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Microsoft Build 2023: Bing AI and Copilot Plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric and More
This year's Microsoft Build was focused on artificial intelligence, with new Copilot experience additions for Windows 11 and Edge, as well as new Bing AI and Copilot plugins for ChatGPT OpenAI. Key announcements also included the Microsoft Fabric analytics platform, the introduction of the Microsoft Dev Box for development environments, and upgrades within Microsoft Azure.
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Unified Analytics Platform: Microsoft Fabric
At the recent annual Build Conference, Microsoft introduced a unified analytics platform with Microsoft Fabric that brings together all the data and analytics that organizations need.
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Minecraft Welcomes Its First LLM-Powered Agent
Researchers from Caltech, Stanford, the University of Texas, and NVIDIA have collaboratively developed and released Voyager, an LLM power agent that utilizes GPT-4 to engage in Minecraft gameplay. Voyager demonstrates remarkable capabilities by learning, retaining knowledge, and showcasing exceptional expertise in Minecraft.
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Infracopilot, a Conversational Infrastructure-as-Code Editor
Klotho announced InfraCopilot, an infrastructure as a Code (IaC) editor with natural language processing capabilities. The user can chat with InfraCopilot describing their infrastructure needs and it translates these ideas into a low-level architecture. Users can then iterate with incremental high-level and low-level architecture changes.
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OpenAI Launches its Official ChatGPT App for iOS
OpenAI made its official ChatGPT app available on the US App Store, providing voice-based input, GPT-4 support for paying users, and faster response times. The company said they will soon start the roll out to additional countries and that an Android version is in the making.
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Microsoft Open-Sources 13 Billion Parameter Language and Vision Chatbot LLaVA
Researchers from Microsoft, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Columbia University have open-sourced Large Language and Vision Assistant (LLaVA). LLaVA is based on a CLIP image encoder and a LLaMA language decoder, is fine-tuned on a synthetic instruction-following dataset, and achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on the ScienceQA benchmark.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: Generative Fill, Copilot, Aria, and Brain Chips
The most recent update, covering the week starting May 22nd, 2023, encompasses the latest progress and declarations in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week, the focus is on prominent figures such Adobe, Microsoft, Opera, and the University of Lausanne.
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OpenAI is Using GPT-4 to Explain Neurons' Behavior in GPT-2
A recent paper by a group of researchers at OpenAI outlines a novel approach to solve one of the limitations of current deep neural networks (DNNs), namely their lack of interpretability. By Using GPT-4, the researchers aim to build a technique to explain what events cause a neuron to activate, as a first step towards automating DNN interpretability.
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Adopting Artificial Intelligence: Things Leaders Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies identify new opportunities and products, and stay ahead of the competition. Senior software managers should understand the basics of how this new technology works, why agility is important in developing AI products, and how to hire or train people for new roles.
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Google's Universal Speech Model Performs Speech Recognition on Hundreds of Languages
Google Research announced Universal Speech Model (USM), a 2B parameter automated speech recognition (ASR) model trained on over 12M hours of speech audio. USM can recognize speech in over 100 languages, including low-resource languages, and achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Google Previews Studio Bot, a Coding Bot for Android Development
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Hugging Face and ServiceNow have partnered to develop StarCoder, a new open-source language model for code. The model created as a part of the BigCode initiative is an improved version of the StarCoderBase model trained on 35 billion Python tokens. StarCoder is a free AI code-generating system alternative to GitHub’s Copilot, DeepMind’s AlphaCode, and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer.
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OpenAI's Open-Source ChatGPT Plugin - Q&A with Roy Miara
OpenAI recently announced plugin support for ChatGPT, allowing the language model to access external tools and databases. The company also open-sourced the code for a knowledge retrieval plugin, which organizations can use to provide ChatGPT-based access to their own documents and data.
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Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops
MLC LLM is a new open source project aimed to enable deploying large language models on a variety of hardware platforms and applications. It additionally includes a framework to optimize model performance for each specific use case.
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Efficiently Applying LLMs to Transform Semi-Structured Data
LLMs can be an effective way to generate structured data from semi-structured data, although an expensive one. A team of Stanford and Cornell researchers claim to have found a technique to reduce inference costs by 110x while improving inference quality.