AI Weapons Race kicks out of speeding this week

No one can Since Openai released to the world in November, it has shut up on artificial intelligence. But this week there have been so much AI chats are endless, even those working on the spot Try to keep up.

First, Google Announce It sprinkles AI Dust on Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slide. When the changes finally roll out, you will be able to have Google Docs write an article for you, cover letters, sales pitches, job descriptions, or basically anything else you want. Gmail will be able to aggregate email threads and automatically write replies on your behalf, and you will be able to ask the slides to create the entire presentation with some simple words. The same is true for Google Open Access will allow other companies to create their own ChatGpt-like tools using their AI models.

A few hours later, Anthropic is an AI startup, and Google recently invested $300 million, Announce A new Chatgpt competitor, a chatbot called Claude, is being offered to businesses.

Shortly after that, the AI ​​was turned on in the room, and the 800-pound gorilla, noisy Announce GPT-4, the next version of the company’s next technology, powering Chatgpt and Dall-E 2 (the company’s image generator). Openai claims that the GPT-4 is more powerful, accurate and smarter than previous versions. The company said the GPT-4 is able to do feats like collecting taxes, creating an entire website, simply viewing the rough design on paper and passing a series of standardized tests, including a unified bar exam.

It’s Tuesday.

On Thursday, Microsoft sent out a splash announcementsaid this will inject boring new AI capabilities into the old Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams), thanks to the company’s partnership with OpenAI. Just like Google’s products, the new office will allow you to remove the tediousness of writing and create sleek PowerPoint presentations in seconds and understand complex Excel spreadsheets based on your questions.

Meanwhile, there are various other announcements: Dall-E 2 rival Midjourney has announced a new version that is said to be “more advanced” and “higher resolution”. Stanford University has released its own AI model, which is based on technology developed by Meta, and dozens of companies of all sizes have issued a series of press releases announcing they are on the AI ​​Bandwagon.

“This week is related to the AI ​​arms race,” Neil Sahota, a lecturer at the University of California, Irving and an AI consultant at the United Nations, told BuzzFeed News on AI. “Everyone knows that this will be the first or two companies on the market that will really see a competitive advantage because in about four to five years, all of this is commodities. Everyone wants to go beyond the game now, and no one wants to fall behind.”