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  • IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now

    There are few pieces of technology — ever — that have enjoyed a deeper lovefest from the media and the consumer public than ChatGPT and other efforts built atop vanilla GPT-3. And enterprise IT executives have been stampeding to develop homegrown apps based on GPT-3. So far, so good. But as we’ve seen before —…

  • ‘Digital twin’ tech is twice as great as the metaverse

    Facebook went all in on the “metaverse” a year and a half ago. The company changed its name to Meta and started pumping a billion dollars a month into a Hail Maryboondoggle to achieve relevance in the post-social world to come. Now Meta finds itself entering a “metaverse winter” — a general decline in investment…

  • Q&A: ChatGPT isn’t sentient, it’s a next-word prediction engine

    ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to generate textual answers that can be indistinguishable from human responses. The chatbot platform and its underlying large language model — GPT-3 — can be valuable tools to automate functions, help with creative ideas, and even suggest new computer code and fixes for broken apps.  The…

  • As Microsoft embraces AI, it says sayonara to the metaverse

    Remember the metaverse? Before the recent explosion of hype around artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse was anointed the Next Big Thing, ready to transform the world, technology, and work in ways never before imagined. Soon we would all live and work together in a virtual world far more interesting, vital, and productive than the drab…

  • Job seekers are using ChatGPT to write resumes — and nabbing jobs

    Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly being used to create resumes and cover letters, and according to a new survey by Resume Builder, using a chatbot improves your chances of getting the job. The online job site said nealry half of 2,153 job seekers surveyed earlier this month used ChatGPT to help write their resumes,…