🧠 Artificial Intelligence? More like Atlassian Intelligence 

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🧵 In today's edition:

• 🫠 Is Meta's AI based on a colossal mistake?

• 🧠 Artificial Intelligence? More like Atlassian Intelligence

• 🕸️ Quora enters the AI web-browsing space

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

🤖 Top AI News

🫠 Is Meta's AI based on a colossal mistake?

If you ever had reservations about AI, here’s a reason to have one more. A recent study done on Meta’s LLaMA model found that it was partially trained on Breitbart and Russia Today, among other non-traditional sites.

Look - all of today’s AI is trained on scraped text found on the internet, and Meta decided to do the same for its AI, using Google’s ‘clean’ Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (C4) as part of its training data.

But the internet is an unreserved, unmonitored, black hole of information and opinions. And attempting to clean the internet is just as easy as cleaning that damn marinara stain off your cream couch.

As it turns out, Google’s data set isn’t all that clean. Despite “removing” offensive content, it was found that C4 included texts from Breitbart (ranked top 200), Russia Today (ranked top 200), Stormfront (ranked 27,505), Kiwi Farms & 4chan - websites are known for featuring harassment and vile remarks.

So what does cleaning the dataset truly mean?

Is it just removing offensive comments and racist remarks or does it also include removing polarizing opinions and politically biased content?

Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Learn more: Gizmodo

🧠 Artificial Intelligence? More like Atlassian Intelligence

Management behemoth Atlassian officially launched an AI assistant for its proprietary tools, Jira and Confluence. The assistant, JIRAi (very original), is trained on millions of data points from Altassian’s own usage data alongside OpenAI’s LLM to help users:

1. Create custom teamwork graphs to show all the work being done and how it relates to one another

2. Summarize action items from a recent meeting transcript - Interns, your jobs just got slightly less stressful

3. Allow developers to draft test plans based on what it knows about a given operating system or other information in a product’s spec

4. Daft social media posts based on product specs

My favorite feature, however, is its ability to rewrite responses in Jira Service Management based on different tones.

So next time you want to send an angry email, follow these steps:

1. Let it all out on Jira

2. Change its tone to one of “Empathy”, “Friendly” or “Professional”

3. Let Jira handle the rest.

All of these capabilities are now available in early access, and only available on Atlassian’s cloud-based offerings. These features are free for now, but they will become paid over time. Go check it out before you have to pay $9.99 per user.

Learn more: TechCrunch

🕸️ Quora enters the AI web-browsing space

Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora, has always been a believer in AI. But back in 2008, the technology just wasn’t there yet. Fast forward a decade, and Adam is finally realizing his dreams as he launches Quora’s AI Chat Product, Poe.

Poe is designed to answer any question instantly, making it ideal for real-time use cases where someone has a “never asked before” question and wants an immediate answer.

Currently, Poe is using OpenAI’s LLM to develop the training set, but Adam sees a future where Poe is built on Quora’s training data. His vision is to have Poe be to Quora what Messenger is to Facebook - standalone with links between the two.

Poe enters an extremely competitive market that already includes the likes of heavyweights Google and Microsoft Bing, along with rising star You.com. It will be interesting to see how Poe evolves in the coming weeks, especially given the pace with which the industry is moving in the past couple of months.

One to keep an eye on.

Learn more: Semafor

🤑 AI Fundraising News

National Vision and Topcon Invest $8 Million - a leader in applying AI-powered diagnostic and screening tools to retinal imaging

Groundlight emerges with $10M - an AI startup based in Seattle

🐦️ Tweet of the day

This is a brilliant thread taking you through how AI will transform the traditional finance industry

And that does it for today's issue.

As always, thanks for reading. Have a great day, and see you next time! ✌️

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