Top Generative AI Stories This Week - Microsoft 365 Copilot, GPT-4, South Park, and More
A busy week, we had to cut some good stories, but these are all big
The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 16, 2023, required some tough decisions. So much happened this week that we zeroed in on the biggest stories and how they will shape the market. We might get to some of the others, like Midjourney 5, next week. In this episode, Bret Kinsella hosts along with Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative AI land this week include:
Generative AI for Knowledge Workers
Microsoft 365 Copilot: A natural language assistant that is a system and not just a bunch of bolt-on LLM features. Can it live up to the ambition? It’s definitely impressive.
Google Workspace: Some generative AI features are coming to Google Docs and Gmail. Still closed access and little detail, but an official signal about new features. Also, the approach is, today, far less ambitious than Microsoft's.
The Long Wait is Over
GPT-4 is Here: The much-hyped and long-awaited GPT-4 launch finally arrived. It is multimodal with a vision input element, but that is not widely available. However, the output quality is clearly better, OpenAI claims that factuality is higher and hallucinations rarer, and the context window quadrupled.
ChatGPT Contenders Take a Step Forward
Anthropic Claude: The ChatGPT competitor was formally announced. However, there is still a waitlist!
Quora to Monetize Poe: Quora might face an existential crisis as answers become easier to find with ChatGPT, Perplexity, and the New Bing. However, Poe doesn’t rely on one LLM. It allows the user to access many. And Quora is charging for access.
LLMs and Popular Culture
ChatGPT on South Park: The latest South Park episode featured ChatGPT. When new technology starts showing up in iconic popular culture venues, something important is happening. Plus, this is just funny.
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