(Weekly Digest) ChatGPT Misuses at Work, Alibaba's New Multimodal Model
Another busy week in the AI World… Here is what happened.
Today’s Summary
Samsung Employees' Misstep: Utilizing ChatGPT Leads to Data Leakage
Alibaba Introduces Competitor to ChatGPT as Main Event Draws Near
Samsung Issues Warning after Employees Unintentionally Share Sensitive Information with ChatGPT
Samsung employees unintentionally disclosed top secret data while utilizing ChatGPT for assistance with their tasks. The company had permitted engineers from its semiconductor division to use the AI writer for addressing source code issues.
However, during this process, the workers inadvertently inputted confidential information, including source code for a new program and internal meeting notes pertaining t hardware data. Consequently, within a span of less than a month, there were three documented instances of employees inadvertently leaking sensitive information through ChatGPT. As ChatGPT retains user input data for further training, these trade secrets from Samsung are now in possession of OpenAI, the organization behind the AI service.
As a result, Samsung Semiconductor is currently creating its own in-house AI system exclusively for internal use by employees. However, the prompts for this system are constrained to a maximum size of 1024 bytes. Samsung Electronics also issued a warning to its workforce regarding the risks associated with leaking confidential information, highlighting that once such data is stored on OpenAI's servers, retrieval becomes impossible.
In the competitive semiconductor industry, any form of data leakage could have disastrous consequences for the affected company.
Kind reminder (again): always remember that any information you share with ChatGPT is stored and utilized to continue training the model.
Alibaba Unveils Rival to ChatGPT in Anticipation of Upcoming Event
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. was extending an invitation to users to test its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) tool, "Tongyi Qianwen," in a bid to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company's cloud computing unit provided invitation codes to select corporate customers, allowing them to try out the large language model. The name "Tongyi Qianwen," which draws inspiration from the ancient philosopher Mencius, translates to "Truth from a Thousand Questions."
Notably, the service's website is currently available only in Chinese, indicating its potential focus on processing queries in Alibaba's home language for its e-commerce operations.
Alibaba Cloud should launch its large-scale model after its technology summit this Tuesday in Beijing, during which CEO Daniel Zhang will be delivering a speech.
The techie’s touch: Alibaba harnessed the power of 512 GPUs to train M6, its pioneering large multimodal model, boasting a staggering 10 billion parameters.
Humor Unleashed: AI's Funniest Moment of the Week
That’s all for this digest, ChatGPT folks!
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