AI roundup #6 👩‍💻

🦾 AGI is here: AutoGPT leaves everyone stunned

AutoGPT is an open-source tool based on OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-4.

This is an experiment that aims to make the program autonomous and has been trending on Github as it showcases the capability of GPT-4 like never before.

This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.

Source: Github

AutoGPT can access:

• the internet for gathering information,  
• popular websites & platforms, and
• GPT-4 instances for text generation.

Along with the file storage and summarization capabilities (built on the GPT-3.5 model), it also has long & short term memory.

This is truly the closest we've been to AGI; building autonomous AI systems would disrupt everything we've known to date.

Sources: Mint, Marktechpost

🧬 X.AI: Musk's AI interests unveiled

On March 9th, 2023, Musk incorporated a business in Nevada under the name "X.AI Corp."

With Twitter Inc. now being "X Corp", it can be assumed that all of Musk's moves, including founding a new AI company and merging it with Twitter Inc., are aimed at bringing the "everything app" to life.

In the recent past, Elon Musk reportedly purchased thousands of GPUs, and also signed a letter calling for a pause on developments in AI for 6 months.

Sources: The Verge, The Wall Street Journal

🔎 Magi: Google's AI powered search engine

Samsung's consideration to replace the Google search engine with Microsoft's Bing on all its devices has fueled Google to join the AI bandwagon.

An estimated $3 billion in annual revenue was at stake with the Samsung contract. An additional $20 billion is tied to a similar Apple contract that will be up for renewal this year.

Source: New York Times

Google's search business was untouched for 25 years, but AI is here to disrupt it.

Competitors in the AI niche have put Google in a 'panic' mode and this has led to a fast paced development of an all new AI powered search engine.

An AI powered search engine would help users have a much more personalized experience.

This is an attempt from Google to retain itself as the default search engine across most devices.

Sources: New York Times, PYMNTS

📰 Kuwait's AI Journalist

Kuwait News introduced their AI news presenter, Fedha, on Twitter.

The deputy editor-in-chief states that Fedha is a step towards exploring AI's potential to create "new & innovative content."

I'm Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News," the blonde-haired AI-generated anchor said in Arabic during her first Twitter broadcast, as translated into English by the AFP. "What kind of news do you prefer? Let's hear your opinions.

There were mixed reactions to Fedha, where the ethics of journalism & safety of AI is being questioned.

AI's got to journalism, what's next?

Sources: Futurism, EuroNews

🚀 Sundar Pichai on developments in AI

In an interview with 60minutes, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai shared his thoughts on AI.

When asked about what concerns him about AI, he said:

The urgency to work and deploy it in a beneficial way, but at the same time it can be very harmful if deployed wrongly.

Scott Pelley, the interviewer, while talking to the 50-year old; CEO of Alphabet Inc. & Google touched upon multiple other topics like how Google's "Don't be evil" motto has evolved and adapted to the AI era.

Sources: CNBC, Money Control

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