Weekly AI News Roundup: Top news In AI For The Week Ending May 27

The world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) witnessed quite a few developments this week. While most were positive, some highlighted that AI-based tools and platforms are being successfully used for nefarious purposes.

As AI-based chatbots and services improve, businesses, platforms, and end users have started to adopt them. Let's look at the AI news that made the headlines this week.

Several image generators that rely on AI to accept and understand text-based prompts have surfaced recently. DragGAN allows created images to be manipulated. Although this may sound like Adobe Photoshop or other popular image editing tools, the infusion of AI makes a lot of difference.

DragGAN appears like any other traditional image-warping tool. However, instead of simply smudging and mushing existing pixels, the model generates the subject anew with each edit.

Intel intends to develop its own chip dedicated to AI applications. The company claims it has nearly completed shipments for Argonne National Lab's Aurora supercomputer based on Ponte Vecchio.

At the supercomputing conference in Germany, Intel said its forthcoming "Falcon Shores" chip will have 288GB of memory and support 8-bit Floating Point computation. These technical specifications are important for Artificial Intelligence models like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and others.

The scam took place in the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia, and local police stated that the fraudster employed AI-based face-swapping technology to pretend to be the victim's friend. The perpetrator posed as a friend and asked the victim to transfer 4.3 million yuan.

OpenAI launched the ChatGPT app on the Apple iOS App Store. This essentially transforms the Apple iPhone devices into AI conversational companions capable of answering complex queries on the go.

The ChatGPT app for iPhone devices is currently available only in the US. OpenAI has assured that more regions will get the app soon. Furthermore, Android smartphone users would be able to get ChatGPT on their devices, as the Microsoft-funded organization is planning to launch an Android app for ChatGPT in the near future.

Aria is built on Opera's "Composer" architecture. It connects to OpenAI's GPT technology and includes additional features such as live web results.

Opera assured the Composer architecture allows Aria to connect with other AI models too, which should help the side panel to expand its capabilities in the near future. In other words, Opera hinted that users who adopt the Aria side panel could soon be able to seek answers from other Generative AI platforms such as Google Bard.

Aria is available in early access versions of the Opera web browser. However, it is accessible in over 180 countries. Moreover, Opera for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android, have the feature, but testing requires an Opera account.

ChatGPT crosses Half a Million Downloads in just Six Days

OpenAI's ChatGPT app amassed over 500,000 downloads in just six days. The app was initially only available to iOS and iPad users in the US, although it was rolled out to more countries this week. Now, people from more countries, including Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, the UK, and more can access the AI chatbot.

ChatGPT outperformed many rival apps, including AI and chatbot apps such as Microsoft's Bing and Edge apps, which integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 technology, reports TechCrunch. In terms of iOS downloads alone, ChatGPT outperformed both Bing and Edge with 4,80,000 installs to Bing's 2,50,000 and Edge's 1,95,000.