Here’s how Google-Sparrow and Microsoft-ChatGpt will compete on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft has extended the long-term partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, the system that is becoming popular for the ease of interacting with users and answering questions. Meanwhile, Google may launch AI software that competes with ChatGpt in the coming months.
It's a rush to artificial intelligence.
After the rumors of recent times, the official news arrived on Monday: Microsoft announced the extension of the partnership in OpenAI, the company that produces ChatGPT, the chat based on artificial intelligence that simulates a conversation with a human being, through "a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) breakthroughs and ensure these benefits are widely shared with the world.”
The company did not provide financial details of the deal, but Bloomberg is talking about $10 billion. The Redmond giant has already invested in the company in 2019 and 2021. But the new investment will provide OpenAI with the capital resources to continue improving ChatGPT, comments Axios . It also further strengthens Microsoft's position in the generative AI space, not only to extend its core business software products, but also to help its Bing search engine finally compete with Google.
But Google certainly does not want to fall behind.
In the coming months, the Mountain View giant could launch AI software that competes with ChatGpt, the chatbot that represents a potential threat to the popular search engine. This was revealed to Time by Demis Hassabis, head of DeepMind, the AI company that belongs to Alphabet, the parent company of Google. He explained that the company is developing a trial and private version of its Sparrow chatbot that could be released in 2023. Hassabis says this software has features that ChatGPT lacks, including the ability to cite sources through reinforcement learning.
All the details.
MICROSOFT'S STRATEGY WITH OPENAI (CHATGPT)
“In this next phase of our partnership with @OpenAI we will provide the best AI infrastructure, models and tools to enable customers to securely and responsibly build and run their applications on Azure,” Satya Nadella tweeted. Microsoft CEO.
Microsoft is continuing a bet it made nearly four years ago on OpenAI, the San Francisco-based nonprofit behind the ChatGPT chatbot and Dall-E image generator. In 2019, he invested $1 billion in the startup co-founded by Elon Musk and investor Sam Altman, and has since built a supercomputer to power OpenAI's technology, among other forms of support.
DEMOCRATIZE AI
“We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and to democratize AI as a new technology platform,” Nadella added.
The Redmond company said it will allow more customers to access OpenAI tools through the cloud in its Azure service, potentially including ChatGPT Professional via an upcoming trial. Companies like KPMG, Al Jazeera and Moveworks are already using the software.
THE CHATGPT BET
The investment will "allow us to continue our independent research and development" of an AI that is "safe, useful and powerful," says OpenAI.
The huge capital raise for the company is symbolic of investors' enthusiasm for “generative AI,” which is capable of generating high-quality output based on a few words or sentences of human instructions.
ChatGPT became a phenomenon when it debuted in November, attracting more than 1 million users in its first week. “Tech executives and venture capitalists have been talking about it on Twitter, even comparing it to the debut of Apple's iPhone in 2007,” recalls CNBC . It has been hailed as a watershed moment for AI, threatening to disrupt markets from education and media to search engine Google.
“Building and operating advanced AI systems like ChatGPT consumes massive amounts of computing power, prompting startups to forge alliances with the cloud computing arms of Big Tech in order to avoid the massive capital investments that would otherwise needed to build your own data infrastructure” comments the Financial Times .
COMPETITION WITH GOOGLE
But Google doesn't want to waste time on artificial intelligence. Alphabet's (Google's parent company) internal AI lab DeepMind is one of the leading labs developing the most advanced AI technology ever, and it's planning to unveil Sparrow this spring.
DeepMind and OpenAI are both working on achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which has the goal of creating hardware or software that can emulate human reasoning as closely as possible. "The creation of Agi will be the most important technological development in human history," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-come-google-sparrow-e-microsoft-chatgpt-si-sfideranno-sullintelligenza-artificiale/ on Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:50:13 +0000.