Quora introduces Poe, a way to talk to AI chatbots like ChatGPT • InNewCL
#Quora #introduces #Poe #talk #chatbots #ChatGPT #InNewCL Welcome to InNewCL, here is the new story we have for you today:
Click Me To View Restricted Videos
Signaling its interest in text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, Quora this week launched a platform called Poe that allows people to ask questions, get instant answers, and engage in back-and-forth dialogue with AI chatbots.
Short for “Platform for Open Exploration,” Poe — which is invitation-only and currently only available on iOS — is “designed to be a place where people can easily interact with a range of different AI agents,” said a Quora Spokesperson to InNewCL via text message.
“We’ve learned a lot about developing consumer internet products over the past 12 years building and operating Quora. And we have particular experience in helping people who are looking for knowledge,” the spokesman said. “We believe that much of what we have learned can be applied to this new area where humans interact with large language models.”
So Poe is not an attempt to create a ChatGPT-like AI model from scratch. ChatGPT – capable of answering questions on subjects ranging from poetry to coding – has been the subject of controversy for its ability to sometimes provide answers that sound convincing but are factually untrue. Earlier this month, Q&A coding site Stack Overflow temporarily banned users from sharing content generated by ChatGPT, saying the AI is making it too easy for users to generate answers and flooding the site with dubious answers.
Quora might have found itself in hot water if, for example, it trained a chatbot on its platform’s massive collection of crowdsourced questions and answers. Users may have issues with their content being used in this way, especially given that some AI systems recreate parts of the data they were trained on (e.g. code). Some parties have protested against generative art systems like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 and code-generating systems like GitHub’s Copilot, which they say steal their work and profit from it.
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by allowing Copilot to regurgitate portions of the licensed code without citing the source. And on art community portal ArtStation, which began allowing AI-generated art on its platform earlier this year, members began protesting widely by posting “No AI Art” images in their portfolios.
Photo credit: Quora
At launch, Poe provides access to multiple text-generating AI models, including ChatGPT. (OpenAI doesn’t currently offer a public API for ChatGPT; the Quora spokesperson declined to say if Quora has a partnership with OpenAI for Poe or some other form of early access.) Poe is like a texting app, but for AI- Models – Users can chat with the models separately. Within the chat interface, Poe offers a number of different suggested talking points and use cases, such as “Writing Help”, “Cooking”, “Problem Solving” and “Nature”.
Poe will only ship with a handful of models at launch, but Quora plans to offer model providers – e.g. B. Companies – to provide an opportunity to submit their models for inclusion in the near future.
“We believe this will be a fun way for people to interact with and explore different language models. Poe is designed so that using natural conversation is the best way for someone to get an instant answer to any question they have,” the spokesperson said. “There is an incredible amount of research and development going on to improve the capabilities of these models, but to bring all this value to people around the world requires good interfaces that are easy to use. We hope to be able to provide this interface so that everyone around the world can share in the benefits as much as possible as all of these developments unfold over the coming years.”
It’s fairly well known that AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, can generate biased, racist, and otherwise toxic content — not to mention malicious code. Quora takes no steps to address this itself, relying on the providers of the models in Poe to moderate and filter the content themselves.
“The model providers have gone to great lengths to prevent the bots from generating unsafe responses,” the spokesman said.
The narrator was pretty clear that Poe isn’t a part of Quora for now — and certainly won’t be in the future. Quora sees it as a separate, independent project, similar to Google’s AI Test Kitchen, designed to be iterated and refined over time.
When asked about Poe’s business motivations, the rep disagreed, saying it was just early days. But it’s not hard to imagine how Quora, which makes most of its money from paywalls and advertising, could build premium features into Poe as it grows.
For now, however, Quora is focused on working out scalability, getting feedback from beta testers, and resolving issues as they arise.
“The entire field is moving very quickly now, and we’re more interested in finding out what problems we can solve for people with Poe,” the spokesperson said.
