Did ChatGPT see its shadow for six more weeks of AI winter? We don’t think so, because the generative AI field is super hot right now.
Our AI editor, Sharon Goldman, was busier than even Punxsutawney Phil this week. Did ChatGPT see its shadow for six more weeks of AI winter? We don’t think so, because the generative AI field is super hot right now.
Most notably, on Friday, the news broke that Google has bought into the ChatGPT game with its investment in Anthropic.
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Our only non-ChatGPT story, from staff writer Shubham Sharma, was about Chronosphere’s cloud-native observability platform. Built to handle the scale and complexity of cloud-native metrics, the company hopes to “tame the data deluge” of cloud systems.
Interested in reading more? Here are the top five stories for the week of January 30.
Believe it or not, it was less than 10 weeks ago that OpenAI launched what it simply described as an “early demo” a part of the GPT-3.5 series — an interactive, conversational model whose dialogue format “makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
ChatGPT quickly caught the imagination — and feverish excitement — of both the AI community and the general public. Since then, the tool’s possibilities as well as limitations and hidden dangers have been well established, and any hints of slowing down its development were quickly dashed when Microsoft announced its plans to invest billions more into OpenAI.
