Baidu’s Ernie 3.5 beats ChatGPT
Plus: Unity's game-changing AI products, Google Deepmind's AI to rival ChatGPT.
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Welcome to the 51st edition of The AI Edge newsletter. This edition brings you Baidu’s latest release of Ernie, which beat ChatGPT on multiple metrics.
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In today’s edition:
🚀 Baidu’s Ernie 3.5 beat ChatGPT on multiple metrics
⚡️ Unity's game-changing AI products for game development
🎯 Google DeepMind's upcoming chatbot set to rival ChatGPT
📚 Knowledge Nugget: Autonomous agents and the next managerial revolution by
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Baidu’s Ernie 3.5 beats ChatGPT on multiple metrics
Baidu said its latest version of the Ernie AI model, Ernie 3.5, surpassed ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores and outperformed GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities. The model comes with better training and inference efficiency, which positions it for faster and cheaper iterations in the future. Plus, it would support external plugins.
The statement from Baidu, China’s first big tech company to debut an AI product to rival ChatGPT, came in response to a test conducted by China Science Daily (a state newspaper). The datasets used in the test serve as benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI models.
Why does this matter?
The focus on Baidu’s advancements underscores the intense competition in the generative AI domain, with technology giants in the U.S. and China rapidly advancing developments. Will this induce a flurry of AI innovations and maybe even dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Either way, the AI landscape seems to be getting increasingly better with exciting developments.
Unity's game-changing AI products for game development
Unity AI announced 3 game-changing AI products:
Unity Muse: Text-to-3D-application inside games.
Unity Sentis: It lets you embed any AI model into your game/application.
AI marketplace: Developers can tap into a selection of AI solutions to build games.
Plus, they curated a collection of solutions for AI-driven game development and gameplay enhancements. Check it out here!
Why does this matter?
Generative AI opens up possibilities for both game creators and players, allowing for game customization and personalization like never before. Unity envisions itself as a central player in this transformative revolution!
Google DeepMind's upcoming chatbot set to rival ChatGPT
DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab, claims its next large language model will rival OpenAI’s. It is using techniques from AlphaGo to make a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot called Gemini. AlphaGo is DeepMind’s AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player at the board game Go.
Gemini will also leverage innovations in reinforcement learning to accomplish tasks with which today’s language models struggle. At a high level, Gemini combines some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the language capabilities of the large models to give the system new capabilities such as planning, the ability to solve problems, and analyzing.
Why does this matter?
This may be Google’s bid to beat ChatGPT and other generative AI technology. But a big challenge for language models is to interact with the internet and computers more autonomously, and DeepMind appears to be working on that with Gemini. Overcoming it would enhance a model's capacity to gather information, perform tasks, and provide more comprehensive and detailed responses.
Knowledge Nugget: Autonomous agents and the next managerial revolution
When AI “takes our jobs”, it will be a paradigm shift that gives every individual the opportunity to become managers. Hence the title of this post.
With a focus on startups,
talks about how the penetration of autonomous agents, like AutoGPT, will result in a great promotion of all individuals from task monkeys to managers. The article also discusses in detail the autonomous agents' space today, its upside, limitations, and use cases.Why does this matter?
While AI has the potential to bring about such a revolution, it is not without shortcomings, such as hallucinations, lack of creativity or originality, etc. The article deep dives into these shortcomings and how they can be overcome. Plus, it gives unique insights into the markets/demand in AI and can help engineer agents that achieve the level of reliability, security, personalization, etc., necessary for widespread adoption.
What Else Is Happening❗
🎥 Zeroscope unveils mind-blowing Zero-to-Video transformation. (Link)
🤖 OpenAI planning to turn ChatGPT into a "Supersmart personal assistant" (Link)
💡 NVIDIA H100 GPUs Redefine Generative AI in MLPerf Benchmark Debut! (Link)
❄️ Snowflake’s another GenAI push! Reveals LLM-driven Document AI and more. (Link)
🌐 Amazon launches AWS AppFabric, Propelling SaaS App Connectivity to New Heights (Link)
🌌 Reka emerges, pioneering custom AI models for enterprises (Link)
👓 Brilliant Labs Introduces Open-Source AR lens, puts AI in your vision! (Link)
🛠️ Trending Tools
VC Sheet: GPT loaded with 50k VC websites & profiles. Categorized investment focus, and created search embeddings.
Ambient: AI Chief of Staff - summarizes business updates from various systems, delivering in a single newsfeed for seamless understanding.
Artemis AI: Personalized bedtime stories by AI - choose a hero, setting, and moral for magical adventures.
Formularizer: AI assistant - generates and explains formulas in Excel, Google Sheets, and Notion, supports scripting and Regular Expressions.
Magu: AI-powered scam SMS and link detection with end-to-end encryption for ultimate privacy.
AI QR code generator: Create artistic AI QR codes that scan, free to use with tracking scans and edit options.
Unity Muse: Next-gen AI for a lightning-fast game and 3D experience development with simple text-based prompts.
Nevermined: Tokengate assets with time-based conditions, and generate smart subscriptions for AI and data access.
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