(Bloomberg Opinion) — We have ChatGPT because Sam Altman wanted to build a god. For all the buzz, the chatbot is only a prototype along the way to a loftier goal of AGI, or “artificial general intelligence” that surpasses the cognitive abilities of humans. When Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, he made it the non-profit’s goal. Five years earlier, Demis…
Google’s Chief Executive, Sundar Pichai, has described artificial intelligence (AI) as a “fundamental rewiring of technology” and an “accelerant of human ingenuity” during a major AI summit in the French capital. Speaking to world leaders and industry figures, Pichai emphasised that while the world remains in the early stages of the AI revolution, its transformative…
The landscape of generative AI is evolving rapidly, with companies racing to build more efficient, capable, and accessible models. Among the latest entrants, Mistral Small 3, Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max, and DeepSeek R1 are vying for dominance alongside OpenAI’s established ChatGPT. Each model presents a unique approach to AI and used cases. Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI’s…
The battle of AI has taken the world by storm when DeepSeek became the topic of discussion across the globe. However, the latest move by Mistral AI with the release of Mistral Small 3 has added yet another layer of competition, offering a powerful open-source alternative to some of the leading proprietary AI models. Mistral…
India is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence, with the government pushing an ambitious plan to develop homegrown AI models within the next ten months. The Modi administration has greenlit 18 proposals, offering support in the form of computing power, data, and funding to drive AI solutions in areas like agriculture and climate change….
The internet provided not only the images, but also the resources for labelling them. Once search engines had delivered pictures of what they took to be dogs, cats, chairs or whatever, these images were inspected and annotated by humans recruited through Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service provided by Amazon which allows people to earn money…
