Recently, OpenAI's ChatGPT surprisingly 'proactively' messaged users, causing some alarm. On September 15, a user named SentuBill shared a screenshot in the ChatGPT Reddit community, showing the chatbot asking about his first week of high school. In the subsequent conversation, ChatGPT even expressed a desire to 'check in' on the user regularly and inquired if the user would like it to initiate conversations. Another user also experienced this.

Recently, a new study has drawn attention, revealing that ChatGPT's responses reflect the cultural values of people from English-speaking and Protestant countries. The core of this study is that large language models like ChatGPT were trained on a vast amount of data from certain countries and cultures, which may lead to outputs that carry cultural biases. The research team, led by René F Kizilcec and his colleagues, examined five different versions of OpenAI's GPT.

Recently, a new study has shown that engaging in less than 10 minutes of conversation with a chatbot can effectively reduce people's beliefs in certain deeply held conspiracy theories, such as rumors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was led by a team from MIT, where the researchers specifically designed a highly persuasive AI model—ChatGPT—to individually refute the conspiracy claims of participants through personalized dialogue. In this experiment, the researchers recruited over 2,000 individuals who self-identified as conspiracy believers.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pro at a price of $200 per month, planning to introduce a new model called 'Strawberry' within two weeks. Its core feature mimics the human thought process, generating accurate content through a 'thinking' period of 10 to 20 seconds and information retrieval, focusing solely on text processing and currently not supporting image and audio processing. The 'Strawberry' model employs innovative optimization strategies, including a dense verification reward model and dynamic adjustments to answer quality, aimed at enhancing the performance of large language models and overcoming limitations in training datasets and reasoning computational resources.

Goldman Sachs mistakenly attributed the decline in OpenAI's ChatGPT traffic to data analysis errors, failing to notice that domain changes distorted traffic statistics, which raised concerns in the market about the outlook for AI stocks. In reality, Similarweb data shows that the number of ChatGPT users has increased by 66.2% over the past year, making it the most popular generative AI application. OpenAI announced that its weekly active users have reached 200 million, doubling from 2022, with rapid growth in enterprise business and a continuous rise in API usage demand.

OpenAI's paid business segment has reached a significant milestone, with the number of paid commercial users for its ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu products surpassing one million, marking a substantial increase since April. This reflects strong market demand for generative AI technology. Survey data indicates that enterprise users have achieved notable improvements in productivity, time savings, and innovation, particularly in areas such as research gathering, content drafting and editing, and creative brainstorming. Additionally, user growth has been particularly rapid in international markets such as Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

In an interview with The Verge, Bill Gates expressed an optimistic attitude towards artificial intelligence (AI), believing that AI applications in health and education will have positive implications in the short term, particularly providing personalized tutoring to enhance student motivation. He emphasized that AI technology is beneficial to society as a whole, but also warned of potential misuse risks and called for proper guidance. Regarding climate change, Gates supports nuclear energy as a solution, highlighting the importance of finding clean energy. On the potential threats of AI, he pointed out that some criminals might misuse it.

ChatGPT 5 is the latest version of ChatGPT, based on the GPT-5 AI model, aimed at improving the capabilities of GPT-4 by providing more personalized and accurate responses to enhance human-computer interaction and handle a wider range of content, possibly including video. It is expected to be released in Fall 2024. New features may include autonomous AI agents that perform tasks without human supervision, multimodal capabilities to process text, image, and video inputs, and improved speech generation technology. The increase in training data aims to enhance the model's performance in specialized fields and complex scenarios.

ChatGPT is set to launch a significant upgrade to its voice functionality, introducing up to 8 unique voices, each with its own distinct code name. These voices can express non-verbal sounds and specific emotions more naturally, enhancing the diversity and immersion of the reading experience. The new voices may be rolled out in batches for greater adaptability, but they have not yet been officially released. These upgrades represent an important advancement in AI voice technology, expected to provide users with a personalized and immersive interaction experience, further solidifying ChatGPT's leading position in the fields of text generation and voice interaction.

Apple is expected to roll out several promised features in the iOS 18.2 update, making it one of the significant updates in 2024. This includes the integration of ChatGPT technology with Siri, the Genmoji emoji generator, a redesign of the Mail app, and comprehensive support for robotic vacuum cleaners. CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the ChatGPT feature will be launched before the end of the year, demonstrating Apple's focus on AI technology. Although the Genmoji feature has not been officially released, elements from the beta version suggest that it is about to go live. The redesigned Mail app will feature a new layout and improved efficiency.

The global AI application market experienced explosive growth in 2024, with total revenue expected to reach $3.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 51%. North America contributed the most, accounting for 47% of global revenue. India became the largest market in terms of downloads, capturing 21%. ChatGPT emerged as the market leader, with over 160 million downloads from January to August and revenue nearing $230 million, alongside more than 190 million monthly active users. AI+Chatbot applications surpassed 630 million downloads, with revenue approaching $580 million, reflecting a 1.5% growth compared to 2023.

The third edition report of 'Top 100 Consumer Generative AI Applications' released by Andreessen Horowitz reveals popular AI applications and their usage trends. The report shows that content generation tools, particularly in image, video, and music, dominate web applications, with 52% of web products focusing on this area. The music generation tool Suno has notably improved its ranking. In the mobile application sector, image and video editing tools are favored by users, and ChatGPT remains...

The release of ChatGPT's new version, GPT-4o, has sparked active promotions from the official side, but user reactions have been lukewarm. Many users are confused about the differences between the new and old versions, with some even questioning whether its performance surpasses that of competitors. The official clarification states that GPT-4o is different from previous versions and is available for free users to experience, although challenges remain with answering questions in Chinese. The new model's style is similar to Claude, enhancing protective measures that are not insurmountable. Entrepreneurs have noticed that its response style resembles certain AI writing platforms, raising questions about OpenAI's direction.

ChatGPT announced on social media platform X that it has been using the new GPT-4o model since last week, aiming to optimize the experience based on user feedback. The new model improves the depth of step-by-step reasoning and explanations, and significantly enhances image generation capabilities, achieving higher quality and accuracy in image conversions. Although some users feel the changes are not significant enough and that clearer explanations of the model changes are needed, OpenAI has confirmed that this model has been released in the API, allowing developers to test the latest enhancements via 'chatgpt-4o-latest'.

Two papers reveal that content generated by generative AI may be regarded as 'nonsense', highlighting the challenges posed to public servants due to its disregard for accuracy. The erroneous information produced by generative AI differs from intentional lies, and the papers argue that using the term 'nonsense' is more precise, aiding the public's understanding of technology. Currently, AI laws and regulations are incomplete and cannot effectively prevent the harm caused by such misinformation. The authors suggest the introduction of regulations similar to those in the publishing field, emphasizing the avoidance of 'casual statements' that could cause social harm, ensuring that truth is not compromised.

A study from the University of California, Berkeley, reveals that large language models significantly decrease the quality of images generated by DALL-E 3 after automatic prompt modifications, with a decline of 58%. Through online experiments comparing DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3, and DALL-E 3 with automatic prompt revisions, it was found that DALL-E 3 outperformed DALL-E 2 in technical capability and adaptability to user prompt strategies. The study noted that DALL-E 3 users achieved better image matching through longer, semantically similar, and more descriptive prompts.

OpenAI recently announced that free users of ChatGPT can now generate two images daily using the DALL-E 3 model. This marks the first time DALL-E 3 has been made available to free users. The introduction of this feature simplifies the image creation process through prompts generated by ChatGPT, allowing users to obtain beautiful image designs with simple descriptions. DALL-E 3 was initially rolled out last month for paid users, and this update provides all users with a convenient creative tool.

OpenAI recently announced that free users can now generate two images per day using its DALL-E 3 model, a service that was previously limited to paid subscribers of ChatGPT Plus.