100 Million ChatGPT Users, Tom Hanks Deepfake and Other AI News

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ForkLog AI has gathered the most important AI news from the past week.

Media: Microsoft to integrate a faster version of ChatGPT into Bing

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will integrate into Bing a faster version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4. This will allow the company to challenge Google’s dominance in web search.

According to Semafor, the new OpenAI technology is capable of generating detailed and ‘more human-like’ responses several times faster than the current version.

In the future, the AI lab will launch a mobile app with ChatGPT. OpenAI also plans to test a new AI image generator feature, DALL-E 2, that would enable video generation.

OpenAI introduced a premium plan for ChatGPT

OpenAI introduced the premium version of ChatGPT for $20 per month.

Plus subscribers will be able to use the chatbot even during peak hours, enjoy faster response times, and have priority access to new features and updates.

According to OpenAI, this version of ChatGPT is a ‘pilot’. Developers plan to improve the system and expand it based on user feedback. The company also considers adding cheaper pricing tiers.

ChatGPT Plus is currently available only to users in the United States. OpenAI will roll it out to other countries and regions later.

Forbes: Sergey Brin returned to Google

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has returned to working on code at the company. This marked the first time since he and Larry Page handed over all duties to Sundar Pichai in 2019.

According to Forbes, on January 24, 2023 Brin requested access to the LaMDA training data. It was a two-line change in the configuration file, adding his username to the code, the publication notes.

The request was approved by several dozen engineers. Some even were not part of the development team but likely wanted to express support for the co-founder’s decision to review the code.

Other employees criticized Brin’s ‘return’. One worker asked him to ‘fix Google first’, another said ‘at least talk to them’, referring to his long absence.

The number of ChatGPT users reached 100 million

In January 2023, the number of ChatGPT users reached 100 million, just two months after launch.

UBS analysts studied data from SimilarWeb. According to the experts, in January the chatbot was used daily by about 13 million unique accounts, more than double the visits in December 2022.

Researchers said that in 20 years of observing the web, it’s hard to recall a faster-growing consumer internet service.

According to Sensor Tower’s report, TikTok took about nine months from global launch to reach 100 million users, and Instagram 2.5 years.

Similarly, futurist Brett Winton of ARK Invest said that within 40 days from launch, ChatGPT reached 10 million daily active users.

chatGPT at >10 million daily users in 40 days

Instagram took 355 days to get to 10 million registered users pic.twitter.com/Q7MWKNvyoN

— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) January 24, 2023

Media: Google tests an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT and a new search page

Google has begun internal testing of a rival to ChatGPT and a new search page.

According to CNBC, company leadership has prioritized the creation of the chatbot. Employees are currently actively testing Apprentice Bard based on the LaMDA language model, capable of answering questions.

The report says the Google chatbot can provide real-time information, something ChatGPT cannot do due to its knowledge cutoff in 2021. When asked whether another round of layoffs at Google is expected, Apprentice Bard replied ‘unlikely this year’.

The company is also testing an alternative design for the search engine with chat technology. One homepage variant offers five prompts for input, replacing the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button.

After submitting a query, the system generates ‘more human-like’ responses in grey bubbles. Beneath them appear additional prompts, followed by traditional results with links and headlines.

Alphabet is also known to be working on a chatbot, Atlas, within its cloud unit. The project is a red-team response to ChatGPT.

Salesforce unveiled a language model for biologists

Researchers from Salesforce Research developed the AI enzyme generator ProGen. The project’s source code is available on GitHub.

The system is a biology-focused language model. First, researchers trained the algorithm on a dataset of amino acid sequences of over 280 million proteins. Then they fine-tuned the AI on another 56,000 compounds from five different families.

The model generated 1 million artificial sequences. From them, the scientists selected 100 proteins, which they examined for the ‘grammar’ of amino acid composition and compared with natural enzymes.

According to the researchers, some sequences ‘out of the box’ are not inferior in effectiveness to those that evolved over millions of years.

Former Google executives launched an AI search engine

Former Google top executives Shridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan launched NeevaAI, an AI search engine.

The system uses a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) method. On receiving a query, the algorithm pulls information from its own database and runs language models to generate more natural-sounding responses. It also provides links to sources with the results.

According to Ramaswamy, NeevaAI provides up-to-date aggregated results and frees users from scanning the web and juggling multiple sources.

Advanced features of the platform are available to users for $5.99 per month. Free account holders will only be able to explore the system’s capabilities.

Meta AI unveiled a 3D object generator from text

Meta unveiled the AI MAV3D system for video creation from text descriptions.

The developers used a NeRF-based deep learning approach, optimized for generating plausible scenes with motion continuity by querying a text-to-video diffusion model (T2V).

According to the company, the result can be viewed from different angles. MAV3D does not require 3D- or 4D-data; the T2V neural network is trained only on text-image pairs and unlabeled videos.

Google unveiled a text-to-music generator

Google engineers developed an AI music generator from text, MusicLM.

The system was trained on 280,000 hours of audio. It can create tracks in any genre. The AI can not only blend styles and instruments but also generate music from textual descriptions of abstract concepts. It can also compose melodies from humming or whistling, which can be used in combination with prompts.

The company does not plan to release the project’s source code yet due to risks of copyright infringement lawsuits.

However, developers have shown several AI-generated tracks based on prompts.

Deepfake will rejuvenate Tom Hanks in the upcoming film

Miramax is employing artificial intelligence to rejuvenate actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in the forthcoming film “Here.”

The studio uses Metaphysic deepfake technology. According to the developer, the AI will “hyper-realistically alter the stars’ faces and rejuvenate them” in real time at 30 frames per second.

The film’s visual effects supervisor Kevin Bailey said that actors would be able to use the technology as a “mirror of youth” and see themselves in the final cut. The footage will not require additional processing, Metaphysic added.

The most notable AI deals of the past week

From January 29 to February 4, 2023, AI startups raised more than $37 million. Here are the most interesting deals.

• Lavender raised $13.2 million to expand the development team of its AI-powered email marketing platform.
• BloomX, a maker of robotic pollination vehicles, received $8 million.
• Talk-a-Bot raised $3.82 million to scale its system for automating external and internal company communications.
• Instill AI raised $3.6 million to improve an open-source AI tool for working with unstructured data.
• Toggle, a maker of construction robotics, raised $3 million.
• Hippoc, a digital marketing startup, raised $3 million.
• ValueBase raised $1.6 million to develop land and property valuation models using weather balloon data and other sources.
• Superlayer raised $1.3 million to build a SaaS platform for improving sales.

Also on ForkLog:

• ChatGPT wrote a horoscope for cryptocurrencies.
• Microsoft and OpenAI asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit over AI copyright.
• AI detected potential extraterrestrial radio signals.
• OpenAI released a detector of generated texts.
• France will deploy AI surveillance ahead of the 2024 Olympics.
• Netflix created anime using AI and faced criticism.
• AI predicted acceleration of global warming.
• A judge used ChatGPT to render a verdict.

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