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☆ Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI's ChatGPT rival - The Information
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the automobile awards "Das Goldene Lenkrad" (The golden steering wheel) given by a German newspaper in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File PhotoFeb 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort. Tesla and Twitter chief Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) DeepMind AI unit, the report said. Babuschkin added that has not officially signed onto the Musk initiative, according to the report. Musk and Babuschkin could not be reached immediately for comments.

☆ Here are Tuesday's biggest analyst calls: Apple, Tesla, Dick's, Costco, Snowflake, Meta, Dish & more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Here are Tuesday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Mizuho reiterates Tesla as buy Mizuho said it's standing by its buy rating heading into the company's analyst day on March 1. Barclays reiterates Apple as equal weight Barclays said low growth in the App Store is the "new norm" for Apple. Morgan Stand reiterates Dick's as overweight Morgan Stanley said it's standing by its overweight rating heading into Dick's earnings on March 7. Bank of America downgrades Dish to underperform from buy Bank of America said it sees inflationary pressure for the satellite TV company. Deutsche Bank reiterates Salesforce as buy Deutsche Bank said it's standing by shares of Salesforce heading into earnings on Wednesday.

☆ Elon Musk is seeking to create a rival to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is reportedly seeking to develop a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk cofounded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015 but parted ways with the company in 2018. However, he has recently been critical of both the AI company and the viral chatbot. At other times, Musk has seemed complimentary about OpenAI's tech, saying ChatGPT was "scary good." Representatives for Musk and Babuschkin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ How an AI breakthrough from Alphabet's DeepMind 'changed scientific history' and could lead to new cures
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"AlphaFold has sparked a wave of innovation by showing people what's possible," said Chris Bahl, the chief scientist at AI Proteins, a Boston startup using AlphaFold to help develop drugs. "AlphaFold, amazing as it, is just the beginning," Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind, said on a podcast last year. AlphaFold2 was built with far more biological and physics knowledge of proteins, Jumper said. Next uses will be 'progressively harder' as DeepMind stays secretive on its future workJohn Jumper, a senior staff research scientist at DeepMind who helped develop AlphaFold. "But AI will also continue to progress rapidly, and the folks at DeepMind are very good, so I'm optimistic."

☆ ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has hired tons of former Google and Meta employees, new data shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last year, the company hired several Google staff to do "instrumental" work on ChatGPT. Data from LeadGenius and Punks & Pinstripes shows that a number of the company's 200-plus employees came from Alphabet, the parent company of Google and AI research lab DeepMind. OpenAI currently employs about 59 ex-Google employees and about 34 former Meta staff, according to the data. Data from Lead Genius and Punks & Pinstripes shows ex-Google staff make up a large portion of the company's staff. The Information previously reported that OpenAI hired several Google employees to do "instrumental" work on ChatGPT in the months leading up to its November launch.

☆ Inside the self-proclaimed first generative AI conference, executives explain why the hot new technology behind ChatGPT is 'not just hype, but something real'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AI startup Jasper hosted what it claims was the first conference dedicated to generative AI. The mood was reminiscent of the hype around crypto, but attendees say generative AI is here to stay. Thomas Maxwell/InsiderInsiders say generative AI is not just a fadGenerative AI has already run into some road bumps. Anthropic's Amodei said that consumers, businesses, and developers alike are moving at "record speeds" to adopt generative AI. Thomas Maxwell/InsiderWhat's different with generative AI is that large language models have been quietly in development for some time, , executives said.

☆ OpenAI cofounder Elon Musk said the non-profit he helped create is now focused on 'maximum-profit,' which is 'not what I intended at all'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said OpenAI has become a "maximum-profit," closed-source firm "effectively controlled by Microsoft." The billionaire said this is not what he "intended" when he co-founded the company in 2015. Musk wrote in response: "OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it "Open" AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. The company announced a partnership with Microsoft the same year and welcomed a $1 billion investment from the tech giant. Speaking at the 2023 World Government Summit in Dubai this week Musk said "we need to regulate AI Safety."

☆ ChatGPT is for suckers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Chatbots are bullshit engines built to say things with incontrovertible certainty and a complete lack of expertise. What is it that makes human beings trust a machine we know is untrustworthy? After millennia of debate, the world's leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists haven't even agreed on a mechanism for why people come to believe things, or what beliefs even are. We want Google results to be true, because we think of Google as a trusted arbiter, if not an authority. The power of storyAnother possible explanation of why we're suckers for chatbots is that we're suckers for explanation.

☆ Elon Musk cofounded the company behind ChatGPT but he's warning that unregulated AI comes with 'great danger'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said that regulating AI "may slow down AI a little bit," but it "might also be a good thing." "It's both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability," Musk said of AI, adding that "with that comes great danger." "I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly," Musk said Wednesday. As the founder of Neuralink and CEO of Tesla, both of which utilize AI, Musk has previously spoken out about AI. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it's too late," he continued.

☆ The inside story of how Microsoft caught up with Google on AI, and the unlikely executive who made it happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

With OpenAI technology, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is challenging Google's online search monopoly. "Who'd have thought, even just a few months ago, that Google would be on their back foot," said Soma Somasegar, a former Microsoft executive. Google was also busy incorporating machine-learning and other AI technology into popular products such as Google Photos, Google Translate, and its search engine. Microsoft's new Bing search engine uses a newer version of GPT-3 to answer complex questions. Microsoft's positive feedback loopThe OpenAI deal laid the foundation for Microsoft to catch Google in the AI race.

☆ Heavyweight tech battle: How Microsoft and Alphabet stack up against each other in the A.I. war
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"It's a new day in search," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during an AI event held at the company's headquarters, saying that the "race starts today." So far, Microsoft is making significant headway within AI and rising in popularity in the tech world. Alphabet, he added, "got beaten to market by Microsoft" despite its investments in the space. Alphabet Microsoft may be taking the lead on AI in the near term, but investors shouldn't sleep on Alphabet just yet. "We believe GOOGL has the AI tech and scale to maintain/grow its leading user base," said Morgan Stanley's Brian Nowak in a Thursday note.

☆ All you need to know about ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot that's got the world talking and tech giants clashing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI. These are tools that allow users to enter written prompts and receive new human-like text or images and videos generated by the AI. With a whopping 175 billion parameters, GPT-3 is one of the largest and most powerful language processing AI models to date. watch nowWhat makes ChatGPT so impressive is its ability to produce human-like responses, thanks in no small part to the vast amounts of data it is trained on. No generative AI application has quite managed to achieve the kind of influence and virality that ChatGPT has.

☆ Google CEO promises new AI features are coming to search 'very soon' amid competition from ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday that the company will soon add advanced AI features to its search engine. Pichai said that it will release the large language model "in the coming weeks and months" so the company can get more feedback. Weakness in the advertising business appeared in an 8% revenue decline in YouTube's advertising revenue and a 2% fall in Google's Search and Other revenue. Google's prime business is web search, and the company has long touted itself as a pioneer in AI. But generative AI products like ChatGPT could pose a threat to the entire model of internet search, as they can provide creative answers to more complicated queries.

☆ Google is making a change to its earnings report next quarter that shows just how important AI has become
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Alphabet said in its Q4 earnings press release that it will begin disclosing investments in AI. The move signals the increasing importance of AI to the search giant. "As AI is critical to delivering our mission of bringing our breakthrough innovations into the real world, beginning in January 2023, we will update our segment reporting relating to certain of Alphabet's AI activities," the press release states. It will also incorporate the technology into its Azure cloud offerings so developers can take advantage of the AI technology. Alphabet revealed Google Cloud and YouTube's financial performance for the first time in 2020, for instance.

☆ ChatGPT could hypothetically get hired as an entry level coder if it interviewed at Google, internal document reportedly says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

ChatGPT could get hired as an entry-level software engineer at Google, internal communications cited by CNBC said. "Amazingly ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position," a note reported by CNBC said. "Amazingly ChatGPT gets hired at L3 when interviewed for a coding position," a note in one internal document comparing LaMDA and ChatGPT said, per CNBC. When asked whether ChatGPT and AlphaCode — an AI coding system designed by Alphabet's DeepMind — would replace programmers, ChatGPT and LaMDA both disagreed, per CNBC. At a December all-hands meeting, CNBC reported, Google staff raised concerns that the company may be falling behind in the AI space.

☆ Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called 'Apprentice Bard'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Google is also testing a chatbot called “Apprentice Bard,” where employees can ask questions and receive detailed answers similar to ChatGPT. Apprentice BardOne of the test products is a chatbot called Apprentice Bard, which uses Google’s conversation technology LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications. Apprentice Bard looks similar to ChatGPT: Employees can enter a question in a dialog box and get a text answer, then give feedback on the response. Apprentice Bard replaced Meena, a previous version of a smart chat bot that had launched internally but was later discontinued. In one example circulated internally, a tester asked Apprentice Bard if there will be another round of layoffs at Google.

☆ Alphabet-owned AI firm DeepMind shutters office in Canada's Edmonton
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 24 (Reuters) - DeepMind Technologies, owned by Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), is closing its office in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a spokesperson for the AI firm said, just days after Google's parent announced it would lay off 12,000 employees. London-based DeepMind's Edmonton office is the only international site directly managed by the artificial intelligence firm, making it far more resource-intensive to operate, the spokesperson said. Researchers have been offered the option to relocate to another DeepMind office, such as DeepMind Montreal, based in Google’s Montreal office, the spokesperson added. Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, putting the tech giant ahead in the AI race than most of its peers. Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru and Jeffrey Dastin in Palo Alto; Editing by Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Google's big fear is AI running wild. After ChatGPT, it's too late.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's in Google's financial interest to present itself as a responsible custodian of AI. On Monday, some of Google's most senior executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, senior vice president James Manyika, and the chief executive of its AI research unit DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, published an explainer on their approach to AI research, titled "Why we focus on AI (and to what end)." This is a "thinly veiled swipe at OpenAI and ChatGPT", according to a research note from Richard Windsor of Radio Free Mobile. In other words: If ChatGPT and its successors cause widespread havoc, it'll ruin AI adoption for everyone, including Google. There'll be more ChatGPT momentsThere is a flood of money pouring into generative AI startups promising real-world applications.

☆ Ex-Google comms chief D-J Collins founds biotech startup Early with designer Thomas Heatherwick
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ex-Google comms chief D-J Collins has founded a biotech startup with designer Thomas Heatherwick. The startup, named Early, will focus on the early detection of serious illnesses. D-J Collins and the designer Thomas Heatherwick established a startup called Early on December 20 2022, according to documents filed with Companies House. Early will focus on the early detection of serious illnesses. "Early's mission is to provide early detection of serious illnesses to as many people as possible," Collins told Insider.

☆ Elon Musk is still a big fan of 'The Battle of Polytopia,' a video game where the goal is world domination
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis are both fans of "The Battle of Polytopia," per Hassabis. "Polytopia" is a strategy game where players can direct their "tribe" to colonize territory. Some Tesla cars even used to have a feature allowing the game to run during drives. An email to Musk's Tesla email address by Insider didn't immediately receive a response on Tuesday morning. The goal is to compete with other tribes, which can be controlled by bots, to fight for control over territories.

☆ Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT's creator may be the smartest $1 billion ever spent
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Microsoft's $1 billion investment into OpenAI may be one of the shrewdest bets in tech history. OpenAI released AI bot ChatGPT and is in discussions to raise capital at a $30 billion valuation. "We believe Microsoft's investment in OpenAI will translate to significant underappreciated upside," Luria wrote. Investors may be souring on speculative tech but AI looks resilientThere is speculation that Microsoft may look to buy OpenAI. That suggests investors will still look to pile into the hottest AI companies, cementing the value of Microsoft's deal.

☆ Chatty AI and Protein-Predicting Algorithm Defined the Year in Emerging Tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

They also built supercomputers designed to handle the growing influx of data needed for evermore complex AI applications. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Using an AI algorithm called AlphaFold, the London-based lab said it had expanded its database of predicted protein structures to 214 million, up from 1 million as of December 2021, representing all proteins known to science, including proteins found in animals, plants, bacteria and other organisms. Though researchers say the commercial application of nuclear fusion likely remains years and perhaps decades away, the technology might one day help fight climate change. In March, Sandbox AQ, a software startup developing quantum-computing and artificial-intelligence tools for commercial use, officially spun off from Alphabet’s Google to become a stand-alone company.

☆ 26 AI experts who left Google to start new companies in 2022 as machine learning ushers in a new era of lifelike AI
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Matthew Lynley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A wave of new startups former Google AI experts have launched hit the scene in 2022. They've collectively raised hundreds of millions of dollars and are build next-generation AI tools. Here are 26 former Google employees who left in roughly the last year, identified by Insider. At least four other Google AI employees joined Inflection AI this year. Insider identified 26 former Google AI researchers and employees who left the tech giant for machine-learning startups in roughly the past year:

ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot — is having a viral moment, offering a high-profile glimpse at the maturing technology's capabilities. Like other GPT models, ChatGPT can generate text in a variety of styles and formats, including responses to questions, descriptions, and even entire conversations. The growth of Azure is central to our long-term investment thesis in Microsoft, and artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly prominent role in cloud computing. Additionally, Club holding Alphabet is no stranger to artificial intelligence — and, more specifically, machine learning. While all three models — ChatGPT, Sparrow and LaMDA — have their differences, they share a foundational network architecture known as Transformer.

☆ ChatGPT got all the buzz, but beneath it is a $1B developer framework that's quietly fueling the new era of lifelike AI at OpenAI and beyond
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Matthew Lynley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Beneath the buzz, the next-generation developer framework Ray was key in the viral model's training. "ChatGPT combined a lot of the previous work on large language models with reinforcement as well. Before deploying Ray, OpenAI used a hodgepodge set of custom tools built on top of "neural programmer-interpreter" model. All these tools, Ray and JAX included, are in service to a new generation of combustion engines for the internet called large language models. Multiple companies, both startups and giants, are building their own large language models including Meta, Hugging Face, OpenAI, and Google.

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