Microsoft recently announced plans to offer a privacy-centric version of their popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, on their Azure cloud platform. The new version of ChatGPT will be hosted on dedicated servers and any data collected by the chatbot will be separated from the public version.
In addition to Microsoft, other companies are also taking a plunge into AI. This year, Slack announced its own ambitious push into generative AI — SlackGPT. Details of the project still remain under wraps, and when and how it will become available for customers is unclear.
In celebration of Star Wars Day on May 4th, it is important to remember how far AI technology has come since the imaginative and futuristic world of Star Wars. While companies are using chatbot and other AI technologies to enhance efficiency, there is an increasing movement to regulate these technologies, spearheaded by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has grown significantly in popularity in 2021, has been met with global calls for regulations due to its potential for misuse.
AI continues to play a bigger role in our lives, and companies such as Microsoft and Slack are leading the way into the future of AI. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has helped usher in a new era of AI products, while Slack has been collaborating with Red Hat to build a more secure messaging platform.
OpenAI’s Founders, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever have been at the forefront of AI innovation and they have also served as ambassadors for ethical AI use. As OpenAI continues to make strides in the field of AI technology, it will be interesting to see how regulators respond to their products.
In any case, it is possible that both Microsoft and Slack’s ventures into the AI space may help shape the future of the industry through increased collaboration, improved safety, and better regulation.
