Unless it’s your full-time job, you might not know how fast AI is improving. Take a look at the amazing progress that took place last week.
On Monday, Stanford introduced the Alpaca 7B model, which is a language model trained on 52,000 instructions, similar to GPT-3 training, but with fewer instructions. This model is lighter and can be used on someone’s local computer. This model has been tested with tools like GPT-3 and ChatGPT and it works almost as well as those. This development shows that in the near future we will be able to run AI chat models locally on any computer without an internet connection.
On Tuesday, Google announced that it would be releasing all sorts of AI functionality inside its workspace tools, including GPT-3-like functionality inside Google Docs and tools like Gmail. . They plan to roll this out to other tools like Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Meet. This development will make many AI-based companies quite obsolete as many of these companies are building tools similar to what Google is building. Google also announced the next generation of AI for developers in Google Workspace, releasing the PaLM API to some developers so they can start building on top of the PaLM model, a multimodal model that connects Combine visual and text prompts.
Anthropic, a company in which Google itself invests a lot, introduced Claude, their own version of chatbot, and it seems that Claude is only available through the API, so it is used implicitly on many tools like Poe from Cora and like the AI built into Notion.
The biggest news of the week is the release of GPT-4, which is available in ChatGPT for everyone to play on Tuesday. The output people get when interacting with GPT-4 inside ChatGPT is clearly different and better than the results obtained from previous versions of ChatGPT. GPT-4 will allow for a longer context in the message and use the image input as a multimodal model, where GPT-4 can view the image and use it for additional context as well as decode the content in the image. This breakthrough is important because it shows that AI language models are continuing to evolve and may have many real-world applications in the future.
On Wednesday, Midjourney announced two big announcements during their after-hours live event. The first announcement was the launch of Mid-Journey Magazine, a curated collection of images from the community, along with interviews and content around general AI. The second and more important announcement is the launch of Midjourney version 5. This new version can produce much more realistic images and can do a much better job, although the images still don’t. must always be perfect. It also has a new tile feature that allows users to create tiles that align perfectly with each other, even when using the image multiple times. The visual weight is also back in this new version and the way users prompt the software has completely changed. Midjourney now wants users to prompt in full sentences and talk to it like a chatbot, like ChatGPT. This new prompting method will allow Midjourney to better recognize the usual standard language.
On Thursday, Microsoft announced 365 Copilot, adding AI to everything in their toolkit. Users will soon have AI inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. They also introduced their new business chat feature, which takes all the data from all these places and allows users to chat with it. It will look at all these places to answer user questions. This feature essentially creates a fine-tuned chatbot that gives the user all the information inside their Microsoft Toolkit.
Also on Thursday, Baidu released its rival to ChatGPT, called Ernie. Unfortunately, the release of Ernie did not go as planned. During the hour-long presentation, the company pre-recorded all of Ernie’s responses to carefully organize how to respond. Because they didn’t really want to show off what it could do in person, and they carefully orchestrated how it would respond in pre-recorded messages, the company’s Baidu shares fell 10%. It doesn’t look like Baidu will be competing with Google or Microsoft any time soon.
This article was written automatically by ChatGPT by reading the transcript of the video above.
