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Microsoft invests in ‘frighteningly good’ ChatGPT
01/10/2023 11:09 am
Since November, the language software ChatGPT has been inspiring many millions of users with its texts. Microsoft also believes in the capabilities of artificial intelligence and is investing a lot of money in it. The goal appears to be an attack on Google.
Microsoft is apparently planning a billion-dollar investment in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The software group wants to invest ten billion dollars in OpenAI and thus take a 49 percent stake in the chatbot software provider ChatGPT secure, reports the website semaphore citing insiders. Venture capitalists are also involved in the deal.
Microsoft declined to comment on the subject when asked. OpenAI could not be reached for comment either. That “Wall Street Journal” had already reported last week that investors such as Thrive Capital or Founders Fund are negotiating the purchase of OpenAI shares and value the AI specialist at around 29 billion dollars.
OpenAI presented the latest version of ChatGPT to the public in November. The chatbot can simulate a conversation with a human. Users can formulate complete questions to which the program answers in natural language. It can also create its own text based on questions or keywords. In just the first week after the program was activated, more than a million users tried ChatGPT, said OpenAI co-founder and company boss Sam Altman. Microsoft is reportedly particularly interested in AI in order to integrate it into its Bing search engine.
“Plausible but wrong answers”
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by company boss Sam Altman, Tesla and Twitter boss Elon Musk and PayPal co-founder and Trump confidante Peter Thiel. In 2019, a for-profit spin-off was launched to collect outside investment. At that time, Microsoft had already invested a billion dollars in OpenAI. Musk left the OpenAI board of directors in 2018, but recently described ChatGPT’s capabilities as “frighteningly good”.
However, according to OpenAI, ChatGPT has a tendency to provide “plausible-sounding but wrong or pointless answers”. Fixing this problem is difficult. In addition, AI can spread prejudices about ethnicity, gender or culture. Google and Amazon also had to struggle with ethically questionable decisions in their respective AI projects. At other companies, humans have had to intervene to contain the chaos created by the software.