Last month in AI: April 2023 roundup 👩💻
The year 2023 marks the onset of a new era in AI, set to make significant strides.
The month of April was like a supernova explosion, illuminating the path towards a future where machines will be our partners in innovation.
Let's get into the highlights from the month of April:
🗓️ 1st April, '23:
🦾 AGI is here: AutoGPT's launch leaves everyone stunned
AutoGPT is an open-source tool based on GPT-4 that can access the internet and GPT-4 instances for text generation.
It chains together LLM "thoughts" to achieve a set goal autonomously, making it one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously.
This could be a significant step towards building autonomous AI systems.
🗓️ 3rd April, '23
📋 Stanford releases the 2023 AI index report
Stanford University's 2023 AI Index report covers technical advancements, ethics, education, policy trends, and economic impact.
The report includes new analysis on foundation models, training costs, environmental impact, K-12 AI education, public opinion trends, and policy developments in 100 countries.
The report highlights the industry's lead in developing large AI models, marking a shift from academia.
🗓️ 8th April - 10th April, '23:
🇨🇳 Chinese tech giants enter generative AI
Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Huawei are set to launch generative AI chatbots to satisfy the high demand for ChatGPT in the country.
Alibaba's research institute, DAMO Academy, is reportedly working on integrating the technology into its Tmall Genie smart speaker.
🗓️ 13th April, '23:
🤳 Bing on Android via Microsoft's SwiftKey
Microsoft has introduced the Bing chatbot to its SwiftKey keyboard for Android, allowing users to chat with Bing on any app that uses SwiftKey.
The new feature is available to SwiftKey beta users and lets users search the web and rewrite any text within the keyboard.
The update is only available for Android users.
🗓️ 17th April, '23:
🚀 Sundar Pichai on developments in AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke about the urgency to deploy AI in a beneficial way while ensuring that it's not deployed wrongly in an interview with 60 Minutes.
The interviewer, Scott Pelley, also discussed how Google's "Don't be evil" motto has evolved and adapted to the AI era.
🗓️ 19th April, '23:
🪢 StableLM: Stability AI's latest launch
Startup Stability AI launched StableLM, an open-source language model suite consisting of models with 3-7 billion parameters, which can generate text and code and perform well in conversational and coding tasks.
The fine-tuned models are for research use only, and the suite is available on GitHub. Stability AI is also developing crowd-sourced programs and open-source datasets.
🗓️ 20th April, '23:
🧠 Google DeepMind: merging AI research teams
Google and DeepMind have merged their AI teams, Google Brain and DeepMind, to accelerate their AI progress and develop more capable and safe AI systems.
The merger is seen as an effort to counter emerging competition and develop ChatGPT competitor, "Gemini".
🗓️ 24th April, '23:
🇷🇺 Move over ChatGPT, GigaChat speaks Russian
Sberbank, Russia's biggest bank, has developed GigaChat, a chatbot technology that can communicate intelligently in Russian, aimed at reducing the country's reliance on foreign markets.
The technology is said to rival Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, and other chatbots developed by China's Baidu and Alibaba.
🗓️ 30th April, '23:
🇮🇹 ChatGPT Italy ban lifted after changes
OpenAI's ChatGPT has been reinstated in Italy after being temporarily banned due to privacy concerns.
The maker has addressed the issues, including age verification for Italian users and a new form for EU users to object to personal data use.
Garante welcomed the measures but called for more compliance. ChatGPT has been used by millions since launch and was recently added to Bing.
🗓️1st May, '23:
🤯 Hinton quits Google, talks AI perils
Geoffrey Hinton, the AI pioneer and key figure in developing generative AI technology, has resigned from Google over concerns about the potential dangers of AI.
Hinton warned that the technology could be used for disinformation campaigns and may pose a risk to humanity.
Despite acknowledging its benefits, he expressed regret for his life's work, but consoled himself with the idea that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
As we welcome May, we can't help but wonder what groundbreaking developments in AI this month will bring.
Just like April, we may be in for a rollercoaster ride of innovations, controversies, and surprises.
The future is always uncertain, but with each passing day, we're getting closer to something extraordinary in the world of AI.
Let's buckle up and see where May takes us!
Read the March 2023 roundup here!