Amazon is the latest tech giant to announce an AI bot

Apparently, the bot, called Q, will help companies write summaries of long documents and manage group conversations. The main goal of using a bot is, of course, to increase productivity.

Amazon's Q comes a year after OpenAI's ChatGPT arguably changed the tech world forever. Since then, we can observe how technological and also less technological companies work on the development of such and different artificially intelligent solutions.

On top of that, Amazon claims it will protect businesses from copyright issues that could arise from using the bot.

Amazon is referring to a large lawsuit against OpenAI developer (ChatGPT) recently presented in the media. The complications that led to the aforementioned lawsuit occurred due to an alleged violation of copyright in learning the model.

According to the BBC, with its Q, Amazon aims to get more and more companies to use its cloud services. Gradually, the model will be available in more and more Amazon applications.

According to what is currently known, the Q bot is capable of answering customer questions, generating spreadsheets, analyzing data, and generally helping businesses with their code needs.

It's no secret that the AI race between tech giants is getting tougher. So far, it seems that the main prize of this race is the ultimate innovation, and it seems that Microsoft is currently in first place. Why? Precisely because of large investments in ChatGPT.

Let's just remember that Amazon announced in September that it will invest about 3.5 billion euros in the AI company Anthropic, which is run by ex-employees of OpenAI. Among other things, Amazon also owns the company Mechanical Turk, which deals with learning AI models.

Fear of copyright

At the time of Q's release, Amazon was very adamant that it would protect the companies from various allegations and potential copyright issues, such as the lawsuit filed by comedian Sarah Silverman against OpenAI and Facebook owner Meta.

Silverman, along with two co-authors, claims that her books were used to teach the ChatGPT model and that Meta's LIama model also used her work.

Just this month, a judge in the US threw out most of Sarah Silverman's lawsuits.

On top of that, other authors, including Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman, have also called for artificial intelligence companies to pay for the use of their content.