Google nears Gemini release

Welcome back to The Daily Update — It’s already shaping up to be another busy week in AI. Here’s today’s menu:

🗞️ The Latest: Google nears release of ChatGPT rival

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📸 Research Spotlight: ChatGPT diagnoses symptoms more accurately than WebMD

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

🗞️ The Latest: Google nears release of ChatGPT rival

Google has given a small group of companies early access to its conversational AI system Gemini. The company hopes the system will compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.

Key points:

• Gemini is a collection of LLMs that can power chatbots, summarize text and write content. It’s also expected to help software engineers write code and generate original images.

• Google plans to make Gemini widely available via its Google Cloud platform.

• Companies are currently testing a smaller version of the full model.

• Google also recently added AI features to Search and enterprise tools.

• Sources say Gemini will be trained on YouTube video transcripts.

Why it matters: The winner of the LLM race will likely have access to the largest and richest training dataset. If Gemini is trained across YouTube, Google Search, Google Books and Google Scholar it will challenge ChatGPT for the top spot.

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📸 Research Spotlight: ChatGPT diagnoses symptoms more accurately than WebMD

A new study from Emory University shows AI chatbots can diagnose symptoms more accurately than online symptom checkers. Experts still urge caution when relying on unproven tech.

Key points:

• ChatGPT compared well to human doctors who reviewed the same symptoms and performed vastly better than the symptom checker on WebMD.

• The Emory study reports that ChatGPT made zero “grossly inaccurate” statements.

• Popular health websites like Mayo Clinic and WebMD are currently integrating conversational AI into their platforms.

• Questions loom about how to integrate this new technology into healthcare systems.

• This research comes a week after a viral story of a boy who saw 17 doctors for chronic pain was finally diagnosed by ChatGPT.

The bottom line: AI looks like a promising new option for self-diagnosis. We’re just beginning to see the potential benefits of AI in medicine.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• More Medicine: Feinstein Institutes AI researchers receive $3.1 million NIH grant to develop hospital risk and prevention tools.

• Safer City: New Orleans DA fights ‘terrorism’ on streets with AI spycraft.

• AI Pastor: The Violet Crown City Church in north Austin hosted a Sunday service created entirely by AI.

• Chatbot Censorship: Google Bard won’t answer questions about Putin asked in Russian.

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Jack

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