Alibaba Joins the AI Wave With Chatbot

02-10-2023

February 10, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Alibaba is developing its own GPT chatbot

  • 💰 Funding: Content creation using generative AI

  • 🦾 Tools: A chatbot design studio and text to 360 images

  • 🌎 Content: Bing’s beta testers share some of their results

  • 🧠 Resources: MonkeyLearns gentle guide to ML basics

  • 📅 Events: Day 2 of The World AI Cannes Festival! (February 9-11, 2023. Cannes, France + Virtual)

📰 Today's Top Stories

(3 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Alibaba Group is developing a ChatGPT-style AI tool that is being tested internally, joining the competition among tech companies to showcase their expertise in generative artificial intelligence. After news of its GPT-like dialogue robot was reported by the Chinese newspaper, the 21st Century Herald, the Chinese e-commerce giant released a statement saying that they’ve been working on large language models and generative AI for some time. Alibaba declined to comment further on the report that it might integrate the technology with its communication app DingTalk.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that the company will soon launch EinsteinGPT, an AI tool for generating leads and closing deals on its customer resource management platform. The tool will be introduced at the Salesforce Trailblazer Developer Conference in March in San Francisco, but no further details have been shared about its features or if it will be based on GPT integration or an original Salesforce product.

(3 min read) (Source: Shopify)

TLDR: Shopify is entering the world of generative AI with the launch of Shopify Magic, an AI tool that automatically writes product descriptions. Merchants can enter target keywords, and the AI will write a description featuring those keywords. The company plans to release more AI-enabled features in the future.

(3 min read) (Source: VICE)

TLDR: Apparently, even the Pentagon is putting OpenAI's ChatGPT to work. It released a press release on Feb 8th about the unveiling of a new counter-drone force that clearly indicated at the top that it was authored by an AI…

(8 min read) (Source: Business Wire)

TLDR: American Express and Microsoft are working together to make business travel easier. They're using Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies to simplify and automate expense reports and reimbursements. By automating more processes, they hope to increase audit efficiency and streamline reconciliation and reimbursements for accounting teams. Microsoft will test the solution with its employees and then it will be made available to other American Express Corporate clients with the option to integrate it into other expense management tools.

(3 min read) (Source: CNBC)

TLDR: The web browser Opera plans to integrate ChatGPT into its products according to its parent company, Kunlun Tech. No specifics have been shared regarding the timing or which of Opera's products, including desktop and mobile browsers for iOS and Android, will have this integration.

(3 min read) (Source: Mashable)

TLDR: OkCupid has begun toying with the concept of posing matchmaking questions to users crafted by a ChatGPT.

💰 Funding Alerts

Regie.ai, a SaaS platform for content creation using generative AI, raised $6M from Khosla Ventures (Kanu Gulati) to continue its fast growth in the generative AI tech market.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • The Chatbot Design Studio by Tiledesk can create chatbots and conversational applications with a user-friendly, AI-powered chatbot designer that requires no coding skills.

  • Code-GPT is a Visual Studio Code extension that uses AI to offer real-time explanations for your code within the code editor.

  • Vowel AI leverages the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT3 models to automate the process of summarizing meetings, transcribing and extracting the key points, and generating a To-Do list.

  • Latent Labs created a Stable Diffusion powered tool that allows you to generate text into a 360° image!

🌎 Popular Content

1. Twitter user Kevin Liu got Microsoft Bing Chat (codename: Sidney?) to tell him some pretty interesting things. Check out the full thread, he managed to uncover a lot. (Twitter) 

2. A Reddit user also managed to pry some similar results out of Bing but it was quite a bit sassier this time. Check out the full AMA here. (Reddit)

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3. This Reddit user made Bing so mad that it stopped talking to them. Check out the full conversation, it got pretty heated. (Reddit)

4. Noam Chomsky, the famous MIT scientist, shares his thoughts on ChatGPT and its impact on learning and education. (YouTube)

🧠 Resources

MonkeyLearn made a guide for beginners to help them understand the basics of machine learning. This guide will give a short introduction to the subject, including important ideas, what it is used for, and the problems you may encounter while using it.

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. The World AI Cannes Festival (ONGOING February 9-11, 2023. Cannes, France + Virtual), where decision-makers and AI innovators meet, where the most promising innovations and technologies get into the spotlight, where those who are currently building the world’s most game-changing AI strategies and use-cases will be on stages.

  2. The Gen AI Conference (February 14, 2023. San Francisco, CA) hosted by Jasper AI, is the first-ever generative AI conference. Attendees can learn about the many recent developments in the field of AI from experts and network with like-minded individuals in AI, business, and marketing. Online registration will close on February 13th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

  3. RE•WORK AI Summit West, Deep Learning Summit (February 15-16, 2023. San Francisco, CA), a chance to hear the latest technology advancements, practical examples of how to apply AI to solve challenges in cross-industry settings, business and society, and delve deeper into the work of leading AI experts in a series of presentations, panel discussions, interviews and fireside chats.

  4. Data Science Salon Austin (February 21-22, 2023. Austin, TX + Virtual) is a two-day 500-person conference focused on AI and machine learning applications in the enterprise. The intimate event curates data science sessions to bring industry leaders and specialists face-to-face to educate each other on innovative new solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics and acceptance around best practices.

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