If You Want to Master Generative AI, Ignore All (But Two) Tools

It’s February 7th. Quite cold outside but apparently not enough to cool down the excitement ChatGPT sparked just before winter. Microsoft is ready to announce Bing Chat, a chatbot built on top of the next-generation model from OpenAI and capable of web search — Google is doomed (for the second time in a matter of three months, no less). Everyone will jump to Bing and Microsoft will eat Google’s search revenue. <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/desktop/worldwide" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Or will it?</a> It’s March 14th. Flowers are shyly blooming in the northern hemisphere. We have been particularly awaiting a rare one with 8 (or is it 16?) petals. It is about to open up (or maybe not). GPT-4 is out; the most secretive release ever for a language model. But it’s better, no — much better than GPT-3.5. Who wouldn’t pay $20/month for a 100x productivity boost? It’s a bargain. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-gpt4-worse-on-some-tasks-chatgpt-2023-7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Well, maybe not.</a> It’s March 21st. A soft, possibly hallucinated melody has awakened Google from a long hibernation. Bard is music for Sundar Pichai’s ears. But some notes are off-key — a rushed release? It may appear the pincer movement of the two above worked just fine. But Bard is just a tester — the real banger will come down the road with more powerful models. Google is back in the race. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689554/google-ai-chatbot-bard-employees-criticism-pathological-liar" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Is it, though?</a> It’s July 18th. The summerest summer ever. The sun is high; the air is hot; GPUs will go brrr once more. Meta is done wasting time on the Metaverse and announces a widely applauded AI release: An open-source second version of their popular LLaMA model, Llama 2. They’ve done it to give OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google a lesson on how to do things in the open. <a href="https://albertoromgar.medium.com/if-you-want-to-master-generative-ai-ignore-all-but-two-tools-d6f511fa582">Website</a>