AI fought the law and AI won

Good afternoon human,

The days are getting darker here in the UK, so use what is left of the natural light to catch up on what is new this week in AI.

📚 Knowledge builders

•  ChatGPT Search → For as long as it has been around, I have always advised people not to treat LLM chatbots as a search engine. They work in completely different ways and you are unlikely to get accurate results if you treat the LLM like you would a google search. OpenAI are now muddying those waters as they introduce ChatGPT Search. Right now, it is limited to ChatpGPT Plus and Teams users but it will be coming to free accounts in the coming months. You will know when you have access to it when the globe icon in the context window is the same colour at the ‘attach’ icon.

OpenAI claim that this should make it easier for the consumers to find what you want and as ChatGPT has ‘memory’ we can ask it to combine information from web searches easier than we currently can now. All I know for sure is that the lines are now certainly blurred between LLM and search engine.

🤖 Industry updates

• AI vs the Creatives → An ethical consideration around the use of early generative AI tools has (is?) around the intense amount of data mining these models need to do to train themselves. A stance was taken by the AI companies that if it is on the internet and available, then that data is fair game. Naturally, the copyright holders weren’t too happy with this (licensing the data to companies is another potential revenue stream) and sued OpenAI. It had the potential to bring AI to stop for while until licensing agreements were in place. However, a judge has ruled in OpenAI’s favour, dismissing the case for a lack of standing.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. Less of a prompt and more of an idea that you can use prompting for. My partner teaches a class called Marlin and when she needs to send reminders to parents using Class Dojo, or wants to signal the start of a routine, she uses GenerativeAI to create an image of a Marlin doing the activity. Here are a few examples that she has used.

   

   The marlin signals to pupils that it is time for independent reading.

I think this is a lovely way to help develop a sense of class identity and belonging, while providing a useful context to practice prompting, so if you have a name for a class, why not try something like this!

As ever, thanks for reading and keep on prompting! Mr A 🦾