New Upgrade Promised for Early 2025
ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is promising to release yet another upgrade to one of the AI engines that helps power the chatbot — dubbed OpenAI o3.
The performance of the new AI engine is three times better than its predecessor, OpenAI 01 — and that’s when OpenAI 03 is running on its ‘low compute’ setting.
The new AI engine is even more impressive when it runs on its ‘high compute’ setting, according to OpenAI.
Lead writer Maxwell Zeff reports that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI plans to release the new AI engine in early 2025.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*In-Depth Guide: Google’s New Deep Research Tool: AI expert Paul O’Malley offers a crystal-clear, easy-paced, step-by-step video of how to use a powerful new AI research tool from Google.
Dubbed Google ‘Deep Research,’ the new tool begins its research for you by developing an in-depth, research game-plan for any topic you fancy.
Once you approve the plan — which you can edit beforehand — the AI scurries off to the Web, visiting and analyzing hundreds — or more — Web sites to put together a deeply reasoned, well-written report on its findings and analysis.
One caveat: Some reviewers have found that while Deep Research is accurate overall, the tool sometimes misconstrues nuances and its accuracy is not 100% reliable.
*Google Deep Research: Another Believer: Add writer Ryan Morrison to the growing number of AI experts thrilled with Google’s new Deep Research tool.
In practice, Deep Research returns an in-depth report for you on any topic, complete with citations and references.
“You can link back to any source it gathered the information from and even ask a follow-up question and have it refine the report.
“This isn’t a quick process: It can take several minutes to complete the search and provide the final report — which you can export to (Google) Docs.”
*Google’s New AI Reasoning Released: Including a Peek Inside Its Genius: Determined to match ChatGPT maker OpenAI blow-for-blow, Google has released an update to its AI that specializes in reasoning — Google Gemini 2.0 Flash.
Observes writer Carl Franzen: “Unlike competitor reasoning models o1 and o1 mini from OpenAI, Gemini 2.0 enables users to access its step-by-step reasoning through a dropdown menu, offering clearer, more transparent insight into how the model arrives at its conclusions.
“By allowing users to see how decisions are made, Gemini 2.0 addresses longstanding concerns about AI functioning as a “black box,” and brings this model — licensing terms still unclear — to parity with other open-source models fielded by competitors.”
*Oops: Apple’s News Service Accidentally ‘Kills-Off’ CEO Killer: This week’s ‘Egg-on-Face’ Award for irresponsible use of AI goes to Apple.
Its newly forged news service, powered by Apple Intelligence, falsely reported that the New York CEO killer shot himself — and credited the BBC as the news source.
Ouch.
Observes BBC writer Graham Fraser: “This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione — the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York — had shot himself.
“He has not.”
Not surprisingly, the BBC is none too pleased.
*Why Teach Writing? Let AI Handle It: While scores of educators anguish over the widespread use of ChatGPT and similar tools to cheat on homework, high school teacher Stephen Lane is not one of them.
In fact, Lane — a history and economics teacher — looks forward to the day when K-12 educators will offload the entire process of writing instruction to AI.
Observes Lane: “AI is in the classroom. And teachers need to teach students how to use it.
“The challenge is to uphold the bedrock value of academic integrity at the same time. The best way to do so may be to separate writing from scholarship.”
*Me Too: Google Crashes the Text-to-Video Party: As Hollywood’s filmmakers warily eye the widespread release of ChatGPT’s text-to-video tool ‘Sora,’ Google has jumped in with a resounding ‘Me Too’ with Veo 2.
Observes writer Chance Townsend: “In its press release, Google Deepmind states that Veo 2 can generate 4K videos and handle complex prompts — like specific camera lenses or cinematic shots.
“Further, the company says that, unlike earlier models that often “hallucinate” strange visuals (like extra limbs), Veo 2 reduces these quirks, making results more natural.”
*Jasper Studio: Perfect for Marketers Looking to Create Their Own AI Overlords: Expanding beyond automated writing, Jasper has released a new ‘Jasper Studio’ add-on to its service for marketers looking to create their own AI apps and workflows within the Jasper platform.
An example app that can be designed with the new studio would be an app that can generate brand-specific product descriptions at scale.
Meanwhile, a business-to-business marketing team might develop an app to recommend key accounts and personalized product suggestions.
With the new, no-code programming studio, marketers can also customize Jasper’s more than 90, pre-built applications and tailor them to meet needs such as character limits, image specifications, content formatting or brand compliance.
*Google Gemini: The Complete Rundown: If you’re looking for a complete, in-depth update on the AI engine Gemini — one of the fiercest competitors to the AI engines powering ChatGPT, this is your one-stop answer.
Writers Kyle Wiggers and Maxwell Zeff do a great job of illuminating every facet of the Gemini phenomenon.
And they offer up an insightful frame-of-reference for how Gemini fits into the grand-scheme-of-AI.
*AI Big Picture: Microsoft CEO: AI Agents Will Eat Software Apps: In this head-turning video, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts software apps are doomed to disappear as AI agents rise in popularity.
Makes sense: ChatGPT users are already creating their own AI-powered proofreading prompts in a few seconds, for example — which compete directly with Grammarly, a software proofreading app that took years to code by traditional programmers.
Interestingly, Nadella points to one of Microsoft’s own stalwart software apps — ‘Excel’ — as one of many software apps that may face the chopping block.
Nadella’s reasoning: Why reach for a software app to slice-and-dice your data, when one or more AI agents — that you can quickly create — can do the same thing?
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.