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ChatGPT Fast Facts What is ChatGPT? A generative AI that can answer questions in natural-sounding language.Who developed ChatGPT? OpenAI, Inc.Pricing: ChatGPT is free. ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month. ChatGPT Teams, which is the business subscription for at least two people, costs $25/month. The business world has embraced ChatGPT over the last year and found uses for the writing and image generation AI throughout many industries. This cheat sheet includes answers to the most common questions about ChatGPT and its competitors. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI chatbot product developed by OpenAI and built on the structure of GPT-4. GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer; this indicates it is a large language model that checks for the probability of what words might come next in sequence. A large language model is a deep learning algorithm — a type of transformer model in which a neural network learns context about any language pattern. That might be a spoken language or a computer programming language. OpenAI continues to update ChatGPT with faster, more capable AI models. In September, the company showed its next-generation model o1, which is optimized for complex reasoning in math and science. While o1 actually takes more time to process information than GPT-4o does, that slow and steady approach can produce more complicated code or mathematical processes. OpenAI o1 is available in preview to ChatGPT Plus and Team users. The model doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, but it does know what symbols (words) are likely to come after one another based on the data set it was trained on. The current generation of artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT, its Google rival Bard, and others, don’t really make intelligently informed decisions. Instead, they’re the internet’s parrots, repeating words that are likely to be found next to one another in the course of natural speech. The underlying math is all about probability. The companies that make and use them pitch them as productivity genies, creating text in a matter of seconds that would take a person hours or days to produce. In ChatGPT’s case, that data set is a large portion of the internet. From there, humans give feedback on the AI’s output to confirm whether the words it uses sound natural. The public version of ChatGPT can call on current events information as recent as January 2022. ChatGPT Plus can call on current events information as recent as April 2023. In August 2023, OpenAI launched GPTBot, a web crawler meant to expand ChatGPT’s knowledge. The company provided technical details about GPTBot and ways to keep it from crawling a website. SEE: OpenAI’s probability assessments were trained on Microsoft’s Azure AI supercomputer. (TechRepublic) Several organizations have built chatbots into some of their software features. Microsoft, which provides funding for OpenAI, rolled out ChatGPT in Bing search and in Microsoft 365. Salesforce has added ChatGPT to some of its CRM platforms in the form of the Einstein digital assistant. Who made ChatGPT? ChatGPT was built by OpenAI, a research laboratory with both nonprofit and for-profit branches. At the time of its founding in 2015, OpenAI received funding from Amazon Web Services, InfoSys, and YC Research, and investors including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Musk has since cut ties with the company, while Microsoft provided $10 billion in funding for OpenAI in 2023. How much does ChatGPT cost? The base version of ChatGPT can strike up a conversation with you for free. For $20 per month, ChatGPT Plus gives subscribers priority access in individual instances, faster response times, and the chance to use new features and improvements first. For example, right now ChatGPT Plus subscribers will be running GPT-4, while anyone on the free tier will talk to GPT-3.5. For developers and organizations who don’t already have a specific contract with OpenAI, there is a waitlist for access to the ChatGPT API. In August 2023, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, a subscription plan for business with more security enhancements and admin controls compared to the basic version. Organizations interested in pricing for ChatGPT Enterprise can contact OpenAI’s sales team. As of January 2024, 260 enterprise customers had signed up for ChatGPT Enterprise, according to Bloomberg. In January 2024, OpenAI opened ChatGPT Team, a subscription that allows access to OpenAI’s larger models and a collaborative workspace. It costs $25/month per user when billed per year or $30/month per user billed monthly. How to use ChatGPT It’s easy to use ChatGPT. Just follow these steps: Visit https://chat.openai.com/. Sign up for an account with OpenAI, which involves fetching a confirmation code from your email, or use ChatGPT without logging in. Type in the prompt box, where it says “Message ChatGPT,” to get started. For the Plus version, you’ll see an Upgrade To Plus button on the left side of the home page if you log in. OpenAI may use conversations with ChatGPT held without an account for AI training. There is a way to opt out of your conversations being used as training data if you are logged in: go to Settings and uncheck “Improve the model for everyone.” For businesses, ChatGPT can write and debug code, as well as create reports, presentations, emails, and websites. In general, ChatGPT can draft the kind of prose you’d likely use for work (“Write an email accepting an invitation to speak at a cybersecurity conference.”). ChatGPT can answer questions (“What are similar books to [xyz]?”) as well. Microsoft showed off these features in its announcement that OpenAI is coming to Word and some other parts of the 365 business suite. ChatGPT has historically not ‘remembered’ information from one conversation to another. However, starting on Feb. 13, free and Plus users can try out the experimental memory controls, which retain information about previous chats. Memory controls can be turned off by selecting Settings > Personalization > Memory, or by telling ChatGPT to forget. ChatGPT Plus members can use a feature called custom instructions to make sure the AI remembers certain things about them. For example, it can remember if a

Changing consumer behavior and expectations, competition from major e-retailers, evolving cybersecurity challenges, inflationary pressures, sustainability and environmental concerns, and the pressure to take advantage of AI are all very real concerns for retailers today. Those that aggressively pursue effective solutions while reducing overall complexity and embracing AI will thrive despite the challenges. Let’s discuss the challenges as well as ways retailers are addressing them. Challenge: Consumers want to shop on their own terms Recent research shows that 77% of consumers today buy through a mix of digital and physical shopping, while just 17% buy only online or only in physical stores (IDC Retail Insights: Consumer Sentiment Survey, 2024 — Findings and Implications, July 2024). They also check a variety of sources before making a final purchasing decision, from search engines and retail websites to product ratings and reviews, price comparison websites, and social media. Finally, consumers today want personalized retail experiences, easy checkout and fulfillment, free shipping, and, most of all, channel-agnostic shopping experiences. Meeting consumers where and when they want requires retailers to truly understand their data and ensure consistency across channels in terms of pricing, product descriptions, and availability. Challenge: Fighting against mega-retailers’ supply chain strength There are many valid reasons why retail behemoths Amazon, Wayfair, and Walmart are putting smaller retailers out of business; the way they have managed supply chain issues around cost, customer demand, refunds and returns, skills shortages, and unpredictability and unreliability of suppliers is among the biggest. According to a May 2024 IDC supply chain survey (Supply Chain Survey, 2024: Retail Findings and Implications), nearly 40% of retailers have been impacted by supplier cost increases during the past year, while about 30% have been disrupted by, respectively, unpredictability and unreliability of suppliers, transportation costs, and transportation delays. Competing on a level playing field with the biggest e-retail successes requires agility, with visibility into automated, digitized supply chains. Retailers plan to focus on improving supply chain planning, warehouse/inventory management, and integration between supply chain planning and execution during the coming year to meet these challenges. Challenge: Employee hiring and retention Today’s employees have increasingly high expectations around corporate values, culture, flexibility, and available technology. Retailers are working hard to attract and retain these employees via several methods, including: Enabling employees to use wearables or even their own mobile devices to perform scanning, mobile point of sale, clienteling, access to product information and location, and inventory and fulfillment information. Automating routine tasks for frontline employees by using technology like computer vision to identify items more accurately and verify information, electronic shelf labels, RFID to track inventory, and customer-facing robotic associates. IDC’s Global Retail Survey (July 2023) found that 36% plan to invest in robotics for guest and store services in the next 36 months. Challenge: Maintaining security is a moving target The highly distributed nature of retail and complex supply chains, along with increasingly sophisticated ransomware and fraud tactics and the growth of organized retail crime schemes, are driving up the risk of retail cyber events. These issues are prompting retailers to attack cybersecurity on several fronts, including: Breaking down physical and digital security silos by developing cross-functional collaboration and bringing together multiple fraud and threat data streams Improving shrink mitigation by enriching RFID and video surveillance data with additional data streams like POS transactions, product files, pricing lists, fraud data, store attribute information, license plate recognition data, and ecommerce data (Mission Critical: Securing Omni-Channel Retail from Supply Chain to Cyberspace and Everything in Between, IDC, July 2024). Reducing security complexity by adopting more comprehensive solutions like secure access service edge (SASE). Many retailers are adopting SASE solutions as part of a broader companywide zero trust strategy, with benefits that include reducing false positives; improving network reliability and quality of service; and blocking, quarantining, or otherwise preventing threats (What Are the Key Factors Driving Retailers to Adopt Secure Access Service Edge Solutions? IDC, June 2024). Challenge: Meeting sustainability objectives Nearly 80% of retailers consider sustainability and circularity very important or critical (Retailers’ Top Challenges to Building a Circular Business, IDC, December 2023). And they are making progress. According to IDC research, about retailers are embedding sustainable practices into product post-purchase activities and reverse logistics, transportation, and logistics (cited by 37.5% of survey respondents); supplier selection and management (34%); inventory and order management (35.9%); and design and pre-production (35.7%). In addition, about 41% are manufacturing products based on sustainable practices within manufacturing facilities (How Retailers Are Operationalizing Sustainability in Supply Chains, 2024, IDC, September 2024). Getting further along the sustainability path, though, can be hampered by supply chain partners that haven’t adapted to meet new requirements (less than 22% of retailers can report on Scope 3 requirements for their supply chains). Other impediments include older IT systems and lack of visibility into sales and the supply chain. Retailers have a lot of work to do, but their goals are achievable. It requires retail enterprises to be connected, mobile, IoT- and AI-enabled, secure, transparent, and trustworthy. Data-driven, operational innovation will improve both efficiency and customer experience (CX). AI, voice, AR/VR, and robotics will improve search, personalization, content creation, data accuracy, and customer service management. AI will be a major factor in achieving progress in all of these areas. A recent IDC FutureScape report predicts that through 2027, 95% of retailers will test/invest in GenAI to enhance product data, customer support, and customer experience initiatives (IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Retail 2024 Predictions, IDC, October 2023). They will also use it for everything from creating efficiencies across departments to improving personalization to optimizing sourcing, fulfillment, hiring practices, and threat detection. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.), the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company. Recently voted Analyst Firm of the Year for

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On Patch Tuesday, Windows systems will be updated with a flood of security fixes. In November, Windows patched four zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which have been exploited. Patch Tuesdays are a good time for admin teams to remind employees of the importance of keeping operating systems and applications up to date. In the meantime, software makers like Microsoft and Adobe will have caught problems and closed backdoors. In addition, as XDA pointed out, sharp-eyed Windows users have a useful new option this month: remapping the Copilot key. This lets you use the AI button to launch the application of your choice instead. Microsoft patches two actively exploited vulnerabilities Microsoft patched two vulnerabilities attackers had already exploited: CVE-2024-49039 and CVE-2024-43451. An attacker running a bespoke application exploited a bug in the Windows Task Scheduler, CVE-2024-49039, to elevate their privileges to a Medium Integrity Level. From there, they could execute RPC functions to call processes from a remote computer. SEE: The November update to the Microsoft PowerToys quality-of-life suite included bug fixes, a new look for the utility menu, and more. With CVE-2024-43451, an attacker can trick a user into interacting with a malicious file, then discover that user’s NTLMv2 hash and spoof their credentials. “To stay fully protected, we recommend that customers who install Security Only updates install the IE Cumulative updates for this vulnerability,” Microsoft recommended. Must-read security coverage Other notable vulnerabilities target Windows domains and permissions Ben McCarthy, lead cybersecurity engineer at Immersive Labs, pointed out CVE-2024-43639 as “one of the most threatening CVEs from this patch release.” CVE-2024-43639 lets attackers execute code within a Windows domain. It originates in Kerberos, an authentication protocol. “Windows domains are used in the majority of enterprise networks,” McCarthy told TechRepublic in an email, “and by taking advantage of a cryptographic protocol vulnerability, an attacker can perform privileged acts on a remote machine within the network, potentially giving them eventual access to the domain controller, which is the goal for many attackers when attacking a domain.” An elevation of privilege vulnerability, CVE-2024-49019, originated in certain certificates created using the version 1 certificate template in a Public Key Infrastructure environment. Microsoft said administrators should look out for certificates in which the Source of the subject name is set to “Supplied in the request” and the Enroll permissions are granted to a broader set of accounts, such as domain users or domain computers. “This is typically a misconfiguration, and certificates created from templates like the Web Server template could be affected,” said McCarthy. “However, the Web Server template is not vulnerable by default because of its restricted enroll permissions.” Along with installing the patch updates, Microsoft said one mitigation for this vulnerability is to avoid applying overly broad enrollment permissions to certificates. Microsoft has not detected attackers using this vulnerability. However, “because it is related to Windows domains and is used heavily across enterprise organizations, it is very important to patch this vulnerability and look for misconfigurations that could be left behind,” McCarthy said. Microsoft repairs four critical vulnerabilities Four vulnerabilities this month were listed as critical: CVE-2024-43498, a Type Confusion flaw in .NET and Visual Studio applications that could allow for remote code execution. CVE-2024-49056, an elevation of privilege vulnerability on airlift.microsoft.com. CVE-2024-43625, an execution of privilege vulnerability in the Hyper-V host execution environment. CVE-2024-43639 is detailed above. A complete list of Windows security updates from Nov. 12 can be found at Microsoft Support. source

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By Andrew Karpan ( November 15, 2024, 8:25 PM EST) — A fight between two neighboring San Francisco startups that sell artificial intelligence-powered software used to monitor truck drivers has resulted in yet another lawsuit: a new state court case that accuses a CEO of personally “texting and meeting in person” with competing sales reps in order to obtain trade secrets. … Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions. A Law360 subscription includes features such as Daily newsletters Expert analysis Mobile app Advanced search Judge information Real-time alerts 450K+ searchable archived articles And more! Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial. source

The board, formed in April, is made up of major software and hardware companies, critical infrastructure operators, public officials, the civil rights community, and academia, according to the release. A once in a generation opportunity Mayorkas explained the need for the framework in a report outlining the initiative, “AI is already altering the way Americans interface with critical infrastructure. New technology, for example, is helping to sort and distribute mail to American households, quickly detect earthquakes and predict aftershocks, and prevent blackouts and other electric-service interruptions. These uses do not come without risk, though: a false alert of an earthquake can create panic, and a vulnerability introduced by a new technology may risk exposing critical systems to nefarious actors.” AI, he said, offers “a once in-a-generation opportunity to improve the strength and resilience of US critical infrastructure, and we must seize it while minimizing its potential harms. The framework, if widely adopted, will go a long way to better ensure the safety and security of critical services that deliver clean water, consistent power, internet access, and more.” source

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