Sony backs maker of tiny Raspberry Pi computers with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips
Summary
The company behind the Raspberry Pi line of computers has raised fresh investment from Sonys semiconductor unit, in a deal aimed at advancing its efforts in artificial intelligence. The company has since become a more active player in the enterprise — in a typical year, roughly 70% of its sales now come from commercial customers embedding its products into factories or consumer devices, Upton told CNBC. ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, has become a viral phenomenon, thanks to its ability to generate new content such as essays and poems from simple user prompts. In an open letter last month, Elon Musk and several other tech leaders called for a six-month moratorium on developing AI more advanced than GPT-4 — the latest large language model from OpenAI — citing risks to society. Upton said that, although GPT-4 and other large language models such as Googles Bard are impressive, he thinks concern that they will lead to AI capable of general intelligence on par with humans is overblown.