In other news, Amazon's AWS division has announced its own AI chatbot, "Amazon Q", designed for workers within large enterprises to access and synthesize their company's corporate data. The chatbot is not intended for the general public and is designed with a focus on security. Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech also highlighted several AI companies, including image-generation company Runway and customer service platform Ada.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI is reportedly working on a new AI agent known as "Q*", which is expected to be a major step towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The agent is speculated to use multiple AI models to learn, plan, and execute tasks.
- DeepMind is also developing a new AI agent called Gemini, which might use a similar approach to AlphaGo, but with a large language model added. This could result in a system that reacts to context or situational data and also converses and takes instructions in plain language.
- Amazon AWS has announced its own AI chatbot called "Amazon Q", designed for workers within large enterprises to access and synthesize their company's corporate data. Unlike other chatbots, it is not intended for the general public.
- Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech awards highlighted several AI companies that have made significant strides in generative AI, including Runway, Ada, Github’s Copilot assistant, and Nvidia’s Picasso tool.