The world is changing at a dizzying pace, and artificial intelligence (AI) is the best proof of that. Since the text generator went public in November ChatGPTThe fastest application to reach 100 million usersThis field is evolving like never before, normalizing the interaction between humans and machines and trying to colonize a promising market by accelerating the entrepreneurial marathon between giants like Microsoft or Google. billion dollar benefit. There isn’t a week without the introduction of new technologies that can have a transformative impact. Yet none has been as crazy and hopeful as this one.
The first earthquake happened on Tuesday. OpenAI, the research lab responsible for ChatGPT, has introduced GPT-4, a new language model that will expand the data this chatbot feeds on, giving it even more power and precision. So you can present AI to a university exam and get grades among the top 10% of human students. Additionally, this evolution allows ChatGPT not only to perform tasks via user-typed descriptions, but also you will be able to work with image and sound. “It represents a significant leap forward, it discusses and simulates reasoning more intelligently,” said technological analyst Antonio Ortiz, author of the AI ’Monos Estocásticos’ podcast, from the Prensa Ibérica group to El Periódico.
Microsoft’s big gamble
As the name suggests, OpenAI used to publicly reveal how their innovations worked, but it’s over. “We were wrong, there is no point in having open sourceIlya Sutskever, one of the startup’s founders, admitted to ‘The Verge’. The presentation of GPT-4 was marked by opacity, a suspicion stemming from the company’s no longer a nonprofit. The organization is a non-profit, a branch of Microsoft that wants to do a business, so improvements to this latest language model are only available to paying subscribers.
“Everything we do on the internet will have a co-pilot artificial intelligence”
The 11,000 million investment in OpenAI makes it clear that AI is one of the tech giant’s biggest business commitments. A few weeks ago, it launched new versions of its search engine. bing and from the browser edge Including this technology, which is a strategy to try to compete with Google services. On Thursday, it expanded the integration of this ‘co-pilot’ to all of its apps —word, excel, Power point, Appearance, Teams and Power Platform — with the promise of “transforming the future of work.” This means the AI can track your orders and write a draft, send an email, calculate invoices, and make a presentation in seconds. “It will be a co-pilot for everything we do online,” says Ortiz, author of the Error 500 newsletter. “And if it speeds up productivity, it can have a brutal economic impact.”
Last year’s valuation Microsoft is down 30% so far in 2023 It’s already up more than 15%, just almost 10% since Monday. The internal printing strategy to bring these AI tools to users is paying off.
Google is not far behind
Although ChatGPT is in the hands of Microsoft, this chat system would not exist without the technology invented by Google. Until now, the Alphabet-owned giant had taken a more cautious path and kept its AI innovations under lock and key. However, the acceleration hit by his opponent is seen as an obstacle. potential threat compels his company to respond to keep up with fast-paced competition.
At the beginning of January, Google launched its personal chatbot Bard. Its use is reserved for a limited number of specialists for now. On Tuesday, it announced another battery with no less innovations. On the one hand, it will do like Microsoft and integrate productive AI into all business products like Gmail, Docs, Drive or Meets. This technology, currently implemented to automatically complete words or phrases, allows you to summarize conversations by email or take notes automatically during video calls
On the other hand, it will provide access to its artificial intelligence so that companies can use it to develop new services and applications. With this, the business model responds to OpenAI, the platform that enables new creations.
Also Tuesday, artificial intelligence company Anthropic, in which Google has invested $400 million, released a new language model to compete with ChatGPT. Shares of the multinational tech company are up 11.5% since Monday.
image revolution
Companies from all over the world participate in this long distance race. This Thursday, the Chinese company Baidu, known as Google Google, introduced Ernie Bot, a system with similar features to GPT4 that will be limited to the Mandarin market. “Chinese he was very visionary for ten yearshowever, efforts to control that these language models do not evade censorship may limit similar attempts,” says Ortiz.
There has been news this week beyond text generators. Midjourney research lab has introduced Wednesday Midjourney V5, its engine that can generate any image from user descriptions. This is evolution opens the door to much higher quality visuals. So much so that in some cases it becomes difficult to distinguish between real photos and those created by the camera. Ortiz points out that the next step will be in video creators. “We only see the sunrise,” he warns.