Artificial intelligences, what are the emerging projects of the last few weeks

There have been weeks of progress in the field of artificial intelligence.There are many new projects and not just from the giants of the sector.

It's happening very fast.Just a year ago the crypto winter began, the tired (and crisis) phase that would have cooled the spirits in the sector;in the meantime, interest in artificial intelligence was growing thanks to Dall-E di OpenAI, which was able to generate images from any textual description.In the following months it arrived ChatGpt, which applied the same incredible technology to the written word.Since then, with a cascade effect, the news from the sector has never stopped arriving:“indie” reality like MidJourney And Stable diffusion have made giant strides, while Microsoft was closely linked with OpenAI (with which it signed a "multi-billion dollar" agreement).Finally, this week Google also arrived.But let's go step by step, as far as possible, and try to photograph a part of Silicon Valley that seems about to explode with enthusiasm for investments and innovations but also with more than legitimate controversies and concerns.

Two weeks of news for artificial intelligences

Let's start from last week, which began with the announcement of Alpaca AI, a chatbot similar to ChatGpt (a service for discussing, chatting), developed by the prestigious Stanford University.Important detail:the project in question cost the institution just over five hundred dollars, thanks to an open source approach that seems to indicate a much cheaper path than the one followed for years by Big tech.Literally the next day, two notable events happened: Anthropic, a startup that deals with AI, presented Claude, an assistant in the form of artificial intelligence, and OpenAI has finally revealed to the world Gpt-4, the fourth and highly anticipated version of its language model (the acronym stands for Generative pre-trained transformer), the same one that makes ChatGpt and Dall- work AND.At the same time, Google announced the implementation of AI tools in its suite of work products, Google workspace (but we'll come back to that).

Thus we arrive at MidJourney which unveiled the fifth version of its image generator, which in just a few days proved capable of making notable improvements in the performance of artificial intelligence, especially with regards to realistic of the final product.The week ended, at least as far as this synopsis is concerned, with the move of Microsoft, which responds to Google by presenting the AI ​​that will enrich the Microsoft 365 suite (Word, Excel...), an innovation that could have enormous consequences in the working lives of millions of people.Meanwhile, the ChatGpt fever has also brought the Chinese giant Baidu to churn out his themed response, also taking advantage of the fact that the OpenAI original is banned in the country, giving oxygen to a clandestine market for logins to the original product, as told Wired.

The current week, however, has been dominated by the mid-launch Bard, Google's long-awaited and discussed response to OpenAI, currently available by invitation only in the United States and the United Kingdom, after months of internal tests and a run-up to ChatGpt.At the end of 2022, moreover, Google's top brass launched a "red code" linked to AI, which on the one hand undermined its business model and on the other represented the inevitable future front of the entire sector.But it's not just the giants who are making headlines, but rather the slew of actors of all sizes who are announcing notable projects in the field of AI: Nvidia, Adobe And GitHub they have all made important steps that will help make AI-based generative tools increasingly common, widespread and inevitable.And so, in just two weeks, the world seems to have changed forever.