Insider’s Edit: ChatGPT’s Dark Side and 360-degree radar for self-driving cars

?Happy New Year from everyone here at Insider’s Edit and AI Business!

This is going to be an exciting year for AI as use cases multiply and the capabilities of AI continue to expand. To help you make the most out of AI insights and trends, we’ve put together the top three articles of 2023 so far:

1. ChatGPT can make less-skilled criminals into hackers.

It turns out ChatGPT – the AI-powered chatbot that became a viral sensation ? has a dark side: It can create malware without being given any snippet of code. That means less-skilled criminals can learn to become cyber-attackers.

That’s the?conclusion?of Check Point Research, which ran an experiment to see if ChatGPT can turn regular text into malware or phishing campaigns. Result? It can.

?Read: ChatGPT’s Dark Side: Creating Malware Just from Text

2. OpenAI sees $1 billion in revenue for ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is expected to generate $1 billion in revenue in 2024. That’s according to Sam Altman, the CEO of its parent, OpenAI. He?tweeted?that OpenAI has little choice but to make money. Right now, the chatbot is free to use.

“We will have to monetize it somehow at some point; the compute costs are eye-watering.”

Read: OpenAI Sees ChatGPT Revenue of $1 Billion in 2024

3. AI plus 360-degree radar raise the bar for self-driving cars

At CES 2023, Israeli company Arbe showcased its 360° Radar-Based Perception tool, which it says raises the bar for self-driving vehicles.

Until now, 360-degree tracking has tended to rely on imaging. But Arbe’s tech uses a suite of radars to provide what it claims is the first AI-based integrated analysis of the entire surroundings of a vehicle.

Read: Arbe Reveals 360-Degree Radar for Self-Driving Vehicles at CES 2023

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