Microsoft’s Many AI Monetization Plans
Plus: OpenAI's web crawler to train ChatGPT, AI deep fake audios get scarily realistic.
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In today’s edition:
🚀 Microsoft’s many AI monetization plans
🧠 OpenAI launches a web crawler to train ChatGPT
🎙️ AI deep fake audios are getting scarily realistic
📚 Knowledge Nugget: Understanding the Fuzzy Accuracy of Generative AI by
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Microsoft’s many AI monetization plans
Microsoft has announced new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability to bring its customer closer to the transformative power of generative AI.
Azure OpenAI Service goes global: OpenAI’s most advanced models, including GPT-4 and GPT-35-Turbo, will now be available in multiple new regions and locations.
General availability of ND H100 v5 VMs for unprecedented AI processing and scale: -It also announced general availability of the ND H100 v5 Virtual Machine series, featuring the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and low-latency networking, propelling businesses into a new era of AI applications.
Why does it matter?
These enhancements will allow more customers to leverage the capabilities of generative AI, driving innovation and transformation across various industries. It will also empower their businesses with greater computational power with significantly faster AI model performance.
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OpenAI launches a web crawler to train ChatGPT
Called GPTBot, the crawler will comb through the internet to train and enhance AI's capabilities. It can be identified by the following user agent and string.
Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to remove sources that require paywall access, are known to gather personally identifiable information (PII), or have text that violates our policies.
Moreover, OpenAI also revealed how websites can prevent GPTBot from accessing their sites, either partially or by opting out entirely.
Why does it matter?
GPTBot can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety. However, OpenAI has often landed in hot waters for how it collects data. Blocking the GPTBot may be OpenAI’s first step to allow internet users to opt out of having their data used for training its LLMs.
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AI deep fake audios are getting scarily realistic
Speech deepfakes are artificial voices generated by AI models. While studies investigating human detection capabilities are limited, a new experiment presented genuine and deep fake audio to individuals and asked them to identify the deep fakes. Listeners could correctly spot the deep fakes only 73% of the time.
The experiment was done in English and Mandarin to understand if language affects detection performance and decision-making rationale. However, there was no difference in detectability between the two languages.
Why does this matter?
As speech synthesis AI systems improve, it will become more difficult for humans to catch speech deepfakes. The study suggests the need for automated detectors to mitigate a human listener’s weaknesses. It also emphasizes that expanding fact-checking and detecting tools is a significant way to protect against deep fake threats by AI.
Knowledge Nugget: Understanding the Fuzzy Accuracy of Generative AI
Erroneous results from ChatGPT seem to be leading many scholars and pundits to dismiss it as useless or even dangerous. That might make sense at first glance, but only if we see it as just another type of search engine.
In this article,
suggests if you focus solely on its errors, you need to think about it in a different way. The article discusses in detail how chatbots are different from search engines (even though they seem similar). It also points out why tools like ChatGPT were not intended to be used as search engines and what exactly makes them revolutionary.Why does this matter?
In an era when we are racing to adopt generative AI, understanding the usefulness of models like ChatGPT despite their tendency to hallucinate sometimes requires examining how they work during these instances and why.
What Else Is Happening❗
🔍Google Search can now check your grammar, leveraging AI behind the scenes (Link)
🧠Cognizant has produced 3,000+ generative AI ideas with hundreds of projects using AI (Link)
🌐Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat is coming to third-party browsers on web and mobile (Link)
🔁Runway’s new update makes it simpler to switch between Text to Video and Image to Video modes (Link)
👋Microsoft is shutting down Cortana in Windows to focus on advanced AI capabilities (Link)
😁 Tickle Tuesday
It has been a while since ChatGPT’s debut. But we are still unraveling its true impact on work, business, creativity, and our lives, both excited and frightened about the transformative future that awaits.
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