Since ChatGPT launched last year, this week has undoubtedly been the most significant for artificial intelligence.
The most recent iteration of the technology that powers OpenAI’s well-known ChatGPT chatbot was unveiled. Elon Musk revealed that Grok, a sardonic AI ChatGPT competitor, will be joining his platform, X, which was formerly known as Twitter. The first wearable AI gadget that aims to eventually replace smartphones was unveiled, a Senate subcommittee hearing regarding AI regulation in the healthcare industry took place, and OpenAI was the target of a targeted attack.
Reece Hayden, an analyst with ABI Research, stated that these noteworthy announcements “are indicative of the speed at which the AI market is moving.”
According to Hayden, the events of the previous week perfectly captured the trends in the sector. The AI ChatGPT community is still trying to strike a balance between moving too quickly and running the risk of unintended consequences in order to stay innovative and competitive.
Hayden continued, “It was a huge week overall.”
Here’s a closer look at all the information you require regarding this week in AI:
OpenAI’s big moment
About a year after ChatGPT’s release, OpenAI held its first developer conference, which sparked a new arms race among tech companies to create and integrate comparable AI technologies into their products.
The business unveiled a number of updates to its AI ChatGPT tools, one of which allows developers to make unique ChatGPT versions known as GPTs. GPTs can be used in emails, connect to databases, and expedite e-commerce orders, just like plugins. CEO Sam Altman showed how simple it is for anyone to create a GPT without any coding knowledge in a matter of minutes.
Later this month, the company will launch a GPT Store, which will enable GPTs to be searched. They will be displayed on a leaderboard, much like other app stores, and the company will highlight practical tools in a variety of categories, including productivity, education, and “just for fun.”
According to Hayden, the announcements, along with the Keynote structure akin to Apple’s and its emphasis on developers, indicated their intention to use a robust developer ecosystem to “solve their commercial strategic challenges,” which include high costs and few revenue streams.
Additionally, Altman demonstrated ChatGPT-4 Turbo, the most recent iteration of the system that underpins ChatGPT. He claimed that compared to the previous version, it can now handle input that is roughly 16 times longer, or 300 pages of a typical book.
Altman shared more about the platform’s growth, too: About 2 million developers now use the platform, and about 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using the tools internally. It currently has 100 million active users.
Kindness’s Ai Pin
Humane
Humane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin, a small blinking gadget that attaches to clothing. It intends to eventually replace smartphones by projecting information onto a user’s hands, offering the ability to answer phone calls and perform various tasks without holding a smartphone.
A few AI-powered tools, such as the capacity to search, send messages, and handle email clutter, are also included, according to the company. With a Qualcomm AI engine, an ultra-wide camera, a laser ink display, and a plethora of depth and motion sensors, the Ai pin is powered by a Snapdragon processor.
An “important step in futuristic hardware design for generative and an exploration of a potentially new way of human and machine interaction,” according to Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran, was marked by the unveiling.
It’s still unclear what adoption might entail. While the company claims an all-day battery, Hayden stated that battery life is the largest obstacle to the deployment of on-device AI. “It will be interesting to see if the battery life is appropriate given that this device is so small, claims to offer multiple different behaviors and use cases, and can sense data to inform the model.”
There are other worries as well. According to Hayden, “a society that is not currently inclined to take a leap of faith will really be required from AI that gathers and processes data on a constant basis.”
On Thursday, November 16, the Ai Pin—which has a starting price of $699—will go on sale in the US.
The appearance of Grok
In a blog post, xAI claimed that British author Douglas Adams’ humorous science fiction book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy served as inspiration. “Grok has a rebellious streak and is meant to respond to questions with a little wit, so please don’t use it if you detest humor!” stated in the post by xAI.
For certain X users, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI unveiled Grok, a chatbot that he claimed shared his sardonic sense of humor. After a year of ownership of X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk claimed that Grok receives training by having “real-time access” to data from the platform.
Musk stated that although Grok is still in the early phases of testing, it will soon be available in the US through X’s Premium+ service, which costs $16 per month and has features like the blue checkmark.
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, but he left the position of chairman five years ago, in part due to differences in the company’s vision.
A deliberate assault
Large-scale service disruptions occurred two days following the developer conference, which OpenAI ChatGPT later linked to possible targeted attacks on its servers. We are “dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack,” the company stated on its website on Wednesday night.
Distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks are characterized by an attacker flooding an internet server in an attempt to interfere with regular traffic.
On Wednesday, users were informed that the platform was full and they could not access all of OpenAI’s tools and services.
According to the company, no user data was stolen.
Additional AI
Big tech firms also keep investing more in AI. According to Reuters, Amazon is spending millions of dollars training an artificial intelligence system known as “Olympus,” which will reportedly have twice as many “parameters” as OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
Furthermore, YouTube is testing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that provide content-related answers, suggestions, and topic summaries in video comment sections.
While not every business will develop massive AI models, Chandrasekaran predicted that many will carry on developing more focused, smaller models in order to enhance their offerings, streamline processes, and obtain a competitive advantage.
