OpenAI’s latest AI language model, GPT4, seems to have encountered challenges with its intelligence and work ethic. Users have been complaining about its decline in performance compared to its predecessors. One developer who uses GPT4 to help encode functions on his website described it as going from driving a Ferrari to a beaten-up old pickup truck.
The root cause of this decline is not certain, but some experts speculate that it reflects a major restructuring of the AI system. OpenAI may be shifting to an approach called a mixture of experts, where the system is broken down into many parts to better handle new questions.
While the decline in performance is concerning, experts believe that GPT4 can adapt and regain its prior performance with training and tuning.
In other news, KPMG and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of AI in audit and tax services. By leveraging Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform and AI technologies, KPMG aims to enhance its capabilities and provide more accurate and efficient services to clients.
On the cybersecurity front, a China-based Espionage group known as Hafnium has successfully compromised the email accounts of two dozen U.S. government agencies. This breach raises significant concerns about national security and the potential misuse of compromised information.
The ongoing debate surrounding encryption and privacy continues, with lawmakers in the European Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom grappling with the balance between privacy rights and law enforcement access to encrypted communications.
Lastly, three major tax preparation firms, H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer, have reportedly shared sensitive taxpayer information with Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over the span of at least two years. This data sharing raises concerns about privacy and calls for federal agencies to investigate and potentially take legal action.
These top tech news stories highlight the challenges and advancements in the field of AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and tax services.
