Something for the weekend: Understanding AI

This Monday we are starting a two-week series of articles about artificial intelligence. Microsoft announced it was investing a further $10bn in OpenAI. Venture capital firms have been pouring billions of dollars into start-ups to exploit the commercial opportunities of AI. Generative AI is also tri

February 4, 2023 . 8:21 AM

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This Monday we are starting a two-week series of articles about artificial intelligence, as we try to explain the latest developments in the sector and what they will mean for how we live and work.
Microsoft announced it was investing a further $10bn in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based research company that has electrified the digital world with the launch of its ChatGPT language-generation model.
Venture capital firms have been frenziedly pouring billions of dollars into start-ups to exploit the commercial opportunities of these “generative” AI models.
The next big thing in AI this year may well be the emergence of multi-modal models that mix several of these elements.
Generative AI is also triggering concerns about the theft of copyright, the spread of disinformation and deepfakes and the debasement of knowledge on the world wide web.