Insider's Edit: Google's Gemini scores, fumbles in Super Bowl performance

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Google’s Gemini Botches Super Bowl Post-Game Analysis

Super Bowl LVIII is over and the Kansas City Chiefs have cemented their status as a sports dynasty with a hard-fought win against the San Francisco 49ers.

Google’s newest and most powerful large multimodal model, Gemini Advanced, correctly predicted the winner. Most human sports pundits said the same, but as of game day Las Vegas bettors were favoring the 49ers. In the end, Gemini Advanced and the sports experts were right: Chiefs won.

But when it comes to analyzing the game after it was over, that is another story. Gemini Advanced hallucinated – big time.

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OpenAI or Nvidia: Who Will Lead the Future of AI Chips?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly is seeking to raise trillions of dollars to increase the world’s capacity to build AI chips.

The Wall Street Journal’s sources claim that Altman is looking to raise as much as $5 trillion and $7 trillion. He is in talks with the U.A.E government, SoftBank and other investors. After Altman raises the funds, the goal was to have chip foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. build and run them.

The OpenAI CEO tweeted recently that the world “needs more AI infrastructure, fab capacity, energy, data centers, etc. than people are currently planning to build.”

But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang cast doubt over the amount Altman believes he would need to raise to build AI chipmaking plants.

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OpenAI is Planning to Give ChatGPT Memories

OpenAI announced it is testing a new feature in ChatGPT that lets it remember information across chats.

When users start a new prompt, they often have to repeat information from past prompts. OpenAI said this new feature will lessen the need to do so.

Users can tell ChatGPT to remember something specifically, or tell it to forget certain details. You can also turn off this feature entirely in settings.

OpenAI is testing memories with a few ChatGPT free and paid users initially and will share plans for any broader rollout.

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In other news

• Seth Dobrin, the founder and CEO of Qantm AI and former chief AI officer of IBM, joined the AI Business Podcast to discuss how organizations can set themselves up for success when deploying AI. He also writes a monthly column for AI Business, called 'AI iQ.'
• Nvidia threw its hat into the chatbot ring with Chat with RTX. It runs on your PC and can help you find files and other data.
• German nonprofit research lab LAION unveiled BUD-E, a new voice assistant that responds to user queries more naturally compared to current AI voice assistants.
• And the U.S. Patent Office released guidance that makes room for AI: Patent applicants can use AI for their creations but humans must provide a ‘significant contribution’ to an invention.

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