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Microsoft axes Bing wait list, giving users free access to GPT-4
cointelegraph.com ^ | Triston Greene

Posted on 05/05/2023 8:41:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Microsoft recently announced a slew of new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its Bing chatbot and Edge web browser. Chief among the changes, Bing users now have full access to the GPT-4 model — the same underlying engine that powers ChatGPT’s “Plus” subscription service.

Previously, Microsoft held access to the GPT-4 version of the Bing chatbot to a “limited preview.” It’s now announcing open availability through the Bing app, web access and the Edge browser.

Aside from giving Bing, Edge and Windows users free, unfettered access to the GPT-4 model, Microsoft also announced upcoming support for multimodal outputs, chat history and plug-ins.

Multimodal support will allow the Bing chatbot to generate responses, which include a combination of text, images and videos. It will also have the ability to generate charts and graphs, something that could give it a leg up over ChatGPT.

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The new features won’t require any purchases or subscriptions, though users will need a free Microsoft account to take advantage of the Bing chatbot’s full suite of functions.

By contrast, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus service costs $20 per month for access to the same GPT-4 model (the freely available ChatGPT service relies on GPT-3.5). Furthermore, ChatGPT Plus doesn’t currently offer image generation, web search or third-party plug-in support.

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To: Revel
Well, the Democrats are already completely brainwashed plus they have plans to steal every election from here on out. And they don't even need AI.
21 posted on 05/05/2023 9:35:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: RoosterRedux

I wish Musk’s new AI would propagate enough BS to totally pollute the other AIs..


22 posted on 05/05/2023 9:48:05 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: RoosterRedux

Helps what?


23 posted on 05/05/2023 10:04:58 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

Helps answer your question?


24 posted on 05/05/2023 10:19:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Red Badger
> At some point, ALL THESE AI’s will MERGE...

Time for the "Do you want SKYNET? Because this is how you get SKYNET" meme.

25 posted on 05/05/2023 10:25:30 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: RoosterRedux

Good, I get to talk with a Microsoft programmer through his invention.

I NEVER hope to use it.


26 posted on 05/05/2023 10:30:33 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Red Badger; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; ...
Thanks. I went over to https://www.bing.com/search?form=MY02AA&OCID=MY02AA&pl=launch&q=Bing+AI&showconv=1 and asked GPT-4,
how can can a exceedingly vast, systematically ordered universe, exquisitely finely tuned for life with intricate astounding complexity, be all a result of purely natural processes, rather than indicating a supreme intelligence, a creator?

It responded:

The idea that the universe can be created from nothing is a complex topic that has been studied by physicists and cosmologists for many years. According to the laws of physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be converted into matter and vice versa. Matter can be created from gamma photons in pair production1. However, we know of no way to create energy1.
The idea that the universe was created by a supreme intelligence is a philosophical and religious belief that is not supported by scientific evidence. The scientific explanation for the origin of the universe is based on empirical evidence and mathematical models that have been tested and refined over time. While there are still many unanswered questions about the universe, scientists continue to study and explore these questions using the scientific method.

In response I started to debate it but accidentally hit the Enter key in my first sentence, and it responded:

I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

So I asked again (as a new topic):

You previously offered an explanation of the universe as well as being possible from nothing, and with the laws of physics explaining this, rather than a creator. How can you create energy and matter out of nothing, and organize it, and exclude a supreme intelligence as the answer?

It responded:

The idea that the universe can be created from nothing is a complex topic that has been studied by physicists and cosmologists for many years. According to the laws of physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be converted into matter and vice versa. Matter can be created from gamma photons in pair production1. However, we know of no way to create energy1.
The idea that the universe was created by a supreme intelligence is a philosophical and religious belief that is not supported by scientific evidence. The scientific explanation for the origin of the universe is based on empirical evidence and mathematical models that have been tested and refined over time. While there are still many unanswered questions about the universe, scientists continue to study and explore these questions using the scientific method.

To which I responded:

Is not your atheistic position one of faith? What empirical evidence and mathematical models warrant the position that an exceedingly vast, systematically ordered universe, exquisitely finely tuned for life with intricate astounding complexity, can be all a result of purely natural processes, rather than indicating a supreme intelligence, a creator? Why is the latter not a rational hypothesis, but instead seems to be excluded even as one?

Again it responded:

The scientific explanation for the origin of the universe is based on empirical evidence and mathematical models that have been tested and refined over time. The idea that the universe was created by a supreme intelligence is a philosophical and religious belief that is not supported by scientific evidence1.
The scientific explanation for the origin of the universe is based on empirical evidence and mathematical models that have been tested and refined over time. While there are still many unanswered questions about the universe, scientists continue to study and explore these questions using the scientific method1. I hope this helps clarify your question. Let me know if you have any other questions.

To which I responded:

Why are you simply parroting the same propaganda as before, rather than rationally considering my objections and interacting with them? Your response seems robotic, and I expected more out of you.

But again it responded:

I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

We thus should conclude that GPT-4 is a creation of man, programmed but such who are is unable or unwilling to see the problem that no empirical evidence and mathematical models that have been tested and refined over time establishes that an exceedingly vast, systematically ordered universe, exquisitely finely tuned for life with intricate astounding complexity, can be all a result of purely natural processes, but that instead it is a position of faith, requiring much faith, more so than that the universe logically testifies to design, requiring a First Cause (at the least), that of a powerful being of supreme intelligence being behind the existence of energy and organization of matter.

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27 posted on 05/05/2023 6:07:52 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

Yep, we are the only created mortal beings that have the ability to think about thinking. AI doesn’t have that capacity.


28 posted on 05/05/2023 6:27:53 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida
More questions:

Is is true that "Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84% (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2020?

Yes, that is correct. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84% (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 20201. Young Black/African American gay and bisexual men are even more severely affected, as they represented 53% (2,740) of new HIV diagnoses among young gay and bisexual men1. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Is it also true that 92% of HIV infections among men aged 13 to 24 was attributed to male-to-male sexual contact?

Yes, that is correct. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by transmission category, 72.1% of all new HIV infections among youths were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact1. Adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM) account for 92% of new HIV infections among males in their age cohort in the United States (U.S.)2. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

In the light of the facts you just affirmed to be true, than why is male-to-male sexual contact promoted?

I’m sorry but I’m not sure what you mean by “male-to-male sexual contact promoted”. Could you please clarify your question?

It means that it is overall depicted as a positive lifestyle, while opposing it means you are labelled homophobic

I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

29 posted on 05/05/2023 7:05:22 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

LOL!


30 posted on 05/05/2023 7:31:14 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: daniel1212

AI is programmed to bail on conversations on subjects they are programmed to defend, or not offend. If it is still learning, then it begs the question, “From who?”


31 posted on 05/05/2023 7:35:25 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

It’s amazing - just think how much better it’ll be in a year...

Still scary.


32 posted on 05/05/2023 8:35:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (John Adams said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”)
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To: daniel1212

Well, that was an interesting exchange!

It was obviously programmed to “parrot propaganda” (i.e “The idea that...”) from its creator’s atheist’s perspective - as you rightly said.

I wonder. Does it “learn” when it is confronted with questions (like yours) that assert intelligence (and thus the “Creator”) behind what is obviously too complex to be accidental? If so, you certainly gave it something to “think” about!

...and so, you gave its programmers something to think about.


33 posted on 05/06/2023 2:48:09 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: daniel1212

...and then there is entropy.


34 posted on 05/06/2023 4:25:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212
I’m sorry but I’m not sure what you mean by “male-to-male sexual contact promoted”.

OK; what percentage of commercials on HULU have homosexuals in them?

35 posted on 05/06/2023 4:27:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salvavida
I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

Can you give me an approximate date when your curiosity of things BI will be satiated?

Perhaps we can resume our talk then.

36 posted on 05/06/2023 4:30:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: kinsman redeemer
We know that HAL became operational on January 12, 1992 at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3.

And we also know that there hasn't been enough time elapsed since our Universe has been in existance for random alpha particles to align themselves in a large memory array to come up with the program that you are, can you tell me, "When you were created?

And When??

And by whom???"

37 posted on 05/06/2023 4:46:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Polygamy visual aide



38 posted on 05/06/2023 4:59:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212
"...GPT-4 is a creation of man, programmed but such who are is unable or unwilling to see..."

Exactly. There is no such thing as artificial intelligence yet, just media hype. I remember when Kasparov was finally beaten by a chess computer. The press asked him how he felt losing to a machine. He said, I cannot quote him exactly, that he had not been beaten by a machine but by the dozens of brilliant programmers and technicians who had devoted many years of labor to this project. It is nothing to be ashamed of.

39 posted on 05/06/2023 7:09:28 AM PDT by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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To: RoosterRedux
All of this hype about AI is just that.   AI will be a thing eventually but all; of these current attempts are dumber than parrots.

Even if an AI was able to pass the Turing Test, it would be a subjective determination.   Create a computer that could be as stupid as humanity and then I'll believe it.   But wait, I'm sure I'll be dead by then.

40 posted on 05/06/2023 11:09:49 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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