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OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, released yesterday a free web tool, called AI Text Classifier, that detects if a text has been written by AI or not.

This solution tries to address concerns, especially in higher education over plagiarism.  ChatGPT. New York schools, for example, have banned this technology on their networks.

“The tool is a fine-tuned GPT model that predicts how likely it is that a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources, such as ChatGPT,” explained OpenAI. “This classifier is available as a tool to spark discussions on AI literacy.”

AI Text Classifier requires approximately 150 – 250 words (or a minimum of 1,000 characters) and it isn’t always accurate. The text can even be edited easily to evade the classifier and is likely to get things wrong in text written by children.

The user simply has to paste the text that he or she would like to check in this URL after logging in. The system will determine if the text was written by a machine, offering a five-point scale of results: Very unlikely to have been AI-generated, unlikely, unclear, possible, or likely.

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OpenAI just launched an AI classifier that can accurately distinguish between AI-generated and human-written text 🤯 pic.twitter.com/jrE08ZQqYZ

— Shubham Saboo (@Saboo_Shubham_) January 31, 2023

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China’s biggest search engine Baidu said yesterday it will launch a ChatGPT-like AI bot in March, according to sources quoted by Reuters and Bloomberg.

It will be based on a large-scale machine-learning model developed by the company and trained over several years called Ernie. It will also allow users to get conversation-style search results, similar to OpenAI’s platform.

Beijing-based Baidu sees ChatGPT-like apps as a potential way to leapfrog rivals, according to analysts.

It seems that Baidu — China’s Google — plans to launch the AI service as a standalone application and gradually merge it into its search engine, said a person to Reuters.

The idea of Baidu seems to point out incorporating chatbot-generated results when users make search requests, instead of only links.

Chatbots in China currently focus on social interaction, whereas ChatGPT performs better at more professional tasks, such as programming and essay writing.

Baidu has been investing heavily in AI technology, including in cloud services, chips, and autonomous driving, as it looks to diversify its revenue sources.

The news of Baidu’s plans sent shares up by 5.8%, the largest intraday gain in almost four weeks.

“next six to 12 months will bring an explosion of experimentation, especially once companies are able to build on top of ChatGPT using OpenAI’s API. And the killer use case that emerges could be around generative AI’s impact on knowledge management. https://t.co/da2dyucwWr

— Adam.GPT (@TheRealAdamG) January 30, 2023

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Businesses around large language models (LLMs) and ChatGPT continue popping up.

One of the latest is Usemeru.com, which allows people to ask questions about Documents, HTML Files, and JSON files in natural language. Large volumes of text can include recruiting call transcripts, request tickets from customers, and medical records.

Users upload and index those documents and files and ask questions about the document. The app parses input and delivers natural language responses.

Essentially, when a client submits a document to Usermeru’s API, the system indexes the document and stores the index on the company servers. Clients can then query the index via an LLM, such as GPT-3, and obtain a response.

This approach is more robust than passing the document as a part of the prompt.

In addition, because the user is querying the index, he/she doesn’t waste tokens as prompts, and can therefore build much larger and more complex queries. Documents larger than 4096 tokens can also be queried effectively.

Usermeru.com also allows you to embed Stable Diffusion image generation into your applications with low latency, variable sizing, and automatic resolution upscaling.

The application is available as an API for dense data retrieval at a starting price of $2.75 per concept.

People in finance/investing, law, humanities/social science research might find this useful in order to search for documents.

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Online media company BuzzFeed Inc (BZFD.O) plans to use ChatGPT to create online content and quizzes. The news led to a significant increase in BuzzFeed’s share price, rising 75% on Friday.

In a memo to employees, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti stated, “In 2023, you’ll see AI-inspired content move from an R&D stage to part of our core business, enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience.”

He also mentioned that AI will assist workers in enhancing their content and that the breakthroughs in AI will open up a new era of creativity that will allow humans to harness creativity in new ways with endless opportunities and applications for good.

He noted that AI-created content will move from an “R&D stage to part of our core business” this year.

BuzzFeed hopes that this technology will help revitalize its business, as the media company has been struggling to boost growth and its stock has dropped nearly 40% over the last year. In its latest quarter, BuzzFeed reported a net loss of $27 million on revenue of $104 million, although sales did rise 15% from the year-ago period.

ChatGPT and its generative AI technology have recently gained popularity, and companies in various industries are already testing it.

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Addressing concerns that ChatGPT could facilitate cheating, Ethan Mollick, an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an educator experienced with the usage of ChatGPT, asked his own students to be honest.

“Everybody is cheating, it’s happening,” he said in an interview at NPR.

Some school districts have banned access to the bot, and not without reason.

The artificial intelligence tool from the company OpenAI can compose poetry, can write computer code, and even started to pass exams at top schools. [See IBL News’ extensive coverage.]

The response of Professor Mollick – who teaches entrepreneurship and innovation – has required the use of ChatGPT. He has even formally adopted an AI policy that requires students to acknowledge to use the tool.

Recently, he ran a session where students were asked to come up with ideas for their class project, warning that the tool may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information.

“Almost everyone had ChatGPT running. The ideas so far are great, partially as a result of that set of interactions.”

“We taught people how to do math in a world with calculators,” he said. “Now the challenge is for educators to teach students how the world has changed again, and how they can adapt to that.”

“I don’t think human nature changes as a result of ChatGPT. I think capability did.”

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Signaling the risk of widespread cheating, ChatGPT passed a high–profile exam at a U.S. law school – Minnesota University Law School – after writing essays on topics, ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts.

The bot scored a C+ overall and displayed a strong grasp of basic legal rules, but often struggled to spot issues when given an open–ended prompt, a core skill on law school exams.

Despite its shortcomings, the achievement is remarkable, as it signals that AI–driven cheating could threaten traditional classroom teaching and assessment methods.

Jonathan Choi, a Minnesota University Law School professor, gave ChatGPT the same test faced by students, consisting of 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions.

“In writing essays, ChatGPT displayed a strong grasp of basic legal rules and had consistently solid organization and composition,” the authors wrote in a white paper titled “ChatGPT goes to law school” published Monday.

The bot was near the bottom of the class in most subjects and “bombed” at multiple-choice questions involving mathematics.

“ChatGPT often struggled to spot issues when given an open-ended prompt, a core skill on law school exams.”

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With ChatGPT’s cloud infrastructure overloaded with users, a bit more operational alternatives have started to emerge. This is a selection of 10 start-ups:

OpenAI Playground. Part of OpenAI, this web-based tool is a demo version of the ChatGPT service. It works like ChatGPT but provides much more advanced options, including the ability to select a specific language model to experiment with. Like ChatGPT if the server is in high demand, access can be lost, and the bot doesn’t warn about it.

Perplexity AI. Also trained on OpenAI’s API, Perplexity cites the sources it is using to answer queries at the end of every sentence like Wikipedia. Perplexity AI is free to use and doesn’t even require an account. It can’t remember past answers. The query maximum length is 255 characters.

Rytr. It’s an AI writing assistant Powered by a language AI model, Rytr is an AI writing assistant that comes with 40+ use cases and 20+ tones. It supports 30+ languages and has an SEO analyzer.

Writesonic. Built on top of ChatGPT, it can access the Internet, can create digital images, and comes with 16 different personas, ranging from an accountant to a poet. It responds to voice commands — much like Google Assistant and Siri — over ChatGPT features. It shares replies through links or Word/ PDF docs.

JasperChat. Also based on GPT 3.5, it has been built for businesses like advertising, marketing, and working professionals. It includes Google search data. Jasper has explicitly stated that it is not a research engine and all outputs should be fact-checked.

CharacterAI. Instead of interacting with a single AI chatbot, users choose from various personalities including Elon Musk, Tony Stark, Joe Biden, and Kanye West and the AI changes its conversational manner accordingly. Character AI also has a microphone input and even talks back in different voices, depending on the character.

YouChat. Trained on the ChatGTP model, YouChat holds conversations with full access to the Internet. Like ChatGPT, it also writes code, gives advice, breaks down complicated concepts, and summarizes books.

DialogGPT. Trained on 147 million multi-turn dialogues from Reddit, it’s a lighthearted chatbot. It comes with a few prompts but it doesn’t remember previous answers.

Replika. Powered by the GPT-3 language model that is autoregressive — it learns from its previous prompts — it is focused on companionship and relationships. Users create an avatar and customize its look. The Pro membership, from $19.99 per month, gives you the ability to video call the AI and unlock relationships. It’s like an AI companion of the movie HER.

Prof Jim. It’s a software company that can turn existing written materials—like textbooks, Wikipedia pages, or a teacher’s notes—into these animated videos at the push of a button.

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Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the online phenomenon of ChatGPT.

That investment would total $10 billion over multiple years. The specific financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The funding is needed by OpenAI to ramp up computing power.

The deal follows Microsoft’s announcement last week that it had begun laying off employees in part of an effort to cull 10,000 positions.

Microsoft announced plans to build the program into Microsoft Word.

ChatGPT uses a transformer-based language modeling technique, which allows it to capture long-term dependencies in a text. OpenAI’s stated mission is to build artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., a machine that can do anything the human brain can do.

Some of the most recent developments of OpenAI include DALL-E 2, a system that allows the creation of digital images, and GPT-3, the natural-language system that can write, argue and code.