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🥟 Chao-Down #16: Quora releases their own AI-powered chatbot; Bill Gates sits down to talk AI
Plus, Google makes a $300m investment in Anthropic, an OpenAI competitor
Happy Monday! In what will likely be one of many more alliances to come in AI, we saw Google make a sizable investment in Anthropic, the upstart competing with OpenAI. Part of the deal requires that the money invested be spent on compute using Google Cloud infrastructure.
Interestingly enough, Google already made a splashy acquisition with Deepmind in 2014 and has its own Google Brain research division. Is the investment in Anthropic a recognition that Google’s own AI capabilities are lacking? Or really just a land-grab to keep the technology out of the hands of others?
We’ll have to see.
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Bill Gates On Advising OpenAI, Microsoft And Why AI Is ‘The Hottest Topic Of 2023’ (Forbes)
The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine (WIRED)
Sports Illustrated Publisher Taps AI to Generate Articles, Story Ideas (WSJ)
Italy bans U.S.-based AI chatbot Replika from using personal data (Yahoo)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
Today, we are opening up public access to a new AI product we have been building called Poe. Poe lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with several AI-powered bots. (1/n)
— Adam D'Angelo (@adamdangelo)
4:19 PM • Feb 3, 2023
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents
Can ChatGPT help with open-world game playing, like Minecraft? It sure can! 🧵👇
arxiv.org/abs/2302.01560
github.com/CraftJarvis(code will be shipped soon)— Xiaojian Ma (@jeasinema)
2:54 AM • Feb 6, 2023
The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation (arxiv)
Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
What’s the Matter with Men? (The New Yorker)
They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
YCombinator is offering free career coaching (YCombinator)
China accuses US of indiscriminate use of force over balloon (AP News)
One Last Bite 😋
Me after seeing Anthropic getting $300 million from Google:
— Alex Chao (@alexchaomander)
5:22 PM • Feb 5, 2023