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• OpenAI publishes new research

• Bard gets a fresh update

• Runway is rolling in fresh cash

• Another AI Godfather is wary of AI’s future

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CHATGPT PICKS SOME LOW-HANGING FRUIT

Sam Altman told us all that GPT-4 is the company’s focus right now, because there’s a lot of easy improvements they can make to this model. Yesterday, they announced the first development in that effort.

The goal is to limit hallucinations in Large Language Models through a new form of supervision.

The result is a GPT-4 model that’s better at solving math problems without the Wolfram plugin attached.

What exactly did they do? Let’s break it down.

To train a neural network on data you need to offer it a reward. When DeepMind trained models on games like Brick the reward was obvious: the points you get from scoring in the game.

Training a Large Language Model to do what it does for ChatGPT is a more complex reward system, but one thing never changed and that was where in the process they gave the feedback/reward.

What we’re talking about is Outcome Supervision versus Process Supervision.

It turns out Process Supervision shows a lot of promise for getting a model to reflect on it’s chain of thought and work towards eliminating hallucinations in its output.

How? It’s the same thing your math teacher made you do to learn complex formulas. OpenAI is making LLMs show their work and giving it feedback at every stage of the process.

The trade off is obvious. More feedback means more human labeling. But the potential for Process Supervision is significant.

You may notice that ChatGPT can fall flat sometimes when given certain prompts. Some times this drop in performance is from something called an “alignment tax.”

In order to get the model to behave and align to our values, it requires a drop in output.

OpenAI’s research in Process Supervision shows a negative alignment tax for math problem solving. That’s incredible and means we can better align models in the future without losing performance.

The company has not fine-tuned ChatGPT with this method, but that will come.

Regardless, it’s refreshing to see this company publish some new stuff and remind us that the best is yet to come.

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GOOGLE PUTS BARD ON THE SAME TRACK AS CHATGPT

Bard is running behind in this race.

ChatGPT is in the lead even though it’s giving Bing Chat a piggyback ride and Claude managed to find some more energy with its new 100K context window. But Bard is running behind, it’s no longer crawling.

Google announced a new set of updates that should get everyone excited. And I mean everyone. No more waitlist across 180+ countries.

But the real meat of the new update is in images and apps.

Remember when OpenAI promised that we’d be able to upload images as part of our prompts into GPT-4. Yeah, that hasn’t happened.

Google is making that a reality with the help of Google Lens. They didn’t mention how well it performs, but even pushing it to product before OpenAI would be a win for them.

Bard is also getting “apps” not “plugins” soon that will help it match the performance and market opportunity of Bing. One of them is Adobe Firefly and that’s meant to help match the image generation that’s possible in Bing Chat.

See, Bard is running.

Before we overpromise and build too much hype, a quick reminder: we have not tested any of these new updates. The jury is out on whether Bard delivers a performance to match ChatGPT.

What we can say is that we’ve tested the new Generative Search Engine feature and it holds up. Bing Chat is collecting dust on desktop and we’re back to searching on Google like we never left.

We’re one lap into a marathon race. Don’t underestimate Google.

Bard is improving and the distribution channels for their AI features is unmatched. Expect these tech titans to exchange more blows over AI that show a real fight is taking place. 

Don’t stress, we—the users—benefit from all this competition and OpenAI/Microsoft is bound to respond soon.

Let’s see what haymaker they toss out.

Quick Nuggets

🫡 Yoshua Bengio is the 2nd AI Godfather to admit worries over AI’s current direction

✨ The young guns building startups are pushing for a space in the AI conversation

🤯 1.7M installs: Character AI had a great first week in the App Store

🗣️ ChatGPT’s non-English skills need a lot of work if we’re going to get AGI

💔 Damaged goods are precisely what Amazon wants to find with it’s new AI system

💸 Runway AI gets a massive investment from Google that comes at a price

🐾 Baidu unveils venture fund to help China push AI development closer to American counterparts

🛒 Don’t take your chatbots shopping, the end results can leave you underwhelmed

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• Top VC Funds - describe your startup & AI finds the funds (link)

• Roll - mimic quality video production on your phone w/ AI (link)

• Planit Earth - new way to plan trips (link)

• Interviews by AI - prepare for your next job interview (link)

Good Content, Long Time Ago

The opening title card did say a long time ago, so it’s fun to picture what that would look like from our context. Wild West Chewbacca is definitely Big Foot.

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