This Week in AI — 6 Feb — 12 Feb
News For The Week
Microsoft Partners with OpenAI to Upgrade Bing and Edge with AI Technology — 7 Feb
Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI to upgrade its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence. The move comes a day after Google revealed its own AI chatbot, Bard, in response to the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool.
Microsoft is betting big on AI and is investing billions of dollars to take advantage of the excitement surrounding ChatGPT. Bing will be powered by AI and run on a more powerful “large language model” than ChatGPT, offering users refined queries and more relevant results.
The partnership with OpenAI has been in the works since Microsoft’s $1 billion investment in 2019, and Microsoft is now looking to market OpenAI’s technology, including ChatGPT, to its cloud customers and add it to its own products. This move will increase competition with Google, who is also looking to use AI for its search engine.
Google’s Bard ChatGPT Competitor Causes Market Concerns and Criticism from Employees
Google faced a significant decline in market value after the announcement of its ChatGPT rival, Bard. The company’s shares fell 7.7% on Wednesday due to concerns about the competency of the chatbot.
Additionally, Google employees took to the internal forum Memegen to criticize the rushed and botched announcement of Bard, which CEO Sundar Pichai publicly revealed earlier this week.
The announcement was made ahead of a Microsoft event that showcased its integration of ChatGPT technology into its Bing search engine. The market reaction, combined with criticism from employees, has led to a decline of over 9% in Alphabet shares this week.
https://time.com/6254226/alphabet-google-bard-100-billion-ai-error/
Alibaba and Baidu Join the Race to Develop China’s Best AI Chatbot
Alibaba Group Holding is testing its own version of the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, through its research institute Damo Academy. The testing is joining the efforts of Chinese tech companies such as Baidu, JD.com, and NetEase, as well as Tencent, in developing their own AI chatbots.
In April 2021, Damo introduced its natural language processing model with 27 billion parameters, while OpenAI’s GPT-3, which is the language processing model behind ChatGPT, had 175 billion parameters when it launched in 2020.
The trend of AI chatbots has also caught on in China, where ChatGPT is not available, and has caused a surge in the shares of several AI companies in mainland China.
ChatGPT Prompt of the week
How can I be smarter than ChatGPT?
ChatGPT: As a language model AI, ChatGPT has access to vast amounts of information and can process it quickly to provide answers. However, it does not have emotions, intuition, or personal experiences. To be smarter than ChatGPT, you can develop your critical thinking skills, emotional intelligence, and creativity. Here are a few ways to do this:
Read books and articles on various topics to expand your knowledge and understanding of the world.
Engage in discussions and debates with others to practice critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Practice mindfulness and meditation to improve emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Take up new hobbies and activities that challenge you creatively, such as painting, writing, or photography.
Seek out diverse perspectives and challenge your own beliefs and biases.
Remember, being smarter than ChatGPT requires a combination of knowledge, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and creativity.
Opinion Of The Week
ChatGPT is a ‘moon landing’ moment for AI, Chinese experts say
A panel of Chinese AI experts and investors have called ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, a “moon landing” moment for the AI industry. They believe that despite its limitations, such as inaccurate answers and high costs, the popularity of the chatbot has sparked a race among tech companies to create similar products. However, despite the hype, some experts have voiced concerns about the cost and quality of answers from the massive language models.
Why ChatGPT is about to change how you work, like it or not
ChatGPT, the language model developed by OpenAI, is set to revolutionize the way we work. With Microsoft investing $10 billion in OpenAI and integrating ChatGPT into its Office software suite, employees will be able to convert Word documents into PowerPoint presentations at the push of a button.
However, with AI models, there are also concerns about ethics and the impact of AI on democracy. Companies like OpenAI and stability must navigate the challenges of data privacy and disinformation, as well as navigate the competitive landscape with other big tech players like Google and Amazon. Nevertheless, with its potential for automating tedious tasks and generating new insights, ChatGPT is set to change the way we work, whether we like it or not.
AI Tool of the week
Descript is the only tool you need to write, record, transcribe, edit, collaborate, and share your videos and podcasts.
Editing video in Descript is as easy as using docs and slides. Multitrack audio editing, as easy as a doc. Instantly capture, edit, and share screen/webcam recordings.
Transcriptions are fast and accurate, and comes with automatic speaker detection. Edit out filler words and silence gaps with a single click. Record your screen and webcam, edit out mistakes in seconds, and publish to a link for sharing right away. Access pro editing features, such as multi-track editing, live collaboration, auto-captioning, and much more.
Written by Pang S by AIHQ for The AI Tools Digest
(This content was created with assistance from ChatGPT.)
