Elon Musk contacted AI researchers to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI. It was during the last few weeks, according to media reports The information this monday.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur reached out to Igor Babuschkin, an AI researcher who previously worked AI DeepMind of Alphabet, to form a research laboratory.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman, president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, to oversee the development of AI. and was president until 2018 when he resigned, concerned about a conflict of interest. Musk then cut ties with OpenAI.
The intelligence report comes as the race to expand the use of artificial intelligence accelerates. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and competitors like Google’s Bard have the potential to significantly transform our lives online by generating responses to emailssummarizing reports and answering our questions in a conversational and creative tone.
Musk and Babuschkin have discussed forming a team to conduct AI research, but the project is still in its early stages and there are no material plans for it. develop specific productsreported the information.
Babuschkin also told the publication that he had not officially joined the project. Neither Musk nor Babuschkin have commented. on the subject when consulted by various means.
Snapchat is also launching its own chatbot
Meanwhile, other social networks are joining the phenomenon.
The social network Snapchat announced on Monday the launch of its experimental chatbot, which is based on the artificial intelligence of the popular ChatGPT and will only be available for paid subscribers.
The chatbot, called My AI (My Artificial Intelligence, in English), aims to help users with tasks such as choosing a gift for a friend, planning an excursion or thinking about a recipe for dinnerthe company said in a statement.
Snapchat warns, however, that the tool currently has “many shortcomings” and that all conversations will be archived and reviewed to improve the product.
“Although My AI is designed to avoid biased information, incorrect, harmful or misleading, mistakes can occur“said the company, which asks users not to be warned by it.
This new chatbot is a Snapchat-adapted version of the latest version of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence tool developed by the OpenAI company that has recently sparked public interest in this type of technology.
According to Snapchat, each user will be able to personalize the chat by donating a proper name and changing its background.
For now, the use of this new tool will be limited to subscribers of Snapchat+, the paid version of this social network.
Last January, Microsoft announced an investment “of billions” dollars in the AI company OpenAi, creator of ChatGPT.
The joint statement of Microsoft and OpenAI did not detail the amount of this investment, estimated by some specialized media 10,000 million dollars; According to these media, Microsoft would reserve 75% of the profits from OpenAI until the amount of its investment is recovered.
According to that agreement, the partnership between the two companies will last for several years and will allow them to “independently commercialize” the technological advances achieved in the field of supercomputing, the statement said.
Source: Clarin
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