The Voicebot Podcast is back with the Generative AI News (GAIN) summary for April 13, 2023. This includes the latest news about Amazon Bedrock, a new service that directly competes with OpenAI and Microsoft's Azure AI service.
Also: Twitter's generative AI ambitions, HuggingGPT, MailChimp's aggressive generative AI launch and Expedia's lackluster implementation, OpenAI's bug bounty, Italy's ChatGPT scandal, Charles Barkley's deepfakes, Alibab's all We also discussed things like AI bots.
Brett Kinsella (That's me) I hosted this week again with my colleagues from Voicebot.ai Eric Schwartz. Here are this week's top articles in the field of generative AI.
- Multi-vendor Bedrock approach: Amazon Bedrock now provides easy access to many generative AI models, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, Titan, and more.
- A competitor appears as co-pilot: Amazon's CodeWhisperer, a text-to-code generator, is now generally available and free. GitHub Copilot may lead market share with 400,000 paid subscribers, but free is a better way to accumulate users.
- Twitter and generated AI: Elon Musk reportedly purchased 10,000 GPUs after hiring a famous AI researcher. So why did he want his OpenAI and other companies to pause his AI research? Let's take a look. Musk may want Twitter to be an “everything app,” and generative AI will be a key element. Or maybe you just want to provide a useful feature for advertisers.
- Microsoft's latest commitment to hybrid AI: Microsoft researchers have released a paper and GitHub repository with a new multi-model LLM controller (orchestrator) that can control access to different AI models in a single interface called HuggingGPT. We'll likely see more of these multi-model services.
- Build on core products: MailChimp added AI writing capabilities through OpenAI integration. Looks like a clean, on-point generative AI feature. There is currently no additional charge for this feature, but at what point will companies start passing model inference costs onto users?
- cause misunderstanding: Expedia also announced some new generative AI features, but they really only allow you to learn more about hotels and activities. The wording in the press release is cleverly written to suggest that there's more to it than just finding travel reviews, but you can't actually book flights or hotels. Speaking of search, the new Bing, powered by GPT-4, not only helps you better plan and research your travels, but also lets you book flights and hotels.
- generative treasure trove: Alibaba announces new generative AI solution. ChatGPT's competitor is called Tongyi Qianwen. It is integrated with the Tmall Genie assistant (i.e. Alibaba's voice assistant) and will take meeting notes, write emails, and compose business documents. He also helps with shopping and says the company supports both Chinese and English.
- Crowdsourcing security vulnerabilities: OpenAI has launched a new bug bounty program that will pay out between $200 and $20,000 to developers who discover “vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws.” This comes in the wake of highly publicized security vulnerabilities in OpenAI and subsequent investigations by privacy regulators in Italy and Canada.
- Young Charles Barkley pitches sports betting: FanDuel is releasing a new commercial that includes a deepfake of the real-life Charles Barkley and a younger version of him. Deepfakes are becoming mainstream. Or maybe it already is.
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