Generative AI News - Charles Barkley Deepfake, Elon Musk, Hugging Face and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 315

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 13, 2023,
included some breaking news on Amazon Bedrock, the new service
competing directly with OpenAI and Microsoft’s Azure AI services.
We also discussed Twitter’s generative AI ambitions, HuggingGPT,
a positive generative AI launch from MailChimp and a lackluster
implementation by Expedia, OpenAI’s bug bounty, the Italy ChatGPT
saga, a deepfake of Charles Barkley, Alibab’s everything AI bot,
and a bit more.


Bret Kinsella (that’s me) hosted again this week with my
Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz. The top stories in
generative AI land this week include:
Amazon Takes on OpenAI & Microsoft



A multivendor Bedrock approach: Amazon
Bedrock now offers easy access to many generative AI models,
including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Titan.




Copilot gets a competitor:
Amazon’s CodeWhisperer, a text-to-code generator, is now
general availability and free. GitHub Copilot may have a
market share lead with 400,000 paying subscribers, but free
is a good way to accumulate users.


Elon Musk Goes Shopping



Twitter and Generative AI: Elon Musk has
reportedly purchased 10,000 GPUs after he was out
recruiting some well-known AI researchers. So, why did he
want OpenAI and others to pause their AI research? We’ll see.
Musk may want Twitter to be an “everything app,” and
generative AI would be a key element. Or, he may just want
advertisers to have a useful feature.


HuggingGPT and Multi-Model Systems



Microsoft’s latest take on hybrid AI:
Microsoft researchers released a paper and a GitHub
repository with a new multi-model LLM controller
(orchestrator) that can govern access to a variety of AI
models for a single interface called HuggingGPT. We will
see more of these multi-model services.


MailChimp Gets AI Copywriter



Building on the core product: MailChimp
added AI writing capabilities via an OpenAI integration. It
looks like a clean, on-point generative AI feature. There is
no extra cost for the feature right now, but at what point
will the companies start passing along the model inference
costs to users?


Expedia Misses the Plot



Generating misperception: Expedia also
announced some new generative AI features, but it actually
only enables you to learn more about hotels and activities.
You can’t actually book a flight or hotel even though the
press release language was cleverly written to suggest there
is more there than travel review search. Speaking of search,
the new GPT-4-powered Bing not only does a better job of trip
planning and research, but it also enables you to book a
flight and hotel.


Alibaba Goes for Everything



A generative cornucopia:
Alibaba announced its new generative AI solution. The
ChatGPT competitor is called Tongyi Qianwen. It is integrated
into the Tmall Genie assistant (i.e., Alibaba’s voice
assistant), takes meeting notes, writes emails, and creates
business documents. It can also help you shop and the company
says it supports both Chinese and English.


OpenAI Bug$ Out



Crowdsourcing security vulnerabilities:
OpenAI launched a new Bug Bounty program which will
pay out between $200 - $20,000 to developers that find
“vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws.” This follows
OpenAI’s highly publicized security vulnerability and
subsequent investigations by privacy regulators in Italy
and Canada.


FanDuel Goes Deep



A young Charles Barkley pitches sports
gambling: FanDuel has a new commercial that includes
a real-life Charles Barkley and a deepfake of his
younger self. Deepfakes are becoming mainstream. Or, maybe
they already are.




The show was originally broadcast live on YouTube and LinkedIn,
and we also added it to the Voicebot Podcast for your
convenience. You can see the video here on YouTube.