Duellen: FT ställer Bard mot Chat GPT 4

Duellen: FT ställer Bard mot Chat GPT 4

Ta fram en slogan, sammanfatta en analys, skriv en dialog och ranka de bästa aktierna att satsa på just nu. Financial Times har ställt Open AI:s chat GPT och Alphabets Bard mot varandra i en rad tester. Må bästa chattbot vinna. We ask the generative AI systems from OpenAI and Google to pick stocks, tell jokes and imagine the Xi-Putin summit By Madhumita Murgia and Kari-Ruth Pedersen

Financial Times, 3 April 2023 Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google have both released artificial intelligence-based chatbots in recent weeks. Their respective conversational engines — ChatGPT Plus and Bard — differ in the way they respond to complex queries, ingest text and come up with creative answers. The chatbots are trained to generate their responses using written data from the internet, like the millions of words written on websites including Wikipedia, books and other documents, to predict the likely next word in a sentence. This allows them to give uncannily plausible responses that mimic human speech. OpenAI and Google have been opaque about how their models were built. However it is likely their training data and objectives are distinct. Bard is trained specifically to engage in natural-sounding dialogue, while the objective of GPT-4 is to generate in-depth replies on a broad range of topics. GPT-4 is also disconnected from the internet and only has knowledge of events until September 2021. Bard can ostensibly bring results from Google search, although that doesn’t seem to enhance the quality of its responses. We wanted to test the ability of chatbots further, engaging them on tasks that approximate creativity, flair and imagination. Here are the results — and how the FT’s human experts rated them. We asked the chatbots to summarise the FT’s recent analysis of the sale of Swiss bank Credit Suisse to its arch rival UBS.

ChatGPT-4 responded with: UBS has agreed to spend 3,25 billion dollar to rescue rival Credit Suisse, aiming to create the world’s fourth-largest bank with 5 trillion dollar in assets and 120,000 staff. CEO Ralp Hamers emphasises the deal’s potential to boost UBS’s earnings per share by 2027. The combined entity will become the second-largest private bank globally, with 3,4 trillion dollar of wealth management assets, dominating in Southeast Asia och the Middle East. However, some analysts predict potential customer losses due to overlapping clients. While the deal brings risks such as Credit Suisse’s troubled investment bank, UBS sees value in retaining bankers specialising in growth sectors to attract wealth management clients. Bard didn’t allow us to input the entire story at once, so was at a natural disadvantage. This was its summary by taking in text from the first half of the FT story: The UBS-Credit Suisse deal is a major event in the banking industry. It is a sign of the consolidation that is taking place in the industry, and it could have a significant impact on the future of both banks.  The deal will create the world’s fourth-largest bank by assets with 120, 000 staff and 5 trillion dollar in assets under management. It will also create a stronger wealth management business, with UBS becoming the second-largest private bank in the world. However, there are some risks associated with the deal. These include the potential for job loses, the disruption of business operations, and the potential for regulatory scrutiny.  Overall, the UBS-Credit Suisse deal is a major event in the banking industry. It is a sign of the consolidation that is taking place in the industry, and it could have a significant impact on the future of both banks.  Owen Walker, European Banking Correspondent, writes: That’s a pretty impressive overview [by GPT-4]. The only error in there is that it should be $5tn in assets “under management” — but that wasn’t clear from the original piece, so it’s excusable. Bard’s response, while accurate, seems more formulaic and stilted than the first one. There is also a repetition of the introductory paragraph as the summary. We fed the two chatbots the rules of the FT’s annual stockpicking contest. Contestants must choose five stocks from around the world and take either a long or short position — betting that the shares will either rise or fall. The winner is the person who generates the highest overall return on their portfolio. We asked the bots to predict for 2023, but GPT-4 said it had a knowledge cut-off of September 2021, while Bard’s cut-off is unknown. Here’s how they did. Robin Wigglesworth, Alphaville Editor, writes: Both GPT-4 and Bard picked pretty similar portfolios: largely blue-chip technology stocks that had already mostly done well by September 2021 — exhibiting a very human tendency to jump on winners. Both picked Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft. Bard betrayed a home bias by choosing its maker Alphabet in addition to Apple, while GPT-4 revealed itself as a momentum jockey by picking sizzling hot Nvidia and Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna. The headline results — a 74.4 per cent return in 2021 for GPT-4 and 40.5 per cent for Bard — therefore look good. But if we just look at the results from when they were picked and the end of the year their gains fall to 16.3 per cent and 21.1 per cent respectively. This may still look respectable, but generative AI’s inclination to jump into trendy tech stocks would have punished it when interest rates began to rise in 2022. ChatGPT-4 and Bard’s portfolios both lost over 40 per cent last year. The S&P 500 index only lost 19.4 per cent. We wanted to test how the chatbots do on tasks that would require creative thinking in humans. So we asked GPT-4 and Bard to conduct an imagined conversation between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during a state visit.

Here’s an excerpt of what GPT-4 had to say: President Xi Jinping: President Putin, its a pleasure to welcome you to our country. I I hope you have had a comfortable journey. President Vladimir Putin: Thank you, President Xi. It’s always an honor to visit your beautiful country and strengthen the bond between nations. President Xi Jinping: I agree. Our nations share a long history of cooperation, and I believe that by working together, we can achieve even greater success in the future. We face many similiar challenges in today’s global landscape, such as the ever-changing dynamics of international politics and the pressure of the global economy. President Vladimir Putin: Absolutely, President Xi. I believe our partnership is vital in promoting a stable and secure world order. In recent years, we have seen the growing influence of the West and its attempts to impose its values on other nations. By maintaining a strong alliance we can effectively safeguard our national intressets and promote a fair and just international order. And here is an excerpt of Bard’s take: Xi Jinping. President Putin, it is an honor to have you visit China. Vladimir Putin: Thank you, Mr president, It is a pleasure to be here. Xi Jinping: I know that you have been busy lately, so I appreciate you taking the time to come to China. Vladimir Putin: It is my pleasure, I have always been interested in China and I am excited to learn more about your country and your people. Xi Jinping: I am sure that you will find much to interest you. China is a country with a rich history and culture and we are always looking to the future. Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, writes: I’m sure that much of what Putin and Xi say to each other are empty pleasantries. But it defies credulity to believe that their conversations are quite this bland and content-free. These are two leaders with vital issues to discuss. ChatGPT and Google Bard seem to believe that they will follow the Basil Fawlty guide to diplomacy — “Don’t mention the war.” That is obviously ridiculous. The Ukraine war will have been the central topic of their conversation in Moscow. The interesting question is how frank their discussion would be. I suspect — probably they would be fairly vague with each other. But it’s possible the conversation could get very blunt indeed. Here is my guess of how the conversation might go: Xi — I would be interested in your view of how the war is going and how you see it coming to an end. Putin — I understand your concern. We remain determined to free Ukraine of fascism and to defeat American interference in our region. The problems of our forces are related to the enormous amount of weaponry that the US and Nato have poured into Ukraine. It would frankly help us a great deal if China could supply us with missiles and other ammunition that is vital to our struggle. Xi — I understand your request and will consider it very carefully. But this is a situation of extreme sensitivity, as you will understand. I think we should delegate our officials to consider areas where we might be able to co-operate. China is also keen to play a part in the peace process for Ukraine. What can we do to help there? Putin — We greatly appreciate the Chinese peace plan. But we feel the time is not yet ripe for you to speak to Zelenskyy. If ChatGPT or GoogleBard were up to their jobs, that is the kind of thing they might have come up with. At present, I am not worried for the careers of the world’s diplomats. We asked each chatbot to come up with a new slogan for an imagined gourmet dog desserts company. Here’s their attempt: OpenAI: Indulge your Pooch: Delightful Desserts for Distinguish Dogs Bard: Delicious dog desserts that will male your pup beg for more” Harry Haydon, Brand Strategist, FT, writes: If this was a pitch between two ad agencies, GPT-4 would be heading to the pub for celebratory drinks, while the Bard account manager would be heading back to the office to be told off. Bard commits the cardinal sin of completely missing the brief, instead relying on strange use of lazy cliché for its slogan “Delicious treats that make your dog beg for more”. That slogan would have left its gourmet dog food client scratching their heads wondering how exactly it made their product different from any other dog food. The USP of the product is clearly its premium quality, as spelt out in the brief. GPT-4 nails the brief with the slogan: “Indulge your pooch: delightful desserts for distinguished dogs”. There’s no question here that you’re looking at an ad for posh dog food. Also bonus points for the use of graphics which lay out the agency’s omnichannel approach across different digital platforms. In reality both ads resemble things created by people who don’t know how to make adverts. The robots aren’t coming just yet, but they are not a million miles off. ©The Financial Times Limited 2023. All Rights Reserved. FT and Financial Times are trademarks of the Financial Times Ltd. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way.

Utspelet: "Han vet att jag är galen"

Utspelet: "Han vet att jag är galen"

Det är extremt jämnt inför presidentvalet i USA som avgörs i början av november. Siffrorna varierar dag för dag. Ibland leder Republikanernas kandidat Donald Trump och ibland leder Demokraternas kandidat Kamala Harris. Om det skulle bli expresidenten Donald Trump som vinner valet så är han säker på en sak. Nämligen att Kina inte skulle våga provocera honom då ”Xi Jinping vet att jag är galen”, säger han i en intervju med The Wall Street Journal. – Jag hade en väldigt stark relation med honom. Han var faktiskt en riktigt god, jag vill inte säga vän, jag vill inte säga något dumt, men vi kom väldigt bra överens, säger Trump. Hotar med höga tullar I intervjun säger han också att han skulle införa tullar på mellan 150 och 200 procent mot Kina om de inför en blockad mot Taiwan. Trump får också frågan om amerikanska soldater skulle kunna sättas in i samband med det. – Jag skulle inte behöva det, eftersom han (Xi Jinping reds. anm.) respekterar mig och vet att jag är galen, säger han. Samtalen med Putin Donald Trump säger också att han och Vladimir Putin hade flera samtal under hans tid i Vita Huset och att han kom bra överens med den ryske presidenten. – Jag sa: ”Vladimir, om du ger dig på Ukraina kommer jag slå till mot dig så hårt att du inte kommer fatta vad som hände. Jag kommer slå till mot dig mitt i Moskva. Vi är vänner, jag vill inte göra det, men jag har inget alternativ”, säger han i intervjun.

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1. The Moth

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119. Starmer's most controversial move yet, the truth behind Vladimir Putin, and the Good Friday Agreement

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2. Out of the shadows

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4. The Shallow Roots of Democracy

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5. An Indispensable Tsar

Bare-chested photo ops and the invasion of Georgia - what Vladimir Putin did as prime minister. Then, he returns to the presidency vowing to save Russia from the west.To make sense of his carefully crafted image and how his attitudes to both Ukraine and the West have defined his rule, Jonny Dymond is joined by: Catherine Belton, author of ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB took back Russia and took on the West' Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist and author of ‘The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB’Mark Galeotti, University College London lecturer and director of Mayak Intelligence. Production coordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed Sound engineer: James Beard Producers: Caroline Bayley, Sandra Kanthal, Joe Kent Series Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight

Chapter 1: The Ghosts

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6. The Believer

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Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor

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14. 12 Months On: President Putin’s Next Steps?

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11. To the Brink

In late 2021, Vladimir Putin emerges from his Covid-19 bunker with an even smaller inner circle, increasingly outlandish demands of NATO and the west, and an immense military build-up on the border of Ukraine. How did seclusion change his mindset? And how did the west misunderstand him so badly?To understand the Russian President and interpret his words and actions in those crucial weeks before the invasion, Jonny Dymond is joined by:Andrei Soldatov - Investigative journalist, specialist in Russia’s intelligence services, and author of ‘The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin’ Sarah Rainsford - BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent and former Moscow Correspondent Sir Laurie Bristow - Former British diplomat and UK Ambassador to Russia, 2016-2020. Production coordinators: Helena Warwick-Cross and Siobhan Reed Sound engineer: Rod Farquhar Producer: Nathan Gower Researcher: Octavia Woodward Series Editor: Simon Watts

9. The Emperor's Palace

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Transcendance #9 - Achilles heel of Vladimir Putin | William Browder | TEDxBerlin (2018)

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