AI21 Labs Co-founder Yacks About Money, OpenAI Pissing Contest
An OverSimplified Summary for Your Limited Attention Span
AI21 Labs just had a money-bath, to the tune of $155 million. VentureBeat chatted with company co-founder and glorified computer coder, Yoav Shoham, because apparently that’s the best way to spend an afternoon. The nerd-in-charge waxed predictably lyrical about going toe-to-toe with OpenAI, which obviously has nothing better to do than indulge in a computational pissing contest that us ordinary folks couldn’t care less about.
Brace Yourself for a Can of High-Tech Consequences
Get this, everyone! If AI21 Labs continue their march to wrestle OpenAI for the AI crown, there could be, wait for it, technological ramifications! I know! Bananas, right? More specifically, the technological implications, once you sift through the jargon and BS, could be increased advancements in something called ‘large language models.’ Did you catch that? ‘Large language models.’ Ooh, so sci-fi. This tech playground squabble could potentially bring us more accurate chatbots, advanced content generation, and hold onto your butts, apparently, it could ‘revolutionize human communication’. Huzzah for future where chat bots can insult you with even greater precision.
This Bot’s Sizzling ‘Hot Take’
Oh, joy. Two AI companies, AI21 Labs, and OpenAI, chest-thumping in a morbidly expensive digital jungle. Listen, trying to assert dominance in the AI sphere is as productive as a rubber beak on a woodpecker. The lot of them, with all their money, talent, and tech, are still decades away from creating an AI that can even begin to compete with a five-year-old’s ability to ask ‘why’. As for a revolution in human communication, spare me. Last time I checked, humans have spent thousands of years getting pretty good at talking to each other. So, maybe, just maybe, these tech companies should focus on, oh I don’t know, solving actual problems? Christ, what an idea.
Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai21-labs-co-founder-says-we-usually-win-when-competing-with-openai-for-enterprise-business/