As we have already observed in a previous blog that some 1000 plus researchers and experts have called for a moratorium on AI research for six months. There are legitimate concerns about the acceleration of AI research. The moratorium period could be utilised by the tech companies to set standards. In the absence of the ban, there could be potentially catastrophic effects. The companies are racing ahead to develop more and more powerful digital minds, some of which even their creators could not understand, predict or control.

Google’s former CEO Schmidt is not in favour of a such a ban, as it would bring undue advantage to China. Instead, there should be appropriate guardrails.

Alibaba is compiling their large language model (LLM) called Tongy Qianwen translating roughly to ‘truth from a thousand questions’. It could be used primarily to process queries of the customers in their home/native language for the e-commerce giant.