make one? Language models are designed to estimate how likely it would be to see a particular sequence of words. This is where probabilities come in. For example, a good language model for English would assign a high probability to a …

Sora Is the Most Hyped Bot Since ChatGPT

Sora Is the Most Hyped Bot Since ChatGPT

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For more than two years, every new AI announcement has lived in the shadow of ChatGPT. No model from any company has eclipsed or matched that initial fever. But perhaps the closest any firm has come to replicating the buzz was this past February, when OpenAI first teased its video-generating AI model, Sora. Tantalizing clips—woolly mammoths kicking up clouds of snow, Pixar-esque animations of adorable fluffy critters—promised a stunning future, one in which anyone can whip up high-quality clips by typing simple text prompts into a computer program. But Sora, which was not immediately available to the public, remained just that: a teaser. Pressure on OpenAI has mounted. In the intervening months, several other major tech companies, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, have showcased video-generating models of their own. Today, OpenAI finally responded. “This is a launch we’ve been excited for for a long time,” the start-up’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in an announcement video. “We’re going to launch Sora, our video product.” In the announcement, the company said that paid subscribers to ChatGPT in …