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You Can Now Use the DALL-E 3 AI Image Generator in Microsoft Bing

Emily Lawson — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:39:22 +0000

On Tuesday, October 3rd, Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s latest model DALL-E 3 is now available to all Bing users. The feature was out over the last week, first for the Bing Enterprise users and then for Bing Image Creator. Now it is open for all Bing users to enjoy.

The tech giant in its blog post said, “We’re excited to share that DALL-E 3, the latest and most capable text-to-image model from OpenAI, is now generally available to everyone within Bing Chat and Bing.com/create—for free!”

Moreover, Bing is getting DALL-E 3 access way before OpenAI’s ChatGPT, bringing an advantage to Microsoft. The tech giant is likely to be the most popular image-generating tool for a long while.

The Significance of DALL-E 3

It is the third version of OpenAI’s image-generating model powered by a neural network. It can generate realistic and distinct images from a natural language prompt. DALL-E 3 understands the user’s prompt with much more precision and reliability than the previous models. Furthermore, this version produces images that are photorealistic meaning they are not just visually attractive but are backed by logic.

Microsoft has also attempted to design it in a way that is easier to use. It has integrated DALL-E 3 into Bing and ChatGPT instead of making a standalone product. This will make it convenient for users to create and improvise their images by conversing with the chatbot rather than trying to improve their initial attempt.

Microsoft Ensuring the Safety and Ethics

In the blog post, they mentioned the risks and challenges associated with synthetic media and have taken appropriate steps to ensure it. Microsoft has created a content moderation system of its own which enables it to avoid creating images that contain nudity, violence, hate speech, or illegal activities.

In Bing Image Creator, all AI-generated images will possess a watermark complying with the C2PA specification. This watermark will include the time and date of its creation and confirm the source of the image as AI-generated.

Since the launch of Bing Image Creator, users have generated one billion images. No wonder why the servers will be overloaded for a while.

Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin posted— we know the DALL-E 3.0 generation right now is taking longer than normal. We expected some strong interest, but we didn’t expect THAT much, especially given it’s a weekend. Bringing more GPUs in will be better soon.

What images will you be generating through Bing Chat and Image Creator? Let us know in the comments.

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OpenAI and Jony Ive Are Reportedly Working On Building the ‘iPhone of AI’

Noah Davidson — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:44:49 +0000

Apple’s Former VP of Industrial Design Jony Ive is working with OpenAI to create something roughly described as the ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence’. The Financial Times reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has connected with Jony Ive’s company LoveFrom to develop OpenAI’s first consumer device.

The project is said to be in the early stages of planning but they have received funding of $1 billion from Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Despite being in the early stages of the project, the pair have discussed many potential designs and are looking forward to building something that gives a ‘more natural and intuitive user experience for interacting with AI’. The FT reports said that they are taking inspiration from how the iPhone used the touchscreen to transform how we interact with the mobile internet.

The Concept Behind the Rumoured Venture

The duo is said to be working on giving users a more natural and intuitive way of conversing with AI. Employing ChatGPT on a PC or an iPhone is ideal but that’s not what the devices were explicitly designed for. This project may hypothetically involve hardware embedded with AI. The climax will be creating a way of interacting with computers that is less dependent on the screen.

AI for the last decade has been hyped but recent advancements in Generative AI tools that can create content like text or art, have boosted the interest and funding drastically. This change was led by Open AI with its success with ChatGPT. This also created a need for tech giants like Microsoft and Google to release their AI systems. Amazon also collaborated with Anthropic to bring advancements in their AI systems.

30 Years in Apple

Jony Ive worked with Apple for nearly 30 years and left it in 2019 to start his own company LoveFrom. He made contributions to some of the finest physical designs of devices like the iPhone, iMac, iPad, and other iDevices. Since leaving Apple, working with OpenAI to design hardware embedded with AI will be a noteworthy effort and its success can mark his name in the world of innovation.

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Prominent US Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

Emily Lawson — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:05:17 +0000

Authors Guild and many noteworthy writers filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday, 19th September. The writers sued OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in using their books to train ChatGPT. This group of writers filing the OpenAI copyright infringement case includes Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult.

The writers alleged that OpenAI copied the plaintiff’s works wholesale without permission or providing consideration. Also, fed the plaintiff’s copyrighted material into their large language models or LLMs’ algorithms designed to provide text responses to user’s queries.

Details of the OpenAI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit and OpenAI’s Response

Apart from allegations of using copyrighted content to train their language models, the Authors Guild’s lawsuit also alleges acts of piracy. It claims that the datasets used to train OpenAI’s models include texts from authors’ books that may be pirated off of the internet. Further, the authors claimed that ChatGPT can summarize their books with extreme accuracy. This would indicate that OpenAI’s database might include their books.

In response to the allegations, an OpenAI spokesperson said that scraping the internet for the use of training data qualifies as fair use under U.S. copyright law. They also said that the company respects authors’ rights and is “having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild.”

OpenAI’s Battle with Writers

Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder, and Ayelet Waldman filed a lawsuit on Friday, 8th September. They alleged that OpenAI is profiting from the ‘unauthorized and illegal use’ of their copyrighted work.

The lawsuit is pursuing class-action status and called out on ChatGPT’s ability to sum up and analyze the authors’ content. They stated that this is only possible if OpenAI trained its GPT LLMs on their works. The writers further added that the outputs from ChatGPT are derivative or imitative works that infringe on their copyrights.

In July, two authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad filed a complaint saying ChatGPT creates very accurate summaries of their works. They alleged that this is possible if ChatGPT was trained on their books.

The Hidden Pattern Behind AI Tools

It is common knowledge these days about how popular AI tools work using algorithms and patterns. But, the lesser known, hidden patterns that AI makers are following are damaging artists. These big tech companies are allegedly ignoring the copyright behind original art and creating their tools to make billions.

With so many artists and writers coming out against these big-name AI tools, the industry is up for a major change in policies and regulations. So, companies like OpenAI will have to do more than just introduce privacy control features and call it a day.

Starting with delivering justice to independent artists. That’s because the lawsuits by the authors are requesting the courts to stop OpenAI from employing ‘unlawful and unfair business practices’ while providing damages to the authors relating to copyright violations and other penalties.

Any regulations to avoid the alleged misuse are still up for debate.

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OpenAI is Developing a New Team to Control Superintelligent AI.

Tech Research Online — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:00:43 +0000

The most recent information indicates that OpenAI, the business that started the AI race with the highly effective chatbot ChatGPT, has established a specialized team to oversee and manage ‘super-intelligent’ AI systems. Ilya Sutskever, one of the organization’s founders and chief researcher, was appointed head.

According to an OpenAI blog post, AI capable of outperforming the human mind could come within a decade. At the same time, it is not required for this ‘supermind’ to be beneficial to humans; consequently, methods of controlling and limiting the powers of such systems must be developed.

Super-intelligent AI cannot yet be managed or controlled in a way that prevents aggression on its behalf, claims OpenAI. Existing artificial intelligence optimization systems rely on human feedback-based reinforcement learning. Simultaneously, such strategies are dependent on the assumption that humans can, in theory, regulate AI. Which is doubtful for systems that are potentially more intelligent than humans. A specialized team will have access to 20% of the company’s computing resources to study this issue. Scientists and programmers from the company’s AI customization section and other departments are also there. The team hopes to master the key technical hurdles connected with directing super-intelligent AI during the next four years.

We’re discussing the use of feedback in AI training. To assess other AI systems, provide the needed outcomes, and ensure their operational reliability, a unique AI is used. OpenAI believes AI will manage this more quickly and effectively than humans. Companies are anticipated to take on an increasing number of activities as artificial intelligence develops, necessitating the development and application of better adaptation technologies than those that are currently available. They will collaborate with humans to better adapt their generations. Also, to the requirements of humans, who are merely serving as supervisors and not taking part in the actual study.

Future of Superintelligent AI

As mentioned in OpenAI, no approach has absolute error prevention. Using one AI to evaluate others might increase the number of faults and vulnerabilities in the AIs developed. This indicates that the most difficult portion of customization is related to the most unexpected aspects of how the AI functions. However, the company argues that optimizing superintelligence is primarily a machine-learning task. Therefore, experts in this field will be critical. In the future, the business intends to share the findings of its research with others. In order to establish and secure initiatives, including those unconnected to OpenAI.

The attempt’s critics assert that AI could surpass human intellect even before it commits to protecting the security of other AI systems, according to Reuters. In an open letter published in April, experts and business pioneers issued a strong warning against developing an AI that is more advanced than GPT-4.

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