Microsoft makes new billionaire contribution to OpenAI

A ecosystem just invested even more money in the technology of artificial intelligence used on its public cloud platform, the Azure, with an injection of billions into the OpenAI.

The relationship between the two companies

Since 2019 the ecosystem has been putting a lot of money into the funding behind the OpenAI, founded by the South African multibillionaire. At the time, the giant invested one billion dollars in the business with the intention of building a general artificial intelligence (AGI, from English, artificial general intelligence) to be applied to the Azure, Microsoft's public cloud platform.

O OpenAI had already attracted attention by developing a artificial intelligence capable of defeating flesh and blood opponents in a variety of traditional games and even the most modern games. In experiments with more concrete purposes, the technology proved to be quite versatile, proving itself capable of producing a considerable number of fake news beyond believable, in addition to improving the motor skills of cybernetic hands, in robotics.

Musk has since left the company he founded due to his fear of the dangers posed by using technology. IA. may bring in the future. In a press statement, the OpenAI highlighted some of the possible achievements that their research can achieve, such as reversing climate change, bringing about a better and more sustainable health system, and even, eventually, providing personalized education to children around the world.

In 2021, Microsoft has again put a significant amount of money into the OpenAI, an amount which, according to the The New York Times, since then, in additional applications, has already reached two billion dollars, in addition to those initially invested. In these three years since the beginning of the relationship between the two companies, Microsoft, together with the Azure, released several tools based on OpenAI.

OpenAI applications and their possible controversies

Among the uses of OpenAI by the Azure, is natural language programming, which allows creators to develop applications using more colloquial programming, citing what they want applied to their app so that IA. translate as usable code. The DALL-E 2 graphic design tool, in turn, which as part of Microsoft's suite of productivity applications, the 365, facilitates the inclusion of computer-generated images in social network posts, invitations and documents.

The controversy generated by the legal use of images generated by the possible appropriation of intellectual works by DALL-E 2 made the Getty Images ban technology, in order to avoid possible legal conflicts, with its CEO, Craig Peters, stating that there is an intrinsic risk in using the tool. 

What's next for OpenAI

Among the future additions to the Azure with the help of OpenAI, Microsoft has been providing access to OpenAI to more users, including the ChatGPT, a new language model focused on producing texts and understanding the context behind a conversation, usually seen in virtual assistants, such as automated customer service systems.

No deployment has yet been announced. ChatGPT No. Bing, Microsoft's search portal, which would lead the system to have a considerable advantage over Google, the main competitor in the area. Google itself has already shown that it feels threatened by the possibility of using the application generated by artificial intelligence by the ecosystem, with the acceleration of its own development program de IA. It was one adopted measure by its CEO, Sundar Pichai, shortly after the announcement of the layoff of thousands of employees around the world.

Conclusion

Even if such functionalities as the enlargement of the Bing with the inclusion of ChatGPT do not bear fruit, only Google's fear of this threat, causing a radical change in its future plans, demonstrates the devastating potential that the ecosystem have in their hands with technology powered by OpenAI. It is now up to know how it will actually be applied, and whether there will be a considerable improvement in the experience of users across the planet with ever-wider access to the Azure. 

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Sources: Bloomberg, Endgadget, ecosystem, The New York Times