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Tech titans Google and Microsoft announced better-than-expected earnings on July 25 as the frenzy over artificial intelligence stokes investor excitement and breathes a new life into the sector.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, along with two co-founders, launched yesterday the Worldcoin crypto project, saying they aim to grant users a verified digital identity and access to a financial network.

Just over one in five Greeks (21 percent) has opened a ChatGPT account, according to a survey by market research firm Focus Bari.

Naturally, it is the young who are more heavily involved: 44% of 18-24-year-olds have an account, compared to 11% of those over 55.

Google is working with news publishers to design a new AI-backed tool to help journalists report and write their stories, the company has said.

The project was first reported by The New York Times, which is working with The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in testing the new product.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google's Bard but it's taking a different approach: releasing it for free.

AI chat models consume nearly half a liter of water for every 25 questions asked, an expert has stated, as the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence are still being explored.

Using artificial intelligence to quickly and easily churn out an academic paper "was going to happen sooner or later," says Diomidis Spinellis, professor of software engineering in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The power of LLMs is often compared to the human intellect, yet such a comparison cannot fully represent the true ability of these models. While AI does not possess sentiment or consciousness the way humans do, these models undertake cognitive tasks with a level of ability and proficiency that parallels human intelligence.

Top executives at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, joined experts and professors on Tuesday in arguing that "the risk of AI leading to the extinction of humanity" is rising. They urged policymakers to equate this with the risks posed by pandemics and the outbreak of nuclear war.

The explosion of generative AI has taken the world by storm, but one question all too rarely comes up: Who can afford it? 

OpenAI bled around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and says it needs $100 billion to meet its ambitions.