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The exponential growth in the development of Artificial Intelligence is rather interesting to watch, if not without concern as well. I personally look forward to its rise in some ways, given that it feels like this is the first big shift in the Tech Industry since the dawn of Web 2.0.
I must mention before I say anything that I am not extremely knowledgeable about the development of AI.
In 2015 a "humble" little non-profit called OpenAI was founded to further AI research, specifically in such a way that it would benefit mankind. In 2019 they restructured to being for-profit, presumably so they could charge for services and raise capital. In 2020 the language model GPT-3 was announced, which would appear to be among some of the biggest leaps in artificial intelligence thus far.
ChatGPT is built on a refined version of GPT-3 (dubbed GPT-3.5) trained in roughly June 2021 it is an advanced chatbot that is capable of handling human-like conversations on an assortment of different topics. If you don't live under a rock, chances are you have heard about it. ChatGPT utilizes supervised learning and reinforcement learning to improve the bot's accuracy.
ChatGPT is currently seen to be what is going to effectively change the world right now, and it can potentially change the way we browse the internet. This is what I meant by the title of this post, things are currently changing permanently and rapidly. Since the chatbot's release one of its biggest donors, Microsoft, pledged to put 10 billion dollars into the company, and it is going to be integrated into Bing. This is likely to make traditional search engines obsolete, and could actually give Microsoft a chance against Google.
https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-apps/
To keep up with the development of AI, Google released LaMDA which is a similar language model to GPT-3. However, rather than pre-trained datasets based on the internet at large, used structured datasets instead.
As of this moment, Google Bard has been announced in a blog post by Sundar Pichai himself and has an event scheduled for it two days today. Its development appears to effectively be an attempt to quelch the threat to Google that ChatGPT can potentially pose in the search market, by making it a competitor. Back in December soon after ChatGPT's release they ordered a corporate code-red and called an emergency meeting with Larry Paige and Sergey Brin, Google's co-founders.
My thoughts on it are quite simple currently:
It is genuinely impressive when you manage to scare the shit out of fucking Google to the point that they rush a competitor AI to market (Bard), and they announce it by having the fucking CEO of the entire damn company write the blog post.
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As I referred to previously, It feels as though for the first time in perhaps nearly fifteen years that we could see a major change in the Technology Industry, and with that change we may finally see renewed competition. I plan on writing more about this going forward, and to note advancement in things like AI art, which I have a much less favorable opinion on, and note Meta AI as a player in this "frontier".
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