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AWS (Amazon Web Services) announced an expansion of its partnership with IA startup Hugging Face Inc., which is developing a ChatGPT rival. As a result of it, AWS will make Hugging Face’s products available to cloud customers. Hugging face plans to build a language model BLOOM on AWS.

The companies didn’t disclose the financial details of the partnership, but Amazon said it didn’t invest in the startup.

“Hugging Face and AWS are making it easier for customers to access popular machine learning models to create their own generative AI applications with the highest performance and lowest costs,” said Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS in a blog post.

Hugging Face, which makes AI products and hosts those developed by other companies, is working on open-source rivals to ChatGPT and will use AWS for that as well. It currently features a central hub for machine learning, with 100,000 free and accessible machine learning models downloaded by researchers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers.

AWS already has partnerships with Stability AI, the maker of image-generation tool Stable Diffusion — a competitor to OpenAI’s Dall-E — and Israeli AI company AI21 Labs, which makes another rival to OpenAI’s GPT language model called Jurassic.

Hugging Face’s BLOOM was trained on a French publicly available supercomputer called Jean Zay. Last year, it raised $100 million from investors including Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Coatue Management, as well as basketball star Kevin Durant. The company’s repository of AI models serves as a kind of GitHub of machine-learning tools.

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The Swiss boarding school Institut auf dem Rosenberg, one of the world’s most expensive schools, with a tuition of $162,500 per year, is encouraging students to use AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and text-to-image generators DALL·E. 

Anita Gademann, Rosenberg’s Director and Head of innovation, said to Insider that banning ChatGPT is “mass hysteria” and “students need to be taught the ethics of AI.”

“We are very determined to ensure that whatever we teach our students is relevant for them, and relevant for the world they’re going to go into in the future,” she said.

Gademann says students — reportedly sons of German billionaires — are taught to use AI “as a tool.”

Seventh-graders used it for a History project to visualize the Middle Ages, and the “discrepancies between nobility and peasants.” Another student used DALL·E to generate pictures in an essay about the role of women in the First World War.

Gademann says teachers know if a student has plagiarized an essay because they’re familiar with their writing styles and any shortcomings. “I know the name and aim and objective of every single one of my 230 kids. I make it my business to know this.”

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From CEOs to coders, employees are experimenting with the so-called generative AI programs — namely, ChatGPT — that produce writing, images, coding, and art much like humans do.

Yesterday, an article in The Wall Street Journal claimed that “ChatGPT’s release sparked a rush of early adopters eager to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind.” 

Applications like ChatGPt and image-generators like Midjourney are prompting individuals and businesses to see if they can automate laborious tasks or speed up creative processes.

Larger corporations are on notice that such generative AI tools could soon shake up their industries.

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OpenAI has made accessing its ChatGPT much easier by pointing out into it its recently acquired domain AI.com.

This domain was acquired in 2021 but did not resolve until this week, as Mashable.com reported yesterday.

According to Mashable, OpenAI reportedly paid millions for this domain, though OpenAI did not confirm that it

However, OpenAI didn’t confirm it was the owner.

An expert said that a domain like AI would go for over $10 million in today’s market, and prior to the acquisition, AI.com was listed at a public asking price of $11 million.

Two-letter .com domain names are considered to be the most valuable in the industry, as only 676 possible combinations exist and they have all been long registered.

Last year’s top two-letter domain sale, IT.com, was acquired for $3.8 million.

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Sam Altman, CEO at Open AI [in the picture, along with Microsoft CEO), addressed yesterday the controversial topic of ethics of AI and how these systems should behave. He advocated for “less biased defaults, lots of user customization within very broad bounds, and public input on bounds and defaults.”

In a blog post titled “How should AI systems behave, and who should decide” published on the OpenAI’s website, the company insisted that “our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.”

“Improving our methods for aligning AI systems with human values is a top priority for our company, particularly as AI systems become more capable.”

“Unlike ordinary software, our models are massive neural networks; their behaviors are learned from a broad range of data, not programmed explicitly.”

Regarding the cultural war and political bias of ChatGPT, OpenAI shared a portion of our guidelines that pertain to controversial topics. “Our guidelines are explicit that reviewers should not favor any political group.”

OpenAI also said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customize as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence.

The San Francisco-based startup, which Microsoft Corp has funded and used to power its latest technology, said it has worked to mitigate political and other biases but also wanted to accommodate more diverse views.

our current thoughts on hard questions about how AI systems should behave:

1) less biased defaults, 2) lots of user customization within very broad bounds, 3) public input on bounds and defaultshttps://t.co/zQLedpAGeF

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 16, 2023

i think AI is going to be the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 13, 2023

3 cool examples of ChatGPT usage in the past week:

1) friend’s kid using it to help write better stories

2) me using it to learn about genetics

3) a guy emailed to say he’s using it to help run his one-man small business—help with marketing, data entry, customer support, etc

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 12, 2023

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Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, declared that at “ChatGPT is one of the greatest things ever created in the computing industry.”

“What OpenAI has done, what the team over there has done, genuinely is one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing. We have democratized computing in a very, very large way, and so I am very, very excited about that.”

Responding to a student’s inquiry during the Q&A session in Berkeley Haas University in California, earlier this month, described the new software as a “very, very big deal.” 

“It can write a poem, it could fill out a spreadsheet, it can write a SQL query and do a SQL query, it can write python code, it can write. And if it can’t do it today, of course it will be able to do it someday,” he added.

“For a lot of people who have been working on this, we have been waiting for this moment. This is the iPhone moment, if you will, of artificial intelligence. This is the time when all of the big ideas about mobile computing and all that, it all came together in a product.”

Huang acknowledged that ChatGPT’s impact is yet to be felt by the rest of the world.

“Now the question is, how is it gonna impact healthcare? How’s it gonna impact transportation? How’s it gonna impact retail, logistics? How’s it gonna impact manufacturing? The other trillion hundred dollar industry that is today, largely not served by technology. Computing industry is tiny compared to the world’s industry. And so we could do something now.”

As an example of generative AI, ChatGPT generates human-like content based on input data. Another example is OpenAI’s own DALL-E 2, which creates realistic images from even the most bizarre text descriptions.

Nvidia is considered one of the biggest beneficiaries of ChatGPT’s technology. Already focused on graphics processing units used in video games, video editing, and machine learning, the Silicon Valley company now leads the world in chipmaking for AI and its wide-ranging applications.

Huang, 59, who co-founded chipmaker Nvidia in 1993, has seen his net worth balloon to $18.9 billion, making him the largest gainer among U.S. billionaires so far this year.

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Can ChatGPT really improve education? Or is it a threat that should be banned??

A professor at the UCLA School of Law explained in an article in Scientific American why he is allowing students to incorporate into their writing process ChatGPT, which can produce clear, long-form answers to complex questions.