Daily Post 2997
AN AI DUAL INVITE!
Artificial Intelligence, a nascent technology, that people had very little faith in till around two years back, has taken centre stage all over. There is nothing that can be discussed without it. ChatGPT’s launch on 30th Nov. 2022 changed it all. Artificial Intelligence, AI, was not only there to stay, it was destined for exponential growth, changing the world in the manner the internet did decades back. ChatGPT’s creator organisation OpenAI was basking in the sun and it still is, leading the world into its AI future. The IT behemoths could not be far behind.
The reason is not very far to seek, whichever business entity wins the AI throne, becomes the natural tech and business leader for a decade, may be much more. Most likely the honours would be shared, but the battle is on, to win the AI war. Microsoft for its connections with OpenAI inclusive of its investment as far back in 2019 of $1 billion claims to be in the lead. It was earlier this year that Microsoft CEO openly questioned Google’s place in the AI arms race in an interview. This was following the search giant’s AI product mishaps in the preceding months.
Pichai with regards to Microsoft said they are using someone else’s models. Though Microsoft does have its own AI models, “much of the advanced capabilities in its recent offerings are powered by OpenAI’s LLMs.” The war has hotted up, in what can be called a public domain spat. Nadella in March had said that Google should have been the default winner in the world of big tech AI race, having everything from data to silicon to models to products and distribution, hinting very clearly that it didn’t happen. Google has for long used its own LLMs to power its artificial intelligence and search products.
This is the build up for the flare up. There is so much at stake for the two companies. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai fired back at “claims it should be further along in the AI arms race” made in March by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He retorted with a challenge, that he’d love to do a “side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models, any day, any time.” Google’s LLM in question is Gemini series, the one which powers conversational AI and battles it out with OpenAI’s ChatGPT models for the AI crown. For sure, it is a momentous time in AI history. The CEO sparring comes amid escalating AI arms race between the IT giants.
TECHNICALLY AND COMMERCIALLY CAPTURING THE FINAL FRONTIER; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, IS THE CHALLENGE.
Sanjay Sahay