Following Microsoft, global tech giants have started announcing how they will implement artificial intelligence like ChatGPT into their global platforms and applications, with the latest plans being with YouTube.
Here’s a roundup of how the world’s biggest tech companies plan to surf the AI wave:
Microsoft
Microsoft has been at the forefront of pushing generative AI to consumers and has pledged to pump billions of dollars into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
The Windows maker is testing the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3 technology in a beefed-up Bing search engine, with plans to add the tool to the easily accessible Windows 11 taskbar.
Microsoft is also planning to add GPT-3 to its Office suite, which includes Word as well as the Edge browser. The rollouts guarantee maximum exposure to the technology despite controversy about AI’s readiness for the general public.
Media reports of the chat technology surfaced shortly after the Bing integration was introduced.
The Redmond, Washington-based company later made some changes to the program, but largely stuck with it.
Google
Sensing pressure from Microsoft, Google in February unveiled Bard, a ChatGPT-like conversational robot powered by its own large language model called LaMDA.
The California-based dev said it is underpinning Microsoft’s more aggressive push to facilitate testing and “ensure that Bard’s responses meet a high standard for quality” on LaMDA’s smaller scale. Working with version .
Google has said that AI-powered features will soon be introduced to its world-dominating search engine, though it’s unclear exactly how and when.
“It is important that we bring the experiences embedded in these models to the world in a bold and responsible way,” said CEO Sundar Pichai.
At Google-owned YouTube, new CEO Neal Mohan said creators will soon be offered opportunities to “tell stories and increase their production value.”
But YouTube was taking time to thoughtfully develop these features, he added.
Meta
Meta has so far taken a more cautious approach, at least publicly, to ChatGPT-style AI for its key social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on February 27 that his company is creating a product group to come up with ways to “turbocharge” the company’s operations.
However, he cautioned that there was much “fundamental” work to be done.
Meta also announced a larger language model called LLAMA, which will be made available to researchers as an open source tool, unlike ChatGPT whose technology is confidential.
The company describes LLAMA as smaller than competing AI models so that researchers with more modest computing power can advance their work.
Snapchat
The platform popular among teenagers said it will introduce a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Initially available to subscribers, the “MyAI” tab will allow users to interact with the chatbot, as if it were a friend.
Given the younger audience, Snapchat’s chatbot will be more limited than ChatGPT. Requests to write school essays or remove inappropriate material will be more strictly controlled.
Shopify, the retailer platform, is also turning to ChatGPT for a consumer app.
Baidu
Chinese Internet search company Baidu said on February 7 that its own ChatGPT rival ErnieBot could be released as early as March, aiming to make it a suite of services ranging from search and cloud computing to autonomous driving. To be used in array.
A day after Baidu’s announcement, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said it was also testing a ChatGPT-like service through its research arm.
Musk
Tesla and SpaceX tycoon Elon Musk, who also owns Twitter, is said to be considering a chatbot that would do away with filters on ChatGPT that he says are too politically sensitive. are correct
According to JEE News, Musk has approached researchers in recent weeks about building a new research lab that would compete with OpenAI, a company in which he was an early investor before it was sold.
