AI News roundup: Elon Musk wanted to run OpenAI, Is AI a misnomer and more
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March 27, 2023 / 19:00 IST
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Is Artificial Intelligence a misnomer?The term, AI, breeds misunderstanding and helps its creators avoid culpability.- Artificial intelligence in particular conjures the notion of thinking machines. But no machine can think, and no software is truly intelligent. The phrase alone may be one of the most successful marketing terms of all time.
- These systems are trained to generate text that sounds plausible, yet they are marketed as new oracles of knowledge that can be plugged into search engines.
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- In the early months of 2018, Elon Musk told Sam Altman, another OpenAI founder, that he would take control of OpenAI and run it himself as he believed the venture had 'fallen fatally behind Google', news website Semafor said, citing people familiar with the matter.
- Altman and OpenAI’s other founders rejected Musk’s proposal to run the company. Musk walked away from the company post that incident — and reneged on a massive planned donation on February 20, 2018.
Microsoft doesn't want AI rivals using the Bing search indexThe company reportedly told two unnamed Bing-powered search engines that they cannot use the index as basis for their own AI chatbots.- Microsoft has reportedly warned two search engines that use Bing's search index that it will cut off access to the index if they use it as a foundation for rival AI chatbots.
- While it is not clear which search engines have been warned, DuckDuckGo introduced its own GPT-based chatbot earlier this month.
ChatGPT saves a thankful doggo! AI chatbot gives correct diagnosis for sick pet when vets failed.- Twitter user Cooper (@peakcooper) shared he used GPT-4 to save his dog, Sassy.
- "I gave it the actual transcribed blood test results from multiple days, and asked for a diagnosis," Cooper tweeted.
- Cooper tweeted that its interpretation was "spot on".
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