Microsoft CEO Says at Davos that the Company Plans to Flood its Products with Chat GPT [Video]

Microsoft Corp (MSFT) plans to flood its products with Chat GPT and OpenAI developments. Its CEO, Satya Nadella, firmly stated it yesterday at the World Economic Forum at Davos. Nadella said that Microsoft will be rapidly commercializing both OpenAI and Dall-E2, the AI image generator. He said the company aims to turn Azure into "the place for anybody and everybody who thinks about AI." That’s inclusive of individuals and businesses. Microsoft’s CEO explained that he was seeing tremendous economic opportunity in advancing AI tools. The software giant had already announced that it would utilize its cloud-computing platform Azure to grant AI access to a broader range of customers.

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Microsoft Corp. is considering investing $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of the viral AI tool ChatGPT, news site Semafor reported on Tuesday. This investment would be part of a funding round that would value the company at $29 billion. Other venture firms would participate in the venture. Microsoft would get a 75% share of OpenAI’s profits until it recoups its investment, after which the company would assume a 49% stake in OpenAI. Other investors would take another 49%, and OpenAI's nonprofit parent would keep 2%, The two companies have been discussing the deal for months. However, the terms could change and the deal could fall apart. A bet on ChatGPT could help Microsoft boost its efforts in web search, a market dominated by Google. Microsoft and OpenAI declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that ChatGPT was allowing employees and early investors to sell their shares at a valuation of $29 billion.   The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought: – $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b– GPT in Office, not just Bing — Pete (@nonmayorpete) January 10, 2023 Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person's voice with three seconds of sample audio (@danyal95244926 / Metaverse Post)https://t.co/Uy35WEgyrGhttps://t.co/Vzm59l7w2B — Techmeme (@Techmeme) January 10, 2023

Quora Tests Its Own Chatbot, Which Will Be Connected to More AI Agents

Question-and-answer website Quora launched this month its own AI chatbot called Poe ("Platform for Open Exploration"), following the explosion of text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT that are taking the Internet by storm at the end of this year. Poe is invite-only and currently only available on iOS. It lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have a back-and-forth dialogue. The Poe chat can talk about anything from writing, cooking, or solving problems. Quora disclosed that Poe is "designed to interact with a number of different AI agents," according to TechCrunch. ChatGPT and Google's LaMDA can be two of them. "We have learned a lot about building consumer internet products over the last 12 years building and operating Quora, and we believe much of what we’ve learned can be applied to this new domain where people are interfacing with large language models," said a spokesman of Quora. Quora seems to be training now its chatbot on its platform’s vast collection of crowdsourced questions and answers while getting feedback from beta testers and working out scalability. .

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Princeton Student Launches an App that Detects Plagiarism from ChatGPT

Princeton student Edward Tian wrote an anti-plagiarism app called GPTZero that detects texts written with AI-based ChatGPT. Entrepreneur magazine surfaced the story. Tian posted a few proof-of-concept videos on January 2nd demonstrating GPTZero's capabilities. First, it determined that a human authored a New Yorker article; then, it correctly identified ChatGPT as the author of a Facebook post. Increased AI plagiarism after the viral popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT is deeply concerning educators around the country. Tian's motivation for creating GPTZero was academic in nature. He tweeted that he thought it was unlikely that "high school teachers would want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays." According to the Guardian, OpenAI is currently working on a feature for "statistically watermarking" ChatGPT outputs. I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written — Edward Tian (@edward_the6) January 3, 2023   pic.twitter.com/psSIEvjYdq — ibleducation.com🗽 (@ibleducation) January 6, 2023

Microsoft Works to Incorporate ChatGPT Into Its Bing Search Service

Microsoft may implement the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT into its search engine Bing to answer some search queries rather than just showing a list of links like Google does, according to people with direct knowledge of the plan as The Information reported today. This launch could happen by the end of March and would help Microsoft to outflank Google. It also would allow Microsoft to get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, which provides human-like text answers to questions from users. Details are scarce on how the AI will actually be used in the Bing software. Microsoft declined to comment on this story. Experts estimate that Microsoft’s move to fuel Bing with the AI chatbot could be a game changer. • Stories about ChatGPT at IBL News

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