Tech & Society
Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
Copilot
Tech & Society
Chatbots for Productivity: Microsoft extends Copilot to 365 and Windows.
Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered assistants will roll out in the coming months.
Tech & Society
GenAI Violated Copyright? No Problem: Microsoft commits to cover copyright violation costs for GenAI services.
Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...
Tech & Society
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: Copilot AI tool encourages programmers to write buggy code.
Tools that automatically write computer code may make their human users overconfident that the programs are bug-free. Stanford University researchers found that programmers who used OpenAI’s Codex, a model that generates computer code, were more likely...
Business
Programmer’s Best Friend: Code generation services took off in 2022.
Behind schedule on a software project? There’s an app for that. Language models fine-tuned on computer code proved capable of generating software routines similar to the work of experienced developers — though the results can be hit-or-miss.