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Microsoft confirms it will invest billions of dollars in the creator of ChatGPT

2023-01-24T02:14:09.113Z


Microsoft confirmed Monday that it will make a "multi-million dollar" investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot tool that has gone viral.


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(CNN) --

Microsoft confirmed Monday that it will make a "multi-billion dollar" investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot tool that has gone viral.


Microsoft, an early investor in OpenAI, said it plans to expand its current partnership with the company as part of a larger effort to add more artificial intelligence to its product suite.

In a separate post, OpenAI indicated that the multi-year investment will be used to "develop artificial intelligence that is increasingly safe, useful and powerful."

  • What is ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence chatbot that is a trend in networks

"We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition to responsibly advance cutting-edge AI research and democratize it as a new technology platform," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.

Strengthening the partnership between the two companies can boost ambitious OpenAI projects such as ChatGPT, which has garnered attention and sometimes raised concerns from academics, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts for its ability to create long, detailed answers to questions. of the users.

The investment could also catapult Microsoft as a leader in artificial intelligence and ultimately pave the way for the company to incorporate ChatGPT into some of its flagship applications, such as Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

As a result of its exclusive agreement with OpenAI, Microsoft recently announced that it will soon integrate ChatGPT features into its cloud computing service, Azure.

If ChatGPT becomes available on that service, companies could also use the tools directly in their applications and services.

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The investment comes days after Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 employees as part of its broader cost-cutting measures.

Nadella said then that the company will continue to invest in "strategic areas for our future" and pointed to advances in artificial intelligence as "the next big wave" of computing.

A commitment to the future of artificial intelligence

Since OpenAI opened up access to ChatGPT in late November, it has been used to write articles (with more than a couple of factual inaccuracies) for at least one news publication;

lyrics have been written in the style of various artists (one of whom later replied "this song is crap") and summaries of research papers have been written that misled some scientists.

Some CEOs have also used the platform to write emails or do accounting work.

OpenAI is also behind DALL-E, which generates a seemingly limitless range of images in response to user input.

Both DALL-E and ChatGPT train on large amounts of data to generate content.

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But this poses some risks to Microsoft and OpenAI.

While these products have gained traction among users, they have also raised some concerns, such as their potential to perpetuate bias and spread misinformation.

At the same time, a growing number of schools and teachers are concerned about the immediate impact of ChatGPT on students and its ability to cheat on assignments.

According to David Lobina, an artificial intelligence analyst at ABI Research, this could create "a lot of negative publicity" for the companies associated with these tools.

However, the opportunity is immense and could strengthen Microsoft's position in the growing arms race around artificial intelligence and, in the process, give OpenAI a useful boost.

"OpenAI seeks to monetize its systems, taking into account the enormous computational costs involved in creating these models," Lobina explained to CNN before Monday's announcement.

"Their partnership with Microsoft can be an easy way to do that."

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Source: cnnespanol

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