OpenAI developing explainability tool; IBM releases Watsonx AI; Nintendo Switch sales fall
Researchers at OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, have open-sourced datasets from a nascent effort aimed at building an automated tool to explain how large language models work. They discussed their efforts in a paper they published yesterday on their website. IBM, at its annual think conference yesterday released a new AI platform and tools. And for fans of the Nintendo Switch, the eponymous company’s latest results won’t bring any cheer. Sales of the hand-held console have dropped, dimming the prospect of an update to the product. Notes: IBM has launched Watsonx, an AI and data platform aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI models quickly and cost-effectively. The platform will provide businesses with a full technology stack for training, tuning, and deploying AI models, including IBM-curated and trained foundation models and machine learning capabilities. IBM Watsonx.ai and IBM Watsonx.data will offer an AI development studio with foundation models, tools for training and tuning, and a data store for training and tuning data, and an optimized data store built on open lakehouse architecture optimized for governed data and AI workloads. The platform will be available from July 2023. OpenAI researchers have proposed an automated approach to producing natural language explanations of individual components, including neurons and attention heads, in neural networks. The proposed method uses GPT-4 to generate and score explanations of neuron behaviour. The authors are open-sourcing their datasets and visualization tools for GPT-4 written explanations, with hopes that the research community will develop new techniques for generating higher-scoring explanations and better tools for exploring language models. Nintendo has reported a 5.5 percent YoY decrease in revenue for its fiscal year, with the 22 percent fall in sales of its flagship Switch console contributing to the decline. Net profit fell by more than 9 percent to JPY432.7bn. Nintendo sold 17.97 million Switch units, in line with its forecast, compared with 23 million the previous year. The company has cited a shortage of semiconductors and other components as affecting production. Zyngo EV Mobility, a Gurugram-based logistics service provider, has raised $5m in pre-Series A funding led by Delta Corp Holdings, with participation from LC Nueva Investment Partners. Zyngo offers last-mile delivery solutions through a fleet of electric vehicles, targeting B2B and B2C customers, with a unique "asset-light model" acting as an intermediary between supply and demand in the market. The company aims to deploy 18,000+ zero-emission EV fleets across India by 2025 and intends to launch a hyperlocal B2C delivery mobile app. Realme has launched the realme C55 Rainforest edition, a smartphone with a green hue meant to evoke the essence of a rainforest. The phone is powered by MediaTek Helio G88 Chipset and has a 17.07cm (6.72'') 90Hz FHD+ display, the largest in this price segment. The realme C55 also has ‘Mini Capsule’ and Sunshower design features, and up to 16GB of dynamic RAM.