OpenAI, the developer of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, has released a free web tool (login or registration required) for monitoring machine-generated text to help teachers and others determine whether a piece of text was written by a machine or a human. OpenAI cautiously stated that the tool is not perfect, there are false positives and …
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Lithium batteries lose some of their charge over time. Even if it is left unused, the power will slowly decrease. This phenomenon is called “self-discharge”. Researchers at Dalhousie University have found that one culprit of self-discharge is adhesive tape, and replacing it could potentially solve a problem that has long plagued the battery industry. Like …
Spotify disclosed in its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2022 that as of December 31, 2022, its paid subscribers reached 205 million, a year-on-year increase of 14%; monthly active users were 489 million, a year-on-year increase of 20%. Spotify becomes the first music streaming service to surpass 200 million subscribers. But it faces …
Human activity and drought may have degraded more than one-third of the Amazon rainforest, twice as much as previous estimates, according to research published in Science, adding to concerns that the world’s important ecosystem is heading towards a “point of no return.” road” concerns. Fire, land conversion, logging and water scarcity have reduced the resilience …
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People around the world drink more than 2 billion cups of coffee every day. You might think that coffee provides energy in the morning or through the day, but it doesn’t. The main stimulant in coffee is caffeine, which works by altering the interaction between brain cells and a compound called adenosine. Adenosine, part of …
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ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot that has taken the world by storm over the past few months, can generate fake text, raising concerns among teachers in education circles that students might misuse it for homework. In order to detect AI-generated text, Stanford researchers introduced DetectGPT, which is based on the specific tendency of large language models …
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Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as reporting that Baidu is preparing to release an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT in March. The tool, which has not yet been named, will be embedded in the main search service, and users will return conversational-style search results. Baidu, which has spent billions of dollars researching AI …
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According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI has recruited about 1,000 remote contract workers in Latin America and Eastern Europe in the past six months, 40% of whom are programmers, and their job is to create data learning software projects for OpenAI’s models. An outsourcing company advertised for OpenAI that a reputable company is …
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Oracle changes the subscription model of Java SE, and enterprise customers face a large increase in fees. Oracle’s old subscription model for Java SE was per-user or per-processor, and the new model is per-employee. Oracle currently says that existing customers can renew under the old model, but there is no guarantee that it will ask …
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GIMP, an open-source image-editing software project, has released its 2022 annual report. In 2022 the GIMP project released a stable version, 3 development versions; the development branch has 1461 commits, and the stable branch has 276; Wayland support is still unstable, and the GTK+3 port is almost complete; on Windows GIMP is now supported by …
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GitHub announced that it has surpassed 100 million users. GitHub was established in 2008. The number of users exceeded 3 million in 2013, 28 million in 2018, 90 million in October 2022, and 100 million three months later. GitHub claims that these 100 million users are 100 million developers. Many people have different opinions on …
American nature photographer John Fielder has released over 5,000 of his work into the public domain. The Colorado State Museum of History, which will host all of his work, will release digital versions of his work in the coming months. Born in Washington, D.C., John Fielder immigrated to Colorado after college and turned his hobby …
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AutoHotkey v2, the Windows scripting language used to create shortcuts and automations, has officially become the main version. The maintenance of v1 is no longer recommended. The developer recommends that v1 users migrate to v2, but v1 scripts can continue to be used, and v1 can coexist with v2. The developers claim that the backwards …