The Download: GPT-4 is here, and metaverse marriages

OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large language model that was rumored to be in development for much of last year. The company’s last surprise hit, ChatGPT, was always going to be a hard act to follow, but OpenAI has made GPT-4 even bigger and better. Yet how much bigger and why it’s better, […]

China just set up a new bureau to mine data for economic growth

3. Hundreds of Baidu employees are working around the clock and borrowing computer chips from other departments to get ready for the launch of Ernie Bot, Baidu’s answer to ChatGPT, this coming Thursday. (Wall Street Journal $) 4. Shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s CEO, has sought closed-door meetings with at least half a dozen lawmakers in […]

This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get past the initial sign-in, and my screen kept crashing. It was so glitchy that I had to give up trying to watch the ceremony just a few minutes in. In fairness, that might have been just me. Others were able to watch the entire experience, including Mohnot’s grandmother in India. Still, […]

GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why

“That’s something that, you know, we can’t really comment on at this time,” said OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, when I spoke to the GPT-4 team in a video call an hour after the announcement. “It’s pretty competitive out there.” Access to GPT-4 will be available to users who sign up to the waitlist and […]

Still using authenticators for MFA? Software for sale can hack you anyway

Getty Images reader comments 47 with Share this story Microsoft on Tuesday profiled software for sale in online forums that makes it easy for criminals to deploy phishing campaigns that successfully compromise accounts, even when they’re protected by the most common form of multi-factor authentication. The phishing kit is the engine that’s powering more than […]

Microsoft Teams 3D avatars will be able to take your meetings for you in May

Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up. reader comments 34 with Share this story There are plenty of reasons to turn your camera off during a Zoom or Teams meeting—maybe you’re cleaning your office and you don’t […]

Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024

Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. reader comments 23 with Share this story Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than […]

SAP and Infosys collaborate to make the world a better place through sustainability

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Christian Butzlaff, chief sustainability solution architect at SAP, and Aryesh Kumar from Infosys, discuss how SAP and Infosys are collaborating on sustainability to help organizations improve their business processes and accelerate their journey toward becoming sustainable enterprises. Click here to continue. […]

The “Future of Work 2023” report

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” “Future of Work 2023,” a global research report by Infosys, talks about how diversifying talent pools, improving skills development, and using digital tools automation can generate up to $1.4 trillion in revenue and $282 billion in new profit. It highlights how […]

OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks

Ars Technica reader comments 36 with Share this story On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat has been running on GPT-4 […]