Microsoft-backed super-lab gets access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI
Stack Overflow, a community-driven Q&A site, and OpenAI, maker of AI models, have agreed to work to improve each other's products, the latest deal in a series of tie-ups to feed machine learning models' thirst for data.
the partnership on Monday as a way to"strengthen the world's most popular large language models," by which they mean OpenAI's.with Google Cloud, may also strengthen the developer site's business prospects by ensuring it receives some consideration from OpenAI for the super lab's scraping of advice of the Stack Overflow community. As to how generative AI will make things better for Stack Overflow visitors seeking help, that's not entirely clear. Asoffered four days ago by"VonC," a Stack Overflow contributor, who admitted to making about 1850 posts over the past year or so, two thirds of which were based on AI-generated text. "I would like to sincerely apologize for the series of answers I posted on Stack Overflow over the past 13 months, which were based on outputs generated from an AI tool ," wrote VonC."I understand that this action was against Stack Overflow's community guidelines, which explicitly ban the use of generative AI for creating posts."that the site was in crisis because people with programming questions were increasingly asking ChatGPT for answers, to the detriment of visitor traffic, participation, and revenue. "ChatGPT and GenAI in general have become a serious existential threat to Stack Overflow's revenue model, and therefore the company has become desperate to try to find some way to get back the lost users they have lost to ChatGPT," our source said."And the way they seem to have chosen to try to lure them back is by 'pivoting' into turning the site into a kind of elaborate ChatGPT clone of their own."OverflowAI, an initiative that aims to help software developers by enlisting generative AI in the question-and-answer process. It encompasses efforts to make search more conversational, to ingest enterprise knowledge and integrate with Slack, among other things. For example, OverflowAI might offer a summary answer to a question – remixed from human-authored replies with cited sources – instead of a community-ranked list of different responses that vary in quality."We want to make it possible for public platform users to receive instant, trustworthy, and accurate solutions to problems using conversational search powered by GenAI," said CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar at the time."Our goal with OverflowAPI, and our work to advance the era of socially responsible AI, is to set new standards with vetted, trusted, and accurate data that will be the foundation on which technology solutions are built and delivered to our users," he opined. But specifics about the partnership are scarce. According to the announcement,"OpenAI will utilize Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI product and collaborate with Stack Overflow to improve model performance for developers who use their products." Also,"Stack Overflow will utilize OpenAI models as part of their development of OverflowAI and work with OpenAI to leverage insights from internal testing to maximize the performance of OpenAI models."staff moderator Rosie in response to a request for more details."As work begins in the future, we will have more to share about how integrations with our partners will work."Easing the cloud migration journeyMicrosoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI22
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