5 things about AI you may have missed today: Opera browser gets Chatbot, India's supercomputer and more
As the European Union is nearing the completion of its artificial intelligence act, regulators and business leaders across the globe are waiting to understand how the dynamic shifts after the first AI regulation comes into effect. But we will have to wait longer to see it happen. On the other hand, today was another interesting day in the AI world as the Opera browser joined Microsoft Edge after introducing a ChatGPT-powered chatbot side panel. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.
Opera browser has joined the ranks of Microsoft Edge browser after it unveiled its new AI side panel called Aria. It is powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, and it can answer questions, translate languages, and generate text, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc.
Aria can be accessed by clicking on the chat icon in the Opera toolbar. Once you have opened the chat, you can type in your question or request. Aria will then respond to your query. Users can access it for free.
In the latest ranking of global supercomputers by Top 500, a non-profit organization, India's AI supercomputer Airawat bagged the 75th rank globally. Airavat was developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) and the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). It was inaugurated on 10 December 2022. Airavat is the first supercomputer in India to be based on the ARM architecture.
It has a peak performance of 1.3 petaflops and a sustained performance of 0.7 petaflops. Airavat is used for a variety of scientific and engineering applications, including climate modeling, drug discovery, and materials science.
Responding to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's statement on the need to develop a United Nations-like body for AI to regulate the space,
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