AI technology is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. One poll found that 35% of companies currently use AI and another 42% intend to use it in the future. Not only are AI software developer jobs ubiquitous, but they are also well paying. Programming salaries routinely rank among the top 10-15% in the United States. In this article, we take a look at what the AI software development landscape looks like in 2023.

Microsoft, so long big tech's dull but wealthy uncle, has seized the zeitgeist by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its search engine, Bing. It has made the most of the explosion of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney that can automatically generate text, images and code. There are many reasons why the application of AI to search is intriguing. On a human level we suddenly have an interface that seems straight out of sci-fi: a dialogue-based personal assistant that can search the web for us and answer our questions. On a business level, Microsoft has shown us that these tools have the potential to shake up the online search market which is expected to be worth $256bn (€242bn) this year, and which is dominated by Google.

So which generative AI tool should you choose? There's no right or wrong answer here since each platform has its own pros and cons. On balance, we'd recommend Bing as it's the most feature-rich outside of image generation and coding suggestions. GitHub Copilot, meanwhile, is currently the best ChatGPT alternative for coding, but it's not free.

In a fair world, technology should be accessible to all and used for humanity's betterment. However, there is a growing concern that AI could be monopolised for vested interests by large corporations. This is why open sourcing is paramount. ChatGPT, the popular chatbot by OpenAI, has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in AI. In just five days since its launch, approximately one million individuals engaged with the bot and it is expected that the number will soon reach the billion mark.

Today, instead of writing an article myself, I asked ChatGPT 3 to write me an article on my (Kompetify.ai) I thought asking this question directly to ChatGPT would be better, as I can be biased about what I'm creating. By letting the most advanced AI available to humanity right now tell me whether I'm making a viable product offering and whether using a cryptocurrency for it is correct, there wouldn't be any creator bias in place. Here is the article my good friend ChatGPT wrote. AI competitions are becoming increasingly popular and are pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence technology.

A text-to-image AI Dall-E2 generated image with a prompt: Edward Hopper-style image of a man and a woman sitting at a cafe table, both absorbed in their smartphones without speaking. Video artist Jason Allen's Midjourney generated piece called "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" won first place at the Colorado State Fair.

Indeed, when other Futurism employees asked the AI to write a bio, theirs were similarly littered with incorrect information. The author of this piece, Maggie Harrison, apparently studied "physics and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)," has written "several influential books," and was even named one of Forbes' yearly "30 under 30" winners. But the chatbot's penchant for resume embellishment doesn't just apply to Futurism employees. When Gary N. Smith, an economist and Pomona College professor who recently co-wrote an essay for Salon arguing that generative AI is doomed to be an economic bubble, asked ChatGPT to write a bio for him, the bot only got one thing right: the fact that he was a professor at Pomona College. The rest of the AI-generated bio, however, despite sounding really nice -- according to ChatGPT, Smith has "served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and United Nations Development Program" and has been "awarded numerous honors for his work in economics, including the Founder's Award from the Claremont Graduate University in 2010" -- was, according to Smith, entirely fabricated. The same goes for a growing number of netizens, some of whom have taken to Twitter to lampoon ChatGPT for their made-up life stories.

The meteoric rise of ChatGPT has sparked an artificial intelligence frenzy, stoking fears that the technology could upend jobs, search engines and schools. But online creators have identified one realm yet safe from the computer takeover: fiber arts. A number of TikTok users have deployed ChatGPT to write patterns for crochet creations, yielding "cursed" results that are testing the boundaries of nascent artificial intelligence capabilities. In January TikTok user Alexandra Woolner, who has been knitting for years and crocheting since 2019, hatched the idea to use ChatGPT to make a stuffed animal – initially asking it to write a pattern for a narwhal. A typical crochet pattern resembles coding in its own way, with abbreviations and punctuation marks denoting the creation process.

This article provides an overview of the ChatGPT language model, which has made significant contributions to the field of natural language processing. We discuss the limitations of traditional neural network architectures and introduce the transformer architecture, which uses self-attention mechanisms to handle long-term dependencies and variable-length inputs. We explain the key mechanisms behind ChatGPT, including attention, scale dot-product attention, multi-head attention, position-wise feed-forward networks, embeddings, softmax, and positional encoding. We also discuss the applications of attention and the importance of training, including training data and batching, hardware and schedule, optimizer, and regularization. Finally, we present the results of ChatGPT in various tasks, such as machine translation and model variations, demonstrating its potential to revolutionize the field of NLP.

The companies touting new chat-based artificial-intelligence systems are running a massive experiment--and we are the test subjects. In this experiment, Microsoft, OpenAI and others are rolling out on the internet an alien intelligence that no one really understands, which has been granted the ability to influence our assessment of what's true in the world.