OpenAI Launches GPT-4

March 15, 2023

March 15, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: OpenAI launches GPT-4 and Anthropic goes public with Claude

  • 💰 Funding: Adept, HelloSelf, Legislate, and Upduo

  • 🦾 Tools: Use AI to instantly craft replies for social media/emails or use an AI assistant for personalized education on pregnancy, birth, and postpartum periods

  • 📅 Events: The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit starts today and the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction continues today! Microsoft and Data Innovation Summit ANZ both host events tomorrow.

📰 Today's Top Stories

(4 min read) (Source: OpenAI)

TLDR: OpenAI has introduced GPT-4, its first multimodal deep learning model. Multimodal refers to GPT-4's ability to use text and image inputs and generate text outputs. The company claims that while the model is not as capable as humans in real-world scenarios, it performs at a human level on professional and academic benchmarks. GPT-4 can process up to 25,000 words, eight times more than ChatGPT, and can respond to images, such as providing recipe suggestions from photos of ingredients.

Check out the developer live stream here. OpenAI President Greg Brockman does some incredible stuff including making a fully operational website from just a handwritten note on a physical piece of paper.

Despite OpenAI's six months of development on safety features and training on human feedback, OpenAI has warned that GPT-4 retains many of the same issues as earlier language models, including the tendency to hallucinate, generate harmful text, and provide false information. GPT-4 will initially be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who pay $20 per month for premium access to the service.

Bing runs on GPT-4

Microsoft also confirmed the rumours that the new Bing is powered by GPT-4, which has been customized for search. Early versions of this powerful model have already been used quietly in the new Bing preview over the last five weeks. Microsoft will continue to benefit from OpenAI's updates to GPT-4 and will provide comprehensive copilot features based on community feedback.

Duolingo and Morgan Stanley are also creating tools with GPT-4

Duolingo is launching a new subscription tier called Duolingo Max that includes AI-powered features "Roleplay" and "Explain My Answer," both of which are also powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 technology. The subscription will cost $29.99 per month or $167.99 per year.

And not one to be left out, CNBC reported that Morgan Stanley is also set to launch an AI-powered chatbot based on GPT-4 for its financial advisors. The tool, which has been tested by 300 advisors and will use an internally-vetted database, will help the bank’s 16,000 advisors access research and data. It has been in development for the past year and will be rolled out widely in the coming months.

(4 min read) (Source: Anthropic)

TLDR: Yesterday, Anthropic announced plans to open up access to their generative AI, Claude. They claim their AI, which performs a range of tasks such as searching, summarizing, writing, coding, and answering questions, is less likely to produce harmful outputs, is more steerable, and is easier to converse with.

Anthropic says that Claude avoids the pitfalls of other chatbots by using a technique called “constitutional AI”, which aims to provide a principle-based approach to aligning AI systems with human intentions, letting AI respond to questions using a simple set of principles as a guide. The principles that form Claude's "constitution" are grounded in the concepts of maximizing positive impact, avoiding giving harmful advice, and respecting freedom of choice. The principles aren’t public… and Anthropic plans to let developers customize Claude’s constitutional principles to their own needs (seems like an idea that could be good but also extremely bad).

Claude has been in testing with launch partners, including Quora, Robin AI, Notion, AssemblyAI, and DuckDuckGo. Two versions are available as of this morning, Claude and a faster, less costly derivative called Claude Instant. Sign up for early access here.

(3 min read) (Source: Google Blog)

TLDR: Google has announced new APIs and products that allow developers and businesses to build with Google's best AI models through Google Cloud and a new prototyping environment called MakerSuite. The PaLM API and MakerSuite tool enable developers to quickly prototype ideas and will have features for prompt engineering, synthetic data generation, and custom-model tuning.

Google Cloud AI portfolio now includes generative AI support in Vertex AI (a platform to build and deploy machine learning models and AI applications at scale) and Generative AI App Builder (which links conversational AI flows with pre-built search experiences and foundational models, enabling companies to create generative AI applications quickly). Trusted testers can access these features starting today but others will have to wait a bit longer.

Google Workspace also introduces new features that use generative AI to help people create, connect and collaborate. In Gmail and Google Docs, users can type in a topic and a draft will be generated instantly. These features will be rolled out to testers in the coming weeks. Google is expanding its AI ecosystem and specialized programs for technology partners, AI-focused software providers and startups.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. Adept, a software company that creates ML models to interact with everything on your computer, raised $350 million in funding from a Series B led by General Catalyst and co-led by Spark Capital. Other partners include Atlassian Ventures, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Workday Ventures, Caterina Fake, Frontiers Capital, PSP Growth, SV Angel, and A.Capital. The funding will be used to launch initial products, train models, and onboard more talent.

  2. HelloSelf, a virtual therapy provider that uses AI to quickly match patients with therapists and aims to further blend human and technological approaches to treatment, raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Octopus Ventures, along with investments from Omers Ventures, Manta Ray Ventures, and Oxford Capital. The company plans to use the funds to hire more therapists, improve its post-treatment care, and expand its services throughout Europe.

  3. Legislate, a London-based legal startup, raised $3.6 million in funding led by Parkwalk Advisors, with participation from Oxford Capital and angel investors. The company uses proprietary AI-based knowledge graph technology to simplify the contract creation process and reduce legal costs. Legislate plans to use the funds to increase UK sales and prepare for international expansion in 2023.

  4. Upduo, a peer-to-peer learning platform for data-driven teams, has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Impact Venture Capital, with participation from Sky9 Capital and others. The company plans to expand its training services to more industries, use machine learning to provide personalized learning experiences, and introduce gamification features to improve employee retention. Upduo has appointed Daniela Cruz, a former Google executive, as co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer to guide the company's AI initiatives.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • Replai is an AI-powered platform that makes it easy for users to connect with their social media communities and grow their audience with minimal effort. Using ChatGPT for Twitter and LinkedIn, Replai generates meaningful replies 10 times faster with just one click.

  • Soula is an AI-powered virtual assistant that provides personalized educational and emotional support for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum periods.

  • Jason AI is a B2B conversational AI powered by ChatGPT, designed to serve as a personal sales assistant. It can handle various sales outreach tasks, including setting up sequences, responding to prospects, and scheduling meetings.

  • DeepBrain AI enables users to create AI-generated videos quickly and easily using basic text. With its Text-to-Speech feature, users can generate realistic AI videos in 5 minutes or less, simply by preparing a script.

  • Venturefy is a platform that leverages AI to provide a public source of verified corporate relationships. Its proprietary database system utilizes AI and ML models to automatically codify relationship data and bring it to the forefront, promoting transparency for consumers.

  • MobileGPT is a WhatsApp-based application that links to OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALLE2 APIs, enabling users to access their own personal AI assistant directly from their mobile device.

👀 More Reading

🌎 Fresh Content

2. All About AI created a podcast summarizer using the ChatGPT API and  Eleven Labs’ voice technology and went over his entire creation process. Have Lex Friedman read you a summary of his own podcast! (YouTube)

🧠 Resources

Machine Learning is fun! This guide simplifies machine learning for beginners who want a high-level explanation to gain interest. It's accessible and easy to understand and aims to generate enthusiasm for the topic.

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. Don’t miss the 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) (March 13-16, 2023 / Stockholm, Sweden + Virtual). Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. The conference theme for HRI 2023 is “HRI for all” and will focus on key HRI theories, methods, designs, studies, and technical advances that aim to understand and promote inclusion and diversity in HRI.

  2. The 3rd Annual European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit (March 15-16, 2023 / In-Person at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, Scotland + Virtual) is a two days conference and exhibition designed to host industry executives, and adopters of Conversational AI, Chatbots, Virtual assistant, voice technology and Conversation design. The summit will reflect the latest tendencies and recent application changes in the Conversational AI space in the European market.

  3. Microsoft will be hosting a virtual event titled "The Future of Work: Reinventing Productivity with AI" (March 16, 2023 / Virtual). The event will be hosted by CEO Satya Nadella and CVP Jared Spataro, and will focus on how AI will revolutionize the way people and organizations work. While Microsoft has not disclosed any specific announcements, it is speculated that the event will primarily focus on Office.

  4. Data Innovation Summit ANZ (March 16, 2023 / Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia) is the largest and the most influential annual Data and AI event represented across several regions, bringing together the most innovative minds, enterprise practitioners, technology providers, start-up innovators and academics, working with Data Science, Big Data, ML, AI, Data Management, Data Engineering, IoT and Analytics, in one place to discuss ways to accelerate AI-driven Transformation throughout companies, industries and public organizations.

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