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Welcome back!
President Joe Biden has officially issued the United States’ first AI executive order. You can find more information in Friday’s newsletter.
We’re diving into another week in AI with a major ChatGPT upgrade and a $2 billion investment by Google. Let’s go.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ ChatGPT upgrade gathers all tools in one place
🤖 LAION wants to open source emotion-detecting AI
📸 Google invests $2 billion in Anthropic
🚨 AI Roundup: Three quick hits
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LATEST NEWS
🗞️ ChatGPT upgrade gathers all tools in one place
Screenshot: OpenAI
OpenAI is rolling out an updated version of ChatGPT that combines all of GPT-4’s capabilities in a single interface.
Key points:
Users will be able to access all ChatGPT features (web browsing, DALL-E 3, data analysis, etc.) within the main interface without needing to switch between modes.
OpenAI also added a feature that allows users to upload PDFs and documents and ‘chat’ with them.
The company is expected to make more major announcements at next week’s OpenAI DevDay.
The update is slowly being rolled out to ChatGPT Plus members.
The bottom line: Combining all of GPT-4’s capabilities is a step toward all-in-one multimodal AI assistants. This is a major upgrade as the AI race between Big Tech companies heats up.
AI INSIGHT
🤖 LAION wants to open source emotion-detecting AI
Source: Adobe Firefly
Last week LAION announced the Open Empathic project, an initiative that aims to “equip open source AI systems with empathy and emotional intelligence.”
The details:
LAION is a nonprofit group that builds image and text data sets for training generative AI models like Stable Diffusion.
With Open Empathic, the group hopes to create AI that can understand expressions and tone shifts in addition to words.
In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enables it to detect a speaker’s mood. LAION wants to bring similar capabilities to every developer at no cost.
The group’s core mission is to democratize AI research and development by open sourcing training data.
The other side: Critics say that bias will deter the development of emotion-detecting AI. They argue that AI will struggle to detect the emotions of people with speech disorders, non-native English speakers and people with non-traditional sexual orientations. The implicit and explicit biases of annotators who train emotion-detecting models could prove to be a significant obstacle for LAION’s mission.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Google invests $2 billion in Anthropic
Source: Anthropic
Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the company behind the ChatGPT competitor Claude.
What you should know:
Google has invested $500 million up front and agreed to add $1.5 billion more over time.
The move comes after Amazon invested $4 billion in Anthropic last month.
Anthropic’s Claude LLM emerged as a legitimate ChatGPT competitor earlier this year. The model can summarize up to 75,000 words at once, while ChatGPT can handle about 3,000.
The big picture: Google’s investment is the latest move in an ongoing proxy war between tech giants that want partial ownership of leading AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. To this point, Anthropic has managed to hold its own despite having a smaller team and less funding than OpenAI. The company is now poised to take on OpenAI directly with over $6 billion in funding from Amazon and Google.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Three quick hits
Source: Adobe Firefly
Standing Firm: Meta’s AI research group wants to keep releasing models for free despite criticism that current models aren’t open enough.
Luxury Item: Humane’s AI Pin could cost $1,000 and require a subscription.
Governance: United Nations forms high-level board to explore international AI governance.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY