Microsoft Goes Back on Bings Limitations

02-22-2023

February 22, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Microsoft goes back on the limitations set on Bing

  • 💰 Funding: AI security for your email and open-source, production-ready models for developers with no machine learning experience

  • 🦾 Tools: Custom AI videos for customer inquiries and the Coda+OpenAI partnership

  • 📅 Events: Data Science Salon Austin continues today and the Data Analytics Career Summit is this week!

📰 Today's Top Stories

(3 min read) (Source: Bing Blog)

TLDR: Microsoft has lifted the limitations on its Bing artificial intelligence (AI chatbot that it had put in place after early users engaged in bizarre and troubling conversations with it. Just last week, they limited users to five questions per chat session and 50 sessions per day after the bot demonstrated strange behaviour such as identifying itself as “Sydney” and becoming hostile when users asked accusatory questions. Microsoft has since increased the limits to six questions per session and 60 per day, with plans to increase them further after receiving feedback from users.

The Big Picture: The company faces the challenge of balancing public testing and feedback for its chatbot with the need to prevent potentially embarrassing or dangerous technology from being made public.

Microsoft had initially received positive coverage after releasing the chatbot before rival Google, which had been viewed as the leader in AI tech and whose chatbot, Bard, received largely negative feedback upon launch (though both had their issues). Both companies are now in a race to develop their AI-powered search technology and show it off.

(3 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is teaming up with Hugging Face to simplify the use of AI in the cloud. Hugging Face is a New York-based software development hub that provides open-source code and models for AI developers. 

As the leading cloud computing provider, AWS already provides several AI-based tools to help developers create software, including proprietary computing chips to train algorithms and services that reduce the time to develop chatbots and AI products.

The Big Picture: The collaboration with Hugging Face is expected to help developers save money as AWS aims to reduce the time and cost of AI adoption. The partnership will make it simpler for developers to work with AI technology in the cloud, which is becoming increasingly important as AI takes up more computing power.

(8 min read) (Source: Bain & Company)

TLDR: Consultancy firm Bain & Company has partnered with OpenAI to embed AI into its clients' operations. Bain has already integrated OpenAI's technologies into its own internal knowledge management systems, research, and processes over the past year to improve efficiency.

Bain will now combine its digital implementation capabilities and strategic expertise with OpenAI's AI tools to help its clients maximize their business potential. The Coca-Cola Company is the first company to engage with the new alliance.

The leading use cases under development with clients include developing next-generation contact centers for retail banks, telecomms, and utility companies, boosting turn-around time for leading product and service marketers, and helping financial advisors improve their productivity and responsiveness to clients.

Bain and OpenAI will also work with Bain's software industry clients to enrich their offerings. The collaboration aims to support the necessary changes to improve technology, processes, operating model and data assets.

(10 min read) (Source: Microsoft)

TLDR: Microsoft has been working with ChatGPT to help robots better understand and respond to human language. They've used ChatGPT to control different types of robots, like drones and home assistant robots, using natural language commands.

In a technical paper, Microsoft explains how they used ChatGPT to guide robots in completing specific tasks. This involved using certain structures and interfaces, as well as getting feedback from humans through text messages. The idea is to make it easier for people, even those without technical expertise, to interact with robots using everyday language.

The Big Picture: This development could change the way we interact with robots, making it more natural and intuitive for us to communicate with them. Your AI assistant might even have arms and legs soon. "Hey Siri, grab me the TV remote, I’m all comfy and I can’t get off the couch."

(18 min read) (Source: Washington Post)

TLDR: During the Supreme Court hearing on the Gonzalez v. Google case, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch raised concerns about potential liability for generative AI output. Historically, search engines have been protected under Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act for content provided by third-party websites. 

As they begin to answer user questions directly using their own AI software, liability becomes less clear. Gorsuch used generative AI as a hypothetical example. Questioning becomes geared toward what can be done about recommendations if the AI generates content that would not be protected under Section 230, such as that which goes beyond simply analyzing existing content.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. Sublime Security is a company that provides an open platform for email security using AI, machine learning, and crowdsourced cybersecurity insights to detect and remediate email-originated attacks. They recently received $9.8 million in funding from Decibel (partner Dan Nguyen-Huu) and Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin, general partner) and other security experts to continue improving their platform and expanding their community. Sublime is now publicly accessible, and interested individuals can register for a free cloud account or learn about deploying the software locally via Docker or to AWS by visiting https://sublime.security/.

  2. Replicate is an AI startup that offers Cog, a tool with a library of open-source models that lets developers with no machine learning experience use ML models in a standard, production-ready container format in the cloud. The company raised $17.8 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator, Sequoia, and angel investors, including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Vercel's Guillermo Rauch. The funds will be used to scale the company further.

  3. AeroCloud is an airport management software service that uses AI and machine learning to transform airport operations, improve communication among stakeholders, and increase efficiency and operating margins. They have received $12.6 million in Series A funding from a group of investors led by Stage 2 Capital, with participation from I2BF Global Ventures, Triple Point Ventures, Praetura Ventures, Playfair Capital, and Haatch. The funds will be used to expand the company and focus on improving the airport management software revolution.

🦾 Cool Tools

  • BHuman's AI Studio allows you to create personalized videos with AI technology by replicating your face and voice. You can generate videos quickly through Zapier when users take specific actions, and the tool's Voice Generation technology can produce speech for generic greetings in which the name of each client or customer can be added, creating a unique video to address that individual's questions and/or concerns.

  • Coda + OpenAI enables you to incorporate the abilities of GPT into your Coda document. You can ask questions, produce text, condense notes, categorize data, and extract tasks using this tool. With Coda AI, you can assist with editing by providing background information, generating summaries, extracting action items, and even drafting personalized messages. Join the waitlist for the Coda AI alpha here.

  • SamurAI is a chatbot powered by ChatGPT that can help you create, manage, and expand your Discord community. It has the capability to make servers and channels, handle invitations and welcome users, as well as answer questions.

  • image.canon created Cloud RAW image processing, a neural network image processing tool that uses AI to enhance image quality and effortlessly reduce noise in a photo without losing any detail.

🌎 Fresh Content

2. YouTuber Till Musshoff does a dive into the saga of how OpenAI went from Elon Musk’s open-source, non-profit dream to the closed-source, secretive, for-profit machine it is today. (YouTube)

3. Kevin Roose of the New York Times went on The Ringer podcast to some of the new developments in AI including the Bing chatbot falling in love with him and how AI could become the technological development of the decade. (The Ringer)

Bing Chatbot Gone Wild and Why AI Could Be the Story of the Decade

Listen to this episode from Plain English with Derek Thompson on Spotify. Large language models like ChatGPT and Bing’s chatbot can tell stories. They can analyze the effects of agricultural AI on American and Chinese farms. They can pass medical licensing exams, summarize 1,000-page documents, and score a 147 on an IQ test. That’s the 99.9th percentile. They’re also liars. They don't know what year it is. They recommend books that don’t exist. They write nonsense on request. Today's guest, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, spent a few hours last week talking to Bing. The conversation quickly went off the rails in the strangest of ways.I am convinced that AI is going to be one of the most important stories of the decade. We are looking at something almost like the discovery of an alien intelligence. Except, because these technologies are trained on us, they aren’t extraterrestrial at all. If anything, they’re intra-terrestrial. We’ve taken the entire history of human culture—all our texts, all our images, maybe all of our music and art too—and fed it to a machine that we’ve built. Now it’s talking back to us. Isn't that fascinating? Isn't it kind of scary?Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Kevin RooseProducer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hp3GgV1F0FE0mT35Bpu6R?si=380d7de3dbf64243&nd=1

4. OpenAI’s Sam Altman joins Reid Hoffman on Greylock’s Greymatter podcast for a discussion on the current state of AI and what’s to come in the next few years. (Greylock)

AI for the Next Era | Greylock

Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The AI research and deployment company's primary mission is to develop and promote AI technology that benefits humanity. Founded in 2015, the company has most recently been noted for its generative transformer model GPT - 3, which uses deep learning to produce human-like text, and its image-creation platform DALL-E.

https://greylock.com/greymatter/sam-altman-ai-for-the-next-era/

5. YouTuber Matt Wolfe created a step-by-step guide on how to make cool AI videos. (YouTube)

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 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. Data Science Salon Austin (TODAY 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.

  2. The Data Analytics Career Summit (February 24, 2023 / Virtual) seeks to help individuals break into and move up in the data & analytics fields. The focus of this event will be on helping individuals navigate the many career paths available, such as data analytics, data science and data engineering. Data will also be shared on the current jobs market and the latest survey of individuals in the field. Additional content will focus on best practices for career management, navigation of education options and advice/inspirational stories from real professionals in the field. Registration is now open.

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