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🤖 Will ChatGPT decide who dies in war, thanks to Palantir?

🤖 Will ChatGPT decide who dies in war, thanks to Palantir?

PLUS: Harvey AI raises fresh cash for AI lawyering

Jameson Zaballos
April 27, 2023

Welcome back.

We’re not gonna lie, the stories today are pretty corporate. If you like consulting or the legal field, you’re in for a treat.

If you like AI, you’re still in for a treat.

🤖 Top Stories

🚀 PwC commits $1 billion to AI, because that’s what consultants do

So, am I saving any money with AI consultants, or…

PwC is committing a billion dollars (with a b) to AI.

They’re giving all their employees access to AI tools like ChatGPT. That benefit is twofold; better employees, and expertise they can sell to clients.

At the same time, as part of My+, PwC US will invest in upskilling its 65,000 people on AI tools and capabilities in order to work faster and smarter, help grow their careers, and advise clients on the benefits of AI as well as other transformative technology.

OpenAI and Azure won big here - PwC will also develop on the GPT4 API.

Bottom line: every company under the sun is figuring out how to add AI.

Consulting firms like PwC want a slice of that revenue pie.

😬 AI, inevitably, arrives on the battlefield

Palantir is a controversial company, to put it lightly.

Now, it’s expanding the scope of AI to the battlefield.

In the video above, Palantir is showing off its Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform. Or PAIP, as they call it. That's a dumb acronym.

PAIP's main goal is to integrate LLMs like Bard or ChatGPT for a company. Palantir goes one step further and shows it aiding in a real-life conflict.

In the scenario, a soldier monitoring a border notices enemies amassing in an area. That soldier quickly asks PAIP to help. PAIP responds by assembling drones to survey the area. It even jams up the enemy’s radar. It then uses the drones to get a rough estimate of the size of the army.

We know what you’re thinking. What happens when the AI is wrong?

Palantir says they have a plan for that with three “pillars” the AI leans on. They boil down to the customer controlling the AI’s scope, ethics, and records. PAIP records everything, and follows the scope and rules set by the owner.

Any future conflict will play out this way. Whoever has the best tech has the best advantage.

👀 Harvey AI raises fresh cash for AI lawyering

We can't believe we're saying this. Law might outpace tech for AI adoption.

Harvey AI, the AI startup powering lawyers at a few of the top law firms in the world, just raised a huge stack of cash. $21 million, to be exact.

Investors Sequoia and the OpenAI startup fund were notable participants.

Harvey AI is in a unique position to capitlzie on the AI hype in a very sensitive area. Legal and healthcare fields will need more care than, say, a typical SaaS product. Harvey's product positioning helps them with that. Harvey AI provides tools for lawyers to get their work done faster - not actual AI lawyers.

Yet.

HarveyAI is also one of the first and most notable customers of GPT-4. Hence, OpenAI funding.

We’re still waiting on the Harvey AI for healthcare.