MetaNews picks through another week of Metaverse hype with equal amounts of hope and skepticism as we chart a path through difficult waters to our brave new virtual world. Here are the stories that made landfall this week on the
From November to January, technology website CNET published a series of financial advice articles written by artificial intelligence (AI), but an audit confirmed that the majority of these pieces contained factual errors, serious omissions, and plagiarised content. The CNET editorial
The professional edition of ChatGPT, which is said to be faster and confer additional benefits to users, is set to cost $42 a month. OpenAI is rolling out the ‘Professional Plan’ of ChatGPT to some users with a number of benefits.
MetaNews rounds up another busy week for the metaverse, separating the signal from the noise. This week we contemplate whether the metaverse will be an escape from the real world or just offer us more of the same. The metaverse
Plots of land in metaverse communities are being rented out for considerable fees, leading to a new class system of haves and have-nots. Philip Rosedale, the creator of Second Life, is among the observers of this phenomenon. Speaking to Wired
Musician Nick Cave has eviscerated a song that ChatGPT wrote in the style of Nick Cave, calling the effort “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human” and “replication as travesty.” The song was sent to him by
The threat of students using ChatGPT to write essays and cheat on coursework assignments is overblown according to level-headed educators. Danny Oppenheimer, professor of psychology and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the academics who believe that the
It has been another action-packed week in the metaverse, but not all metaverse stories are created equal. Here MetaNews picks through a sea of metaverse-related information to find the buried treasure beneath the waves of speculation, future-gazing and marketing hype.
Large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT have the potential to shake up political lobbying according to research conducted at one of the top US Universities. An investigation by John Nay of Stanford University posits that at least part of
OpenAI has plans to move to a subscription model or ‘professional’ iteration of ChatGPT as rumors swirl on the next upgrade to its features and functionality. According to an update in OpenAI’s community Discord, the goal is to “continue improving
Ex-OpenAI employees have launched their own Chatbot as a competitor artificial intelligence (AI) to ChatGPT and YouChat. The name given to the AI is Claude, and it promises to deliver improved results when compared to ChatGPT and other chatbots currently
The same technology which underpins AI-generative art is being leveraged to create new proteins for medicine, fueling hopes of new treatments for a range of sicknesses and diseases. It is hoped that the creation of new proteins will help our
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