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Welcome back!
The AI race is still moving at full speed. OpenAI just launched its most powerful version of ChatGPT to date — right after Elon Musk unveiled xAI’s Grok chatbot.
We also have some big insights from Chinese social media influencers and the U.S. military. Let’s get right to it.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo
🤖 How Chinese influencers use AI to crank out content
📸 Tech startups try to sell the Pentagon on AI
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2.5 minutes
LATEST NEWS
🗞️ OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo
Source: Justin Sullivan | Getty Images
Yesterday OpenAI announced its new GPT-4 Turbo model at DevDay in San Francisco. The company also revealed a feature that will let users create custom versions of ChatGPT.
What you should know:
GPT-4 Turbo is more capable and has knowledge of world events up to April 2023.
It has a 128k context window, meaning users can input up to 300 pages of text in a single prompt.
OpenAI optimized the model’s performance to offer GPT-4 Turbo to developers at a cheaper price. Input tokens are 3x cheaper and output tokens are 2x cheaper compared to GPT-4.
GPT-4 Turbo supports DALL-E 3 image generation and text-to-speech.
The company is also enabling ChatGPT plus subscribers to create custom GPTs — no coding required.
Why it matters: There’s a lot to be excited about here. GPT-4 Turbo is certainly the most powerful LLM on the market, and custom GPTs will enable small businesses to adopt AI in ways that would’ve previously been too costly. OpenAI’s competitors will have their work cut out for them as they try to catch up to this model.
AI INSIGHT
🤖 How Chinese influencers use AI to crank out content
Source: Adobe Firefly
According to the Guardian, Chinese influencers are outsourcing their work to AI clones to create content 24/7.
Key points:
Chinese livestreamers, also referred to as key opinion leaders, rake in over 11% of the country’s total e-commerce sector.
Livestream shopping channels show influencers talking about products for hours on end. They respond to viewer questions and promote discounts and sales for brands.
AI startups are now selling digital avatars to influencers and media companies, enabling them to create and distribute content around the clock.
Although AI influencers have their shortcomings, they threaten to displace lesser-known livestreamers.
Why you should care: At first glance this might seem irrelevant, but it’s another early sign of the wave of synthetic media that will flood the internet in the near future. While this raises job displacement concerns for influencers, a more pressing issue will be the rise of AI-generated misinformation and propaganda.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Tech startups try to sell the Pentagon on AI
Source: The New York Times
Shield AI already has an AI drone being used by the Israeli military, but the company now hopes to convice the U.S. military to adopt its tech.
The details:
Shield AI’s Nova 2 drone can autonomously conduct surveillance without GPS or a human pilot. Israeli forces used it last month to search for barricaded shooters and civilian victims in buildings that had been targeted by Hamas fighters.
The company hopes to help the U.S. maintain its military lead over China with cutting-edge war-fighting tools.
Shield AI ultimately aims to build an AI pilot system that can be uploaded to small drones and fighter jets alike.
The Pentagon is cautiously exploring the potential of AI weapons systems.
The relevance: While it’s crucial for the U.S. to maintain military superiority over China, rushing to build autonomous weapons systems could have potentially catastrophic effects. A study published by OpenAI in 2016 found that AI systems can carry out destructive actions to achieve their main objective. The U.S. Air Force raised similar concerns when an AI-enabled drone reportedly “killed” its human operator in a simulation earlier this year.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Adobe Firefly
Cashing Out: AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee builds $1 billion startup in eight months.
Standing Firm: Protections against AI remain a sticking point for SAG-AFTRA strikers.
Call to Action: High schooler calls for AI regulations after deepfake pornographic images of her and classmates are shared online.
More OpenAI: The company promises to defend enterprise customers against copyright claims.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY