Sparrow, the DeepMind chatbot that will compete with ChatGPT

The co-founder and CEO of DeepMindDemis Hassabis, has warned of the dangers to humanity that a technology as powerful as the one he himself helped develop can entail, and has announced that they plan to start facilitating their own chatbot, in the style of ChatGPTthis year.

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DeepMind is a subsidiary of Alphabet, google matrixfocused on the development of artificial intelligence technologies, with the purpose of “solve intelligence problems, to advance science and benefit humanity”as she herself explains on her website.

This company is responsible for MuZero, who learned to play chess, shogi and Go, as well as 57 different Atari games without first knowing the rules; the Pythia algorithm, which deciphers texts from ancient Greece that have been damaged and are almost unreadable; and of AlphaGowho went on to defeat one of Go’s professional players with a score of 5-0 in 2016.

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In 2021, AlphaFold2also from DeepMind, was highlighted by Science for having achieved solve the structures of 350,000 human proteins, 44% of all known human proteins. The company is currently directing its machine learning technologies at nuclear fusion research.

Hassabis’s greatest ambition, however, is to create a artificial general intelligence (AGI), with an intelligence equal to that of human beings, with the capacity to think, learn and plan for the future, which contributes to solving the most difficult problems of humanity. But this technology, which for the researcher “will define an era”It is not without risk.

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These revolve around privacy violations, biases, phishingthe distribution of false or erroneous news, among others, which have motivated, for example, the demand for specific ethical mechanisms for AI.

“I would advocate not moving fast and breaking things”Hassabis says in an interview with Time. “When it comes to very powerful technologies, and obviously AI is going to be one of the most powerful ever, we have to be careful.”Add.

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This concern was shared by the founder of DeepMind with former Google senior vice president Alan Eustace in 2013 when the tech giant took an interest in his artificial intelligence prototype. “He was thoughtful enough to understand that technology had long-term social implications, and he wanted to understand them before the technology was invented, not after it was implemented”Eustace has pointed out.

His posture contrasts with that of one of his rivals, OpenAI, co-founded by magnate Elon Musk, which in 2020 stood out for its GPT-3 language model, considered “the largest and most advanced in the world”with 175 billion parametersas termed by Microsoft.

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OpenAI is also known for the Dall-E generative art model, which creates realistic images from a text description, and more recently for ChatGPT, who has been surprised by of their responses and by their ability to generate and link ideas and recall previous conversations. And the new challenges it poses in education and cybersecurity, among other sectors.

DeepMind’s recent work also includes Chinchilla, for training computational models, and Sparrow, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, which the company is considering launching in private beta form sometime this year.

Source: Elcomercio

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