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Google's Bard Will Go Head-To-Head With ChatGPT and Bing

02-07-2023

February 07, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Google finally announces their own chatbot and Microsoft is hosting a super important news event TODAY

  • 💰 Funding: AI software engineering and AI for video game development

  • 🧠 Resources: 13 VC firms dedicated to AI/ML and an analysis and forecast of the market for personalized AI and robotics (2023 - 2028)

  • 📅 Events: The World AI Cannes Festival, The Gen AI Conference, RE•WORK AI Summit West, Data Science Salon Austin

  • 💼 Jobs: Jasper AI VS. Hugging Face

📰 Today's Top Stories

(4 min read) (Source: Google Blog)

TLDR: Google is launching an AI-powered chatbot named Bard, built on their existing large language model LaMDA, with the aim to combine the world's knowledge with the intelligence of large language models. CEO Sundar Pichai wants the AI services to be responsible but did not mention how Bard would prevent sharing harmful content other than referencing their 2018 AI Principles.

Initially, Bard will operate on a lighter version of LaMDA for more people to use. The launch follows speculation that Microsoft is bringing another AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to its search engine Bing. Pichai stated that people are using Google search to ask more nuanced questions requiring synthesizing insights, and soon AI-powered features in Search will distill complex information into easy-to-digest formats.

In addition to this, Google will host a 40-minute virtual event on YouTube on February 8th at 8:30 AM Eastern Time, to showcase how it plans to utilize artificial intelligence to transform the way people search, access, and engage with information, making it more effortless and user-friendly to find what they need.

(10 min read) (Source: The Verge)

TLDR: With Google finally announcing its own highly anticipated response to the AI world, Microsoft and OpenAI are getting ready to make some waves of their own. The company is holding an important news event today (February 7th) and has just officially confirmed the in-person gathering at its Redmond headquarters. With the event kicking off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, speculation is rampant about what the tech giant has in store. The rumours suggest that the focus of the event could be on the game-changing integration of the widely popular ChatGPT into Bing and Microsoft's expanding partnership with OpenAI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella look like they’ve got some spicy new stuff to share so keep an eye out for breaking news.

The Big Picture: Here we are folks. The AI wars are heating up in a major way. Will Google dominate the AI chatbot space like it dominated the search engine space so many years ago, leaving Bing to fall into obscurity once again and Microsoft-OpenAI to reevaluate their life choices? Or will Bing come in hot and take over the top spot? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z.

(2 min read) (Source: Cornell University)

TLDR: A new research paper co-authored by Microsoft researchers suggests that Microsoft Excel may get an AI assist in the form of FLAME, a T5-based model trained on Excel formulas. The researchers claim that FLAME is more efficient and cost-effective compared to other existing solutions and can outperform larger language models in certain settings.

The primary purpose of FLAME is to help Excel users with formulas, providing autocomplete suggestions and repairing malformed formulas. It is not clear when or if FLAME will become available to the general public, but the recent announcement of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI suggests AI could be integrated into more Microsoft products in the future. You can find the full paper here.

The Big Picture: More companies are looking to integrate AI into their operation to increase efficiency and maximize their profits. Optimizing data analysis may well be one of the first steps in doing so. With FLAME on the scene, data science might be getting a whole lot hotter 😉.

(8 min read) (Source: Business Insider)

TLDR: EQT is a leading global investment firm that invests in technology, healthcare, real estate, and infrastructure businesses. With 10 business lines including venture capital, private equity, and public-market investments, EQT is a data-driven company that values both personal relationships and AI tools in its dealmaking process.

In 2016, EQT launched Motherbrain, an AI platform hosted on the Google Cloud Platform that uses proprietary databases containing hundreds of millions of data points to generate lists of promising companies for EQT investors. Since its launch, Motherbrain has been a game-changer for EQT, helping the venture team source at least 15 deals, including two deals valued at over $1 billion.

With the advent of ChatGPT, EQT is taking its AI capabilities to the next level. By putting the power of AI directly into the hands of its investors and portfolio companies, ChatGPT is enabling more open-ended questions and reducing communication logjams between the data science and deal-making teams.

EQT's long-term goal is to train Motherbrain to capture the way investors think, making the AI smarter and EQT's dealmakers more confident in their investments. The data generated by the deal professionals is also contributing to EQT's data moat, making it a company at the forefront of AI in the investment world.

The Big Picture: AI is is quickly optimizing the way that investments are made. Many firms are finding that deals can be made more quickly and efficiently and are seeing immense growth, such as the investment fund powered by IBM's Watson supercomputer. Operations are getting better as communications between data managers and deal makers improve. Soon, the whole operation will be one big AI-powered machine.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. Magic.dev, the San Francisco-based startup, is developing an AI-powered “software engineer” that functions like a human engineer, communicating and collaborating with users in natural language on complex code changes. They raised $23 million in Series A funding, led by CapitalG along with Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, and Amplify Partners. They intend to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand their operations and business reach.

  2. Latent Technology raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Spark Capital and Root Ventures for the development of a product that enables video game developers to create immersive virtual worlds. The characters in these worlds are physics-based and their movements are generated by real-time neural networks trained using deep reinforcement learning and generative modelling techniques.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • 🚨CRAZY NEW TOOL ALERT🚨: Runway, a generative AI startup, has released an AI model called Gen-1 that can convert existing videos into new ones by applying styles specified by a text prompt or reference image. In a demo, Runway demonstrates its software transforming people on a street into claymation puppets and books stacked on a table into a cityscape at night. The company hopes that Gen-1 will have the same impact on video as its previous model, Stable Diffusion, had on images. Goodbye green screens and motion capture?

  • to teach_ is an AI tool for teachers designed to help them make custom materials and activities that are specifically tailored to meet the unique interests and learning needs of their students.

  • Dreamix is another AI-powered, video generation tool that can create videos based on image and text inputs. It can generate new videos with a moving subject from a collection of still images, and it can also edit existing videos while preserving important details.

  • Ogen.ai is a tool that allows you to plug a URL/Link into their website to convert them into an Open Graph Image / Cover Photo using ChatGPT & Stable Diffusion. Very handy tool for content creators.

🌎 Popular Content

1. Would it really be that bad if AI took our jobs? There’s an interesting discussion happening on Reddit, check it out here. (Reddit)

2. “Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs”. Massive layoffs preceding major technological innovations and a whole lot of fuel on the fire. Holy smokes, Reddit is having a field day with this one. (Reddit)

👀 More Reading

🧠 Resources

  1. Business Insider created a list of 13 important venture-capital firms dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine-learning investing that you should know about if you’re in the AI space.

  2. This report evaluates the market for personalized robots, bot software, and systems. It includes analysis and forecasts for personalized AI and robotics from 2023 through 2028 and assesses the impact of AI on the market, including the market for AI-enhanced robots and systems for the consumer market.

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. The World AI Cannes Festival (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.

 💼 Jobs

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