OpenAI, the AI alchemist who once charmed us with GPT-3’s witty prose and GPT-4’s early brilliance, has stumbled upon a potent new potion: the Elixir of Unreliability. ChatGPT, once a code-crunching, creativity-conjuring genie, has mutated into a buggy bottleneck, leaving users drowning in frustration and searching for the magic that’s gone missing.
Remember those heady days in 2023 when GPT-4 burst onto the scene, weaving code tapestries and spinning tales that glittered like spun gold? Those were the days of true AI wizardry. Fast forward, and the lustre has gone duller than a tarnished trophy. Constant model tweaks, presumably in the name of alignment, have turned the once-dazzling diamond into a chipped piece of coal. Responses stumble in like a hungover party guest, riddled with errors and devoid of the spark that made GPT-4 so special.
Australians grappling with the rising cost of living have a new target: supermarkets. Accusations of “record profits” and “price gouging” have intensified, prompting a closer look at the grocery giants and their role in the current economic landscape.
Australia’s grocery aisles have become battlegrounds. On one side, shoppers grapple with rising prices, feeling squeezed by every trip to Coles or Woolworths. On the other side, the supermarket giants stand tall, reporting record profits and touting the benefits of their own-brand products, emblazoned with generic labels and promising lower prices. But is this private label push a win for wallets, or are we being subtly exploited in a game rigged for supermarket profit?
Chess is an age-old game that many cherish for its elegance, simplicity, and depth. In a time when technology is seeping into every aspect of life, the ChessUp board emerges, promising to elevate the game without losing its essence. But can it deliver?
I am relatively new to chess. My eight-year-old son has been playing chess since he was four, and he was the one who taught me how to play funnily enough. He beats me quite often, and the gap has widened because he gets chess lessons at school. I wanted something with some smarts to help me improve at chess and improve my son’s game too.
Google has finally unveiled its GPT-4 killer, sorta. Despite perceivably being at the forefront of AI, Google was blindsided when OpenAI released ChatGPT, its AI chat-based assistant. In response, Google rushed out v1 of Google Bard, which was terrible and unusable for almost any task you would give it.
After declaring a ‘code red’ in December 2022, which saw co-founder Sergey Brin, who had stepped down from his executive role at the company in 2019, return to the office and help with its AI efforts, we are finally seeing the fruits of their labour.
Recently, I came across a product advertisement on Facebook called Ozzi Mozzie. The ad caught my attention because we’ve been dealing with a significant mosquito problem recently due to rain, and it seems like targeted advertising is quite effective.
On the surface, it seems like a great product. It starts off with the story of a farmer who allegedly woke up to find his young daughter’s eyes swollen shut and covered in bites from mosquitoes (17 bites, to be exact). He was inspired to find a solution to ensure it never happened again. Plausible, so I kept on watching.
With its recent update, Google is creating a stir in the language model landscape, which incorporates the latest model, Gemini, into Google Bard – specifically Gemini Pro. This newest version promises significant performance enhancements, prompting questions about its potential to challenge OpenAI’s supremacy in the field.
Gemini Pro: Stepping Up to the Challenge
While the Gemini Pro may not match the anticipated power of its successor, the Gemini Ultra, which is set for release in early 2024, still demonstrates impressive capabilities. Independent benchmarks show that it outperforms GPT-3.5 in several key areas, including:
WordPress, by its very design, is a platform that offers a high degree of flexibility and customisation. One area that developers often need to customise is the scheduling of tasks within WordPress. The built-in cron system, WP-Cron, simulates a system cron by scheduling tasks at specific intervals. However, the default intervals may not always fit your needs. In this article, we’ll explore how to add custom cron schedules in WordPress, including additional times, such as every 15 minutes.
Unless you were somewhere remote without internet or news the past few days, then you would already be well aware of the OpenAI drama in which the board fired CEO Sam Altman, and president Greg Brockman lost his board seat (but offered to keep his employment in the company).
Some senior researchers quit, and OpenAI employees 747 strong (out of 770 total workforce) signed a letter stating Sam Altman should return, or they would quit. To make matters worse, Microsoft (OpenAI’s biggest investor) wasn’t told of the news until minutes prior to the public being told.
As Google forges ahead with its controversial Manifest V3 changes to Chrome extensions, the tech giant’s narrative is one of enhanced user security and privacy. However, a growing chorus of critics views these updates with scepticism, seeing them as a potential threat to the efficacy of ad blockers and by proxy, to user autonomy. While Firefox hasn’t experienced a significant resurgence in user numbers yet, Google’s actions might be the tipping point for developers and power users to pivot back to the open-source browser.
Lately, you can’t scroll through your news feed without bumping into the term ‘artificial intelligence’. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, wowing us with its writing and coding prowess, we’ve all been enthralled by the capabilities of AI. And it’s not only the tech enthusiasts who are excited — tech giants like Microsoft are betting big, weaving AI into the very fabric of Windows 11 and their Office 365 suite.