Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a $10 billion funding in OpenAI, the startup that created the viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is planning to combine it into Workplace merchandise and Bing search.
It is a massive deal. If profitable, it would convey highly effective AI instruments to the lots. So what would ChatGPT-powered Microsoft merchandise appear to be? Whereas neither Microsoft or OpenAI had been prepared to reply our questions, we all know sufficient to make some knowledgeable, clever guesses. Trace: it’s in all probability excellent news should you discover creating PowerPoint shows and answering emails boring. Learn the total story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
Melissa’s story is from The Algorithm, her weekly AI publication. Join to obtain it in your inbox each Monday.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at this time’s most enjoyable/vital/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 China’s inhabitants has fallen for the primary time in 60 years
The information has main implications for the nation’s social, protection and financial insurance policies. (CNN)
+ China’s financial system is slumping. (Quartz)
+ India is about to take over because the world’s most populous nation. (Economist $)
+ Anti-covid zero demonstrators are nonetheless being detained. (Bloomberg $)
2 The primary invoice for Elon Musk’s Twitter buy is looming
How he offers with it’s yet one more main check of his management. (FT $)
+ We’re witnessing the mind dying of Twitter. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
3 Getty Pictures is suing Steady Diffusion’s creators
Getty claims the software program was skilled utilizing tens of millions of unlawfully scraped pictures. (The Verge)
+ Microsoft is including ChatGPT to its cloud service “quickly.” (Bloomberg $)
4 EV gross sales have handed a big milestone
They made up 10% of latest automobiles bought final yr. (WSJ $)
+ Tesla is slashing its costs—however not everybody’s blissful. (The Verge)
5 Tenant-screening algorithms reportedly discriminated towards Black renters
Now the US Division of Justice is getting concerned. (Wired $)
+ AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. Might it assist get rid of it as an alternative? (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
6 3D printed buildings might assist to unravel the US housing disaster
However there’s a significant barrier: the best way the development business works now. (New Yorker $)
+ Meet the designers printing homes out of salt and clay. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
7 US tech companies are poaching expertise from Latin American startups
Native startups wrestle to match the salaries, that are nonetheless low by US requirements. (Remainder of World)
8 The agony and ecstasy of proudly owning a coveted Instagram deal with
You’d higher put together for folks attempting to steal it. (Slate $)
