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GPT builder option might soon be an option for ChatGPT subscribers

11/14/202311/13/2023 Jennifer Goula

Leaked videos and screencaps show a new chatbot creation and management tool for the subscription plan. OpenAI is getting ready to hold its first developer conference, and at the same time, newly leaked screenshots and video have shown a substantial update to ChatGPT in the form of a GPT Builder option. The leak suggests that there will be an option for a custom chatbot creator with many known features, According to a report in The Verge, citing The Decoder, the screenshots and video of the GPT Builder indicate that OpenAI…

Generative AI models are using data from virtually the entire accessible internet

11/03/202311/02/2023 John Montgallo

Generative AI - Concept image of robot using the Internet

Many consumers are uncomfortable with the thought that their data is being used for artificial intelligence. As companies race to develop and train increasingly large generative AI models, developers have been using as much of the searchable internet as they can. This includes some of the public data people have shared online, as well as possibly some private data. According to a recent interview published in Scientific American, in order to train a generative AI model, it is necessary to use a massive amount of text and images humans have…

Apple Watch adds new wearable technology double tap gesture

11/01/202310/31/2023 Stephanie Beck

Wearable technology - Person using Apple Watch

The new gesture is meant to reduce a wearer’s dependence on using the phone to use the smartwatch. When the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 wearable technology devices were launched in September, one of the most interesting features they were designed to provide was not yet available. The newest Apple Watch models have now received the double tap gesture in the watchOS 10.1 update. The latest wearable technology update for the smartwatches provides a new way for wearers to interact with their devices without having to use the…

Samsung needs to double its foldable smartphone sales next year to hit its targets

10/30/202310/27/2023 Jesse Collins

Foldable smartphone - 2024 sales increases

The company will need to be able to sell about 20 million units of its Galaxy Z phones in 2024. Samsung has announced a target for its foldable smartphone sales and will need to sell 20 million units of the Galaxy Z in 2024 to be able to reach it. That target represents a 33 percent increase over the 15 million Galaxy Z phones expected to sell this year. If Samsung were to reach its set target, it would mean selling 33 percent more Galaxy Z next year than they…

Rapper Pras blames artificial intelligence use for losing his case

10/27/202310/26/2023 Stephanie Beck

Prakazrel Michel of the Fugees says AI caused his lawyer to botch his closing arguments. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, Fugees rapper, recently lost a multimillion-dollar conspiracy trial that moved through both entertainment and political environments, and now that it was lost, it is taking aim at artificial intelligence technology. The rapper claims that the closing was botched by the lawyer who had used an AI program. According to Michel, the trial attorney used an “experimental” generative artificial intelligence program. This was one of several errors the “unqualified, unprepared and ineffectual” trial…