Correct Answer : Option (C) - Gemini

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) on Wednesday (6th Dec 2023) introduced its most advanced artificial intelligence model, a technology capable of crunching different forms of information such as video, audio and text.

* Called Gemini, the Google owner's highly anticipated AI model is capable of more sophisticated reasoning and understanding information with a greater degree of nuance than Google's prior technology, the company said.

* "This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.

* Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT roughly a year ago, Google has been racing to produce AI software that rivals what the Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed company has introduced.

* Google added a portion of the new Gemini model technology to its AI assistant Bard on Wednesday (6th Dec 2023), and said it planned to release its most advanced version of Gemini through Bard early next year.

* Alphabet said it is making three versions of Gemini, each of which is designed to use a different amount of processing power. The most powerful version is designed to run in data centers, and the smallest will run efficiently on mobile devices, the company said.

* Gemini is the largest AI model that the company's Google DeepMind AI unit has helped make, but it is "significantly" cheaper to serve to users than the company's prior, larger models, DeepMind Vice President, Product Eli Collins told reporters.

* "So it's not just more capable, it's also far more efficient," Collins said. The latest model still requires a substantial amount of computing power to train, but Google is improving on its process, he added.

* Alphabet also announced a new generation of its custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs). The Cloud TPU v5p is designed to train large AI models, and is stitched together in pods of 8,960 chips.

* The new version of its customer processors can train large language models nearly three times as fast as prior generations. The new chips are available for developers in "preview" as of Wednesday, the company said..

Source : Reuters

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Inflection AI Inc

Inflection AI, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has released its first AI chatbot product, the company said on Tuesday (2nd May 2023).

* Similar to OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT, Inflection’s chatbot, named "Pi", uses generative AI technology to interact with users through dialogues, in which people can ask questions and share feedback.

* Mr Suleyman, Inflection AI’s chief executive, said the start-up developed the technology in-house and its Pi chatbot was built on prioritising human-like conversations with a high level of emotional intelligence, including being kind and supportive.

* The chatbot is suitable for personal day-to-day tasks but not for generating codes or essays, he added.

* Mr Suleyman said the company had also spent time on boundary training to make sure the AI did not violate its behaviour policies, including engaging in romantic conversations.

* The goal is to make sure that the AI always knows it’s an AI and never tries to imitate a human. So it reminds the human user that it is an AI frequently.

* Users can interact with Pi across platforms including its website, app and social media platforms such as Instagram. The service is free, and the start-up may launch premium subscriptions in the future, Mr Suleyman added.

* Pi draws on user data, including conversational content, to train its AI systems, according to its terms of service. The chatbot is not currently connected to the Internet.

* Founded in 2022, Inflection was incubated by venture capital firm Greylock, which led a US$225 million (S$300 million) investment in the start-up.

* Co-founder Hoffman, a partner at Greylock who is also a Microsoft board member, resigned from OpenAI’s board in March, citing potential conflicts due to his work with AI start-ups.

Source : Straits Times

Correct Answer : Option (C) - DALL-E

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has a new artificial intelligence-powered image creator tool. It is called the "Bing Image Creator" which is powered by the advanced version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model DALL.E.

* Bing Image Creator allows users to create an image using text prompt. This means that from within the same chat, users can generate both text and image content.

* By typing in a description of an image, providing additional context like location or activity, and choosing an art style, Image Creator will generate an image from your own imagination. It’s like your creative copilot.

* The feature is out to Bing users in preview and can be accessed through the search engine’s Creative Mode. Microsoft plans on rolling out the feature to Balanced and Precise modes in Bing in future. The feature will also be available in Edge sidebar.

* Microsoft is also making Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0 available for all Bing users to meet the demand for more visual search options.

* Stories are AI-generated images and short videos (like Instagram Stories) and Knowledge Cards offers facts and key information in the form of AI-powered infographics.

* The new version of Knowledge Cards includes interactive and dynamic content like charts, graphs, visual stories, and timelimes.

* Microsoft has also added guardrails to the feature to ensure responsible use of Image Creator. As per Microsoft, system can automatically detect potentially harmful image that could be generated by a prompt.

* In such cases, the prompt is blocked and a warning message is displayed to the user. All images created by Image Creator will include modified Bing icon to indicate that it is an AI-generated image..

Source : Tech Circle