OpenAI introduces new AI tool for complex research

 

"After the shock caused by the success of the Chinese AI startup Deepseek, the US market leader OpenAI is now following up: ChatGPT will in future be able to carry out research work, that would take people many hours, in just a few minutes.

 

The US company OpenAI has announced a new function called "deep research" for its AI chatbot ChatGPT. With the help of this function, ChatGPT can "find, analyze and summarize hundreds of online sources," OpenAI explained on Monday. The research tool "can do in dozens of minutes what would take a person many hours," it continued.

 

Last week, the success of the Chinese AI company Deepseek shook the US tech sector. The company has developed a chatbot that can compete with US models. At the same time, according to Deepseek, the development of the program cost only a fraction of what OpenAI invested in ChatGPT.

 

OpenAI boss Sam Altman was in Tokyo on Monday, to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the head of the Japanese company Softbank, Masayoshi Son. Softbank and OpenAI are both part of the Stargate project for massive investments in the US AI infrastructure, which US President Donald Trump presented last week. A total of 500 billion dollars are to be invested over the next four years.”

What peace plan will D. Trump offer Ukraine?

 

How do we know? Whatever he offers, we will eat. D. Trump pays the money, D. Trump orders the music.

 

And we are nothing here.

Kokį taikos planą Ukrainai pasiūlys D. Trumpas?

Iš kur mes galime žinoti? Kokį pasiūlys, tokį mes valgysime. D. Trumpas moka pinigus, D. Trumpas ir muziką užsako. 

O mes čia esame niekas.

Fascism is flourishing again in Lithuania: reactions on social networks after Žeimytė-Bilienė's question to fascist Kasčiūnas

"Reactions and shares of an excerpt from a video clip after journalist Daiva Žeimytė-Bilienė asked Laurynas Kasčiūnas, a candidate for the position of chairman of the Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), have spread on social networks. According to media expert Linas Kontrimas, such questions are good for a democratic society and we should pay attention not to the journalist, but to the interlocutor and how he reacts.

 

The question that caused various reactions was why L. Kasčiūnas does not change his mobile phone number, which contains two eights (these eights are considered a secret Nazi sign because the eighth letter of the alphabet is H and is associated with the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler - Delfi's post.).

 

"Why do some of your personal data still contain symbols used by the Nazis?”, – the journalist asked the candidate.

 

L. Kasčiūnas asked to clarify the question: “What do you mean?”. To this D. Žeimytė-Bilienė replied: “Your phone number.”

 

“My phone number is random,” – L. Kasčiūnas stated, but journalist D. Žeimytė-Bilienė insisted: “I don’t think it’s random.”

 

L. Kasčiūnas, getting heated, commented that he had already overheard a lot about himself.

 

“That I live in apartment 88, that my children were born on Hitler’s birthday,” – he began to list, and the journalist asked again: “How can these things be random?”

 

“Can I choose a phone number?” – L. Kasčiūnas also answered with a question.

 

“You can! You can choose, and there’s such a coincidence of two eights for some reason?”, – D. Žeimytė-Bilienė asked.

 

“I don’t know, it’s like that, so what now, change the number?”, – the politician asked.

 

“Is it a coincidence?”, – the journalist asked.

 

“Yes, of course”, – he assured.

 

Žygimantas Pavilionis also spoke out in the video excerpt, defending his fellow party member, saying that for him eight is associated with the number of infinity, success, because he himself was getting married that day, so he asked not to make such connections.

 

However, D. Žeimytė-Bilienė reminded that Ž. Pavilionis did not previously belong to the Lithuanian National Democratic Party (Fascists), which L. Kasčiūnas had previously joined.

 

Received threats

 

This excerpt spread on social media over the weekend. Some social network users criticized the journalist’s question, many thought it was out of the blue and that the phone number should not be associated with Nazi attitudes. On the other hand, another part called L. Kasčiūnas a fascist.

 

Delfi tried to contact L. Kasčiūnas and D. Žeimytė-Bilienė for a comment, but neither answered the phone.

 

A little later, D. Žeimytė-Bilienė shared a comment on Facebook, in which she told what conclusions can be drawn in this situation.

 

“For the past few days, I have been observing a sharp reaction to a question I asked one of the candidates for the position of chairman of the Homeland Union-Christian Democratic Party. At first, the candidate’s sympathizers, colleagues in the party, later haters of the “systemic media” joined the chorus, and finally some fellow journalists. Everyone is scratching their heads, wondering how such a question could have been asked. 

 

Because asking politicians about what cartoon characters they like is OK, but asking why shadows of the past still appear in various forms in his personal belongings is a terrible thing,” the journalist writes.

 

First of all, according to the journalist, the topic has not been previously touched upon and discussed in Lithuania.

 

“The topic I touched on has absolutely not been discussed in Lithuania, symbols, symbolism, which are written about a lot in the media of other countries, were last discussed in more detail in our country in 2011, when the Germans conducted a serious study on the use of symbols in modern radical organizations,” the journalist writes.

 

“Journalists are taught from the first year that there are no bad questions. The content is not the question, the content is the answer. The conclusions are drawn by listeners and viewers. I strongly encourage journalists, especially young colleagues, not to be afraid to ask. Otherwise, there is no point in being a journalist,” the journalist also writes.

 

Earlier in a comment, the journalist shared that after the spread of these video excerpts, she received threatening messages, so she wished her colleagues who criticized her that they would not have to face this. Also, according to D. Žeimytė-Bilienė, journalists should not be afraid to ask even uncomfortable or sometimes strange-sounding questions.

 

She also added that L. Kasčiūnas immediately recognized what symbols were being talked about, and since he could become the chairperson of one of the largest parties, if everything is in the past, he should change his number and there would be no more questions.

 

Kontrimas: it is worth coming up with the strangest question for a journalist

 

According to media expert and Vilnius University (VU) lecturer L. Kontrimas, anyone who has studied journalism at least a little, and the public, should know that there is no such thing as a bad journalistic question.

 

“You always need to observe and listen to how the interlocutors react to the question, what answers they give with eyes and how they behave. That's what's most important.

 

I'll say even more that sometimes it's even worth it for a journalist to come up with the strangest, most tricky and perhaps, others would say, the stupidest question. This is just to blow up the atmosphere of the conversation and create very interesting answer options.

 

Such as would reveal various layers of the situation. That's how you need to react to it," he insisted.

 

According to L. Kontrimas, perhaps many would like to ask L. Kasčiūnas what his relationship is with his immature adolescence or youth.

 

"I think that's also normal. We grow, we change, so that's just how I would look at this situation," he explained.

 

He also suggested that the journalistic community not engage in criticism of D. Žeimytė-Bilienė. In his opinion, journalists can always have such interlocutors, who, when talking to them, can slip their tongues both to the left and to the right.

 

“A journalist is not a person who wants to expose himself in any way. He asks uncomfortable questions because he wants to present the topic to viewers, listeners, and readers in more detail.

 

In this case, it is also a bit hypocritical if journalists rush to criticize. This should not be done, and I would suggest that we should discuss why we avoid those topics so much about, for example, the political right and those fashions.

 

Sometimes even about the same political extreme right. After all, we are a free society and Lithuania, thank God, is a free state. There can be people with different views here. Can't journalists ask people's opinions? ”, – L. Kontrimas asked rhetorically.

 

He reminded how terrible it would be if there were an interview in which the answers were clear from the question itself or they were generally agreed upon in advance.

 

“Do we need such content in principle? Then it would be better to watch the reels non-stop and, so to speak, get blown away,” he summed up.

 

Political scientist Vytautas Valentinavičius also expressed his opinion on Facebook. Sharing the Delfi text, he wrote: “Such questions are necessary in a democratic society. Symbols have a deep meaning. Let’s see: Lithuania even banned some symbols in the context of the Russian conflict. So, those who claim that symbols mean nothing are not true. Symbols and their use are a means of expression, what cannot be said in words, sometimes we express with symbols,” he writes."

Lithuanian fascists are alive, fat (see the photo picture of Mr. Kasčiūnas) and happy. Jews should leave Lithuania now. It is too risky to be with us.