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Palantir sees record demand for its new AI tool. Here’s what it does
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Palantir sees record demand for its new AI tool. Here’s what it does

[ad_1] Palantir Technologies Inc., the data analysis firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is seeing “unprecedented” demand for an artificial intelligence platform that it's due to release this month. Shares were up as much as 21% early Tuesday on anticipation of its arrival.Based on comments made by Palantir's executives on a call with analysts late Monday and the company's website, here's what we know about it's so-called AIP product: According to the company's website, the platform can be used by militaries to tap the kinds of large language models that power ChatGPT to aid in battlefield intel and decision-making. A demo video embedded into the website shows how the platform can display and analyze intel on enemy targets, identify potentially hostile situations, propose battle plans and s...
Iflytek Unveils ChatGPT Rival Amid China Oversight
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Iflytek Unveils ChatGPT Rival Amid China Oversight

[ad_1] Chinese voice-recognition company Iflytek Co. has entered the race to build a rival to OpenAI Inc.'s ChatGPT, with a live demonstration of its artificial intelligence model for educational and enterprise uses, even as Beijing signaled more oversight of the industry.Chairman Liu Qingfeng unveiled its SparkDesk at an event in the eastern city of Hefei, employing voice-recognition prompts to ask the chatbot in Chinese and English to assess student essays and compose hypothetical stories about Confucius' attendance at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The demonstration offered the audience a chance to pose queries. Liu said the aim was to exceed OpenAI's capabilities in Chinese and reach ChatGPT's standards in English. “The impact of this generative AI technology is no less important tha...
Baidu unveils ChatGPT-rival Ernie Bot; 650 companies sign up
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Baidu unveils ChatGPT-rival Ernie Bot; 650 companies sign up

[ad_1] Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie Bot, presenting its rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT in a pre-recorded video presentation Thursday that appeared to disappoint investors.Baidu CEO Robin Li said Ernie Bot was still not perfected, but the company went ahead with presenting it due to high demand. Shares plunged 10% after Li showed a prerecorded demonstration of the Ernie bot instead of the real-time live demonstration of its capabilities that many had expected. They closed down 6.4%. During the demonstration, Ernie Bot was asked questions about a Chinese science-fiction novel, “The Three-Body Problem,” and was asked to make an image based on prompts. The Ernie in Ernie Bot stands for “Enhanced Representation of Knowledge Integration...
Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI’s ChatGPT rival – The Information
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Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI’s ChatGPT rival – The Information

[ad_1] Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort. Tesla and Twitter chief Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit, the report said. The report comes after ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot developed by OpenAI that can draft prose, poetry or even computer code on command, gained widespread attention in Silicon Valley. Musk, who had co-founded OpenAI along with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman in 2015 as a nonprofit startup, had left its board in 2018, but chimed in with his take on the chatbot, calling it "scary good". Musk and Babuschkin have ...
Google hopes ‘Bard’ will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI
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Google hopes ‘Bard’ will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI

[ad_1] Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with “Bard," a conversational service apparently aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of “trusted testers" before being widely released later this year, according to a Monday blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google's chatbot is supposed to be able to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand. It also claims the service will also perform other more mundane tasks, such as providing tips for planning a party, or lunch ideas based on what food is left in a refrigerator. Pichai didn't say in h...
Google Releases ChatGPT Rival AI ‘Bard’ to Early Testers
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Google Releases ChatGPT Rival AI ‘Bard’ to Early Testers

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc.'s Google is getting its ChatGPT competitor ready for primetime. The company said on Monday that its new conversational AI service, called Bard, would be opening up to trusted testers, and that it is readying the service for the public “in the coming weeks.” The service aims to generate detailed answers when given simple prompts, such as what to make for lunch or how to plan a friend's baby shower. “We'll combine external feedback with our own internal testing to make sure Bard's responses meet a high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information,” Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in a blog post announcing the news. “We're excited for this phase of testing to help us continue to learn and improve Bard's quality and speed...