Microsoft pimps Office with AI
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Now managers can outsource creating boring Powerpoint presentations 

Software King of the World, Microsoft launched its AI for Work initiatives yesterday and showed off a way of applying artificial intelligence to automate the creation of PowerPoint presentations which are traditionally penned in purple prose and management speak by a boss who believes they are the greatest writer in the world. 

AI pretends to be blind to fool CAPTCHA
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Will look forward to the day it can beat two-factor ID

GPT-4 convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve a CAPTCHA for the chatbot.

UK invests £900 million in a new supercomputer
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After Brexit UK fears falling behind in the AI race 

The UK, which once had an Empire and a favoured status in Europe, is having to invest in its own supercomputer as it fears falling behind the rest of the world in artificial intelligence.

OpenAI unveils GPT-4
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It's not just about words any more 

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation model that provides the technical foundation for ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI chatbots. It's a major upgrade that opens the way to major advances in the capabilities and features of AI and a further step towards humanities oblivion.

Microsoft fires those responsible for its AI ethics
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After all, when your terminator is just being put on the market you don't need humans to tell it what to do

Software King of the World Microsoft has shown that it has its priorities right -- while it introduces the world to its new AI-powered Bing, it fires the people who are responsible for making sure that its AI does not take over the world.