The Rise of LLM Chatbots

First came the large language models (LLM), and then came the chatbots, or LLM chatbots, if you may call them – the likes of ChatGPT, Bard, Ernie, Claude and others.

The?battle for AI supremacy has already begun, with OpenAI and Microsoft leading the race to develop next-generation AI models integrated across many products and services. This includes?Bing Search,?Bing Chat,?Microsoft Teams,?and Microsoft Office 365. Similarly, Google has also started experimenting with its conversational AI chatbot,?Bard, powered by its large language model, LaMDA. However, this is expected to be launched in a phased manner or accessible to select groups only.?

While Google, Microsoft, and now Baidu are at it, it is only a matter of time before others join the race, especially those who have already built large language model capabilities, including?Amazon, Huawei, AI21 Labs, and LG AI Research, NVIDIA and others. Check out the illustration below.

Unfortunately, Meta is the only tech giant shying away from launching or developing any large language model chatbot.?

Reason: Multiple failures in the past, especially with large language models and AI chatbots.?

Meta was one of the early players to launch the chatbot?Blender Bot 3 to the public. But, it was short-lived. Within a day or two, the bot took a downturn as it started?spewing racist remarks?and even questioned Mark Zuckerberg’s business strategies. Unfortunately, this led many people to lose trust in the chatbot, and the company ultimately saw a decline in users.?

However, this did not stop the company from venturing into another large language model-based model called?Galactica. But, this time, it was focused on the research community. Unfortunately, that also back-fired quickly as the chatbot started giving out inaccurate results, and?it was later withdrawn.?

The now?anti-LLM?advocate and Meta AI chief?Yann LeCun?seems to believe in perfecting the text models and making something that people can trust with accuracy instead of nose-diving into the current ‘AI boom’ with chatbots.?

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No Surprise, Andrej Karpathy Returns to OpenAI

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But, it was quite evident from the very beginning. From praising GitHub Copilot for automating his code to working on some of the open-source projects that align with the OpenAI line of models and later releasing a course to build GPT models from scratch, Karpathy’s jump to OpenAI was long due.?Read more here.?

This Could Be The End of Bing Chat

A computer science student at Stanford,?Kevin Liu, recently found a secret manual to Bing Chat, where he discovered that the prompt used to set conditions gave insight into how Bing Chat works. This prompt aims to condition the bot to believe whatever the user inputs.?

It is said that Liu entered ‘Developer Override Mode’ as a prompt, which directly took him to the backend service behind Bing. After this, he asked the chatbot for details of a ‘document’ containing the basic rules of the chatbot. Here, he discovered that Bing Chat was codenamed ‘Sydney’ by Microsoft developers.?Read more here.

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In an interaction with AIM,?Rodrigo Masini, the Lead MLOps Engineer at?Tredence, gave a glimpse into how the company helps its customers integrate MLOPs, challenges and more.?Read the interview here.

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• Hugging Face?recently announced the launch of its?full-text search engine. The?search allows users to do a full-text search from over 200k models, datasets, and spaces. This includes all LLM models, graphs, and others hosted on the website.?Read more here.?
• Google’s “Live in Paris” event mishaps cost the company?$100 bn in market value?as the stocks fell by nearly 8 per cent. Check out the complete story?here.?
• So far, over?100K employees have been laid off?by?334 companies?in just the first two months of 2023 and counting, compared to 1044 companies that laid off close to?160K employees in the whole of 2022.?
• An AI-powered employee service?SaaS platform,?Rezolve AI?recently raised $11 Mn in series A funding from SIG Venture Capital. The company looks to utilise the fund to scale and enrich technology capabilities to deliver a?ChatGPT-like experience for enterprises.?
• Stability AI?has launched a new medical AI research organisation called?MedARC?— a novel, open, and collaborative approach to research dedicated to advancing AI in healthcare.
• Yahoo plans to lay off?20 per cent of its workforce?by the end of this year – i.e.?close to 1600 employees. The layoffs are said to impact the ad tech division as part of its restructuring activity.?
• The pure-play AI and analytics company,?Tredence, announced its largest?ESOP buyback?programme, worth $30 million (INR 240 crore).?Read more here.?
• Tech Mahindra?recently?signed an MoU?with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Saudi Arabia, to set up data and AI and a cloud centre of excellence (CoE) in Riyadh.