New Delhi: ChatGPT maker OpenAI‘s Whisper, an AI-powered transcription tool touted for its accuracy, has come under scrutiny for its tendency to fabricate information, a report has said, adding that experts have called it problematic because the tool is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews. According to a … Read more
ChatGPT was down for several hours early on Tuesday. The outage went on for almost two and a half hours. OpenAI confirmed that “ChatGPT experienced an elevated error rate from 11.20AM PT to 1.55PM PT”. In India, the outage began at 11.50PM on Monday night to 2.25AM on Tuesday morning. The outage has now been … Read more
Tokyo: SoftBank Group’s stock rose as founder Masayoshi Son considers the creation of a $100 billion chip venture that would supply AI-enabling semiconductors. Shares in the Tokyo-based tech investor gained as much as 3.2% after Bloomberg News reported the 66-year-old billionaire is seeking funding for a foray into AI chips to compete with Nvidia Corp. … Read more
Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI are among the companies working with the U.S. National Science Foundation and other federal agencies on the National AI Research Resource pilot program to connect researchers to AI research infrastructure. The program supports advancements in “safe, secure and trustworthy AI,” according to the announcement from the NSF. What is the National … Read more
Washington : Twenty-eight healthcare companies, including CVS Health, are signing US President Joe Biden’s voluntary commitments aimed at ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), a White House official said on Thursday. The commitments by healthcare providers and payers follow those of 15 leading AI companies, including Google, OpenAI and OpenAI partner Microsoft to … Read more
New Delhi: A new study has shown that currently accessible AI tools can be used to produce over 100 misleading blogs, 20 deceptive images, and a convincing deep-fake video about vaping and vaccines in just over an hour that can be used to spread health disinformation. The video could even be adapted into 40 languages, … Read more
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency project set up by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, aims to establish a global ID network akin to India’s Aadhaar biometric ID system, a senior employee told Reuters. More than 2.4 million people have signed up to have their irises scanned by Worldcoin’s “orb” devices in exchange for a digital ID and free … Read more
Google‘s artificial intelligence-powered medical chatbot has achieved a passing grade on a tough US medical licensing exam, but it’s answers still fall short of those from human doctors, a peer-reviewed study said on Wednesday. Last year the release of ChatGPT — whose developer OpenAI is backed by Google’s rival Microsoft — kicked off a race … Read more
By Shantanu Mukherjee, Anushka Iyer and Shruti Gupta Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the flavour of the season. Since Open AI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, exploded onto the scene in November 2022, AI has become the single most exciting thing in tech: Microsoft invested $ 10 billion in OpenAI and integrated its engine into Microsoft’s suite of products; … Read more
Bengaluru: Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials, has raised $15 million to expand partnerships and accelerate regulatory approval, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. The investment from Radical Ventures and Wittington Ventures valued the startup at $265 million, the company said. Mira Murati, … Read more