Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, stated out loud what many in Silicon Valley should have been whispering for weeks: an open-source free-for-all is threatening Big Tech’s grip on AI.
New open-source massive language fashions—alternate options to Google’s Bard or OpenAI’s ChatGPT that researchers and app builders can research, construct on, and modify—are dropping like sweet from a piñata. These are smaller, cheaper variations of the best-in-class AI fashions created by the large corporations that (virtually) match them in efficiency—they usually’re shared without spending a dime.
In some ways, that’s factor. AI will not thrive if only a few mega-rich corporations get to gatekeep this know-how or determine how it’s used. But this open-source growth is precarious, and if Big Tech decides to close up store, a boomtown might grow to be a backwater. Read the total story.
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That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI
Everything about life within the AI period is a bit complicated and peculiar. Nowhere has this been extra obvious than at Google I/O, the corporate’s annual convention showcasing what it’s been engaged on—and this 12 months’s present was all about AI.
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai stepped on stage earlier this week, he launched straight into the methods AI is in all the things the corporate does now, making it fairly clear that AI itself now’s the core product, or no less than, the spine of it.
Mat Honan, our editor in chief, went to look at the Big Google AI Show. Despite the impressive-looking demos, finally he left with a deep sense of unease. Read his story to seek out out why.