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What is OpenAI? What is DeepMind? What is Github Copilot? Why all the recent hype around artificial intelligence?
The euphoria around solutions such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT as well as Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode is unlike anything I’ve seen for quite a while. Here are some of the statements that are being made:
“OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the Google Search killer.”
“OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s DeepMind AlphaCode will completely change how programming is done in the future.”
What is OpenAI?
Open AI is a research/development company focused on Artificial Intelligence. “OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work — benefits all of humanity.”
There are many heavy hitters behind OpenAI. “OpenAI LP is governed by the board of the OpenAI nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI LP employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Reid Hoffman, Will Hurd, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, and Shivon Zilis. Our investors include Microsoft, Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation, and Khosla Ventures.” Big guns for sure. Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI back in 2015.
OpenAI has released the following artificial intelligence capabilities:
- ChatGPT — a trained a model which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. (released Nov 30, 2022) A list of documents and APIs can be found here… https://github.com/humanloop/awesome-chatgpt
- DALL.E 2 — AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. 3M+ users generating 4M images per day.
- Whisper — open-sourced a neural net that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition
What is Google DeepMind?
Google DeepMind is Google’s artificial intelligence subdivision based in London.
