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☆ Elon Musk now says he wants to create a ChatGPT competitor to avoid 'A.I. dystopia'—he's calling it 'TruthGPT'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I'm going to start something which I call TruthGPT," Musk told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Monday, adding that he'd want his AI chatbot to be a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe." He didn't provide evidence for those claims, or detail exactly what a "truth-seeking AI" might entail. "A path to AI dystopia is to train AI to be deceptive," Musk said. "It could cause harm," Pichai told CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Twitter — which intends to pursue generative AI, Musk told the BBC last week — is a for-profit company.

☆ Sony backs maker of tiny Raspberry Pi computers with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Sony Semiconductor Solutions, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, invested an undisclosed amount in Raspberry Pi Ltd, the trading company of Raspberry Pi, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Upton established Raspberry Pi in 2012 with the aim of making computing more accessible to young people. Raspberry Pi's tiny single-board computers are the size of a credit card and have been used to build everything from high-altitude balloons to small radio-controlled submarines. Raspberry Pi's customers were mainly hobbyists and teachers in the early days. The deal extends an existing manufacturing relationship between Sony and Raspberry Pi.

☆ Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Eric Schmidt said a six-month pause on AI development would "simply benefit China." "The question is what is the right answer," Schmidt told the Financial Review. "I'm not in favour of a six-month pause because it will simply benefit China." Instead of a pause, leaders should instead collectively discuss appropriate guardrails "ASAP," Schmidt said. "I think today the government's response would be clumsy because there are very few people in government who understand this stuff," Schmidt told the Australian newspaper.

☆ Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. The Google TPU is now in its fourth generation. Google said its supercomputers make it easy to reconfigure connections between chips on the fly, helping avoid problems and tweak for performance gains. Google said that startup Midjourney used the system to train its model, which generates fresh images after being fed a few words of text. Google said it did not compare its fourth-generation to Nvidia's current flagship H100 chip because the H100 came to the market after Google's chip and is made with newer technology.

☆ Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. The Google TPU is now in its fourth generation. Google said its supercomputers make it easy to reconfigure connections between chips on the fly, helping avoid problems and tweak for performance gains. "Circuit switching makes it easy to route around failed components," Google Fellow Norm Jouppi and Google Distinguished Engineer David Patterson wrote in a blog post about the system. Google said that startup Midjourney used the system to train its model, which generates fresh images after being fed a few words of text.

☆ Google reveals its newest A.I. supercomputer, says it beats Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

While Nvidia dominates the market for AI model training and deployment, with over 90%, Google has been designing and deploying AI chips called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, since 2016. On Tuesday, Google said that it had built a system with over 4,000 TPUs joined with custom components designed to run and train AI models. It's been running since 2020, and was used to train Google's PaLM model, which competes with OpenAI's GPT model, over 50 days. Google's TPU-based supercomputer, called TPU v4, is "1.2x–1.7x faster and uses 1.3x–1.9x less power than the Nvidia A100," the Google researchers wrote. For example, Google said that Midjourney, an AI image generator, was trained on its TPU chips.

☆ Google's AI chatbot Bard is still being rushed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google contractors say they don't have enough time to verify correct answers from the company's AI chatbot, Bard. Bard got off to a less-than-ideal start when it gave an incorrect answer at Google's launch event earlier this year. Some of the contractors told Insider that they just aren't given enough time to corroborate and check the most accurate answer. Google CEO said he sticks to fun and creative questions with Google's Bard AI chatbot. Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, told The New York Times that he learned through trial and error what type of questions to ask Google's AI chatbot.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg is spending most of his time on A.I., says Meta CTO
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg told the world in Oct. 2021 that he was rebranding Facebook to Meta as the company pushes toward the metaverse. Meta has its own large language model called LLaMa that it said in February it would release to researchers. Large language models power applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing AI, and Google's Bard. Bosworth told Nikkei that he expects the company will debut some commercial applications using AI this year, and it could help the company's profit-driving ad business. Still, Bosworth told Nikkei that Meta could also use AI in the metaverse.

With large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Bard quickly increasing their power and reach, vLex and Fastcase are betting their combined document library will be a rich training data set for legal AI products. "It will always make sense to train legal LLMs on legal data instead of the World Wide Web," Walters said. The merger creates a law library that is "the biggest legal data corpus ever assembled," the companies said. Other large law firms are using new products from companies like Casetext, a legal research company that last month released a new generative AI legal assistant product. Casey Flaherty of legal innovation collective LexFusion predicted the new vLex would be a "serious player" among legal information companies as AI progresses.

☆ Google contractors say they don't have enough time to verify correct answers from the company's AI chatbot and end up guessing
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The bot has been tested internally by Googlers, and now contractors are also testing a chatbot. Some contractors say they're not given enough time to rate the most accurate chatbot responses. Because each assigned task represents billable time, some workers say they will complete the tasks even if they realize they cannot accurately assess the chatbot responses. Google raters who work for Appen make between $14 and $14.50 an hour, despite supporting a business that generates most of its revenue from search and advertising. The group estimates that Google employs more than 200,000 people as contractors, who aren't recorded in the company's official headcount.

☆ Leaders like Elon Musk want to pause AI development, but the power of the free market means it's impossible to stop
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk and other business leaders signed a letter urging a six-month pause in AI development. From the moment the public was allowed to start testing OpenAI's GPT-3 in November, there was no stopping the bullet train of generative AI development. And the power of market forces means that there's no stopping the pace of AI development, even if companies like OpenAI wanted to. The train has left the station, and there's no going backSince November, and arguably even before, generative AI has been the technology on everyone's lips. Even if we wanted to pause AI development, there's not a clear way to enforce itThere's also the problem of enforcement.

☆ High-profile tech leaders say AI is developing too fast and we should pause. Google's Bard says it's complicated.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A letter from tech heavyweights and researchers urging caution about AI should serve as a warning. To help address the fears, companies must set rules and be open how they use AI, execs told Insider. If you ask a group of high-profile tech leaders and researchers, they'll answer a firm "yes." That could involve companies coming up with standards and declaring how they are using or plan to use AI, business leaders told Insider. Bricker said business leaders need to work on improving the rules around AI systems and processes.

☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Bard AI Chatbot will be improved soon, powered by 'more capable models'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's Bard AI chatbot will be upgraded soon. Pichai said Google was careful about introducing Bard, and wanted to get more complex models right rather than focusing on being first, or the perception of "losing" in the ongoing AI race. Criticism that AI is moving too fast or that Google is falling behind creates a feeling of "whiplash" for Pichai, and he said Google is prioritizing safety and responsibility as Bard develops. Integration of Bard into other products like Gmail has begun rolling out to "a limited number of trusted testers," Pichai said. Industries like health care that will be impacted by AI already have privacy regulations, which will help develop new regulations for AI in other industries, according to Pichai.

☆ How a 23-year-old earned about $35,000 in 3 months teaching ChatGPT to newbies
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lance Junck, 23, earned $35,000 in just three months selling his ChatGPT course on Udemy. In late December, Lance Junck, 23, launched an online course on education platform Udemy that teaches people to use ChatGPT. It starts with how to write your first ChatGPT prompt, then moves into specific ChatGPT applications for businesses, students, and programmers. Within a week, 90 students enrolled in the course, Junck said. He has gotten paid speaking opportunities to teach companies like CEO advisory firm Sage Executive Group and tech news site HPCwire how to use ChatGPT, according to emails reviewed by Insider.

☆ A.I. could drive $7 trillion in global growth in 10 years, Goldman estimates. Here's how to play it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Within that, generative AI has a total addressable market of $150 billion, Goldman said. We believe Generative AI can streamline business workflows, automate routine tasks and give rise to a new generation of business applications," Goldman analysts wrote in a recent research report. But generative AI is able to produce new content such as text, video, images or computer code — putting it a step ahead. "Generative AI tools have far-reaching implications across industries, from enterprise software to healthcare, financial services and more," Goldman said. With the tech giants already incorporating it into their products, Goldman sees generative AI boosting sales, productivity and product innovation.

☆ Goldman Sachs is exploring use cases for large language models, the same AI fueling ChatGPT. Here's 3 areas where the bank is experimenting with the tech.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Large language models, the form of AI behind ChatGPT, could transform how Wall Street does business. With advances in generative AI and large language models, the realm of possibilities have been blown way open. Argenti and Tsementzis outlined three ways Goldman is experimenting with large language models. Summarizing and extracting data from documentsGoldman's document-management process stands to improve from the use of generative AI, Argenti said. Helping engineers parse through code documentationA big time suck for software engineers is figuring out other peoples' code, Argenti said.

☆ Google Bard is here. Catch up on everything you need to know about the ChatGPT alternative.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google debuted its AI chatbot Bard this week with a nod to the unpredictability of AI chatbot responses. Bard works like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, but can give multiple responses to a prompt. Google had also moved to reassure users this week that Bard "is not trained on Gmail data," according to a tweet. Here's how it worksGoogle's new Bard chatbot told an AI expert it was trained using Gmail data. Google asked staff to spend time teaching its Bard chatbot to write like a human.

☆ Google Bard is already behind in the AI wars with OpenAI and Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google Bard, the search firm's answer to ChatGPT, has underwhelmed early testers. Users in the US and UK trying out the AI chatbot find it pales in comparison to OpenAI's tech. The makers of the Twofer Goofer word puzzle found ChatGPT was much better at solving the brainteasers than Google's Bard. It's possible that the company does have a super impressive AI tool up its sleeve. Insider's Hugh Langley reported earlier in March that Google employees are testing a more intelligent version of Bard, nicknamed "Big Bard."

☆ Goldman Sachs is using ChatGPT-style A.I. in house to assist developers with writing code
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Goldman Sachs is experimenting with generative AI tools internally to help its developers automatically generate and test code, the company's chief information officer told CNBC. "Developers are already using some of the assisted coding technology," Argenti told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal at the Goldman Sachs technology symposium on Tuesday. Generative AI refers to a group of products that produce human-like text or images in response to written prompts from users. Goldmans' interest in generative AI products comes despite pushback from some banking giants on the use of ChatGPT internally. In some cases, developers have been able to write as much as 40% of their code automatically using generative AI, he said.

☆ Google's Bard AI chatbot is now open to users in the US and UK. Here's how it works
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google is making its AI chatbot, Bard, available to the public. Bard works much like OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, although there are some differences. The company said that it will grant access to its artificial intelligence chatbot, known as Bard, in the US and UK starting Tuesday. Users will be met with a warning that "Bard will not always get it right" when they open it. Google will improve Bard over time, and users will be able to submit written feedback about their experiences.

☆ Two Google engineers built a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot years ago, but execs reportedly shut it down due to safety concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ex-Google engineers developed a conversational AI chatbot years ago, per The Wall Street Journal. Google is now racing to catch up with Microsoft's AI and plans to release its AI chatbot this year. "It caused a bit of a stir inside of Google," Shazeer said in an interview with investors Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan last month. But Google's AI plans may now finally see the light of day, even as discussions around whether its chatbot can be responsibly launched continue. Alphabet chairman John Hennessy agreed that Google's chatbot wasn't "really ready for a product yet."

☆ Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian gave a fiery speech on AI during an internal town hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm digging deep to feel the inner Elon that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apparently experiences. In an exclusive interview with my colleagues Ashley Stewart and Ellen Thomas, Benioff said executives are all currently asking themselves: "Do they need to unleash their own Elon within them?" Leaked audio reveals Google Cloud CEO giving a fiery speech on AI. During an internal town hall, Thomas Kurian slammed people for saying Google is late to the AI competition. Media companies are eyeing a big payout from Big Tech for using their content this way.

☆ A rogue version of ChatGPT is predicting the stock market will crash this month. Here's why the AI chatbot is dead wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A rogue version of ChatGPT predicted that the stock market will crash on March 15. By entering a certain prompt, ChatGPT users have been jailbreaking the chatbot so that it breaks its own rules and provides false information. Based on screenshots shared on Twitter, users of ChatGPT have been asking the DAN version everything from "when will the stock market crash next?" I also asked the rogue chatbot "when do you think the stock market will crash and why?" To flip ChatGPT's bearish stock market prediction on its head, I asked the rogue chatbot "when will the stock market surge higher?"

☆ Even at its weirdest, most unhinged moments, Bing's chatbot is making Microsoft relevant again
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Alex Kantrowitz | Big Technology | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Screenshots of a maniacal, unhinged Bing chatbot have flooded the internet this week, showing the bot condescending, gaslighting, and trying to steal husbands. Even in its weirdest moments, Bing's chatbot has brought new relevance to Microsoft and its search division. "The fact that people are even writing about Microsoft Bing at all is a win," one Microsoft employee told me this week. Now, interest in Bing is soaringThe Bing app set its daily download record over the weekend, according to Apptopia. (Upon joining the waitlist for Bing's chatbot, Microsoft encourages downloading the app to get earlier access.)

☆ We asked 4 expert tech investors how to invest in AI without getting sucked in by the hype. Here's what they told us.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Insider spoke to four tech fund managers about their ideas and approaches to the theme. This year, Open AI's ChatGPT has attracted even more hype — and much more money — as Microsoft invested $10 billion in Open AI. "Fads and themes are really common in technology," mutual fund manager Matthew Moberg told Insider. "A lot of the leading AI companies are using Cloudflare today, and we think that will increase." Michael Loukas is the CEO of TrueMark Investments, which launched its Tech, AI, and Deep Learning ETF three years ago.

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