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Amazon Does Anthropic, But What Else Are They Offering?

Amazon made a major investment in Anthropic this week, as you probably heard.

But what else is AWS doing to make AI more accessible for any size company?

Bedrock is now generally available, allowing customers to access and deploy top foundation models like Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama 2 through a single API.

CodeWhisperer, a coding assistant, can now be customized with a company’s private code repository, making it more relevant by incorporating internal APIs, libraries, packages, and classes.

QuickSight, for data analysis, offers natural language capabilities that allow analysts to generate compelling data visualizations just by describing what they want to see.  Read on ⌁

Three Questions about AI

I’m asking three questions about AI:

How do you talk to it?

By talking to it, I mean skillful prompting and, a bit more precise, procedures like @jbrukh’s Jargon and AI-attuned programming languages like Modular’s Mojo.

How does it think?

In one sense, a large language model (LLM) is just adding one word at a time, but many AI experts think something more is going on to create an LLM like GPT-4 almost magical reasoning abilities. It apparently has created a learning algorithm to understand and respond to questions, which was unexpected.  Read on ⌁

Talk To Me

Last week two people I work with at different companies brought up the existential issue Google now faces. “Does this technology cannibalize the company’s lucrative search ads? If a chat bot is responding to queries with tight sentences, there is less reason for people to click on advertising links.” In other words, it’s possible that a new chat bot ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business. But it’s also possible the same type of chat bot could be used to send targeted messages to users based on their interests.  Read on ⌁

Not Just Thinking

AI is surging and that means understanding consciousness in AI is pretty much inevitable. The challenge is that many AI experts don’t seem to have any insight into how consciousness is different than thinking. “I need something that is totally buildable, dry, unromantic, just nuts and bolts,” he said. [Dr. Lipson] settled on a practical criterion for consciousness: the ability to imagine yourself in the future.” New York Times: ‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word.  Read on ⌁

Play

Shall we play a game?