OpenAI have released GPT 4.5 in preview: GPT‑4.5 is a very large and compute-intensive model, making it more expensive than and not a replacement for GPT‑4o. The System Card remarks reduced hallucination, practical use on the API confirms it’s also much slower in terms of tokens per second. Priced at $75.00 $37.50/$150.00 (input/output), i... Read more 28 Feb 2025 (Updated) - 1 minute read
My article on AI-assisted Process Visualization is now available in print and as E-Paper: iX-Magazin issue 03’25. Its pre-release on heise+ has sparked a remarkable amount of feedback from readers worldwide. As questions went beyond the scope of the initial publication, I decided to compile a Q&A in English to share select follow-ups. This ... Read more 13 Mar 2025 (Updated) - 2 minute read
Operator, the browser-controlling agent, is available in most countries where ChatGPT is available except for the EU/EEA. My notes: when tasking it with something, it translates the request to a search on Microsoft Bing. The first result is visited - and it works from there the UI is a view of the remote browser and a ChatGPT conversation p... Read more 22 Feb 2025 - less than 1 minute read
Agency has increasingly become a critical dimension in discussions about artificial intelligence. While AI’s rapidly growing capabilities promise convenience and efficiency, they also raise essential questions about autonomy, choice, and responsibility. Two concepts from theoretical computer science—Automata Theory and Entropy—can help illuminat... Read more 13 Feb 2025 - 5 minute read
From a BBC report, coining the term “AI Distortion”: Our researchers tested market-leading consumer AI tools – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini […] The team found ‘significant issues’ with just over half of the answers generated by the assistants. The AI assistants introduced clear factual errors into around a fifth of... Read more 12 Feb 2025 - 1 minute read