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.
If you’re using OpenAI’s APIs or considering integrating them into your digital toolkit, it’s essential to be aware of the recent changes. OpenAI updated its Terms of Use in December 2023.
Let’s delve into the significant changes that might alter how you use these potent AI tools.
What’s Off the Table?
First and foremost, let’s discuss a significant update that every developer should be aware of. OpenAI has clarified the terms of use for their API outputs.
After years of waiting and an unfortunate leak in 2022 that confirmed the existence of Grand Theft Auto VI, Sam Houser of Rockstar Games announced on X that a trailer would be released in December to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto—an announcement of an announcement.
In the massive leak, there were game clips, game code, assets and other pieces of information that confirmed some of the previous details that would make it into GTA VI.
Neural DSP is a company that produces guitar and bass plugins, mostly known for their Archetype plugins such as Archetype: Gojira or Archetype: Nolly. They also have the Quad Cortex amp modeller hardware device.
Recently, the thought of an NDSP preset file viewer entered my mind. Instead of opening up the xml preset files in plugins, being able to read the settings in a separate standalone app of some kind.