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How to use ChatGPT’s file analysis capability (and what it can do for you)

How to use ChatGPT’s file analysis capability (and what it can do for you)

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Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images OpenAI a week ago unveiled a new feature for ChatGPT called “memory,” which stores things you explicitly ask the program to have access to, for later use.  Alongside memory, it’s good to remember that ChatGPT can also use existing file-upload capabilities to analyze text and images. You just drag and drop a file into the chat window, such as a PDF or a JPEG, add a prompt if you like, and ChatGPT will start to produce some text output based on what you’ve uploaded.  Also: How to use ChatGPT The capability is available to all paying users of the $20-per-month “Plus” version. The Plus version has the added capability of using the latest ChatGPT, version 4, instead of version 3.5, and the quality of output can be noticeably better. Plus also allows the use of DALL-E, the image-generation program.  The most obvious uses for file upload are summarization, outlining, and more advanced kinds of semantic search beyond just keyword search. File upload is easy: Just drag.  The file upload function shines when …

How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

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Everything reminds me of Her. While ChatGPT is not as powerful as the artificial intelligence from Spike Jonze’s sci-fi romance movie, OpenAI’s experimental memory tool for its chatbot seems to suggest a future where bots are highly personalized and capable of more fluid, lifelike conversations. OpenAI just soft-launched a new feature for ChatGPT called Memory, where the AI chatbot stores personal details that you share in conversations and refers to this information during future chats. Right now, ChatGPT’s Memory feature is available only to a small group of users to test—it’s unclear when a wider rollout for more chatbot users will happen. The feature is expected to be available for all chatbot users, not just subscribers to ChatGPT Plus. WIRED received early access to the feature from OpenAI, and I’ve spent the past few days trying it out to better understand this new functionality and to collect some advice you can use to get started. While a few specifics may change before the feature is made available to everyone, here’s what you can likely expect …

What Are ChatGPT’s Default Plugins, and What Can I Use Them For?

What Are ChatGPT’s Default Plugins, and What Can I Use Them For?

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Key Takeaways ChatGPT Plus includes three built-in plugins: Browse with Bing, Code Interpreter, and DALL-E, which enhance its capabilities. Browse with Bing allows ChatGPT to conduct real-time web searches and provides a source for the information it generates. DALL-E enables text-to-image generation, but it may not accurately make changes to existing images and often generates new ones instead. Using ChatGPT doesn’t just involve basic fact-finding. GPT-4, ChatGPT’s premium model, has some interesting extra plugins: DALL-E, Browsing, and Code Interpreter. So, how do these ChatGPT plugins work, and what can you get out of them? What Are ChatGPT’s Default Plugins? ChatGPT’s three built-in plugins are offered to all ChatGPT Plus users. ChatGPT Plus uses GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest LLM version, which comes with the DALL-E 3, Code Interpreter, and Browse with Bing plugins. OpenAI began to introduce its built-in plugins in March 2023. Here’s a basic overview of what each plugin does: Browse with Bing: Conducts Bing searches on the user’s behalf to find real-time data. Code Interpreter: Runs, analyzes, and provides Python code in a sandboxed …

ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

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The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI training has driven prices of the crucial components through the roof. OpenAI has said that training the algorithm that now powers ChatGPT cost the firm over $100 million. The race to compete in AI also means that data centers are now consuming worrying amounts of energy. The AI gold rush has a few startups hatching bold plans to create new computational shovels to sell. Nvidia’s GPUs are by far the most popular hardware for AI development, but these upstarts argue it’s time for a radical rethink of how computer chips are designed. Normal Computing, a startup founded by veterans of Google Brain and Alphabet’s moonshot lab X, has developed a simple prototype that is a first step toward rebooting computing from first principles. A conventional silicon chip runs computations by handling binary bits—that’s 0s and 1s—representing information. Normal Computing’s stochastic processing unit, or SPU, exploits …

ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment – The Atlantic

ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment – The Atlantic

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ChatGPT has certainly captured the world’s imagination since its release at the end of 2022. But in day-to-day life, it is still a relatively niche product—a curiosity that leads people to ask questions that begin “Have you tried … ?” or “What do you think about … ?” Its maker, OpenAI, has a much more expansive vision. Its aim is seemingly to completely remake how people use the internet. For that to happen, the bot needs to be more than a conversation starter: It has to be a functioning business. The company’s launch of the new GPT Store on Wednesday was an ambitious step in that direction. Initially announced two months ago, the GPT Store allows the product’s business and “ChatGPT Plus” users—those paying $20 a month for an upgraded version of the service—to create, share, and interact with customized AI agents (called GPTs) that are tailored to specific tasks. The company claims that its users have built more than 3 million of these custom bots since they were granted the ability to do so …

Using the Bible to Explore ChatGPT’s Conception of Humanist Ethics

Using the Bible to Explore ChatGPT’s Conception of Humanist Ethics

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DISCLAIMER: This article is not, in any sense, intended as an attack on the Christian belief system. Introduction and Methods Overview Artificial Intelligence is supposed to be unbiased. Right? With the rise of AI and machine learning models, this is an ethical concern that should be at the forefront of the minds of the developers of such programs. Among the most prominent of these programs is ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Training Transformer), an open source model developed by OpenAI. Late last year, Alex O’Connor, a popular contemporary philosopher formerly of the name CosmicSkeptic on YouTube, managed to convince ChatGPT that God exists. He first attempted the Kalam cosmological argument, but ChatGPT was not entirely convinced. He found success, however, with Alvan Plantinga’s modal ontological argument. He succeeded with the modal ontological argument on ChatGPT-4, while he attempted the Kalam cosmological argument on ChatGPT-3. In tribute to this impressive feat of philosophical discourse, we wanted to try our hand at something similar; we wanted to convince ChatGPT of some concrete moral belief. Further, we wanted this moral belief …

ChatGPT’s Wild Year – The Atlantic

ChatGPT’s Wild Year – The Atlantic

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Reconsidering the chatbot that changed everything Illustration by The Atlantic December 1, 2023, 12:24 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s leading thinkers on AI will help you understand the complexity and opportunities of this groundbreaking technology. (Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here.) One year ago, ChatGPT was released into the world. The startlingly human-sounding chatbot kicked off the generative-AI revolution and quickly became one of the most successful internet applications ever—invading classrooms, workplaces, online stores, and more. The program has created billions of dollars of value where none existed before and enabled entire new skills and fields of work around coaxing useful responses from chatbots. But perhaps more important than any direct, material change, ChatGPT has sparked our imaginations, feeding many people’s hopes and fears about the rise of intelligent machines: boundless productivity, boundless information, boundless misinformation. “ChatGPT, the tool, is likely less important than ChatGPT, the cultural object,” Charlie Warzel wrote in a new piece for The Atlantic. OpenAI’s premier chatbot is bending how …

On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly M in revenue

On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue

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It’s officially been one year since ChatGPT launched, taking the world by storm as the research preview turned into an everyday tool that brought AI chatbot technology to mainstream users. A large part of that effort was driven by the release of the ChatGPT mobile app, whose May 2023 launch on iOS put the chatbot into more consumers’ hands, later followed by a July 2023 release on Android. Now, on the technology’s first anniversary, new data indicates the mobile app versions of ChatGPT have topped 110 million combined installs and have reached nearly $30 million in consumer spending, according to a market analysis provided to TechCrunch by mobile intelligence provider, data.ai. ChatGPT’s mobile apps make money by selling the ChatGPT Plus subscription via in-app purchases. The $19.99 per month service offers a variety of extra perks, including general access during peak times, faster response times, and early access to new features and improvements. The subscription was expanded to users outside the U.S. in February 2023, ahead of the mobile apps’ debut. As an in-app purchase, …

ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record .58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing

ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing

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There’s some good news and bad news for ChatGPT’s mobile efforts. On the positive side, the AI chatbot continues to see the number of app installs and its revenue grow, with September setting a new record on both fronts: 15.6 million downloads and nearly $4.6 million in gross revenue across its iOS and Android apps worldwide. However, according to new data from market intelligence firm Appfigures, revenue growth has now begun to slow. While over the past couple of months, revenue growth was topping 30% — 31% in July and 39% in August — that dropped to 20% growth as of September. Slowing revenue growth could be the first indication that ChatGPT is nearing saturation in terms of how many mobile users are willing to pay for the upgraded ChatGPT+ subscription service — a fairly hefty $19.99 per month in-app purchase that offers faster response times, priority access at peak times and early access to new features and improvements. The subscription has sold well so far, as ChatGPT on mobile brought in gross revenues of …

ChatGPT’s new app comes out of the gate hot, tops half a million installs in first 6 days

ChatGPT’s new app comes out of the gate hot, tops half a million installs in first 6 days

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Despite being U.S.- and iOS-only ahead of today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app has been off to a stellar start. The app has already surpassed half a million downloads in its first six days since launch, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. That ranks it as one of the highest-performing new app releases across both this year and the last, topped only by the February 2022 arrival of the Trump-backed Twitter clone, Truth Social. As consumer demand for AI chatbots heated up, other third-party apps calling themselves “ChatGPT” or “AI chatbot” have filled the App Store. While many of these were essentially fleeceware, trying to trick consumers into paying for expensive subscriptions to access their AI, a combined group of top apps still managed to pull in millions in consumer spending. This competitive landscape among AI chatbot apps could have created a tougher market for an official ChatGPT app to gain traction. But as it turns out, that was not the case. OpenAI’s ChatGPT app outperformed most …