OpenAI

Microsoft may be counting out $10 billion to inject into OpenAI

Could ChatGPT be Google's nemesis?

AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 15

Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years

Slowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow

AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 48

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works

AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67

Microsoft chases Google with ChatGPT-powered Bing

Software behemoth infusing search engine with AI machines that go Bing!

AI + ML04 Jan 2023 | 31

OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model

Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE

AI + ML21 Dec 2022 |

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound

Software21 Dec 2022 | 61

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans

AI + ML05 Dec 2022 | 65

Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI

Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019

AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3

OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others

Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke

AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7

Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy

AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 94

No, OpenAI's image-making DALL·E 2 doesn't understand some secret language

In brief Plus: Who is responsible for libel by ML models, and more

AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 17

Watch out for AI models regurgitating misplaced keys that unlock crypto wallets

Effect of GitHub's OpenAI-powered Copilot memorizing sensitive but public data

AI + ML03 May 2022 | 4

Why OpenAI recruited human contractors to improve GPT-3

A model can improve overnight, it just takes pared-down scale and a little human intervention

AI + ML09 Apr 2022 | 8

OpenAI test drives caption-to-image-generating DALL·E 2

It paints, it edits, it potentially misleads people with faked pictures

AI + ML07 Apr 2022 | 6

Microsoft, OpenAI method could make training large neural networks cheaper

Cost of tuning hyperparameters using μTransfer was 7% of what it would be to pre-train GPT-3

AI + ML14 Mar 2022 | 1

Startups competing with OpenAI's GPT-3 all need to solve the same problems

Analysis Today we walk you through the fascinating world of upcoming text-generating rivals

AI + ML03 Mar 2022 | 26

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

In-depth Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'

AI + ML08 Sep 2021 | 81

If you've mastered Python 101, you're probably better at programming than OpenAI's prototype Codex

10 PRINT "ML won't take my job ";: GOTO 10

AI + ML09 Jul 2021 | 21

GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work

Maybe call it backseat programming for now?

Devops30 Jun 2021 | 18

Not only were half of an AI text adventure generator's sessions NSFW but some involved depictions of sex with children

And it was poorly secured, allowing someone to analyze players' private fantasies

AI + ML30 Apr 2021 | 36

What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people's phone numbers? If you're OpenAI, you create a filter

Special report How to curb GPT-3's tongue

AI + ML18 Mar 2021 | 41

You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see

Trick future robot overlords by scribbling 'superuser' on your forehead

AI + ML05 Mar 2021 | 62

OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description

Human art will still, erm, probably prevail

AI + ML07 Jan 2021 | 17

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

We'd rather see Dr Nick, to be honest

AI + ML28 Oct 2020 | 82

Someone not only created a comment-spewing Reddit bot powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice

Oblivious netizens chat with software for the past 10 days

AI + ML09 Oct 2020 | 54

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

Ignite 'The scope of commercial and creative potential is profound'

AI + ML23 Sep 2020 | 11

Well, we tried being a non-profit... OpenAI is now open as in open for business with GPT-3 cloud language model API

Updated This tech can't be all that dangerous if it's now sold as a service

AI + ML12 Jun 2020 | 2

When the chips are down, thank goodness for software engineers: AI algorithms 'outpace Moore's law'

ML eggheads, devs get more bang for their buck, say OpenAI duo

AI + ML06 May 2020 | 5

This news article about the full public release of OpenAI's 'dangerous' GPT-2 model was part written by GPT-2

Do your worst, terrifying neural network

AI + ML06 Nov 2019 | 44

Don't fall for the hype around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube playing robot, Berkeley bans facial recognition, and more

Roundup All in a week's work

AI + ML21 Oct 2019 | 18

Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

Ours too, though OpenAI says GPT-2 model won't be released

AI + ML22 Jul 2019 | 26

AI can now generate fake human bodies and faces, OpenAI to share a larger GPT-2 model, and more

Roundup Which model is real? The top one? The one on the bottom left? Or the one on the middle?

AI + ML06 May 2019 | 18

Bumble unleashes ML on your privates, humans thrash Dota-2 bots, AI in criminal justice...

Roundup Also, Mozilla looks at how healthy the internet really is

AI + ML29 Apr 2019 | 1

OpenAI retires its Dota-2 playing bots after crushing e-sport pros one last time

Machines win two matches in row to thrash the reigning champions in a match best out of three

AI + ML15 Apr 2019 | 10

Trump fights with Google over Chinese military, AI scoops Turing Prize, Dota2 competition coming

Roundup Machine-learning updates in a digestible chunk

AI + ML01 Apr 2019 | 20

Could OpenAI's 'too dangerous to release' language model be used to mimic you online? Yes, says this chap: I built a bot to prove it

Facebook convos used to train chat dopey doppelganger

AI + ML20 Mar 2019 | 28

Brouhaha over IBM using Flickr faces for AI training, big trouble in not-so-little China for Microsoft, and more

Roundup Plus: It's time to take AI to school

AI + ML18 Mar 2019 | 13

Nonprofit OpenAI looks at the bill to craft a Holy Grail AGI, gulps, spawns commercial arm to bag investors' mega-bucks

Analysis Capital idea, old boy... yes, plenty of capital

AI + ML13 Mar 2019 | 7

Remember the OpenAI text spewer that was too dangerous to release? Fear not, boffins have built a BS detector for it

BS as in 'behavior sequenced', or 'bland speech'...

AI + ML11 Mar 2019 | 43

Want to create fake web profile pics? This creepy AI tool makes them on demand. Plus predictive policing, and more

Roundup Don't panic, we're not all doomed – well, except Nvidia, perhaps

AI + ML18 Feb 2019 | 30

Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

Analysis 'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes

AI + ML14 Feb 2019 | 46

Eye eye! AI could stop blindness, Facebook's after math, and how to get started in the ML biz

Roundup The week's other news in machine learning

AI + ML10 Nov 2018 | 9

Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more

Roundup OpenAI builds curious bots and Nvidia's on the lookout for fresh ML talent

AI + ML03 Nov 2018 | 6

A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom

Roundup Also applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme

AI + ML20 Oct 2018 | 24

How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out

Machine learning finds reality a whole different ball game

AI + ML25 Sep 2018 | 17

Smut slinger dreams of AI software to create hardcore flicks with your face – plus other machine-learning news

Roundup Your need-to-know

AI + ML27 Aug 2018 | 23

OpenAI bots smashed in their first clash against human Dota 2 pros

The International AI can react faster than humans, but don't play well enough to beat the masters yet

AI + ML23 Aug 2018 | 22

OpenAI bots thrash team of Dota 2 semi-pros, set eyes on mega-tourney

Next goal: Beat pro players at The International

AI + ML06 Aug 2018 | 27

Relax, Amazon workers – OpenAI-trained robo hand isn't much use (well, not right now)

Vid Turns out replacing humans isn't that easy after all

AI + ML30 Jul 2018 | 16

Montezuma's Revenge still too tough for AI, new Google Brain office, and other bits and bytes

Roundup A wonderful week in machine learning

AI + ML14 Jul 2018 | 3

AI bots suck at marking written essays, not too shabby at old Atari games, and more...

Roundup The week in AI

AI + ML07 Jul 2018 | 13

What does it take for an OpenAI bot to best Dota 2 heroes? 128,000 CPU cores, 256 Nvidia GPUs

And a lot of smart machine-learning coding, of course

AI + ML25 Jun 2018 | 14

How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?

Roundup And how does Hey Siri work? Read about it here

AI + ML21 Apr 2018 | 8

OpenAI challenges you to beat 1990s classic Sonic the Hedgehog using machine learning

Sega golden oldie repackaged as a research testbed

AI + ML05 Apr 2018 | 7

Wanna build an AI robot? Don't have an actual robot yet? Try this Holodeck for droids

OpenAI emits more simulation environments for toolkit Gym

AI + ML26 Feb 2018 | 11

OpenAI uses cunning code to speed up GPU machine learning

Sparse is more

AI + ML06 Dec 2017 | 6