YouTube announced two new experimental generative AI features on Monday. YouTube Premium subscribers can soon try AI-generated comment summaries and a chatbot that answers your questions about what you’re watching. The features will be opt-in, so you won’t see them unless you’re a paid member who signs up for the experiments during their test periods.

The AI-powered summaries will organize comments into “easily digestible themes.” In a Mr. Beast video YouTube used as an example, the tool generated topics including “People love Bryan the bird,” “Lazarbeam should be in more videos,” “No submarine” and “More 7 day challenges.” You can tap on the topic to view the complete list of associated comments. The tool will only run “on a small number of videos in English” with large comment sections.

If you’re worried about YouTube’s summaries spiraling out of control the way the platform’s comment sections often do, the company says it won’t pull content from unpublished messages, those held for review, any containing blocked words or those from blocked users. Further, creators can use the tool to delete individual comments if they see problematic (or otherwise unwanted) discussions about their videos.

Meanwhile, YouTube’s conversational AI tool gives you a chatbot trained on whichever video you’re watching. Generated by large language models (LLMs), the assistant lets you “dive in deeper” by asking questions about the content and fishing for related recommendations. The company says the AI tool, which appears similar to chatting with Bard, draws on info from YouTube and the web, providing answers without interrupting playback. Eligible users can find it under a new “Ask” button in the YouTube app for Android.

Starting today, YouTube Premium subscribers can opt into the comment summarizer on YouTube’s experiments page. However, the company says you won’t see the “Topics” option for all videos. In addition, the conversational AI tool is only available now “to a small number of people on a subset of videos,” but YouTube Premium subscribers with Android devices will be able to sign up to try it in the coming weeks. The company warns the experimental features “may not always get it right,” a description that can equally apply to Google’s other AI experiments.

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Source: Engadget – YouTube tests AI-generated comment summaries and a chatbot for videos

During its first-ever developer conference on Monday, OpenAI previewed GPT-4 Turbo, a brand new version of the large language model that powers its flagship product, ChatGPT. The newest model is capable of accepting much longer inputs than previous versions — up to 300 pages of text, compared to the current limit of 50. This means that theoretically, prompts can be a lot longer and more complex, and responses might be more meaningful.

OpenAI has also updated the data that GPT-4 Turbo is trained on. The company claims that the newest model now has knowledge about the world until April 2023. The previous version was only caught up until September 2021, although recent updates to the non-Turbo GPT-4 did include the ability to browse the internet to get the latest information.

GPT-4 Turbo will also accept images as prompts directly in the chat box, wherein it can generate captions or provide a description of what the image depicts. It will also handle text-to-speech requests. And users will now be able to upload documents directly and ask the service to analyze them — a capability that other chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude have included for months.

For developers, using the newest model will effectively be three times cheaper. OpenAI said that it was slashing costs for input and output tokens — a unit used by large language models to understand instructions and respond with answers.

In addition to announcing its newest large language model, OpenAI revealed that ChatGPT now has more than 100 million weekly active users around the world and is used by more than 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The company also said that it would defend customers, including enterprises, not only against legal claims around copyright infringement that might arise as a result of using its products, but it would also pay for costs incurred as a result.

OpenAI also revealed single-application “mini-ChatGPTs” today, small tools that are focused on a single task that can be built without even knowing how to code. GPTs created by the community can be immediately shared, and OpenAI will open a “store” where verified builders can make their creation available to anyone. 

The company didn’t announce when GPT-4 Turbo would come out of preview and be available more generally. Accessing GPT-4 currently costs $20 a month.

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Source: Engadget – GPT-4 Turbo is OpenAI’s most powerful large language model yet

PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles will soon drop their X (formerly Twitter) integrations. As such, after November 13, you’ll no longer be able to post clips or screenshots directly to X from either system.

According to a notice Sony shared on its consoles (as noted by Wario64) and a support page, users will lose the ability to “post and view content, trophies and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).” Sony added the notice to its website at some point on Monday, according to a cached version of the support page.

Sony hasn’t revealed exactly why it’s killing off X integration on its consoles. However, it may be related to X shutting down its free API earlier this year, forcing developers and companies to pay if they want to hook into its services. Microsoft stopped letting users post Xbox clips directly to X in April, likely due to that move.

It’ll still be possible to post your PlayStation clips to X. If you have a PS5, you’ll be able to access your recent captures through the PS App and share them to X from your phone. PS4 owners (and PS5 users, if they prefer this approach) will need to use a USB drive to copy screenshots and clips to their computer. Alternatively, you can use one of the several other direct sharing options available on PS4 and PS5, such as YouTube.

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Source: Engadget – PS5 and PS4 are losing X sharing options on November 13

It’s been nearly a year since ChatGPT’s public debut and its evolution since then has been nothing short of extraordinary. In just over 11 months, OpenAI’s chatbot has gained the ability to write programming code, process information between multiple modalities and expand its reach across the internet with APIs. During OpenAI’s 2023 Dev Day keynote address Monday, CEO Sam Altman and other executives took to the stage in San Francisco to unveil the chatbot’s latest iteration, ChatGPT-4 Turbo, as well as an exciting new way to bring generative AI technology to everybody, regardless of their coding capability: GPTs!

GPTs are small, task-specific iterations of ChatGPT. Think of them like the single-purpose apps and features on your phone but instead of them maintaining a timer or stop watch, or a digital assistant transcribing your voice instructions into a shopping list, GPTs will do, basically anything you train them to. OpenAI offers up eight examples of what GPT’s can be used for, anything from a digital kitchen assistant that suggests recipes based on whats in your pantry to a math mentor to help your kids through their homework to a Sticker Wiz that will, “turn your wildest dreams into die-cut stickers, shipped right to your door.”

The new GPTs are an expansion on the company’s existing Custom Instructions feature which debuted in July. OpenAI notes that many of its power users were already recycling and updating their most effective prompts and instruction sets, a process which GPT-4 Turbo will now handle automatically as part of its update to seed parameters and focus on reproducible outputs. This will allow users a far greater degree of control in customizing the GPTs to their specific needs.

What users won’t need is an extensive understanding of javascript programming. With GPT-4 Turbo’s improved code interpretation, retrieval and function calling capabilities, as well as its massively increased context window size, users will be able to devise and develop their GPTs using nothing but natural language.

Any GPT created by the community will be immediately shareable. For now that will happen directly between users but, later this month, OpenAI plans to launch a centralized storefront where “verified builders” can post and share their GPTs. The most popular ones will climb a leaderboard and potentially, eventually earn their creators money based on how many people are using the GPT.

GPTs will be available to both regular users and enterprise accounts which, like ChatGPT Enterprise that came out earlier this year, will offer institutional users the chance to create their own internal-only, admin-approved mini-chatbots. These will work with (and are trained on) the company’s specific tasks, department documentation or proprietary datasets. Enterprise GPTs arrive for those customers on Wednesday.

Privacy remains a focal point for the company with additional technical safeguards being put into place, atop existing moderation systems, to prevent people from making GPTs that go against OpenAI’s usage policies. The company is also rolling out an identity verification system for developers to help improve transparency and trust, but did not elaborate on what that process could entail.

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Source: Engadget – GPTs are the single-application mini-ChatGPT models that anyone can create

If you’re interested in a flip-style foldable phone, you effectively have two choices in the US: the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the Motorola Razr+. We think the former is ultimately better for most people, but the latter is still a worthy alternative, and now it’s on sale for $700 at Amazon. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for an unlocked model outside of trade-in deals. Motorola normally sells the Razr+ for $1,000, though we’ve seen the phone fall between $800 and $900 a couple of times since it arrived in June. This deal is applicable to the black, magenta and blue versions of the device.

We gave the Razr+ a score of 85 in our review. As with the Galaxy Z Flip 5, the Razr+’s biggest selling point is that you can fold it in half and make it easier to tuck away. The main display is a vibrant 6.9-inch OLED panel with a 165Hz refresh rate; fold it shut, and you can use a 3.6-inch OLED display around the back. One advantage the Razr+ has over Samsung’s foldable is that it can run most Android apps on that outer display with less fuss. (The Galaxy Z Flip 5 limits its cover screen to a handful of widgets by default, though can you enable wider app support through the device’s settings.) Not every app is optimized for such a tiny screen, but you can quickly fire off a text, reply to an email, pick a new Spotify playlist or do other phone things without having to actually open the device. 

Beyond that, the Razr+’s cover display has a higher refresh rate (144Hz versus 60Hz) and pixel density (413 ppi versus 306 ppi) than that of the Galaxy Z Flip 5, plus it’s 0.2 inches larger. It should last a little longer per charge, and its take on Android has more of a light touch than Samsung’s One UI interface. It also supports slightly faster wired charging speeds. 

That said, there are a few clear downsides. For one, we found the Razr’s camera performance to be a step behind the Galaxy Z Flip 5. The hardware has a meager IP52 water-resistance rating — which means it can withstand some light rain but little more — whereas Samsung’s phone has a more robust IPX8 rating. (Though you’ll want to be delicate with either phone, as all foldables carry a greater risk of durability issues.) While it’s not slow, it uses a year-old Snapdragon Galaxy 8+ Gen 1 chip, so its performance is a little less futureproof. And Motorola’s update policy is less robust: It promises three major OS updates and bi-monthly security updates for the Razr+, while Samsung promotes four years of OS updates and five years of monthly security updates for the Galaxy Z Flip 5.

In the end, the main reason to consider the Razr+ is the bigger and more functional cover display, so if you’re sold on the idea of a clamshell-style foldable, it’s worth considering at this price. Just note that we may see a deal on Samsung’s foldable as we get closer to Black Friday. One foldable we’re less bullish on, however, is Motorola’s midrange Razr: That one is also on sale for $500, but we found it to be too limited in our review.

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Source: Engadget – The Motorola Razr+ is 0 off in an early Black Friday deal