The article also covers other recent AI news, including Microsoft bringing Copilot clients to Android and iOS, OpenAI's plans to launch a GPT store, and Google's DeepMind Robotics team exploring ways to improve robot understanding of human desires. Other notable mentions include Intel spinning out a new platform company, Articul8 AI, and Paris-based startup Nabla raising $24 million to work on an "AI copilot" for doctors and clinical staff. The article concludes with a discussion of recent experiments and research in machine learning, including Google DeepMind's experiment on human perception and an MIT study on language understanding.
Key takeaways:
- Microsoft has unveiled a new standard PC keyboard layout with a “Copilot” key, a dedicated key for launching Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant Copilot, replacing the right Control key. This is the first time Microsoft’s changed the Windows keyboard layout in around 30 years.
- Microsoft, together with its chip partners AMD and Intel, hopes that AI processing will increasingly move from expensive datacenters to local silicon, commoditizing AI in the process.
- OpenAI announced plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), within the next week.
- Google’s DeepMind Robotics team is exploring ways to give robots a better understanding of precisely what it is humans want out of them. The team’s new system can manage a fleet of robots working in tandem and suggest tasks that can be accomplished by the robots’ hardware.