Pi, the world’s ‘friendliest’ chatbot
Context:
- After Anthropic’s Claude 3 captured the attention of the AI community, Inflection AI launched its latest LLM, Inflection 2.5 which is an upgrade to its model that powers its friendly chatbot Pi personal assistant.
- Inflection AI is a California-based AI startup and was founded by former co-founders of DeepMind and Linked In, introduced Pi, their personal AI, in May 2023.
- According to Inflection AI, Pi has been designed to be “empathetic, helpful, and safe”.
- Following the success of the chatbot, the company then introduced its new major foundation model which was Inflection 2, in November 2023.
- At the time of the launch of Inflection 2, the company claimed that Inflection 2 to be the best LLM in the world.
- Now, the company is back with an upgraded version and it is now claimed to be as good as GPT-4.
- It was launched on March 7 Inflection 2.5 and is available to all Pi’s users at pi.ai, iOS, and Android.
What is Inflection 2.5?
- According to the makers, Inflection-2.5 is actually an upgraded in-house model that is competitive with all the world’s leading LLMs like GPT-4 and Gemini.
- The company also claims that the newly upgraded LLM comes with its signature personality and also uniquely empathetic fine-tuning.
- The company also stated that its latest model achieved GPT-4’s performance with only 40 per cent of the OpenAI model’s computation power for training.
- Apart from that, it seems Inflection 2.5 has made some stellar strides in areas of IQ like coding and mathematics.
- The steps basically means that the model has made substantial improvements on key benchmarks.
- With the recent new upgrade, Pi has now been endowed with world-class real-time web search capabilities to ensure that users get access to high-quality and up-to-date information in real-time.
What is the Pi chatbot?
- PI is an AI chatbot with the help of which one can have deep and meaningful conversations.
- To access the chatbot, one needs to log on to Inflection.AI, click on Meet Pi, and simply start talking to the chatbot after this.
- It is important to note that while ChatGPT offered human-like responses, Pi came with a radically different vigour.
- Pi is considered more humane and has been promoted as a chatbot that has a personality.
- In other words, Inflection AI dubbed it as a chatbot which is supportive, smart, and there for you anytime.
- While ChatGPT and Gemini were mostly personal assistants which were useful at work, Pi is more like a companion to humans and is free to use.
- The chatbot comes with a voice, in six distinct voices, to choose from adding life to the conversations.
- Inflection-2 outclassed Google’s flagship LLM PaLM 2 on various benchmarks which include MMLU (massive multitask language understanding), TriviaQA (a realistic text-based question-answering dataset), HellaSwag & GSM8k.
How is Inflection-2.5 different?
- With the upgraded language model Inflection-2.5, the company noted that it has enhanced the emotional quotient of the Pi chatbot.
- The company also claims that with the new LLM, users are talking to the Pi chatbot about a wider range of topics including discussing current events, getting local restaurant recommendations, studying for a biology exam, drafting business plans, coding, and even fun discussions on hobbies.
- According to the company, Inflection-2.5 is competitive with GPT-4 in many areas but uses nearly 40 per cent less computing power for training.
- Inflection 2.5 achieves 94 per cent of the average performance of GPT-4 on various IQ-oriented tasks.
- Inflection-2.5 also outperforms its predecessor Inflection-1 on the MMLU benchmark and also performs at the 85th percentile of human test-takers on the Physics GRE.
- It means Inflection-2.5 retains the Pi chatbot’s unique persona along with maintaining extraordinary safety standards.
- It achieves this all the while making the chatbot a more helpful model across the board.