2023 ⟶ News Outlets Block GPTBot and Restrict AI Content Use
In August, 2023, the New York Times, CNN, Reuters, the Chica...
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💬 ChatGPT's Public Debut and Societal Discussion
ChatGPT, an AI Chatbot developed by OpenAI, debuts in November 2022. It is initially built on top of the GPT-3.5 Large language model. While it gains considerable praise for the breadth of its knowledge base, deductive abilities, and the human-like fluidity of its natural language responses, it also garners criticism for, among other things, its tendency to "hallucinate", a phenomenon in which an AI responds with factually incorrect answers with high confidence. The release triggers widespread public discussion on artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society.⟶
ChatGPTOpenAILarge language modelGenerative AIPublic discourseSocietal impactHallucinations
United States⚖️ Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against GitHub Copilot
A November 2022 class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI alleges that GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered code editing tool trained on public GitHub repositories, violates the copyrights of the repositories' authors, noting that the tool is able to generate source code which matches its training data verbatim, without providing attribution.⟶
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United States📰 News Outlets Block GPTBot and Restrict AI Content Use
In August, 2023, the New York Times, CNN, Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and other news companies block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content, while the New York Times also updates its terms of service to disallow the use of its content in large language models.⟶
Content LicensingWeb CrawlersGPTBotCopyrightGenerative AINews MediaOpenAIData Privacy
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🚀 OpenAI Releases GPT-4
OpenAI's GPT-4 model is released in March 2023 and is regarded as an impressive improvement over GPT-3.5, with the caveat that GPT-4 retains many of the same problems of the earlier iteration. Unlike previous iterations, GPT-4 is multimodal, allowing image input as well as text. GPT-4 is integrated into ChatGPT as a subscriber service. OpenAI claims that in their own testing the model received a score of 1410 on the SAT (94th percentile), 163 on the LSAT (88th percentile), and 298 on the Uniform Bar Exam (90th percentile).⟶
GPT-4OpenAILarge language modelMultimodalGenerative AISATLSATUniform Bar Exam
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