After years of singleminded worship of the false god Virtual Assistant, the company is rushing its AI strategy as its competitors join their hands and raise their pitchforks. The irony is it's all happening because Google thought it had the pitchfork market cornered. See, in 2017, Google researchers published the article "Attention is all you need," introducing the concept of the transformer and vastly improving the capabilities of machine learning models. You don't need to know the technical side of it (and indeed I am not the one to teach you), but it has been enormously influential and empowering; let it suffice to say that it's the T in GPT. You may well ask, why did Google give this wonderful thing away freely? While big private research outfits have been criticized in the past for withholding their work, the trend over the last few years has been toward publishing.

We're launching the early-access preview of Fixie in the coming weeks, but you can join the waitlist now at https://fixie.ai to be among the first to get access to the platform. We'll be releasing the Fixie SDK and all of the tools you need to build applications and agents as open source, and the platform itself will be free for individual developers and small teams. We can't wait to see what you build! Fixie was founded by engineers, product leaders, and AI experts from Google and Apple. We've got a strong background building large-scale systems and AI-powered products to billions of users. Matt, our CEO, was a professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and spent time at Google, Xnor.ai,

ChatGPT was introduced in the month of November last year. Since then, it has revealed the extraordinary capabilities of AI and its impact on our daily lives. Now, Google has has finally decided to answer the challenge and threat posed by Chat GPT. In an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT, Google has revealed its own AI Chatbot, Bard. So what is Bard and why has Google suddenly taken the decision to announce this new technology?

The article appeared on the DoD's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), an internet repository of news and images generated by the American military. It was about the launch of Task Force 39, which according to ChatGPT, is "an empowered, collaborative group of soldiers dedicated to fostering an innovative culture and pursuing regional and industry partnerships in order to generate future combat efficiency. The team is focused on countering the threat of small Unmanned Aerial Systems and developing innovative solutions to other security challenges."

The artificial intelligence application ChatGPT has already been banned in some state schools over concerns it could help students cheat, but some Australian MPs had no such qualms when they delivered speeches partially written by the tool in parliament this week. ChatGPT has a reputation for saying a lot without saying much at all, so perhaps it's ideally suited to the job of parliamentary speechwriter – or maybe it's smarter than we give it credit for. To find out, we searched Hansard for parliamentary speeches made by Australian MPs in 2020 and asked ChatGPT to opine on the same subjects – ranging from the role the arts play in society to the government's obligation to provide good dental care. See if you can tell them apart.

Further generations of humans--or robots--might one day look back on this week as the tipping point in the way that computers and people interact. On Monday, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google's new chatbot, dubbed Bard, based on its previously disclosed AI bot LaMDA. A day later, Microsoft unveiled a new version of search engine Bing, powered by OpenAI's breakaway hit ChatGPT. But I had already tumbled into that rabbit hole after pondering a less-heralded beta product soft-launched last December and opened to the public a week ago. It is a chatbot called Poe, produced by, of all companies, Quora, a 14-year-old social network that helps users find answers to questions by tapping the knowledge of other users. Like Quora itself, you type in your question and wait for the answer.

Microsoft and Google both unveiled their AI products for the masses, with Microsoft holding a whole event this week to show off the new Edge and Bing. Google also had an event in Paris and unveiled the first Android 14 developer preview, while OnePlus launched its first-ever tablet alongside a new phone. Cherlynn is joined this week by guest co-host Sam Rutherford to tear into the week's onslaught of news, and check in to see how we feel about Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra while reviewing it. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments!

Created by Raymond Davey 4.5 hours on-demand video course Ever since OpenAI arrived on the scene, access to a trained AI has become accessible to everyone. GPT allows you to ask a chatbot to complete tasks, and to answer questions. Fine-tuning allows you to change the way the AI responds. Embedding allows you to use your own knowledge base. Dall-E allows you to generate images from text.

In early February, first Google, then Microsoft, announced major overhauls to their search engines. Both tech giants have spent big on building or buying generative AI tools, which use large language models to understand and respond to complex questions. Now they are trying to integrate them into search, hoping they'll give users a richer, more accurate experience. The Chinese search company Baidu has announced it will follow suit. But the excitement over these new tools could be concealing a dirty secret.

OpenAI announces the launch of ChatGPT Plus, a premium version of its popular ChatGPT chatbot. The new service aims to provide subscribers with a premium experience that includes faster response times, priority access to new features and improvements, and access to ChatGPT during peak times. ChatGPT Plus will be available for $20 per month and is launching in the United States only for now. OpenAI is starting to invite people on its waiting list to use its ChatGPT Plus and intends to expand access and support to other countries and regions shortly. The company values its free users and will continue to provide free access to ChatGPT.