The huge Influx of AI Companies.. Did OpenAI just create an entire new Industry?

OpenAI may have just spawned an entire industry. But did it open the Pandora's box? And more importantly, will these new AI tools take away your job? Before we begin, here is a quick recap of our previous edition.

Very recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that they have been working on AI tech similar to ChatGPT for a long time. Though he didn't reveal any further details, it has recently become apparent that Amazon is in a bid to catch up with its AI and GPT tech, much like Google, Microsoft, and other big tech firms… read more here.

ChatGPT sure did change everything. There are now job openings in the Bay area for “Prompt Engineers,” who are good at using the AI tool.

Here's what Wikipedia says about Prompt Engineering;

"Prompt engineering?is a concept in?artificial intelligence, particularly?natural language processing. In prompt engineering, the description of the task that the AI is supposed to accomplish is embedded in the input, e.g. as a question, instead of it being explicitly given. Prompt engineering typically works by converting one or more tasks to a prompt-based dataset and training a?language model?with what has been called "prompt-based learning" or just "prompt learning"

And this just looks like the beginning of an AI avalanche.

A lot of me-too tools have popped up in the market using the same technology as ChatGPT, and these include Midjourney, Copy.ai, and Jasper.

In this edition of Kommunicate Korner, we look at some of the interesting new AI developments in the AI market today, including chatbots that have a bit of zing in them!!

LinkedIn Co-founder launches a “Competitive ChatGPT with a personality.”

The name Reid Hoffman is familiar to anyone working in the tech industry. One of the co-founders of LinkedIn, Hoffman, and the team have been working on a ChatGPT-like tool that is bound to raise a few eyebrows and bring smiles to a few other faces.

The company, called Inflection AI, has come up with a chatbot called “Pi,” which stands for ‘personal intelligence.’ The chatbot is supposed to act as a personal companion, being able to carry out conversations with you on a wide range of topics, with ease.

The team has ensured that the chatbot does not go into an “offensive mode” since, in the past, both Meta and Microsoft-backed chatbots have been known to cause trouble for their creators. Early users of Pi have said that the bot replies in a quirky, cheerful manner while always being respectful and never forgetting its role as a bot.

So we have the rise of a new AI tool that is stepping up to be a personal assistant. But is it all hunky dory when it comes to AI?? Is everything around the whole Generative AI space good news? We would be kidding if we said it was true, and who better to warn us, than one of the founding fathers of the Artificial Intelligence space itself?

‘Godfather of A.I’ Quits Google to warn us about the impending dangers of Artificial Intelligence

Geoffrey Hinton is a celebrity in AI circles. Popularly termed as the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey along with two colleagues won the Turing Award, considered to be the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” in the year 2018. With over a decade spent at Google and four decades spent researching Artificial intelligence, when Geoffrey gives us a dire warning, we better sit up and listen.

On May 1, 2023, Geoffrey announced that he would be leaving Google so that he can “freely speak about the dangers posed by Artificial Intelligence.” While he said that Google has acted “very responsibly” when it comes to building its AI capabilities, Geoffrey said that he was concerned about how fast the development of AI was five years ago, and extrapolating it to the future was just plain “scary.”

The major risk that AI poses, according to Hinton, is the spread of fake news and misinformation. The internet is full of fake photos and videos, and AI tools can help accelerate the speed at which these can be created. According to Hinton, it can get to a point where “people don’t know what is true anymore.”? A scary scenario, that.

Elon Musk also jumps into the A.I race, says the world needs “Truth GPT”

No newsletter on Artificial Intelligence is complete without a mention of Elon Musk, who was one the co-founders of Open AI, the company that built ChatGPT. Elon has since left OpenAI but was one of the 1,000 leading people in tech, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who signed a petition to “put brakes” on the development of AI beyond GPT-4.

According to Musk, “I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe. And I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.”

AI is annihilating the human race. Again, we are seeing situations that may sound a bit too extreme, so let us look at lightning things up a bit. The past week also saw some good news coming from the world of A.I, with Google announcing a revolution in the way Search is going to work going forward.

Google uses Generative AI to give us a more comprehensive search experience.

At the annual Google I/O event this year, Google announced a comprehensive new way that Search will function in the coming years, powered by Generative A.I.? Google calls it the “Search Generative Experience (SGE)” and it is a new way that Google is going to approach search requests of the future.

In addition to the traditional search results of the web pages, the new Search bar will also have a popup for the query that the users have AI generates. At the event, Google also launched PaLM2, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT4. Google claims that PaLM2 is better at logic and reasoning than ChatGPT and can write sophisticated computer code in a host of languages.

Artificial intelligence seems to be gaining more and more momentum every time we look at it, and by the time the next edition of Kommunicate Korner rolls along, you never know. Maybe you will have an entire newsletter written by AI. Here is what we have to say, starting learning how to use AI tools.

?