The Grok logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Elon Musk revealed his own artificial intelligence bot, dubbed Grok, claiming the prototype is already superior to ChatGPT 3.5 across several benchmarks
2023 was the year when generative AI really made its mark, leading to people reacting with a mixture of shock and amazement at the potential of the new technology, while a wave of panic also hit many industries about how AI could eventually take jobs away from humans .
Nevertheless, 2023 has seen a number of AI-related announcements, including OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, Elon Musk’s Grok AI, Microsoft’s Bing Chat and Google’s Gemini language model. We take a look at the top 5 AI launches of 2023.Top 5 AI launches of 2023: 1) Bird AI:
Probably a little taken aback by the sudden rise of generative AI technology, Google rushed to launch its own chatbot, named Bard, as an ‘early experiment’. Later in the year, Google continued to make its AI chatbot more feature-rich, including the addition of a more powerful language model called Gemini.
The company has also said that it will make the Bard AI chatbot even more powerful with the addition of the Gemini Ultra language model.
2) Bing Chat: Shortly after the launch of the Bard AI chatbot, Microsoft also launched its own generative AI-based offering, integrating it tightly into its Bing search engine and calling the new tool Bing Chat. Although the initial reception of Bing Chat wasn’t as great as the company had hoped, Microsoft has continued to add features to the chatbot, including support for the GPT-4 language model, the creation of images using OpenAI’s DALL-E, and now the chatbot is even said to have the ability to create songs.
3) GPT-4: Perhaps one of the biggest AI launches of the year was the GPT-4 language model, the successor to the earlier GPT-3.5 model that powered ChatGPT. OpenAI claimed at the time that the GPT-4-powered ChatGPT demonstrated human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks. The company also said that GPT-4 was found to be more reliable, creative and capable of handling much more nuanced instructions than its predecessor.
However, OpenAI only allowed access to its latest language model via a $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription.
Later in the year, OpenAI introduced another upgrade to its language model in the form of GPT-4 Turbo, which had a much larger context window than its predecessors. According to OpenAI, GPT-4 Turbo can fit over 300 pages of text into a single prompt.
4) DALL-E 3: In September, OpenAI decided to improve its already popular text-to-image generating software, DALL-E. The company claimed that DALL-E 3 which now came with integration with ChatGPT could allow users to ‘craft amazing prompts’ and bring their ideas to life.
However, much like GPT-4, DALL-E 3 was available only to the company’s premium customers with a ChatGPT Plus subscription. However, the new technology was soon available for free via Bing Chat.5) Grok AI: Continuing his complicated relationship with artificial intelligence, Elon Musk finally decided to launch his own AI company, xAI, to compete with the likes of Google and OpenAI.
xAI’s first product is a chatbot called Grok, inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and humour.
What makes Grok different from other chatbots on the market is that Elon Musk’s Gen AI offering has real-time knowledge of the world thanks to the data from X platform.
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Back BackFrom GPT-5 to AGI; Sam Altman reveals the most commonly requested features from ChatGPT maker in 2024OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has listed the most requested features from the ChatGPT maker in 2024. The list of requested features includes many notable mentions, including artificial general intelligence, GPT-5 language model, more personalization, better GPTs and more.
The suggestions were in response to a question posed by Altman on X (formerly Twitter), where he asked his followers what they would like OpenAI to build or fix in 2024.“will keep reading, and we will deliver on as much as we can (and plenty of other stuff we are excited about and not mentioned here)”, the OpenAI CEO promised in an ensuing post on X.
While listing the most requested features of Open AI , Altman added a caveat about AGI, noting that users will have to be patient and implying that an AI model from the company that reaches the level of AGI in 2024 remains highly unlikely.
Speaking to Time magazine earlier this month, Altman had shed light on the limitless potential of the new technology. He said: “I think AGI will be the most powerful technology humanity has yet invented…If you think about the cost of intelligence and the equality of intelligence, the cost falling, the quality increasing by a lot, and what people can do with that,”“It’s a very different world. It’s the world that sci-fi has promised us for a long time—and for the first time , I think we could start to see what that’s gonna look like.” the 38 year old added.
Open AI announced its GPT-4 Turbo language model at the company’s first developer conference in November. The new language model has knowledge of world events up to April 2023 and was seen as a major upgrade over GPT-4, which was released in May.
Meanwhile, at the same event, OpenAI also announced that it would allow users to create their own Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) and share them publicly. The AI startup had said it would also launch a GPT store to help verified developers monetise their offerings. However, the drama surrounding Sam Altman’s sacking and subsequent re-hiring at the AI firm has reportedly led to the GPT store’s release being pushed back to 2024.