Generative AI News Rundown - ChatGPT, Google Rumors, Elon Musk, Zoom, Coke and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 311

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 30, 2023, had
controversy, competition, Coca-Cola, and more. Is there a more
dynamic market right now than generative AI? I don’t think so.


This week’s show is hosted by Bret Kinsella with
guests Silke Hahn, technology editor at Heise Online,
and Eric Schwartz, head writer at Voicebot.ai. The top
stories in generative AI land this week include:
Musk Wants to Slow Down AI



The Letter: A letter from the
Future of Life Institue signed by Elon Musk, Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak, Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque, and 17k
others called for a six-month moratorium on “the training of
AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” But maybe this isn’t an
entirely altruistic activity.


Google Rumors and More Issues



Haunted by ChatGPT:
Google rumors pointed to the company using ChatGPT
data in Bard training and efforts to combine
DeepMind brains and Google AI team brains to catch up with
OpenAI’s chatbot. The headlines don’t tell the real story.


OpenAI Declares War and Defends the Citadel



ChatGPT Plugins: OpenAI is
adding plugins to ChatGPT. This puts everyone on
notice that OpenAI is now an end-user application product
provider and an AI model provider.




ChatGPT Security: A serious
ChatGPT security vulnerability was discovered by a
security researcher and promptly patched by OpenAI. There is
a bigger story here.


Perplexity AI Lands Funding



Conversational search wars: It’s not cheap
to compete in the search business. Perplexity AI just
raised $25.6 million to challenge Bing Chat and
Google Bard for conversational search market share.


Stanford Finds Its LLiMit



Alpaca sent packing: Stanford University
launched a web demo of its Alpaca generative AI
model based on Meta’s LLaMA model and trained using
ChatGPT-generated data. It was shut down in just a couple of
days due to safety and cost concerns.


Zoom Goes Generative



From video to smart companion: Zoom IQ is
adding new generative AI features to extend the
value of video conferencing beyond the meeting.


Coke Tapping into DALL-E Magic



New (Coke) custom OpenAI model: Coca-Cola
has a new marketing campaign that asks artists to create
Coke-themed imagery using a custom implementation
of DALL-E.




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and we also added it to the Voicebot Podcast for your
convenience.