Top 5 stories of the week: The generative AI market is heating up (even more)

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Once again, AI news has been in the headlines this week. In particular, the generative AI market is becoming increasingly competitive, with new and established companies making significant investments.

This includes GitHub's new Copilot X; TestGPT, the new code integrity tool from startup Codium AI; and a whole host of new tools, services, and capabilities from Nvidia. Still, skepticism remains, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even expressing misgivings.

Not at the top of the list (but still outstanding when it comes to AI): Databricks released their GPT-like Dolly; OpenAI turned ChatGPT into an overnight platform with several new plugins; OpenAI rival Character AI announced a $1 billion valuation; and Google launched Bard, a competitor to ChatGPT, Claude and Bing Chat.

Want to know more? Here are the top five stories for the week of March 20-24.

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After "another epic week on generative AI," Sharon Goldman, editor and managing editor of VentureBeat AI, wrote in her "AI Beat" column that she was "more than ready for a dose of reality thoughtful amid the AI ​​hype."

That's what she found in a March 2021 AI research paper, "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" Although it led to layoffs, the researchers decided it was time to revisit the bombshell article – which, in hindsight, seemed to foreshadow current debates around the risks of LLMs such as GPT-4 in its comparison of language models to "a stochastic parrot". ."

In our second top story, Michael Nuñez, VentureBeat's newest editor and writer, broke the news of GitHub's new Copilot X.

As a pioneer in the use of generative AI for code completion, GitHub is now deepening its partnership with OpenAI by adopting the latest GPT-4 model and expanding the capabilities of Copilot.

Its new AI-powered tool, built using OpenAI's Codex model, writes 46% of the code on the platform and has helped developers code up to 55% faster. By automatically completing comments and code, Copilot serves as an AI pair programmer that keeps developers focused and productive.

Nvidia held its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, which came with several new announcements.

Most notably, the company is continuing its investments in AI and its push into hardware. Nvidia Now Offers Rental of AI Supercomputing Infrastructure with DGX Cloud; new hardware for AI inference and recommendations; and Isaac Sim for remote robot design (among many other new tools and capabilities).

Dressed in his signature leather jacket and armed with his quick wit, humor and enthusiasm, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a highly anticipated keynote address focusing almost entirely on the AI