Amongst all the inventions and the technological advances, Artificial Intelligence has stuck for the longest. It has made human life easier and faster. Right from understanding the human choices, to helping them buy stuff and make decisions, AI has taken over the tech world and how.
Open AI, originally founded in 2015 by the Tesla founder Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other geniuses. Open AI is an AI research and deployment company and their mission is that Artificial Intelligence should benefit all of humanity.
Using AI and machine learning, Open AI is aiming to create highly interactive and autonomous algorithms that can process the data and help in relevant and coherent results.
Algorithms that can help in translation, human interactions and chatbots, virtual assistance.
Unlike the Google AI company – Deepmind which focuses on creating a baseline for Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms which is more interested in solving intelligence. Open AI is focusing on Deep Reinforcement Learning Environment, which basically means giving an autonomy to the architecture to understand feedback and learn from actions.
The newest release from Open AI, ChatGPT built on Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a fine-tuned approach that uses the Natural Language Processing (NLP) for more effective and human-like conversations. It is a long-form question and answering AI format.
History of Open AI
In the 21st century, when technology is growing rapidly, supplementing human existence and making a comfortable life possible. With the inventions of Computers, the efforts to do everything manually were saved. But what if a program can predict our moves or atleast what we are thinking? What if there is an algorithm developed which can understand our patterns and suggest recommendations based on our previous choices?
To work on such ideas, Open AI was founded in 2015 with an aim to research in the areas of artificial intelligence and the scope of AI in the future.
In 2016, Open AI released its first ever beta version “OpenAI Gym ” which provides an environment for developing and testing the learning agents. It further processes text data depending on individuals and their choices. It is a platform for reinforcement learning (RL), an area of machine learning, which helps the algorithm to learn how to take actions depending on the behavior patterns and feedback.
In December 2016, it again released “Universe” which provides a platform to test and train the general intelligence of AI in the world of games,websites.
Initially which started as a non-profit organization, Open AI turned as a profit company in 2018. It then partnered with Microsoft to further the research on AI and its potential.
In 2020, Open AI launched GPT-3,Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 which is a natural language model to understand questions and respond with relevant and meaningful answers.
To train the model, Open AI takes help from trillions of the words from the Internet.
Open AI has probably got the best research team handpicked around the globe to achieve their mission of moving humanity closer to real AI in a safe and secure way. Though scientists and experts are worried about the growth of artificial general intelligence and its thinking capabilities like humans, AI can one day eradicate the human race. Open AI on the other hand is slightly motivated due to the existential crisis and wants to use AI for the upliftment and advantage to humans.
Open AI and newest launches
The newest launches include DALL-E, ChatGPT and Point-E. DALL-E and DALL-E 2 are the deep learning models which convert natural language text into digital images. Released in January 2021, DALL-E uses a version of GPT-3. DALL-E 2, successor of DALL-E was launched in April 2022, to generate more realistic images rather than caricature forms. The digital images are generated in high resolution and by combining style, structure and concepts. To train the algorithm, a billion machine learning parameters are supplemented.
ChatGPT, is a fine tuned natural language processing (NLP) chatbot with an ability to interact in conversational dialogue and understand human questions and give precise answers. The GPT-3 model is used to predict the next words in the sentence and reduce the response time.
It even uses RLHF(Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) for the algorithm to learn giving responses autonomously and develop an unbiased opinion using billions of machine learning parameters.
Point E, is a machine learning model that generates a 3D model from the text or the ”prompt” in a minute or two. Unlike the traditional way, Point E, where E stands for efficiency, creates 3D models in the form of point clouds or discrete sets of data points. The model is trained supplying millions of images and machine learning parameters, Point E is now able to generate colored 3D objects that match with the text prompt.
How Open AI is leading the Tech World
With the latest beta version releases of ChatGPT and Point E, Open AI has already placed itself as the world leader of Artificial Intelligence. It is leading the tech world in the direction of innovation and creativity. The generative models using the Natural Language Processing(NLP) are all set to replace humans in customer services, as sales representatives virtual assistance.
Generative AI has created a lot of buzz around itself and a couple of companies are trying to create similar models already launched by Open AI. Generative AI is the future of the tech world, according to experts.
Open AI has gone one step ahead and open the beta versions to the users, helps them fix the bugs, get feedback and make it more efficient.
The potential benefits of Open AI for the tech world and fields like medicine, education, manufacturing. Open AI can take the use of generative AI in the already existing technological applications. In healthcare, the correct diagnosis, accurate treatment suggestion, estimating recovery time, even assistance in complicated medical procedures are the goals of Open AI.
Generative AI can help eliminate the boundaries and promote global learning which is the need of the hour and the future of students. With AI integrated cars and transport vehicles, the concept of self driven cars, the tech world is more and more dependent on Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to learn human patterns. With the help of machine learning parameters and AI, transportation can be made more efficient and mitigating collisions.
Supply chains, assembly lines using predictive maintenance and visual assistance and inspection, can make profits for the manufacturing sectors like never before.
Open AI is already helping the virtual assistance and customer services sector to provide a seamless experience to the customer. With the help of huge data sets, they are training their algorithm to learn and respond in the natural language.
AI has been previously used by a number of companies, but to build an autonomous tool which can think on its own and learn from actions is needed going forward. Not just to maintain the sanity of the digital space but also to give humans an unbiased view/opinion.
Potential Risks of AI to the Tech World
Open AI may be the ultimate goal but it is a perfect catalyst for numerous inventions and potential innovations. As the power of artificial generative intelligence is so big, it needs to be handled with utmost care and concentration.
The consequences of the AGI if gone into wrong hands can cause technological catastrophe.
It can cause the next world war just with the help of some buttons and clicks.
Privacy invasion is an all time risk when it comes to technology and AI. By looking at the purchase history, subscribed channels and even medical records can tell everything about an individual. Today, the digital presence and their footprints are everywhere and it has become very easy to track them.
Social manipulation, creating biases, spreading fake news, leading to discrimination, hatred and world divide are all the potential risks of AI, the primitive technology used by AI.
Open AI has taken serious measures to use Artificial Generative Intelligence in a responsible manner. So that AI and humans can coexist and none is trying to replace the other one.
TakeAway
To ease the life of humans with the help of chatbots, virtual assistance, AI robots are the way forward and the invention of the 21st century. Open AI with its serious global promise works immensely on the research part and how AGI is used in a safe and secure manner. To protect digital privacy is of utmost importance.
Open AI takes the feedback from users very seriously and works on integrating the changes in their models. They even release the progress on the tracker on their website. With the world class experts and Open AI research team, more such innovative ideas are going to come to light.
Open AI is working tirelessly in developing AI tools to help humans increase productivity and enhance their inputs. They are trying to build the gaps in the technological requirements and its inventions. With Open AI tools, jobs which can be handled by machines will be taken care of by chatbots/robots, making space for humans to focus on more research based and productive work.