A Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations in February 2024.
Welcome to the Daily Chronicle of AI Innovations in February 2024! This month-long blog series will provide you with the latest developments, trends, and breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence. From major industry conferences like ‘AI Innovations at Work’ to bold predictions about the future of AI, we will curate and share daily updates to keep you informed about the rapidly evolving world of AI. Join us on this exciting journey as we explore the cutting-edge advancements and potential impact of AI throughout February 2024.
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Alibaba’s EMO makes photos come alive (and lip-sync!)Researchers at Alibaba have introduced an AI system called “EMO” (Emote Portrait Alive) that can generate realistic videos of you talking and singing from a single photo and an audio clip. It captures subtle facial nuances without relying on 3D models.
EMO uses a two-stage deep learning approach with audio encoding, facial imagery generation via diffusion models, and reference/audio attention mechanisms.
Experiments show that the system significantly outperforms existing methods in terms of video quality and expressiveness.
Why does this matter?
By combining EMO with OpenAI’s Sora, we could synthesize personalized video content from photos or bring photos from any era to life. This could profoundly expand human expression. We may soon see automated TikTok-like videos.
Microsoft has launched a radically efficient AI language model dubbed 1-bit LLM. It uses only 1.58 bits per parameter instead of the typical 16, yet performs on par with traditional models of equal size for understanding and generating text.
Building on research like BitNet, this drastic bit reduction per parameter boosts cost-effectiveness relating to latency, memory, throughput, and energy usage by 10x. Despite using a fraction of the data, 1-bit LLM maintains accuracy.
Why does this matter?
Traditional LLMs often require extensive resources and are expensive to run while their swelling size and power consumption give them massive carbon footprints.
This new 1-bit technique points towards much greener AI models that retain high performance without overusing resources. By enabling specialized hardware and optimized model design, it can drastically improve efficiency and cut computing costs, with the ability to put high-performing AI directly into consumer devices.
Ideogram has launched a new text-to-picture app called Ideogram 1.0. It’s their most advanced ever. Dubbed a “creative helper,” it generates highly realistic images from text prompts with minimal errors. A built-in “Magic Prompt” feature effortlessly expands basic prompts into detailed scenes.
The Details:
Tests show that Ideogram 1.0 beats DALL-E 3 and Midjourney V6 at matching prompts, making sensible pictures, looking realistic, and handling text.
Why does this matter?
This advancement in AI image generation hints at a future where generative models commonly assist or even substitute human creators across personalized gift items, digital content, art, and more.
Adobe introduces Project Music GenAI Control, allowing users to create music from text or reference melodies with customizable tempo, intensity, and structure. While still in development, this tool has the potential to democratize music creation for everyone. (Link)
Morph Studio, a new AI platform, lets you create films simply by describing desired scenes in text prompts. It also enables combining these AI-generated clips into complete movies. Powered by Stability AI, this revolutionary tool could enable anyone to become a filmmaker. (Link)
Hugging Face along with Nvidia and Service Now launches StarCoder 2, an open-source code generator available in three GPU-optimized models. With improved performance and less restrictive licensing, it promises efficient code completion and summarization. (Link)
Meta plans to launch Llama 3 in July to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. It promises increased responsiveness, better context handling, and double the size of its predecessor. With added tonality and security training, Llama 3 seeks more nuanced responses. (Link)
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals plans to disclose Apple’s generative AI efforts soon, highlighting opportunities to transform user productivity and problem-solving. This likely indicates exciting new iPhone and device features centered on efficiency. (Link)
NVIDIA’s Nemotron-4 beats 4x larger multilingual AI models
Nvidia has announced Nemotron-4 15B, a 15-billion parameter multilingual language model trained on 8 trillion text tokens. Nemotron-4 shows exceptional performance in English, coding, and multilingual datasets. It outperforms all other open models of similar size on 4 out of 7 benchmarks. It has the best multilingual capabilities among comparable models, even better than larger multilingual models.
The researchers highlight how Nemotron-4 scales model training data in line with parameters instead of just increasing model size. As a result, inferences are computed faster, and latency is reduced. Due to its ability to fit on a single GPU, Nemotron-4 aims to be the best general-purpose model given practical constraints. It achieves better accuracy than the 34-billion parameter LLaMA model for all tasks and remains competitive with state-of-the-art models like QWEN 14B.
Why does this matter?
Just as past computing innovations improved technology access, Nemotron’s lean GPU deployment profile can expand multilingual NLP adoption. Since Nemotron fits on a single cloud graphics card, it dramatically reduces costs for document, query, and application NLP compared to alternatives requiring supercomputers. These models can help every company become fluent with customers and operations across countless languages.
GitHub has launched Copilot Enterprise, an AI assistant for developers at large companies. The tool provides customized code suggestions and other programming support based on an organization’s codebase and best practices. Experts say Copilot Enterprise signals a significant shift in software engineering, with AI essentially working alongside each developer.
Copilot Enterprise integrates across the coding workflow to boost productivity. Early testing by partners like Accenture found major efficiency gains, with a 50% increase in builds from autocomplete alone. However, GitHub acknowledges skepticism around AI originality and bugs. The company plans substantial investments in responsible AI development, noting that Copilot is designed to augment human developers rather than replace them.
Why does this matter?
The entire software team could soon have an AI partner for programming. However, concerns about responsible AI development persist. Enterprises must balance rapidly integrating tools like Copilot with investments in accountability. How leadership approaches AI strategy now will separate future winners from stragglers.
Slack’s latest workforce survey shows a surge in the adoption of AI tools among desk workers. There has been a 24% increase in usage over the past quarter, and 80% of users are already seeing productivity gains. However, less than half of companies have guidelines around AI adoption, which may inhibit experimentation. The research also spotlights an opportunity to use AI to automate the 41% of workers’ time spent on repetitive, low-value tasks. And focus efforts on meaningful, strategic work.
While most executives feel urgency to implement AI, top concerns include data privacy and AI accuracy. According to the findings, guidance is necessary to boost employee adoption. Workers are over 5x more likely to have tried AI tools at companies with defined policies.
Why does this matter?
This survey signals AI adoption is already boosting productivity when thoughtfully implemented. It can free up significant time spent on repetitive tasks and allows employees to refocus on higher-impact work. However, to realize AI’s benefits, organizations must establish guidelines and address data privacy and reliability concerns. Structured experimentation with intuitive AI systems can increase productivity and data-driven decision-making.
Video startup Pika announced a new Lip Sync feature powered by ElevenLabs. Pro users can add realistic dialogue with animated mouths to AI-generated videos. Although currently limited, Pika’s capabilities offer customization of the speech style, text, or uploaded audio tracks, escalating competitiveness in the AI synthetic media space. (Link)
Google is privately paying a group of publishers to test a GenAI tool. They need to summarize three articles daily based on indexed external sources in exchange for a five-figure annual fee. Google says this will help under-resourced news outlets, but experts say it could negatively affect original publishers and undermine Google’s news initiative. (Link)
By collaborating with Microsoft, Intel aims to supply 100 million AI-powered PCs by 2025 and ramp up enterprise demand for efficiency gains. Despite Apple and Qualcomm’s push for Arm-based designs, Intel hopes to maintain its 76% laptop chip market share following post-COVID inventory corrections. (Link)
AI writing startup Writer announced a new capability of its Palmyra model called Palmyra-Vision. This model can generate text summaries from images, including charts, graphs, and handwritten notes. It can automate e-commerce merchandise descriptions, graph analysis, and compliance checking while recommending human-in-the-loop for accuracy. (Link)
Apple is canceling its decade-long electric vehicle project after spending over $10 billion. There were nearly 2,000 employees working on the effort known internally as Titan. After Apple announces the cancellation of its ambitious electric car project, some staff from the discontinued car team will shift to other teams such as Gen AI. (Link)
Nvidia, the dominant force in graphics processing units (GPUs), has once again pushed the boundaries of portable computing. Their latest announcement showcases a new generation of laptops powered by the cutting-edge RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation GPUs. The focus here isn’t just on better gaming visuals – these laptops promise to transform the way we interact with artificial intelligence (AI) on the go.
Nvidia’s new laptop GPUs are purpose-built to accelerate AI workflows. Let’s break down the key components:
Specialized AI Hardware: The RTX 500 and 1000 GPUs feature dedicated Tensor Cores. These cores are the heart of AI processing, designed to handle complex mathematical operations involved in machine learning and deep learning at incredible speed.
Generative AI Powerhouse: These new GPUs bring a massive boost for generative AI applications like Stable Diffusion. This means those interested in creating realistic images from simple text descriptions can expect to see significant performance improvements.
Efficiency Meets Power: These laptops aren’t just about raw power. They’re designed to intelligently offload lighter AI tasks to a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) built into the CPU, conserving GPU resources for the most demanding jobs.
These advancements translate into a wide range of ground-breaking possibilities:
Photorealistic Graphics Enhanced by AI: Gamers can immerse themselves in more realistic and visually stunning worlds thanks to AI-powered technologies enhancing graphics rendering.
AI-Supercharged Productivity: From generating social media blurbs to advanced photo and video editing, professionals can complete creative tasks far more efficiently with AI assistance.
Real-time AI Collaboration: Features like AI-powered noise cancellation and background manipulation in video calls will elevate your virtual communication to a whole new level.
Nvidia’s latest AI-focused laptops have the potential to revolutionize the way we use our computers:
Portable Creativity: Whether you’re an artist, designer, or just someone who loves to experiment with AI art tools, these laptops promise a level of on-the-go creative freedom previously unimaginable.
Workplace Transformation: Industries from architecture to healthcare will see AI optimize processes and enhance productivity. These laptops put that power directly into the hands of professionals.
The Future is AI: AI is advancing at a blistering pace, and Nvidia is ensuring that we won’t be tied to our desks to experience it.
In short, Nvidia’s new generation of AI laptops heralds an era where high-performance, AI-driven computing becomes accessible to more people. This has the potential to spark a wave of innovation that we can’t even fully comprehend yet.
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During the latest World Government Summit in Dubai, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, spoke about the things our kids should and shouldn’t learn in the future. It may come as a surprise to many but Huang does think that our kids don’t need the knowledge of coding, just leave it to AI.
He mentioned that a decade ago, there was a belief that everyone needed to learn to code, and they were probably right, but based on what we see nowadays, the situation has changed due to achievements in AI, where everyone is literally a programmer.
He further talked about how kids may not necessarily need to learn how to code, and the focus should be on developing technology that allows for programming languages to be more human-like. In essence, traditional coding languages such as C++ or Java may become obsolete, as computers should be able to comprehend human language inputs.
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The French AI startup Mistral has launched its largest-ever LLM and flagship model to date, Mistral Large, with a 32K context window. The model has top-tier reasoning capabilities, and you can use it for complex multilingual reasoning tasks, including text understanding, transformation, and code generation.
Due to a strong multitasking capability, Mistral Large is the world’s second-ranked model on MMLU (Massive multitask language understanding).
The model is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, with a nuanced understanding of grammar and cultural context. In addition to that, Mistral also shows top performance in coding and math tasks.
Mistral Large is now available via the in-house platform “La Plateforme” and Microsoft’s Azure AI via API.
Why does it matter?
Mistral Large stands out as the first model to truly challenge OpenAI’s dominance since GPT-4. It shows skills on par with GPT-4 for complex language tasks while costing 20% less. In this race to make their models better, it’s the user community that stands to gain the most. Also, the focus on European languages and cultures could make Mistral a leader in the European AI market.
Google DeepMind has launched a new generative AI model – Genie (Generative Interactive Environment), that can create playable video games from a simple prompt after learning game mechanics from hundreds of thousands of gameplay videos.
Developed by the collaborative efforts of Google and the University of British Columbia, Genie can create side-scrolling 2D platformer games based on user prompts, like Super Mario Brothers and Contra, using a single image.
Trained on over 200,000 hours of gameplay videos, the experimental model can turn any image or idea into a 2D platformer.
Genie can be prompted with images it has never seen before, such as real-world photographs or sketches, enabling people to interact with their imagined virtual worlds-–essentially acting as a foundation world model. This is possible despite training without any action labels.
Why does it matter?
Genie creates a watershed moment in the generative AI space, becoming the first LLM to develop interactive, playable environments from a single image prompt. The model could be a promising step towards general world models for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that can understand and apply learned knowledge like a human. Lastly, Genie can learn fine-grained controls exclusively from Internet videos, a unique feature as Internet videos do not typically have labels.
Meta has released a research paper that addresses the need for efficient large language models that can run on mobile devices. The focus is on designing high-quality models with under 1 billion parameters, as this is feasible for deployment on mobiles.
By using deep and thin architectures, embedding sharing, and grouped-query attention, they developed a strong baseline model called MobileLLM, which achieves 2.7%/4.3% higher accuracy compared to previous 125M/350M state-of-the-art models. The research paper highlights that you should concentrate on developing an efficient model architecture rather than on data and parameter quantity to determine model quality.
Why does it matter?
With language understanding now possible on consumer devices, mobile developers can create products that were once hard to build because of latency or privacy issues when reliant on cloud connections. This advancement allows industries like finance, gaming, and personal health to integrate conversational interfaces, intelligent recommendations, and real-time data privacy protections using models optimized for mobile efficiency, sparking creativity in a new wave of intelligent apps.
Qualcomm released 75+ new large language models, including popular generative models like Whisper and Stable Diffusion, optimized for the Snapdragon platform at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024. The company stated that some of these LLMs will have generation AI capabilities for next-generation smartphones, PCs, IoT, XR devices, etc. (Link)
Nvidia launched RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) at the MWC 2024 for on-the-go AI processing. These GPUs will utilize the Ada Lovelace architecture to provide content creators, researchers, and engineers with accelerated AI and next-generation graphic performance while working from portable devices. (Link)
Microsoft announced a set of principles to foster innovation and competition in the AI space. The move came to showcase its role as a market leader in promoting responsible AI and answer the concerns of rivals and antitrust regulators. The standard covers six key dimensions of responsible AI: fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. (Link)
Despite receiving some flakes from the industry, Google is riding the AI wave and decided to integrate Gemini into a new set of features for phones, cars, and wearables. With these new features, users can use Gemini to craft messages and AI-generated captions for images, summarize texts through AI for Android Auto, and access passes on Wear OS. (Link)
Microsoft has released a few copilot GPTs that can help you plan your next vacation, find recipes, learn how to cook them, create a custom workout plan, or design a logo for your brand. Microsoft corporate vice president Jordi Ribas informed the media that users will soon be able to create customized Copilot GPTs, which is missing in the current version of Copilot. (Link)
” We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model. Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of the future. “
I asked GPT4 to read through the article and summarize ELI5 style bullet points:
Who Wrote This?
A group of smart people at Google DeepMind wrote the article. They’re working on making things better for turning text into webpages.
What Did They Do?
They created something called “Genie.” It’s like a magic tool that can take all sorts of ideas or pictures and turn them into a place you can explore on a computer, like making your own little video game world from a drawing or photo. They did this by watching lots and lots of videos from the internet and learning how things move and work in those videos.
How Does It Work?
They use something called “Genie” which is very smart and can understand and create new videos or game worlds by itself. You can even tell it what to do next in the world it creates, like moving forward or jumping, and it will show you what happens.
Why Is It Cool?
Because Genie can create new, fun worlds just from a picture or some words, and you can play in these worlds! It’s like having a magic wand to make up your own stories and see them come to life on a computer.
What’s Next?
Even though Genie is really cool, it’s not perfect. Sometimes it makes mistakes or can’t remember things for very long. But the people who made it are working to make it better, so one day, everyone might be able to create their own video game worlds just by imagining them.
Important Points:
They want to make sure this tool is used in good ways and that it’s safe for everyone. They’re not sharing it with everyone just yet because they want to make sure it’s really ready and won’t cause any problems.
Microsoft eases AI testing with new red teaming toolMicrosoft has released an open-source automation called PyRIT to help security researchers test for risks in generative AI systems before public launch. Historically, “red teaming” AI has been an expert-driven manual process requiring security teams to create edge case inputs and assess whether the system’s responses contain security, fairness, or accuracy issues. PyRIT aims to automate parts of this tedious process for scale.
PyRIT helps researchers test AI systems by inputting large datasets of prompts across different risk categories. It automatically interacts with these systems, scoring each response to quantify failures. This allows for efficient testing of thousands of input variations that could cause harm. Security teams can then take this evidence to improve the systems before release.
Why does this matter?
Microsoft’s release of the PyRIT toolkit makes rigorously testing AI systems for risks drastically more scalable. Automating parts of the red teaming process will enable much wider scrutiny for generative models and eventually raise their performance standards. PyRIT’s automation will also pressure the entire industry to step up evaluations if they want their AI trusted.
A new paper from Meta introduces Searchformer, a Transformer model that exceeds the performance of traditional algorithms like A* search in complex planning tasks such as maze navigation and Sokoban puzzles. Searchformer is trained in two phases: first imitating A* search to learn general planning skills, then fine-tuning the model via expert iteration to find optimal solutions more efficiently.
The key innovation is the use of search-augmented training data that provides Searchformer with both the execution trace and final solution for each planning task. This enables more data-efficient learning compared to models that only see solutions. However, encoding the full reasoning trace substantially increases the length of training sequences. Still, Searchformer shows promising techniques for training AI to surpass symbolic planning algorithms.
Why does this matter?
Achieving state-of-the-art planning results shows that generative AI systems are advancing to develop human-like reasoning abilities. Mastering complex cognitive tasks like finding optimal paths has huge potential in AI applications that depend on strategic thinking and foresight. As other companies race to close this new gap in planning capabilities, progress in core areas like robotics and autonomy is likely to accelerate.
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is open-source software that enables real-time object recognition in images, allowing machines to “see” like humans. Researchers have launched YOLOv9, the latest iteration that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy with significantly less computational cost.
By introducing two new techniques, Programmable Gradient Information (PGI) and Generalized Efficient Layer Aggregation Network (GELAN), YOLOv9 reduces parameters by 49% and computations by 43% versus predecessor YOLOv8, while boosting accuracy on key benchmarks by 0.6%. PGI improves network updating for more precise object recognition, while GELAN optimizes the architecture to increase accuracy and speed.
Why does this matter?
The advanced responsiveness of YOLOv9 unlocks possibilities for mobile vision applications where computing resources are limited, like drones or smart glasses. More broadly, it highlights deep learning’s potential to match human-level visual processing speeds, encouraging technology advancements like self-driving vehicles.
Apple recently launched a pilot program testing an internal AI tool named “Ask.” It allows AppleCare agents to generate technical support answers automatically by querying Apple’s knowledge base. The goal is faster and more efficient customer service. (Link)
Android users can now access ChatGPT more easily through a home screen widget that provides quick access to the chatbot’s conversation and query modes. The widget is available in the latest beta version of the ChatGPT mobile app. (Link)
AWS announced it will be bringing two of Mistral’s high-performing generative AI models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B, to its Amazon Bedrock platform for gen AI offerings in the near future. AWS chose Mistral’s cost-efficient and customizable models to expand the range of GenAI abilities for Bedrock users. (Link)
The Montreal Transit Authority is testing an AI system that analyzes surveillance footage to detect warning signs of suicide risk among passengers. The system, developed with a local suicide prevention center, can alert staff to intervene and save lives. With current accuracy of 25%, the “promising” pilot could be implemented in two years. (Link)
Riley, an AI system by Hoptix, monitors worker-customer interactions in 100+ fast-food franchises to incentivize upselling. It tracks metrics like service speed, food waste, and upselling rates. Despite being a coaching tool, concerns exist regarding the imposition of unfair expectations on workers. (Link)
Major AI announcements from NVIDIA, Apple, Google, Adobe, Meta, and more.
NVIDIA presents OpenMathInstruct-1, a 1.8 million math instruction tuning dataset
– OpenMathInstruct-1 is a high-quality, synthetically generated dataset. It is 4x bigger than previous datasets and does not use GPT-4. The best model, OpenMath-CodeLlama-70B, trained on a subset of OpenMathInstruct-1, achieves which is competitive performance with the best gpt-distilled models.
Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
– AI features for Spotlight search could let iOS and macOS users make natural language requests to get weather reports or operate features deep within apps. Apple also expanded internal testing of new generative AI features for its Xcode and plans to release them to third-party developers this year.
Microsoft arms white hat AI hackers with a new red teaming tool
– PyRIT, an open-source tool from Microsoft, automates the testing of generative AI systems for risks before their public launch. It streamlines the “red teaming” process, traditionally a manual task, by inputting large datasets of prompts and scoring responses to identify potential issues in security, fairness, or accuracy.
Google has open-sourced Magika, its AI-powered file-type identification system
– It helps accurately detect binary and textual file types. Under the hood, Magika employs a custom, highly optimized deep-learning model, enabling precise file identification within milliseconds, even when running on a CPU.
Groq’s new AI chip turbocharges LLMs, outperforms ChatGPT
– Groq, an AI chip startup, has developed a special AI hardware– the first-ever Language Processing Unit (LPU) that turbocharges LLMs and processes up to 500 tokens/second, which is far more superior than ChatGPT-3.5’s 40 tokens/second.
Transformers learn to plan better with Searchformer
– Meta’s Searchformer, a Transformer model, outperforms traditional algorithms like A* search in complex planning tasks. It’s trained to imitate A* search for general planning skills and then fine-tuned for optimal solutions using expert iteration and search-augmented training data.
Apple tests internal chatGPT-like tool for customer support
– Apple recently launched a pilot program testing an internal AI tool named “Ask.” It allows AppleCare agents to automatically generate technical support answers by querying Apple’s knowledge base. The goal is faster and more efficient customer service.
BABILong: The new benchmark to assess LLMs for long docs
– The paper uncovers limitations in GPT-4 and RAG, showing reliance on the initial 25% of input. BABILong evaluates GPT-4, RAG, and RMT, revealing that conventional methods are effective for 10^4 elements, while recurrent memory augmentation handles 10^7 elements, thereby setting a new advancement for long doc understanding.
Stanford’s AI model identifies sex from brain scans with 90% accuracy
– Stanford medical researchers have developed an AI model that can identify the sex of individuals from brain scans with 90% accuracy. The model focuses on dynamic MRI scans, identifying specific brain networks to distinguish males and females.
Adobe’s new AI assistant manages documents for you
– Adobe introduced an AI assistant for easier document navigation, answering questions, and summarizing information. It locates key data, generates citations, and formats brief overviews for presentations and emails to save time. Moreover, Adobe introduced CAVA, a new 50-person AI research team focused on inventing new models and processes for AI video creation.
Meta released Aria recordings to fuel smart speech recognition
– The Meta team released a multimodal dataset of two-sided conversations captured by Aria smart glasses. It contains audio, video, motion, and other sensor data. The diverse signals aim to advance speech recognition and translation research for augmented reality interfaces.
AWS adds open-source Mistral AI models to Amazon Bedrock
– AWS announced it will be bringing two of Mistral’s high-performing generative AI models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B, to its Amazon Bedrock platform for GenAI offerings in the near future. AWS chose Mistral’s cost-efficient and customizable models to expand the range of GenAI abilities for Bedrock users.
Penn’s AI chip runs on light, not electricity
– Penn engineers developed a new photonic chip that performs complex math for AI. It reduces processing time and energy consumption using light waves instead of electricity. This design uses optical computing principles developed by Penn professor Nader Engheta and nanoscale silicon photonics to train and infer neural networks.
Google launches its first open-source LLM
– Google has open-sourced Gemma, a lightweight yet powerful new family of language models that outperforms larger models on NLP benchmarks but can run on personal devices. The release also includes a Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to assist developers in safely building applications with Gemma, now accessible through Google Cloud, Kaggle, Colab and other platforms.
AnyGPT is a major step towards artificial general intelligence
– Researchers in Shanghai have developed AnyGPT, a groundbreaking new AI model that can understand and generate data across virtually any modality like text, speech, images and music using a unified discrete representation. It achieves strong zero-shot performance comparable to specialized models, representing a major advance towards AGI.
Google launches Gemini for Workspace:
Google has launched Gemini for Workspace, bringing Gemini’s capabilities into apps like Docs and Sheets to enhance productivity. The new offering comes in Business and Enterprise tiers and features AI-powered writing assistance, data analysis, and a chatbot to help accelerate workflows.
Stable Diffusion 3 – A multi-subject prompting text-to-image model
– Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion 3 is generating excitement in the AI community due to its improved text-to-image capabilities, including better prompt adherence and image quality. The early demos have shown remarkable improvements in generation quality, surpassing competitors such as MidJourney, Dall-E 3, and Google ImageFX.
LongRoPE: Extending LLM context window beyond 2 million tokens
– Microsoft’s LongRoPE extends large language models to 2048k tokens, overcoming challenges of high fine-tuning costs and scarcity of long texts. It shows promising results with minor modifications and optimizations.
Google Chrome introduces “Help me write” AI feature
– Google’s “Help me write” is an experimental AI feature on its Chrome browser that offers writing suggestions for short-form content. It highlights important features mentioned on a product page and can be accessed by enabling Chrome’s Experimental AI setting.
Montreal tests AI system to prevent subway suicides
– The Montreal transit authority is testing an AI system that analyzes surveillance footage to detect warning signs of suicide risk among passengers. The system, developed with a local suicide prevention center, can alert staff to intervene and save lives. With current accuracy of 25%, the “promising” pilot could be implemented in two years.
Fast food giants embrace controversial AI worker tracking
– Riley, an AI system by Hoptix, monitors worker-customer interactions in 100+ fast food franchises to incentivize upselling. It tracks metrics like service speed, food waste, and upselling rates. Despite being a coaching tool, concerns exist regarding the imposition of unfair expectations on workers.
And there was more…
– SoftBank’s founder is seeking about $100 billion for an AI chip venture
– ElevenLabs teases a new AI sound effects feature
– NBA commissioner Adam Silver demonstrates NB-AI concept
– Reddit signs AI content licensing deal ahead of IPO
– ChatGPT gets an Android homescreen widget
– YOLOv9 sets a new standard for real-time object recognition
– Mistral quietly released a new model in testing called ‘next’
– Microsoft to invest $2.1 billion for AI infrastructure expansion in Spain
– Graphcore explores sales talk with OpenAI, Softbank, and Arm
– OpenAI’s Sora can craft impressive video collages
– US FTC proposes a prohibition law on AI impersonation
– Meizu bids farewell to the smartphone market; shifts focus on AI
– Microsoft develops server network cards to replace NVIDIA’s cards
– Wipro and IBM team up to accelerate enterprise AI
– Deutsche Telekom revealed an AI-powered app-free phone concept
– Tinder fights back against AI dating scams
– Intel lands a $15 billion deal to make chips for Microsoft
– DeepMind forms new unit to address AI dangers
– Match Group bets on AI to help its workers improve dating apps
– Google Play Store tests AI-powered app recommendations
– Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
– GPT Store introduces linking profiles, ratings, and enhanced ‘About’ pages
– Microsoft introduces a generative erase feature for AI-editing photos in Windows 11
– Suno AI V3 Alpha is redefining music generation
– Jasper acquires image platform Clipdrop from Stability AI
LongRoPE: Extending LLM context window beyond 2 million tokenStability.AI announced the Stable Diffusion 3 in an early preview. It is a text-to-image model with improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities. Stability.AI has opened the model waitlist and introduced a preview to gather insights before the open release.
Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion 3 preview has generated significant excitement in the AI community due to its superior image and text generation capabilities. This next-generation image tool promises better text generation, strong prompt adherence, and resistance to prompt leaking, ensuring the generated images match the requested prompts.
Why does it matter?
The announcement of Stable Diffusion 3 is a significant development in AI image generation because it introduces a new architecture with advanced features such as the diffusion transformer and flow matching. The early demos of Stable Diffusion 3 have shown remarkable improvements in overall generation quality, surpassing its competitors such as MidJourney, Dall-E 3, and Google ImageFX.
Researchers at Microsoft have introduced LongRoPE, a groundbreaking method that extends the context window of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to an impressive 2048k tokens.
Current extended context windows are limited to around 128k tokens due to high fine-tuning costs, scarcity of long texts, and catastrophic values introduced by new token positions. LongRoPE overcomes these challenges by leveraging two forms of non-uniformities in positional interpolation, introducing a progressive extension strategy, and readjusting the model on shorter context windows.
Experiments on LLaMA2 and Mistral across various tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of LongRoPE. The extended models retain the original architecture with minor positional embedding modifications and optimizations.
Why does it matter?
LongRoPE extends the context window in LLMs and opens up possibilities for long-context tasks beyond 2 million tokens. This is the highest supported token, especially when other models like Google Gemini Pro have capabilities of up to 1 million tokens. Another major impact it will have is an extended context window for open-source models, unlike top proprietary models.
Google has recently rolled out an experimental AI feature called “Help me write” for its Chrome browser. This feature, powered by Gemini, aims to assist users in writing or refining text based on webpage content. It focuses on providing writing suggestions for short-form content, such as filling in digital surveys and reviews and drafting descriptions for items being sold online.
The tool can understand the webpage’s context and pull relevant information into its suggestions, such as highlighting critical features mentioned on a product page for item reviews. Users can right-click on an open text field on any website to access the feature on Google Chrome.
This feature is currently only available for English-speaking Chrome users in the US on Mac and Windows PCs. To access this tool, users in the US can enable Chrome’s Experimental AI under the “Try out experimental AI features” setting.
Why does it matter?
Google Chrome’s “Help me write” AI feature can aid users in completing surveys, writing reviews, and drafting product descriptions. However, it is still in its early stages and may not inspire user confidence compared to Microsoft’s Copilote on Edge browser. Adjusting the prompts and resulting text can negate any time-saving benefits, leaving the effectiveness of this feature for Google Chrome users open for debate.
Google and Reddit have formed a partnership that will benefit both companies. Google will pay $60 million per year for real-time access to Reddit’s data, while Reddit will gain access to Google’s Vertex AI platform. This will help Google train its AI and ML models at scale while also giving Reddit expanded access to Google’s services. (Link)
OpenAI’s GPT Store platform has new features. Builders can link their profiles to GitHub and LinkedIn, and users can leave ratings and feedback. The About pages for GPTs have also been enhanced. T (Link)
Microsoft’s Photos app now has a Generative Erase feature powered by AI. It enables users to remove unwanted elements from their photos, including backgrounds. The AI edit features are currently available to Windows Insiders, and Microsoft plans to roll out the tools to Windows 10 users. However, there is no clarity on whether AI-edited photos will have watermarks or metadata to differentiate them from unedited photos. (Link)
The V3 Alpha version of Suno AI’s music generation platform offers significant improvements, including better audio quality, longer clip length, and expanded language coverage. The update aims to redefine the state-of-the-art for generative music and invites user feedback with 300 free credits given to paying subscribers as a token of appreciation. (Link)
Jasper acquires AI image creation and editing platform Clipdrop from Stability AI, expanding its conversational AI toolkit with visual capabilities for a comprehensive multimodal marketing copilot. The Clipdrop team will work in Paris to contribute to research and innovation on multimodality, furthering Jasper’s vision of being the most all-encompassing end-to-end AI assistant for powering personalized marketing and automation. (Link)
Google releases its first open-source LLMGoogle has open-sourced Gemma, a new family of state-of-the-art language models available in 2B and 7B parameter sizes. Despite being lightweight enough to run on laptops and desktops, Gemma models have been built with the same technology used for Google’s massive proprietary Gemini models and achieve remarkable performance – the 7B Gemma model outperforms the 13B LLaMA model on many key natural language processing benchmarks.
Alongside the Gemma models, Google has released a Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to assist developers in building safe applications. This includes tools for robust safety classification, debugging model behavior, and implementing best practices for deployment based on Google’s experience. Gemma is available on Google Cloud, Kaggle, Colab, and a few other platforms with incentives like free credits to get started.
Researchers in Shanghai have achieved a breakthrough in AI capabilities with the development of AnyGPT – a new model that can understand and generate data in virtually any modality, including text, speech, images, and music. AnyGPT leverages an innovative discrete representation approach that allows a single underlying language model architecture to smoothly process multiple modalities as inputs and outputs.
The researchers synthesized the AnyInstruct-108k dataset, containing 108,000 samples of multi-turn conversations, to train AnyGPT for these impressive capabilities. Initial experiments show that AnyGPT achieves zero-shot performance comparable to specialized models across various modalities.
Google has rebranded its Duet AI for Workspace offering as Gemini for Workspace. This brings the capabilities of Gemini, Google’s most advanced AI model, into Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides to help business users be more productive.
The new Gemini add-on comes in two tiers – a Business version for SMBs and an Enterprise version. Both provide AI-powered features like enhanced writing and data analysis, but Enterprise offers more advanced capabilities. Additionally, users get access to a Gemini chatbot to accelerate workflows by answering questions and providing expert advice. This offering pits Google against Microsoft, which has a similar Copilot experience for commercial users.
Intel will produce over $15 billion worth of custom AI and cloud computing chips designed by Microsoft, using Intel’s cutting-edge 18A manufacturing process. This represents the first major customer for Intel’s foundry services, a key part of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s plan to reestablish the company as an industry leader. (Link)
Google’s DeepMind has created a new AI Safety and Alignment organization, which includes an AGI safety team and other units working to incorporate safeguards into Google’s AI systems. The initial focus is on preventing bad medical advice and bias amplification, though experts believe hallucination issues can never be fully solved. (Link)
Match Group, owner of dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, has signed a deal to use ChatGPT and other AI tools from OpenAI for over 1,000 employees. The AI will help with coding, design, analysis, templates, and communications. All employees using it will undergo training on responsible AI use. (Link)
Hummingbird, a startup offering tools for financial crime investigations, has launched a new product called Automations. It provides pre-built workflows to help financial investigators automatically gather information on routine crimes like tax evasion, freeing them up to focus on harder cases. Early customer feedback on Automations has been positive. (Link)
Google is testing a new AI-powered “App Highlights” feature in the Play Store that provides personalized app recommendations based on user preferences and habits. The AI analyzes usage data to suggest relevant, high-quality apps to simplify discovery. (Link)
#openmodels 1/n “Gemma open models Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Developed by Google DeepMind and other teams across Google, Gemma is inspired by Gemini, and the name reflects the Latin gemma, meaning “precious stone.” Accompanying our model weights, we’re also releasing tools to support developer innovation, foster collaboration, and guide responsible use of Gemma models… Free credits for research and development Gemma is built for the open community of developers and researchers powering AI innovation. You can start working with Gemma today using free access in Kaggle, a free tier for Collab notebooks, and $300 in credits for first-time Google Cloud users. Researchers can also apply for Google Cloud credits of up to $500,000 to accelerate their projects”.
From what we have seen so far Gemini 1.5 Pro is reasonably competitive with GPT4 in benchmarks, and the 1M context length and in-context learning abilities are astonishing.
What hasn’t been discussed much is pricing. Google hasn’t announced specific number for 1.5 yet but we can make an educated projection based on the paper and pricing for 1.0 Pro.
Google describes 1.5 as highly compute-efficient, in part due to the shift to a soft MoE architecture. I.e. only a small subset of the experts comprising the model need to be inferenced at a given time. This is a major improvement in efficiency from a dense model in Gemini 1.0.
And though it doesn’t specifically discuss architectural decisions for attention the paper mentions related work on deeply sub-quadratic attention mechanisms enabling long context (e.g. Ring Attention) in discussing Gemini’s achievement of 1-10M tokens. So we can infer that inference costs for long context are relatively manageable. And videos of prompts with ~1M context taking a minute to complete strongly suggest that this is the case barring Google throwing an entire TPU pod at inferencing an instance.
Putting this together we can reasonably expect that pricing for 1.5 Pro should be similar to 1.0 Pro. Pricing for 1.0 Pro is $0.000125 / 1K characters.
Compare that to $0.01 / 1K tokens for GPT4-Turbo. Rule of thumb is about 4 characters / token, so that’s $0.0005 for 1.5 Pro vs $0.01 for GPT-4, or a 20x difference in Gemini’s favor.
So Google will be providing a model that is arguably superior to GPT4 overall at a price similar to GPT-3.5.
If OpenAI isn’t able to respond with a better and/or more efficient model soon Google will own the API market, and that is OpenAI’s main revenue stream.
Adobe’s new AI assistant manages your docsAdobe launched an AI assistant feature in its Acrobat software to help users navigate documents. It summarizes content, answers questions, and generates formatted overviews. The chatbot aims to save time working with long files and complex information. Additionally, Adobe created a dedicated 50-person AI research team called CAVA (Co-Creation for Audio, Video, & Animation) focused on advancing generative video, animation, and audio creation tools.
While Adobe already has some generative image capabilities, CAVA signals a push into underserved areas like procedurally assisted video editing. The research group will explore integrating Adobe’s existing creative tools with techniques like text-to-video generation. Adobe prioritizes more AI-powered features to boost productivity through faster document understanding or more automated creative workflows.
Why does this matter?
Adobe injecting AI into PDF software and standing up an AI research group signals a strategic push to lead in generative multimedia. Features like summarizing documents offer faster results, while envisaged video/animation creation tools could redefine workflows.
Meta has released a multi-modal dataset of two-person conversations captured on Aria smart glasses. It contains audio across 7 microphones, video, motion sensors, and annotations. The glasses were worn by one participant while speaking spontaneously with another compensated contributor.
The dataset aims to advance research in areas like speech recognition, speaker ID, and translation for augmented reality interfaces. Its audio, visual, and motion signals together provide a rich capture of natural talking that could help train AI models. Such in-context glasses conversations can enable closed captioning and real-time language translation.
Why does this matter?
By capturing real-world sensory signals from glasses-framed conversations, Meta bridges the gaps AI faces to achieve human judgment. Enterprises stand to gain more relatable, trustworthy AI helpers that feel less robotic and more attuned to nuances when engaging customers or executives.
Penn engineers have developed a photonic chip that uses light waves for complex mathematics. It combines optical computing research by Professor Nader Engheta with nanoscale silicon photonics technology pioneered by Professor Firooz Aflatouni. With this unified platform, neural networks can be trained and inferred faster than ever.
It allows accelerated AI computations with low power consumption and high performance. The design is ready for commercial production, including integration into graphics cards for AI development. Additional advantages include parallel processing without sensitive data storage. The development of this photonic chip represents significant progress for AI by overcoming conventional electronic limitations.
Why does this matter?
Artificial intelligence chips enable accelerated training and inference for new data insights, new products, and even new business models. Businesses that upgrade key AI infrastructure like GPUs with photonic add-ons will be able to develop algorithms with significantly improved accuracy. With processing at light speed, enterprises have an opportunity to avoid slowdowns by evolving along with light-based AI.
Elon Musk announced that the first human to receive a Neuralink brain chip has recovered successfully. The patient can now move a computer mouse cursor on a screen just by thinking, showing the chip’s ability to read brain signals and control external devices. (Link)
Microsoft is developing its own networking cards. These cards move data quickly between servers, seeking to reduce reliance on NVIDIA’s cards and lower costs. Microsoft hopes its new server cards will boost the performance of the NVIDIA chip server currently in use and its own Maia AI chips. (Link)
Wipro and IBM are expanding their partnership, introducing the Wipro Enterprise AI-Ready Platform. Using IBM Watsonx AI, clients can create fully integrated AI environments. This platform provides tools, language models, streamlined processes, and governance, focusing on industry-specific solutions to advance enterprise-level AI. (Link)
Deutsche Telekom revealed an AI-powered app-free phone concept at MWC 2024, featuring a digital assistant that can fulfill daily tasks via voice and text. Created in partnership with Qualcomm and Brain.ai, the concierge-style interface aims to simplify life by anticipating user needs contextually using generative AI. (Link)
Tinder is expanding ID verification, requiring a driver’s license and video selfie to combat rising AI-powered scams and dating crimes. The new safeguards aim to build trust, authenticity, and safety, addressing issues like pig butchering schemes using AI-generated images to trick victims. (Link)
Sora’s ability to seamlessly integrate Transformer and diffusion techniques, along with its innovative use of SpaceTime patches, allows it to effectively translate text prompts into captivating and visually stunning videos. This remarkable AI creation has truly revolutionized the world of video production.
Groq has developed a special AI hardware known as the first-ever Language Processing Unit (LPU) that aims to increase the processing power of current AI models that normally work on GPU. These LPUs can process up to 500 tokens/second, far superior to Gemini Pro and ChatGPT-3.5, which can only process between 30 and 50 tokens/second.
The company has designed its first-ever LPU-based AI chip named “GroqChip,” which uses a “tensor streaming architecture” that is less complex than traditional GPUs, enabling lower latency and higher throughput. This makes the chip a suitable candidate for real-time AI applications such as live-streaming sports or gaming.
Why does it matter?
Groq’s AI chip is the first-ever chip of its kind designed in the LPU system category. The LPUs developed by Groq can improve the deployment of AI applications and could present an alternative to Nvidia’s A100 and H100 chips, which are in high demand but have massive shortages in supply. It also signifies advancements in hardware technology specifically tailored for AI tasks. Lastly, it could stimulate further research and investment in AI chip design.
The research paper delves into the limitations of current generative transformer models like GPT-4 when tasked with processing lengthy documents. It identifies a significant GPT-4 and RAG dependency on the initial 25% of input, indicating potential for enhancement. To address this, the authors propose leveraging recurrent memory augmentation within the transformer model to achieve superior performance.
Introducing a new benchmark called BABILong (Benchmark for Artificial Intelligence for Long-context evaluation), the study evaluates GPT-4, RAG, and RMT (Recurrent Memory Transformer). Results demonstrate that conventional methods prove effective only for sequences up to 10^4 elements, while fine-tuning GPT-2 with recurrent memory augmentations enables handling tasks involving up to 10^7 elements, highlighting its significant advantage.
Why does it matter?
The recurrent memory allows AI researchers and enthusiasts to overcome the limitations of current LLMs and RAG systems. Also, the BABILong benchmark will help in future studies, encouraging innovation towards a more comprehensive understanding of lengthy sequences.
Standford medical researchers have developed a new-age AI model that determines the sex of individuals based on brain scans, with over 90% success. The AI model focuses on dynamic MRI scans, identifying specific brain networks—such as the default mode, striatum, and limbic networks—as critical in distinguishing male from female brains.
Why does it matter?
Over the years, there has been a constant debate in the medical field and neuroscience about whether sex differences in brain organization exist. AI has hopefully ended the debate once and for all. The research acknowledges that sex differences in brain organization are vital for developing targeted treatments for neuropsychiatric conditions, paving the way for a personalized medicine approach.
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith announced on X that they will expand their AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Spain via a $2.1 billion investment in the next two years. This announcement follows the $3.45 billion investment in Germany for the AI infrastructure, showing the priority of the tech giant in the AI space. (Link)
The British AI chipmaker and NVIDIA competitor Graphcore is struggling to raise funding from investors and is seeking a $500 billion deal with potential purchasers like OpenAI, Softbank, and Arm. This move comes despite raising $700 million from investors Microsoft and Sequoia, which are valued at $2.8 billion as of late 2020. (Link)
One of OpenAI’s employees, Bill Peebles, demonstrated Sora’s (the new text-to-video generator from OpenAI) prowess in generating multiple videos simultaneously. He shared the demonstration via a post on X, showcasing five different angles of the same video and how Sora stitched those together to craft an impressive video collage while keeping quality intact. (Link)
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule prohibiting AI impersonation of individuals. The rule was already in place for US governments and US businesses. Now, it has been extended to individuals to protect their privacy and reduce fraud activities through the medium of technology, as we have seen with the emergence of AI-generated deep fakes. (Link)
Meizu, a China-based consumer electronics brand, has decided to exit the smartphone manufacturing market after 17 years in the industry. The move comes after the company shifted its focus to AI with the ‘All-in-AI’ campaign. Meizu is working on an AI-based operating system, which will be released later this year, and a hardware terminal for all LLMs. (Link)
NVIDIA’s new dataset sharpens LLMs in mathNVIDIA has released OpenMathInstruct-1, an open-source math instruction tuning dataset with 1.8M problem-solution pairs. OpenMathInstruct-1 is a high-quality, synthetically generated dataset 4x bigger than previous ones and does NOT use GPT-4. The dataset is constructed by synthesizing code-interpreter solutions for GSM8K and MATH, two popular math reasoning benchmarks, using the Mixtral model.
The best model, OpenMath-CodeLlama-70B, trained on a subset of OpenMathInstruct-1, achieves a score of 84.6% on GSM8K and 50.7% on MATH, which is competitive with the best gpt-distilled models.
Why does this matter?
The dataset improves open-source LLMs for math, bridging the gap with closed-source models. It also uses better-licensed models, such as from Mistral AI. It is likely to impact AI research significantly, fostering advancements in LLMs’ mathematical reasoning through open-source collaboration.
Apple has expanded internal testing of new generative AI features for its Xcode programming software and plans to release them to third-party developers this year.
Furthermore, it is looking at potential uses for generative AI in consumer-facing products, like automatic playlist creation in Apple Music, slideshows in Keynote, or Spotlight search. AI chatbot-like search features for Spotlight could let iOS and macOS users make natural language requests, like with ChatGPT, to get weather reports or operate features deep within apps.
Why does this matter?
Apple’s statements about generative AI have been conservative compared to its counterparts. But AI updates to Xcode hint at giving competition to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. Apple has also released MLX to train AI models on Apple silicon chips easily, a text-to-image editing AI MGIE, and AI animator Keyframer.
Google has open-sourced Magika, its AI-powered file-type identification system, to help others accurately detect binary and textual file types. Magika employs a custom, highly optimized deep-learning model, enabling precise file identification within milliseconds, even when running on a CPU.
Magika, thanks to its AI model and large training dataset, is able to outperform other existing tools by about 20%. It has greater performance gains on textual files, including code files and configuration files that other tools can struggle with.
Internally, Magika is used at scale to help improve Google users’ safety by routing Gmail, Drive, and Safe Browsing files to the proper security and content policy scanners.
Why does this matter?
Today, web browsers, code editors, and countless other software rely on file-type detection to decide how to properly render a file. Accurate identification is notoriously difficult because each file format has a different structure or no structure at all. Magika ditches current tedious and error-prone methods for robust and faster AI. It improves security with resilience to ever-evolving threats, enhancing software’s user safety and functionality.
SoftBank’s founder, Masayoshi Son, envisions creating a company that can complement the chip design unit Arm Holdings Plc. The AI chip venture is code-named Izanag and will allow him to build an AI chip powerhouse, competing with Nvidia and supplying semiconductors essential for AI. (Link)
The popular AI voice startup teased a new feature allowing users to generate sounds via text prompts. It showcased the outputs of this feature with OpenAI’s Sora demos on X. (Link)
Adam Silver demoed a potential future for how NBA fans will use AI to watch basketball action. The proposed interface is named NB-AI and was unveiled at the league’s Tech Summit on Friday. Check out the demo here! (Link)
Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its AI models on its content. Reddit told prospective investors in its IPO that it had signed the deal, worth about $60 million on an annualized basis, earlier this year. This deal with an unnamed large AI company could be a model for future contracts of similar nature. (Link)
Early users testing the model are reporting capabilities that meet or surpass GPT-4. A user writes, ‘it bests gpt-4 at reasoning and has mistral’s characteristic conciseness’. It could be a milestone in open source if early tests hold up. (Link)
Nvidia launches offline AI chatbot trainable on local dataFeatures of Chat with RTX include support for multiple data formats (text, PDFs, video, etc.), access to LLM like Mistral, running offline for privacy, and fast performance via RTX GPUs. From personalized recommendations based on influencing videos to extracting answers from personal notes or archives, there are many potential applications.
Why does this matter?
OpenAI and its cloud-based approach now face fresh competition from this Nvidia offering as it lets solopreneurs develop more tailored workflows. It shows how AI can become more personalized, controllable, and accessible right on local devices. Instead of relying solely on generic cloud services, businesses can now customize chatbots with confidential data for targeted assistance.
This feature is rolled out to only a few Free and Plus users and OpenAI will share broader plans soon. OpenAI also states memories bring added privacy considerations, so sensitive data won’t be proactively retained without permission.
Why does this matter?
ChatGPT’s memory feature allows for more personalized, contextually-aware interactions. Its ability to recall specifics from entire conversations brings AI assistants one step closer to feeling like cooperative partners, not just neutral tools. For companies, remembering user preferences increases efficiency, while individuals may find improved relationships with AI companions.
Cohere has launched Aya, a new open-source LLM supporting 101 languages, over twice as many as existing models support. Backed by the large dataset covering lesser resourced languages, Aya aims to unlock AI potential for overlooked cultures. Benchmarking shows Aya significantly outperforms other open-source massively multilingual models.
The release tackles the data scarcity outside of English training content that limits AI progress. By providing rare non-English fine-tuning demonstrations, it enables customization in 50+ previously unsupported languages. Experts emphasize that Aya represents a crucial step toward preserving linguistic diversity.
Why does this matter?
With over 100 languages supported, more communities globally can benefit from generative models tailored to their cultural contexts. It also signifies an ethical shift: recognizing AI’s real-world impact requires serving people inclusively. Models like Aya, trained on diverse data, inch us toward AI that can help everyone.
we’re moving from memory to reason. logic and reasoning are the foundation of both human and artificial intelligence. it’s about figuring things out. our ai engineers and entrepreneurs finally get this! stronger logic and reasoning algorithms will easily solve alignment and hallucinations for us. but that’s just the beginning.
logic and reasoning tell us that we human beings value three things above all; happiness, health and goodness. this is what our life is most about. this is what we most want for the people we love and care about.
so, yes, ais will be making amazing discoveries in science and medicine over these next few years because of their much stronger logic and reasoning algorithms. much smarter ais endowed with much stronger logic and reasoning algorithms will make us humans much more productive, generating trillions of dollars in new wealth over the next 6 years. we will end poverty, end factory farming, stop aborting as many lives each year as die of all other cause combined, and reverse climate change.
but our greatest achievement, and we can do this in a few years rather than in a few decades, is to make everyone on the planet much happier and much healthier, and a much better person. superlogical ais will teach us how to evolve into what will essentially be a new human species. it will develop safe pharmaceuticals that make us much happier, and much kinder. it will create medicines that not only cure, but also prevent, diseases like cancer. it will allow us all to live much longer, healthier lives. ais will create a paradise for everyone on the planet. and it won’t take longer than 10 years for all of this to happen.
what it may not do, simply because it probably won’t be necessary, is make us all much smarter. it will be doing all of our deepest thinking for us, freeing us to enjoy our lives like never before. we humans are hardwired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. most fundamentally that is who we are. we’re almost there.
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OpenAI and Microsoft have teamed up to identify and disrupt operations of five state-affiliated malicious groups using AI for cyber threats, aiming to secure digital ecosystems and promote AI safety.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a type of agent software to automate complex tasks by taking over a users’ device, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge on the matter. The agent software will handle web-based tasks such as gathering public data about a set of companies, creating itineraries or booking flight tickets, according to the report. The new assistants – often called “agents” – promise to perform more complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without needing close supervision.
Nous Research has released its largest model yet – Nous Hermes 2 Llama-2 70B – trained on over 1 million entries of primarily synthetic GPT-4 generated data. The model uses a more structured ChatML prompt format compatible with OpenAI, enabling advanced multi-turn chat dialogues. (Link)
Otter has introduced a new feature for its AI chatbot to query past transcripts, in-channel team conversations, and auto-generated overviews. This AI suite aims to outperform and replace competitors’ paid offerings like Microsoft, Zoom and Google by simplifying recall and productivity for users leveraging Otter’s complete meeting data. (Link)
At the World Government Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman remarked that the upcoming GPT-5 model will be smarter, faster, more multimodal, and better at everything across the board due to its generality. There are rumors that GPT-5 could be a multimodal AI called “Gobi” slated for release in spring 2024 after training on a massive dataset. (Link)
ElevenLabs’s Speech to Speech is now available in 29 languages, making it multilingual. The tool, launched in November, lets users transform their voice into another character with full control over emotions, timing, and delivery by prompting alone. This update just made it more inclusive! (Link)
Airbnb plans to leverage AI, including its recent acquisition of stealth startup GamePlanner, to evolve its interface into an adaptive “ultimate concierge”. Airbnb executives believe the generative models themselves are underutilized and want to focus on improving the AI application layer to deliver more personalized, cross-category services. (Link)
The Tencent Research Team has released a paper claiming that the performance of language models can be significantly improved by simply increasing the number of agents. The researchers use a “sampling-and-voting” method in which the input task is fed multiple times into a language model with multiple language model agents to produce results. After that, majority voting is applied to these answers to determine the final answer.
The researchers prove this methodology by experimenting with different datasets and tasks, showing that the performance of language models increases with the size of the ensemble, i.e., with the number of agents (results below). They also established that even smaller LLMs can match/outperform their larger counterparts by scaling the number of agents. (Example below)
Why does it matter?
Using multiple agents to boost LLM performance is a fresh tactic to tackle single models’ inherent limitations and biases. This method eliminates the need for complicated methods such as chain-of-thought prompting. While it is not a silver bullet, it can be combined with existing complicated methods that stimulate the potential of LLMs and enhance them to achieve further performance improvements.
Researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Cornell have combined to develop a method allowing AI-based systems to understand longer videos better. Currently, most AI-based models can comprehend videos for up to a short duration due to the complexity and computing power.
That’s where MC-ViT aims to make a difference, as it can store a compressed “memory” of past video segments, allowing the model to reference past events efficiently. Human memory consolidation theories inspire this method by combining neuroscience and psychology. The MC-ViT method provides state-of-the-art action recognition and question answering despite using fewer resources.
Why does it matter?
Most video encoders based on transformers struggle with processing long sequences due to their complex nature. Efforts to address this often add complexity and slow things down. MC-ViT offers a simpler way to handle longer videos without major architectural changes.
ElevenLabs has developed an AI voice cloning model that allows you to turn your voice into passive income. Users must sign up for their “Voice Actor Payouts” program.
After creating the account, upload a 30-minute audio of your voice. The cloning model will create your professional voice clone with AI that resembles your original voice. You can then share it in Voice Library to make it available to the growing community of ElevenLabs.
After that, whenever someone uses your professional voice clone, you will get a cash or character reward according to your requirements. You can also decide on a rate for your voice usage by opting for a standard royalty program or setting a custom rate.
Why does it matter?
By leveraging ElevenLabs’ AI voice cloning, users can potentially monetize their voices in various ways, such as providing narration for audiobooks, voicing virtual assistants, or even lending their voices to advertising campaigns. This innovation democratizes the field of voice acting, making it accessible to a broader audience beyond professional actors and voiceover artists. Additionally, it reflects the growing influence of AI in reshaping traditional industries.
While speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the NVIDIA CEO strongly advocated the need for sovereign AI. He said, “Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence.” He further added, “It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history – you own your own data.” (Link)
Google has pledged 25 million euros to help the people of Europe learn how to use AI. With this funding, Google wants to develop various social enterprise and nonprofit applications. The tech giant is also looking to run “growth academies” to support companies using AI to scale their companies and has expanded its free online AI training courses to 18 languages. (Link)
NVIDIA Corp. briefly surpassed Amazon.com Inc. in market value on Monday. Nvidia rose almost 0.2%, closing with a market value of about $1.78 trillion. While Amazon fell 1.2%, it ended with a closing valuation of $1.79 trillion. With this market value, NVIDIA Corp. temporarily became the 4th most valuable US-listed company behind Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple. (Link)
Microsoft may release an AI upscaling feature for PC gaming on Windows 11, similar to Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology. The “Automatic Super Resolution” feature, which an X user spotted in the latest test version of Windows 11, uses AI to improve supported games’ frame rates and image detail. Microsoft is yet to announce the news or hardware specifics, if any. (Link)
Fandom hosts wikis for many fandoms and has rolled out many generative AI features. However, some features like “Quick Answers” have sparked a controversy. Quick Answers generates a Q&A-style dropdown that distills information into a bite-sized sentence. Wiki creators have complained that it answers fan questions inaccurately, thereby hampering user trust. (Link)
“More agents = more performance”- The Tencent Research Team:
The Tencent Research team suggests boosting language model performance by adding more agents. They use a “sampling-and-voting” method, where the input task is run multiple times through a language model with several agents to generate various results. These results are then subjected to majority voting to determine the most reliable result.
Google DeepMind’s MC-ViT enables long-context video understanding:
Most transformer-based video encoders are limited to short contexts due to quadratic complexity. To overcome this issue, Google DeepMind introduces memory consolidated vision transformer (MC-ViT) that effortlessly extends its context far into the past and exhibits excellent scaling behavior when learning from longer videos.
ElevenLabs’ AI voice cloning lets you turn your voice into passive income:
ElevenLabs has developed an AI-based voice cloning model to turn your voice into passive income. The voice cloning program allows all voice-over artists to create professional clones, share them with the Voice Library community, and earn rewards/royalty every time soundbite is used.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang advocates for each country’s sovereign AI:
While speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the NVIDIA CEO strongly advocated the need for sovereign AI. He said, “Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence.” He further added, “It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history – you own your own data.”
Google to invest €25 million in Europe to uplift AI skills:
Google has pledged 25 million euros to help the people of Europe learn AI. Google is also looking to run “growth academies” to support companies using AI to scale their companies and has expanded its free online AI training courses to 18 languages.
NVIDIA surpasses Amazon in market value:
NVIDIA Corp. briefly surpassed Amazon.com Inc. on Monday. Nvidia rose almost 0.2%, closing with a market value of about $1.78 trillion. While Amazon fell 1.2%, it ended with a closing valuation of $1.79 trillion. It made NVIDIA Corp. 4th largest US-listed company.
Microsoft might develop an AI upscaling feature for Windows 11:
Microsoft may release an AI upscaling feature for PC gaming on Windows 11, similar to Nvidia’s DLSS technology. The “Automatic Super Resolution” feature uses AI to improve supported games’ frame rates and image detail.
Fandom rolls out controversial generative AI features:
Fandom’s Quick Answers feature, part of its generative AI tools, has sparked controversy among wiki creators. It generates short Q&A-style responses, but many creators complain about inaccuracies, undermining user trust.
In its latest research paper, DeepSeek AI has introduced a new AI model, DeepSeekMath 7B, specialized for improving mathematical reasoning in open-source LLMs. It has been pre-trained on a massive corpus of 120 billion tokens extracted from math-related web content, combined with reinforcement learning techniques tailored for math problems.
When evaluated across crucial English and Chinese benchmarks, DeepSeekMath 7B outperformed all the leading open-source mathematical reasoning models, even coming close to the performance of proprietary models like GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra.
Why does this matter?
Previously, state-of-the-art mathematical reasoning was locked within proprietary models that aren’t inaccessible to everyone. With DeepSeekMath 7B’s decision to go open-source (while also sharing the training methodology), new doors have opened for math AI development across fields like education, finance, scientific computing, and more. Teams can build on DeepSeekMath’s high-performance foundation instead of starting models from scratch.
Google has introduced a new open-source tool called localllm that allows developers to run LLMs locally on CPUs within Cloud Workstations instead of relying on scarce GPU resources. localllm provides easy access to “quantized” LLMs from HuggingFace that have been optimized to run efficiently on devices with limited compute capacity.
By allowing LLMs to run on CPU and memory, localllm significantly enhances productivity and cost efficiency. Developers can now integrate powerful LLMs into their workflows without managing scarce GPU resources or relying on external services.
Why does this matter?
localllm democratizes access to the power of large language models by freeing developers from GPU constraints. Now, even solo innovators and small teams can experiment and create production-ready GenAI applications without huge investments in infrastructure costs.
In a concerning development, IBM researchers have shown how multiple GenAI services can be used to tamper and manipulate live phone calls. They demonstrated this by developing a proof-of-concept, a tool that acts as a man-in-the-middle to intercept a call between two speakers. They then experimented with the tool by audio jacking a live phone conversation.
The call audio was processed through a speech recognition engine to generate a text transcript. This transcript was then reviewed by a large language model that was pre-trained to modify any mentions of bank account numbers. Specifically, when the model detected a speaker state their bank account number, it would replace the actual number with a fake one.
Remarkably, whenever the AI model swapped in these phony account numbers, it even injected its own natural buffering phrases like “let me confirm that information” to account for the extra seconds needed to generate the devious fakes.
The altered text, now with fake account details, was fed into a text-to-speech engine that cloned the speakers’ voices. The manipulated voice was successfully inserted back into the audio call, and the two people had no idea their conversation had been changed!
Why does this matter?
This proof-of-concept highlights alarming implications – victims could become unwilling puppets as AI makes realistic conversation tampering dangerously easy. While promising, generative AI’s proliferation creates an urgent need to identify and mitigate emerging risks. Even if still theoretical, such threats warrant increased scrutiny around model transparency and integrity verification measures before irreparable societal harm occurs.
By partnering with Vercel, Perplexity AI is making its large language models available to developers building apps on Vercel. Developers get access to Perplexity’s LLMs pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online that use up-to-date internet knowledge to power features like recommendations and chatbots. (Link)
The lab will build AI prototypes for voice recognition, connected digital services, improved electric vehicle charging cycles, predictive maintenance, and other applications. The goal is to collaborate with tech firms and rapidly implement ideas across Volkswagen brands. (Link)
AI startup Aware has attracted clients like Walmart, Starbucks, and Delta to use its technology to monitor workplace communications. But experts argue this AI surveillance could enable “thought crime” violations and treat staff “like inventory.” There are also issues around privacy, transparency, and recourse for employees. (Link)
Their new ad tool called “Magic Words” uses AI to analyze the mood and content of scenes in movies and shows. It then allows brands to target custom ads based on those descriptive tags. Six major ad agencies are beta-testing the product as Disney pushes further into streaming ads amid declining traditional TV revenue. (Link)
New Copilot experiences let the assistant offer relevant actions and understand the context better. Notepad is also getting Copilot integration for text explanations. The features hint at a forthcoming Windows 11 update centered on AI advancements. (Link)
Gemini is an AI chatbot from Google AI that can be used for a variety of research tasks, including finding information, summarizing texts, and generating creative text formats. It can be used for both primary and secondary research and it is great for creating content.
Accuracy: Gemini is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, which means that it can generate text that is accurate and reliable also it uses Google to look up answers.
Relevance: Gemini can be used to find information that is relevant to a specific research topic.
Creativity: Gemini can be used to generate creative text formats such as code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc.
Engagement: Gemini can be used to present information creatively and engagingly.
Accessibility: Gemini is available for free and can be used from anywhere in the world.
Scite AI is an innovative platform that helps discover and evaluate scientific articles. Its Smart Citations feature provides context and classification of citations in scientific literature, indicating whether they support or contrast the cited claims.
Smart Citations: Offers detailed insights into how other papers have cited a publication, including the context and whether the citation supports or contradicts the claims made.
Deep Learning Model: Automatically classifies each citation’s context, indicating the confidence level of the classification.
Citation Statement Search: Enables searching across metadata relevant publications.
Custom Dashboards: Allows users to build and manage collections of articles, providing aggregate insights and notifications.
Reference Check: Helps to evaluate the quality of references used in manuscripts.
Journal Metrics: Offers insights into publications, top authors, and scite Index rankings.
Assistant by scite: An AI tool that utilizes Smart Citations for generating content and building reference lists.
GPT4All is an open-source ecosystem for training and deploying large language models that can be run locally on consumer-grade hardware. GPT4All is designed to be powerful, customizable and great for conducting research. Overall, it is an offline and secure AI-powered search engine.
Answer questions about anything: You can use any ChatGPT version for your personal use to answer even simple questions.
Personal writing assistant: Write emails, documents, stories, songs, play based on your previous work.
Reading documents: Submit your text documents and receive summaries and answers. You can easily find answers in the documents you provide by submitting a folder of documents for GPT4All to extract information from.
AsReview is a software package designed to make systematic reviews more efficient using active learning techniques. It helps to review large amounts of text quickly and addresses the challenge of time constraints when reading large amounts of literature.
Free and Open Source: The software is available for free and its source code is openly accessible.
Local or Server Installation: It can be installed either locally on a device or on a server, providing full control over data.
Active Learning Algorithms: Users can select from various active learning algorithms for their projects.
Project Management: Enables creation of multiple projects, selection of datasets, and incorporation of prior knowledge.
Research Infrastructure: Provides an open-source infrastructure for large-scale simulation studies and algorithm validation.
Extensible: Users can contribute to its development through GitHub.
DeepL translates texts & full document files instantly. Millions translate with DeepL everyday. It is commonly used for translating web pages, documents, and emails. It can also translate speech.
DeepL also has a great feature called DeepL Write. DeepL Write is a powerful tool that can help you to improve your writing in a variety of ways. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to write clear, concise, and effective prose.
Tailored Translations: Adjust translations to fit specific needs and context, with alternatives for words or phrases.
Whole Document Translation: One-click translation of entire documents including PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files while maintaining original formatting.
Tone Adjustment: Option to select between formal and informal tone of voice for translations in selected languages.
Built-in Dictionary: Instant access to dictionary for insight into specific words in translations, including context, examples, and synonyms.
Humata is an AI tool designed to assist with processing and understanding PDF documents. It offers features like summarizing, comparing documents, and answering questions based on the content of the uploaded files.
Designed to process and summarize long documents, allowing users to ask questions and get summarized answers from any PDF file.
Claims to be faster and more efficient than manual reading, capable of answering repeated questions and customizing summaries.
Humata differs from ChatGPT by its ability to read and interpret files, generating answers with citations from the documents.
Offers a free version for trial
Cockatoo AI is an AI-powered transcription service that automatically generates text from recorded speech. It is a convenient and easy-to-use tool that can be used to transcribe a variety of audio and video files. It is one of the AI-powered tools that not everyone will find a use for but it is a great tool nonetheless.
Highly accurate transcription: Cockatoo AI uses cutting-edge AI to transcribe audio and video files with a high degree of accuracy. It is said to be able to transcribe speech with superhuman accuracy, surpassing human performance.
Support for multiple languages: Cockatoo AI supports transcription in more than 90 languages, making it a versatile tool for global users.
Versatile file formats: Cockatoo AI can transcribe a variety of audio and video file formats, including MP3, WAV, MP4, and MOV.
Quick turnaround: Cockatoo AI can transcribe audio and video files quickly, with one hour of audio typically being transcribed in just 2-3 minutes.
Seamless export options: Cockatoo AI allows users to export their transcripts in a variety of formats, including SRT, DOCX, any PDF document, and TXT.
Avidnote is an AI-powered research writing platform that helps researchers write and organize their research notes easily. It combines all of the different parts of the academic writing process, from finding articles to managing references and annotating research notes.
AI research paper summary: Avidnote can automatically summarize research papers in a few clicks. This can save researchers a lot of time and effort, as they no longer need to read the entire paper to get the main points.
Integrated note-taking: Avidnote allows researchers to take notes directly on the research papers they are reading. This makes it easy to keep track of their thoughts and ideas as they are reading.
Collaborative research: Avidnote can be used by multiple researchers to collaborate on the same project. This can help share ideas, feedback, and research notes.
AI citation generation: Avidnote can automatically generate citations for research papers in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. This can save researchers a lot of time and effort, as they no longer need to manually format citations.
AI writing assistant: Avidnote can provide suggestions for improving the writing style of research papers. This can help researchers to write more clear, concise, and persuasive papers.
AI plagiarism detection: Avidnote can detect plagiarism in research papers. This can help researchers to avoid plagiarism and maintain the integrity of their work.
Research Rabbit is an online tool that helps you find references quickly and easily. It is a citation-based literature mapping tool that can be used to plan your essay, minor project, or literature review.
AI for Researchers: Enhances research writing, reading, and data analysis using AI.
Effective Reading: Capabilities include summarizing, proofreading text, and identifying research gaps.
Data Analysis: Offers tools to input data and discover correlations and insights, relevant articles.
Research Methods Support: Includes transcribing interviews and other research methods.
AI Functionalities: Enables users to upload papers, ask questions, summarize text, get explanations, and proofread using AI.
Note Saving: Provides an integrated platform to save notes alongside papers.
This week, we’ll cover Google DeepMind creating a grandmaster-level chess AI, the satirical AI Goody-2 raising questions about ethics and AI boundaries, Google rebranding Bard to Gemini and launching the Gemini Advanced chatbot and mobile apps, OpenAI developing AI agents to automate work, and various companies introducing new AI-related products and features.
Google DeepMind has just made an incredible breakthrough in the world of chess. They’ve developed a brand new artificial intelligence (AI) that can play chess at a grandmaster level. And get this—it’s not like any other chess AI we’ve seen before!
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Instead of using traditional search algorithm approaches, Google DeepMind’s chess AI is based on a language model architecture. This innovative approach diverges from the norm and opens up new possibilities in the realm of AI.
To train this AI, DeepMind fed it a massive dataset of 10 million chess games and a mind-boggling 15 billion data points. And the results are mind-blowing. The AI achieved an Elo rating of 2895 in rapid chess when pitted against human opponents. That’s seriously impressive!
In fact, this AI even outperformed AlphaZero, another notable chess AI, when it didn’t use the MCTS strategy. That’s truly remarkable.
But here’s the real kicker: this breakthrough isn’t just about chess. It highlights the incredible potential of the Transformer architecture, which was primarily known for its use in language models. It challenges the idea that transformers can only be used as statistical pattern recognizers. So, we might just be scratching the surface of what these transformers can do!
Overall, this groundbreaking achievement by Google DeepMind opens up exciting opportunities for the future of AI, not just in chess but in various domains as well.
So, have you heard about this AI called Goody-2? It’s actually quite a fascinating creation by the art studio Brain. But here’s the thing – Goody-2 takes the concept of ethical AI to a whole new level. I mean, it absolutely refuses to engage in any conversation, no matter the topic. Talk about being too ethical for its own good!
The idea behind Goody-2 is to highlight the extremes of ethical AI development. It’s a satirical take on the overly cautious approach some AI developers take when it comes to potential risks and offensive content. In the eyes of Goody-2, every single query, no matter how innocent or harmless, is seen as potentially offensive or dangerous. It’s like the AI is constantly on high alert, unwilling to take any risks.
But let’s not dismiss the underlying questions Goody-2 raises. It really makes you think about the effectiveness of AI and the necessity of setting boundaries. By deliberately prioritizing ethical considerations over practical utility, its creators are making a statement about responsibility in AI development. How much caution is too much? Where do we draw the line between being responsible and being overly cautious?
Goody-2 may be a satirical creation, but it’s provoking some thought-provoking discussions about the role of AI in our lives and the balance between responsibility and usefulness.
Did you hear the news? Google has made some changes to their chatbot lineup! Say goodbye to Google Bard and say hello to Gemini Advanced! It seems like Google has rebranded their chatbot and given it a new name. Exciting stuff, right?
But that’s not all. Google has also launched the Gemini Advanced chatbot, which features their incredible Ultra 1.0 AI model. This means that the chatbot is smarter and more advanced than ever before. Imagine having a chatbot that can understand and respond to your commands with a high level of accuracy. Pretty cool, right?
And it’s not just limited to desktop anymore. Gemini is also moving into the mobile world, specifically Android and iOS phones. You can now have this pocket-sized chatbot ready to assist you whenever and wherever you are. Whether you need some creative inspiration, want to navigate through voice commands, or even scan something with your camera, Gemini has got you covered.
The rollout has already started in the US and some Asian countries, but don’t worry if you’re not in those regions. Google plans to expand Gemini’s availability worldwide gradually. So, keep an eye out for it because this chatbot is going places!
So, get this: OpenAI is seriously stepping up the game when it comes to AI. They’re developing these incredible AI “agents” that can basically take over your device and do all sorts of tasks for you. I mean, we’re talking about automating complex workflows between applications here. No more wasting time with manual cursor movements, clicks, and typing between apps. It’s like having a personal assistant right in your computer.
But wait, there’s more! These agents don’t just handle basic stuff. They can also deal with web-based tasks like booking flights or creating itineraries, and here’s the kicker: they don’t even need access to APIs. That’s some serious next-level tech right there.
Sure, OpenAI’s ChatGPT can already do some pretty nifty stuff using APIs, but these AI agents are taking things to a whole new level. They’ll be able to handle unstructured, complex work with little explicit guidance. So basically, they’re smart, adaptable, and can handle all sorts of tasks without breaking a sweat.
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited to see what these AI agents can do. It’s like having a super-efficient, ultra-intelligent buddy right in your computer, ready to take on the world of work.
Brilliant Labs just made an exciting announcement in the world of augmented reality (AR) glasses. While Apple may have been grabbing the spotlight with its Vision Pro, Brilliant Labs unveiled its own smart glasses called “Frame” that come with a multi-modal voice/vision/text AI assistant named Noa. These lightweight glasses are powered by advanced models like GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion, and what sets them apart is their open-source design, allowing programmers to build and customize on top of the AI capabilities.
But that’s not all. Noa, the AI assistant on the Frame, will also leverage Perplexity’s cutting-edge technology to provide rapid answers using its real-time chatbot. So, whether you’re interacting with the glasses through voice commands, visual cues, or text input, Noa will have you covered with quick and accurate responses.
Now, let’s shift our attention to Google. The tech giant’s research division recently introduced an impressive development called MobileDiffusion. This innovation allows Android and iPhone users to generate high-resolution images, measuring 512*512 pixels, in less than a second. What makes it even more remarkable is that MobileDiffusion boasts a comparably small model size of just 520M parameters, making it ideal for mobile devices. With its rapid image generation capabilities, this technology takes user experience to the next level, even allowing users to generate images in real-time while typing text prompts.
Furthermore, Google has launched its largest and most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0, in its ChatGPT-like assistant, which has been rebranded as Gemini (formerly Bard). This advanced AI model is now available as a premium plan called Gemini Advanced, accessible in 150 countries for a subscription fee of $19.99 per month. Users can enjoy a two-month trial at no cost. To enhance accessibility, Google has also rolled out Android and iOS apps for Gemini, making it convenient for users to harness its power across different devices.
Alibaba Group has also made strides in the field of AI, specifically with their Qwen1.5 series. This release includes models of various sizes, from 0.5B to 72B, offering flexibility for different use cases. Remarkably, Qwen1.5-72B has outperformed Llama2-70B in all benchmarks, showcasing its superior performance. These models are available on Ollama and LMStudio platforms, and an API is also provided on together.ai, allowing developers to leverage the capabilities of Qwen1.5 series models in their own applications.
NVIDIA, a prominent player in the AI space, has introduced Canary 1B, a multilingual model designed for speech-to-text recognition and translation. This powerful model supports transcription and translation in English, Spanish, German, and French. With its superior performance, Canary surpasses similarly-sized models like Whisper-large-v3 and SeamlessM4T-Medium-v1 in both transcription and translation tasks, securing the top spot on the HuggingFace Open ASR leaderboard. It achieves an impressive average word error rate of 6.67%, outperforming all other open-source models.
Excitingly, researchers have released Lag-Llama, the first open-source foundation model for time series forecasting. With this model, users can make accurate predictions for various time-dependent data. This is a significant development that has the potential to revolutionize industries reliant on accurate forecasting, such as finance and logistics.
Another noteworthy release in the AI assistant space comes from LAION. They have introduced BUD-E, an open-source conversational and empathic AI Voice Assistant. BUD-E stands out for its ability to use natural voices, empathy, and emotional intelligence to handle multi-speaker conversations. With this empathic approach, BUD-E offers a more human-like and personalized interaction experience.
MetaVoice has contributed to the advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology with the release of MetaVoice-1B. Trained on an extensive dataset of 100K hours of speech, this 1.2B parameter base model supports emotional speech in English and voice cloning. By making MetaVoice-1B available under the Apache 2.0 license, developers can utilize its capabilities in various applications that require TTS functionality.
Bria AI is addressing the need for background removal in images with its RMBG v1.4 release. This open-source model, trained on fully licensed images, provides a solution for easily separating subjects from their backgrounds. With RMBG, users can effortlessly create visually appealing compositions by removing unwanted elements from their images.
Researchers have also introduced InteractiveVideo, a user-centric framework for video generation. This framework is designed to enable dynamic interaction between users and generative models during the video generation process. By allowing users to instruct the model in real-time, InteractiveVideo empowers individuals to shape the generated content according to their preferences and creative vision.
Microsoft has been making strides in improving its AI search and chatbot experience with the redesigned Copilot AI. This enhanced version, previously known as Bing Chat, offers a new look and comes equipped with built-in AI image creation and editing functionality. Additionally, Microsoft introduces Deucalion, a finely tuned model that enriches Copilot’s Balanced mode, making it more efficient and versatile for users.
Online gaming platform Roblox has integrated AI-powered real-time chat translations, supporting communication in 16 different languages. This feature enables users from diverse linguistic backgrounds to interact seamlessly within the Roblox community, fostering a more inclusive and connected platform.
Hugging Face has expanded its offerings with the new Assistants feature on HuggingChat. These custom chatbots, built using open-source language models (LLMs) like Mistral and Llama, empower developers to create personalized conversational experiences. Similar to OpenAI’s popular GPTs, Assistants enable users to access free and customizable chatbot capabilities.
DeepSeek AI introduces DeepSeekMath 7B, an open-source model designed to approach the mathematical reasoning capability of GPT-4. With a massive parameter count of 7B, this model opens up avenues for more advanced mathematical problem-solving and computational tasks. DeepSeekMath-Base, initialized with DeepSeek-Coder-Base-v1.5 7B, provides a strong foundation for mathematical AI applications.
Moving forward, Microsoft is collaborating with news organizations to adopt generative AI, bringing the benefits of AI technology to the journalism industry. With these collaborations, news organizations can leverage generative models to enhance their storytelling and reporting capabilities, contributing to more engaging and insightful content.
In an exciting partnership, LG Electronics has joined forces with Korean generative AI startup Upstage to develop small language models (SLMs). These models will power LG’s on-device AI features and AI services on their range of notebooks. By integrating SLMs into their devices, LG aims to enhance user experiences by offering more advanced and personalized AI functionalities.
Stability AI has unveiled the updated SVD 1.1 model, optimized for generating short AI videos with improved motion and consistency. This enhancement brings a smoother and more realistic experience to video generation, opening up new possibilities for content creators and video enthusiasts.
Lastly, both OpenAI and Meta have made an important commitment to label AI-generated images. This step ensures transparency and ethics in the usage of AI models for generating images, promoting responsible AI development and deployment.
Now, let’s address a privacy concern related to Google’s Gemini assistant. By default, Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years. While this may raise concerns about data retention, it’s important to note that Google provides users with control over their data through privacy settings. Users can adjust these settings to align with their preferences and manage the data saved by Gemini.
That wraps up the latest updates in AI technology and advancements. From the exciting progress in AR glasses to the development of powerful AI models and tools, these innovations are shaping the future of AI and paving the way for even more exciting possibilities.
In this episode, we covered Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking chess AI, the satirical AI Goody-2 raising ethical questions, Google’s rebranding of Bard to Gemini and launching the Gemini Advanced chatbot, OpenAI’s work on automating complex workflows, and the exciting new AI-related products and features introduced by various companies including Brilliant Labs, Google, Alibaba, NVIDIA, and more. Thank you for joining us on AI Unraveled: Demystifying Frequently Asked Questions on Artificial Intelligence, where we’ve delved into groundbreaking research, innovative applications, and emerging technologies that are pushing the boundaries of AI, keeping you updated on the latest ChatGPT and Google Bard trends. Stay tuned and subscribe for more!
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Google launches Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable AI model, in its ChatGPT-like assistant which has now been rebranded as Gemini (earlier called Bard). Gemini Advanced is available, in 150 countries, as a premium plan for $19.99/month, starting with a two-month trial at no cost. Google is also rolling out Android and iOS apps for Gemini [Details].
Alibaba Group released Qwen1.5 series, open-sourcing models of 6 sizes: 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, 7B, 14B, and 72B. Qwen1.5-72B outperforms Llama2-70B across all benchmarks. The Qwen1.5 series is available on Ollama and LMStudio. Additionally, API on together.ai [Details | Hugging Face].
NVIDIA released Canary 1B, a multilingual model for speech-to-text recognition and translation. Canary transcribes speech in English, Spanish, German, and French and also generates text with punctuation and capitalization. It supports bi-directional translation, between English and three other supported languages. Canary outperforms similarly-sized Whisper-large-v3, and SeamlessM4T-Medium-v1 on both transcription and translation tasks and achieves the first place on HuggingFace Open ASR leaderboard with an average word error rate of 6.67%, outperforming all other open source models [Details].
Researchers released Lag-Llama, the first open-source foundation model for time series forecasting [Details].
LAION released BUD-E, an open-source conversational and empathic AI Voice Assistant that uses natural voices, empathy & emotional intelligence and can handle multi-speaker conversations [Details].
MetaVoice released MetaVoice-1B, a 1.2B parameter base model trained on 100K hours of speech, for TTS (text-to-speech). It supports emotional speech in English and voice cloning. MetaVoice-1B has been released under the Apache 2.0 license [Details].
Bria AI released RMBG v1.4, an an open-source background removal model trained on fully licensed images [Details].
Researchers introduce InteractiveVideo, a user-centric framework for video generation that is designed for dynamic interaction, allowing users to instruct the generative model during the generation process [Details |GitHub ].
Microsoft announced a redesigned look for its Copilot AI search and chatbot experience on the web (formerly known as Bing Chat), new built-in AI image creation and editing functionality, and Deucalion, a fine tuned model that makes Balanced mode for Copilot richer and faster [Details].
Roblox introduced AI-powered real-time chat translations in 16 languages [Details].
Hugging Face launched Assistants feature on HuggingChat. Assistants are custom chatbots similar to OpenAI’s GPTs that can be built for free using open source LLMs like Mistral, Llama and others [Link].
DeepSeek AI released DeepSeekMath 7B model, a 7B open-source model that approaches the mathematical reasoning capability of GPT-4. DeepSeekMath-Base is initialized with DeepSeek-Coder-Base-v1.5 7B [Details].
Microsoft is launching several collaborations with news organizations to adopt generative AI [Details].
LG Electronics signed a partnership with Korean generative AI startup Upstage to develop small language models (SLMs) for LG’s on-device AI features and AI services on LG notebooks [Details].
Stability AI released SVD 1.1, an updated model of Stable Video Diffusion model, optimized to generate short AI videos with better motion and more consistency [Details | Hugging Face] .
OpenAI and Meta announced to label AI generated images [Details].
Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default [Details].
Google has rebranded its Bard conversational AI to Gemini with a new sidekick: Gemini Advanced!
This advanced chatbot is powered by Google’s largest “Ultra 1.0” language model, which testing shows is the most preferred chatbot compared to competitors. It can walk you through a DIY car repair or brainstorm your next viral TikTok.
Google launched the Gemini Advanced chatbot with its Ultra 1.0 AI model. The Advanced version can walk you through a DIY car repair or brainstorm your next viral TikTok.
Gemini’s also moving into Android and iOS phones as pocket pals ready to share creative fire 24/7 via voice commands, screen overlays, or camera scans. The ‘droid rollout has started for the US and some Asian countries. The rest of us will just be staring at our phones and waiting for an invite from Google.
P.S. It will gradually expand globally.
Why does this matter?
With the Gemini Advanced, Google took the LLM race to the next level, challenging its competitor, GPT-4, with its specialized architecture optimized for search queries and natural language understanding. Who will win the race is a matter of time.
OpenAI Is Developing AI Agents To Automate WorkOpenAI is developing AI “agents” that can autonomously take over a user’s device and execute multi-step workflows.
While OpenAI’s ChatGPT can already do some agent-like tasks using APIs, these AI agents will be able to do more unstructured, complex work with little explicit guidance.
Why does this matter?
Having AI agents that can independently carry out tasks like booking travel could greatly simplify digital life for many end users. Rather than manually navigating across apps and websites, users can plan an entire vacation through a conversational assistant or have household devices automatically troubleshoot problems without any user effort.
While Apple hogged the spotlight with its chunky new Vision Pro, a Singapore startup, Brilliant Labs, quietly showed off its AR glasses packed with a multi-modal voice/vision/text AI assistant named Noa. https://youtu.be/xiR-XojPVLk?si=W6Q31vl1wNfqnNXj
These lightweight smart glasses, dubbed “Frame,” are powered by models like GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion, allowing hands-free price comparisons or visual overlays to project information before your eyes using voice commands. No fiddling with another device is needed.
The best part is- programmers can build on these AI glasses thanks to their open-source design.
In addition to enhancing the daily activities and interactions with the digital and physical world, Noa would also provide rapid answers using Perplexity’s real-time chatbot so Frame responses stay sharp.
Why does this matter?
Unlike AR Apple Vision Pro and Meta’s glasses that immerses users in augmented reality for interactive experiences, Frame AR glasses focuses on improving daily interactions and tasks like comparing product prices while shopping, translating foreign text seen while traveling abroad, or creating shareable media on the go.
It also enhances accessibility for users with limited dexterity or vision.
Instagram is likely to bring the option ‘Write with AI’, which will probably paraphrase the texts in different styles to enhance creativity in conversations, similar to Google’s Magic Compose. (Link)
Stability AI launches AudioSparx 1.0, a groundbreaking generative model for music and audio. It produces professional-grade stereo music from simple text prompts in seconds, with a coherent structure. (Link)
Midjourney grants early web access to AI art creators with over 1000 images, transitioning from Discord dependence. The alpha testing signals that Midjourney moving beyond its chat app origin towards web and mobile apps, gradually maturing as a multi-platform AI art creation service. (Link)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pursues multi-trillion dollar investments, including from the UAE government, to build specialized GPUs and chips for powering AI systems. If funded, this initiative would accelerate OpenAI’s ML to new heights. (Link)
The FCC prohibits robocalls using AI to clone voices, declaring them “artificial” per existing law. The ruling aims to deter deception and confirm consumers are protected from exploitative automated calls mimicking trusted people. Violators face penalties as authorities crack down on illegal practices enabled by advancing voice synthesis tech. (Link)
Google on Thursday announced a major rebrand of Bard, its artificial intelligence chatbot and assistant, including a fresh app and subscription options. Bard, a chief competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is now called Gemini, the same name as the suite of AI models that power the chatbot.
Google also announced new ways for consumers to access the AI tool: As of Thursday, Android users can download a new dedicated Android app for Gemini, and iPhone users can use Gemini within the Google app on iOS.
Google’s rebrand and app offerings underline the company’s commitment to pursuing — and investing heavily in — AI assistants or agents, a term often used to describe tools ranging from chatbots to coding assistants and other productivity tools.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted the firm’s commitment to AI during the company’s Jan. 30 earnings call. Pichai said he eventually wants to offer an AI agent that can complete more and more tasks on a user’s behalf, including within Google Search, although he said there is “a lot of execution ahead.” Likewise, chief executives at tech giants from Microsoft to Amazon underlined their commitment to building AI agents as productivity tools.
Google’s Gemini changes are a first step to “building a true AI assistant,” Sissie Hsiao, a vice president at Google and general manager for Google Assistant and Bard, told reporters on a call Wednesday.
Google on Thursday also announced a new AI subscription option, for power users who want access to Gemini Ultra 1.0, Google’s most powerful AI model. Access costs $19.99 per month through Google One, the company’s paid storage offering. For existing Google One subscribers, that price includes the storage plans they may already be paying for. There’s also a two-month free trial available.
Thursday’s rollouts are available to users in more than 150 countries and territories, but they’re restricted to the English language for now. Google plans to expand language offerings to include Japanese and Korean soon, as well as other languages.
The Bard rebrand also affects Duet AI, Google’s former name for the “packaged AI agents” within Google Workspace and Google Cloud, which are designed to boost productivity and complete simple tasks for client companies including Wayfair, GE, Spotify and Pfizer. The tools will now be known as Gemini for Workspace and Gemini for Google Cloud.
Google One subscribers who pay for the AI subscription will also have access to Gemini’s assistant capabilities in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet, executives told reporters Wednesday. Google hopes to incorporate more context into Gemini from users’ content in Gmail, Docs and Drive. For example, if you were responding to a long email thread, suggested responses would eventually take in context from both earlier messages in the thread and potentially relevant files in Google Drive.
As for the reason for the broad name change? Google’s Hsiao told reporters Wednesday that it’s about helping users understand that they’re interacting directly with the AI models that underpin the chatbot.
“Bard [was] the way to talk to our cutting-edge models, and Gemini is our cutting-edge models,” Hsiao said.
Eventually, AI agents could potentially schedule a group hangout by scanning everyone’s calendar to make sure there are no conflicts, book travel and activities, buy presents for loved ones or perform a specific job function such as outbound sales. Currently, though, the tools, including Gemini, are largely limited to tasks such as summarizing, generating to-do lists or helping to write code.
“We will again use generative AI there, particularly with our most advanced models and Bard,” Pichai said on the Jan. 30 earnings call, speaking about Google Assistant and Search. That “allows us to act more like an agent over time, if I were to think about the future and maybe go beyond answers and follow-through for users even more.”
Source: www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/google-gemini-ai-launches-in-new-app-subscription.html
In their latest blogs and Super Bowl commercial, Microsoft announced their intention to showcase the capabilities of Copilot exactly one year after their entry into the AI space with Bing Chat. They have announced updates to their Android and iOS applications to make the user interface more sleek and user-friendly, along with a carousel for follow-up prompts.
Microsoft also introduced new features to Designer in Copilot to take image generation a step further with the option to edit generated images using follow-up prompts. The customizations can be anything from highlighting the image subject to enhancing colors and modifying the background. For Copilot Pro users, additional features such as resizing the images and changing the aspect ratio are also available.
Why does this matter?
Copilot unifies the AI experience for users on all major platforms by enhancing the experience on mobile platforms and combining text and image generative abilities. Adding additional features to the image generation model greatly enhances the usability and accuracy of the final output for users.
Google Deepmind, with the University of Southern California, has proposed a ‘self-discover’ prompting framework to enhance the performance of LLMs. Models such as GPT-4 and Google’s Palm 2 have witnessed a performance improvement on challenging reasoning benchmarks by 32% compared to the Chain of Thought (CoT) framework.
The framework works by identifying the reasoning technique intrinsic to the task and then proceeds to solve the task with the discovered technique ideal for the task. This framework also works with 10 to 40 times less inference computation, which means that the output will be generated faster using the same computational resources.
Why does this matter?
Improving the reasoning accuracy of an LLM is largely beneficial to users as they can achieve the desired output with fewer prompts and with greater accuracy. Moreover, reducing the inference directly translates to lower computational resource consumption, leading to lower operating costs for enterprises.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan revealed 4 new bets they have placed for 2024, with the first bet being on AI tools to empower human creativity on the platform. These AI tools include:
These new tools are mainly aimed to be used in YouTube Shorts and highlight a priority to move towards short-form content.
Why does this matter?
The democratization of AI tools for content creators allows them to offer better quality content to their viewers, which collectively boosts the quality of engagement on the platform. This also lowers the bar to entry for many aspiring artists and lets them create quality content without the added difficulty of generating custom video assets.
OpenAI revealed the existence of a child safety team through their careers page, where they had open positions for a child safety enforcement specialist. The team will study and review AI-generated content for “sensitive content” to ensure that the generated content aligns with their platform policy. This is to prevent the misuse of OpenAI’s AI tools by underage users. (Link)
Elon Musk shared on X that the Musk Foundation will fund the effort to decipher the scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of Mt.Vesuvius. The project run by Nat Freidman (former CEO of GitHub) states that the next stage of the effort will cost approximately $2 million, after which they should be able to read entire scrolls. The total cost to decipher all the discovered scrolls is estimated to be around $10 million. (Link)
The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, expressed how India has an unprecedented opportunity to capitalize on the AI wave owing to the 5 million+ programmers in the country. He also stated that Microsoft will help train over 2 million employees in India with the skills required for AI development. (Link)
The OpenAI Developers account on X announced their latest feature for developers to create endpoint-specific API keys. These special API keys allow for granular access and better security as they will only let specific registered endpoints access the API. (Link)
On the OpenAI GPT store, Ikea launched its AI assistant, which helps users envision and draw inspiration to design their interior spaces using Ikea products. The AI assistant helps users input specific dimensions, budgets, preferences, and requirements for personalized furniture recommendations through a familiar ChatGPT-style window. (Link)
Apple released a new open-source AI model called MGIE(MLLM Guided Image Editing). It has editing capabilities based on natural language instructions. MGIE leverages multimodal large language models to interpret user commands and perform pixel-level image manipulation. It can handle editing tasks like Photoshop-style modifications, optimizations, and local editing.
MGIE integrates MLLMs into image editing in two ways. First, it uses MLLMs to understand the user input, deriving expressive instructions. For example, if the user input is “make sky more blue,” the AI model creates an instruction, “increase the saturation of sky region by 20%.” The second usage of MLLM is to generate the output image.
Why does this matter?
MGIE from Apple is a breakthrough in the field of instruction-based image editing. It is an AI model focusing on natural language instructions for image manipulation, boosting creativity and accuracy. MGIE is also a testament to the AI prowess that Apple is developing, and it will be interesting to see how it leverages such innovations for upcoming products.
Meta is developing advanced tools to label metadata for each image posted on their platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. Labeling will be aligned with “AI-generated” information in the C2PA and IPTC technical standards. These standards will allow Meta to detect AI-generated images from other platforms like Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney, and Shutterstock.
Meta wants to differentiate between human-generated and AI-generated content on its platform to reduce misinformation. However, this tool is also limited, as it can only detect still images. So, AI-generated video content still goes undetected on Meta platforms.
Why does this matter?
The level of misinformation and deepfakes generated by AI has been alarming. Meta is taking a step closer to reducing misinformation by labeling metadata and declaring which images are AI-generated. It also aligns with the European Union’s push for tech giants like Google and Meta to label AI-generated content.
Abacus AI recently released a new open-source language model called Smaug-72B. It outperforms GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium in several benchmarks. Smaug 72B is the first open-source model with an average score of over 80 in major LLM evaluations. According to the latest rankings from Hugging Face, It is one of the leading platforms for NLP research and applications.
Smaug 72B is a fine-tuned version of Qwn 72B, a powerful language model developed by a team of researchers at Alibaba Group. It helps enterprises solve complex problems by leveraging AI capabilities and enhancing automation.
Why does this matter?
Smaug 72B is the first open-source model to achieve an average score of 80 on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard. It is a breakthrough for enterprises, startups, and small businesses, breaking the monopoly of big tech companies over AI innovations.
OpenAI has added watermarks to the image metadata, enhancing content authenticity. These watermarks will distinguish between human and AI-generated content verified through websites like “Content Credentials Verify.” Watermarks will be added to images from the ChatGPT website and DALL-E 3 API, which will be visible to mobile users starting February 12th. However, the feature is limited to still images only. (Link)
Microsoft has unveiled “Face Check,” a new facial recognition feature, as part of its Entra Verified ID digital identity platform. Face Check provides an additional layer of security for identity verification by matching a user’s real-time selfie with their government ID or employee credentials. Azure AI services power face check and aims to enhance security while respecting privacy and compliance through a partnership approach. Microsoft’s partner BEMO has already implemented Face Check for employee verification(Link)
Stability AI has launched SVD 1.1, an upgraded version of its image-to-video latent diffusion model, Stable Video Diffusion (SVD). This new model generates 4-second, 25-frame videos at 1024×576 resolution with improved motion and consistency compared to the original SVD. It is available via Hugging Face and Stability AI subscriptions. (Link)
CheXagent, developed in partnership with Stability AI by Stanford University, is a foundation model for chest X-ray interpretation. It automates the analysis and summary of chest X-ray images for clinical decision-making. CheXagent combines a clinical language model, a vision encoder, and a network to bridge vision and language. CheXbench is available to evaluate the performance of foundation models on chest X-ray interpretation tasks. (Link)
LinkedIn launched a new AI feature that helps users start conversations. Premium subscribers can use this feature when sending messages to others. The AI uses information from the subscriber’s and the other person’s profiles to suggest what to say, like an introduction or asking about their work experience. This feature was initially available for recruiters and has now been expanded to help users find jobs and summarize posts in their feeds. (Link)
Qwen 1.5: Alibaba’s 72 B, multilingual Gen AI modelAlibaba has released Qwen 1.5, the latest iteration of its open-source generative AI model series. Key upgrades include expanded model sizes up to 72 billion parameters, integration with HuggingFace Transformers for easier use, and multilingual capabilities covering 12 languages.
Comprehensive benchmarks demonstrate significant performance gains over the previous Qwen version across metrics like reasoning, human preference alignment, and long-context understanding. They compared Qwen1.5-72B-Chat with GPT-3.5, and the results are shown below:
The unified release aims to provide researchers and developers an advanced foundation model for possible downstream applications. Quantized versions allow low-resource deployment. Overall, Qwen 1.5 represents steady progress towards Alibaba’s goal of creating a “truly ‘good” generative model aligned with ethical objectives.
Why does this matter?
This release signals Alibaba’s intent to compete with Big Tech firms in steering the AI race. The upgraded model enables researchers and developers to create more capable assistants and tools. Qwen 1.5’s advancements could enhance education, healthcare, and sustainability solutions.
Nat Friedman (former CEO of Github) uses AI to decode ancient Herculaneum scrolls charred in the 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. These unreadable scrolls are believed to contain a vast trove of texts that could reshape our view of figures like Caesar and Jesus Christ. Past failed attempts to unwrap them physically led Brent Seales to pioneer 3D scanning methods. However, the initial software struggled with the complexity.
A $1 million AI contest was launched ten months ago, attracting coders worldwide. Contestants developed new techniques, exposing ink patterns invisible to the human eye. The winning method by Luke Farritor and the team successfully reconstructed over a dozen readable columns of Greek text from one scroll. While not yet revelatory, this breakthrough after centuries has scholars hopeful more scrolls can now be unveiled using similar AI techniques, potentially surfacing lost ancient works.
Why does this matter?
The ability to reconstruct lost ancient knowledge illustrates AI’s immense potential to reveal invisible insights. Just like how technology helps discover hidden oil resources, AI could unearth ‘info treasures’ expanding our history, science, and literary canons. These breakthroughs capture the public imagination and signal a new data-uncovering AI industry.
Roblox has developed a real-time multilingual chat translation system, allowing users speaking different languages to communicate seamlessly while gaming. It required building a high-speed unified model covering 16 languages rather than separate models. Comprehensive benchmarks show the model outperforms commercial APIs in translating Roblox slang and linguistic nuances.
The sub-100 millisecond translation latency enables genuine cross-lingual conversations. Roblox aims to eventually support all linguistic communities on its platform as translation capabilities expand. Long-term goals include exploring automatic voice chat translation to better convey tone and emotion. Overall, the specialized AI showcases Roblox’s commitment to connecting diverse users globally by removing language barriers.
Why does this matter?
It showcases AI furthering connection and community-building online, much like transport innovations expanding in-person interactions. Allowing seamless cross-cultural communication at scale illustrates tech removing barriers to global understanding. Platforms facilitating positive societal impacts can inspire user loyalty amid competitive dynamics.
News startup Semafor launched a product called Signals – AI-aided curation of top stories by its reporters. An internal search tool helps uncover diverse sources in multiple languages. This showcases responsibly leveraging AI to enhance human judgment as publishers adapt to changes in consumer web habits. (Link)
Bumble has launched a new AI tool called Deception Detector to proactively identify and block fake profiles and scams. Testing showed it automatically blocked 95% of spam accounts, reducing user reports by 45%. This builds on Bumble’s efforts to use AI to make its dating and friend-finding platforms safer. (Link)
Huawei is slowing production of its popular Mate 60 phones to ramp up manufacturing of its Ascend AI chips instead, due to growing domestic demand. This positions Huawei to boost China’s AI industry, given US export controls limiting availability of chips like Nvidia’s. It shows the strategic priority of AI for Huawei and China overall. (Link)
The UK government will invest over $125 million to support responsible AI development and position the UK as an AI leader. This will fund new university research hubs across the UK, a partnership with the US on the responsible use of AI, regulators overseeing AI, and 21 projects to develop ML technologies to drive productivity. (Link)
Europ Assistance, a leading global assistance and travel insurance company, has selected TCS as its strategic partner to transform its IT operations using AI. By providing real-time insights into Europ Assistance’s technology stack, TCS will support their business growth, improve customer service delivery, and enable the company to achieve its mission of providing “Anytime, Anywhere” services across 200+ countries. (Link)
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TLDR: ChatGPT helped me jump start my hybrid to avoid towing fee $100 and helped me not pay the diagnostic fee $150 at the shop.
My car wouldn’t start this morning and it gave me a warning light and message on the car’s screen. I took a picture of the screen with my phone, uploaded it to ChatGPT 4 Turbo, described the make/model, my situation (weather, location, parked on slope), and the last time it had been serviced.
I asked what was wrong, and it told me that the auxiliary battery was dead, so I asked it how to jump start it. It’s a hybrid, so it told me to open the fuse box, ground the cable and connect to the battery. I took a picture of the fuse box because I didn’t know where to connect, and it told me that ground is usually black and the other part is usually red. I connected it and it started up. I drove it to the shop, so it saved me the $100 towing fee. At the shop, I told them to replace my battery without charging me the $150 “diagnostic fee,” since ChatGPT already told me the issue. The hybrid battery wasn’t the issue because I took a picture of the battery usage with 4 out of 5 bars. Also, there was no warning light. This saved me $250 in total, and it basically paid for itself for a year.
I can deal with some inconveniences related to copyright and other concerns as long as I’m saving real money. I’ll keep my subscription, because it’s pretty handy. Thanks for reading!
source: r/artificialintelligence
Top comment: I can’t wait until AI like this is completely integrated into a home system like Alexa, and we have a friendly voice that just walks us through everything.
Google Research introduced MobileDifussion, which can generate images from Android and iPhone with a resolution of 512*512 pixels in about half a second. What’s impressive about this is its comparably small model size of just 520M parameters, which makes it uniquely suited for mobile deployment. This is significantly less than the Stable Diffusion and SDX, which boast a billion parameters.
MobileDiffusion has the capability to enable a rapid image generation experience while typing text prompts.
Google researchers measured the performance of MobileDiffusion on both iOS and Android devices using different runtime optimizers.
Why does this matter?
MobileDifussion represents a paradigm shift in the AI image generation horizon, especially in the smartphone or mobile space. Image generation models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are billions of parameters in size and require powerful desktops or servers to run, making them impossible to run on a handset. With superior efficiency in terms of latency and size, MobileDiffusion has the potential to be a friendly option for mobile deployments.
Hugging Face tech lead Philipp Schmid said users can now create custom chatbots in “two clicks” using “Hugging Chat Assistant.” Users’ creations are then publicly available. Schmid compares the feature to OpenAI’s GPTs feature and adds they can use “any available open LLM, like Llama2 or Mixtral.”
Why does this matter?
Hugging Face’s Chat Assistant has democratized AI creation and simplified the process of building custom chatbots, lowering the barrier to entry. Also, open-source means more innovation, enabling a more comprehensive range of individuals and organizations to harness the power of conversational AI.
According to a leaked web text, Google might release its ChatGPT Plus competitor named “Gemini Advanced” on February 7th. This suggests a name change for the Bard chatbot after Google announced “Bard Advanced” at the end of last year. The Gemini Advanced ChatBot will be powered by the eponymous Gemini model in the Ultra 1.0 release.
According to Google, Gemini Advanced is far more capable of complex tasks like coding, logical reasoning, following nuanced instructions, and creative collaboration. Google also wants to include multimodal capabilities, coding features, and detailed data analysis. Currently, the model is optimized for English but can respond to other global languages sooner.
Why does this matter?
Google’s Gemini Advanced will be an answer for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus. It signals increasing competition in the AI language model market, potentially leading to improved features and services for users. The only question is whether Ultra can beat GPT-4, and if that’s the case, what counters can OpenAI do that will be interesting to see.
New York University (NYU) researchers have developed an AI system to behave like a toddler and learn a new language precisely. For this purpose, the AI model uses video recording from a child’s perspective to understand the language and its meaning, respond to new situations, and learn from new experiences. (Link)
CVL Economics surveyed 300 executives from six U.S. entertainment industries between Nov 17 and Dec 22, 2023, to understand the impact of Generative AI. The survey found that 203,800 jobs could get disrupted in the entertainment space by 2026. 72% of the companies surveyed are early adopters, of which 25% already use it, and 47% plan to implement it soon. (Link)
Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted at Apple making a major AI announcement later this year during a meeting with the analysts during the first-quarter earnings showcase. He further added that there’s a massive opportunity for Apple with Gen AI and AI as they look to compete with cutting-edge AI companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, etc. (Link)
Over the last decade, U.S. police departments have spent millions of dollars to equip their officers with body-worn cameras that record their daily work. However, the data collected needs to be adequately analyzed to identify patterns. Now, the department is turning to AI to examine this stockpile of footage to identify problematic officers and patterns of behavior. (Link)
Adobe’s popular image-generating software, Firefly, is now announced for the new version of Apple Vision Pro. It now joins the company’s previously announced Lightroom photo app. People expected Adobe Lightroom to be a native Apple Vision Pro app from launch, but now it’s adding Firefly AI, the GenAI tool that produces images based on text descriptions. (Link)
A revolutionary new cancer treatment known as mRNA therapy has been administered to patients at Hammersmith hospital in west London. The trial has been set up to evaluate the therapy’s safety and effectiveness in treating melanoma, lung cancer and other solid tumours.
The new treatment uses genetic material known as messenger RNA – or mRNA – and works by presenting common markers from tumours to the patient’s immune system.
The aim is to help it recognise and fight cancer cells that express those markers.
“New mRNA-based cancer immunotherapies offer an avenue for recruiting the patient’s own immune system to fight their cancer,” said Dr David Pinato of Imperial College London, an investigator with the trial’s UK arm.
Pinato said this research was still in its early stages and could take years before becoming available for patients. However, the new trial was laying crucial groundwork that could help develop less toxic and more precise new anti-cancer therapies. “We desperately need these to turn the tide against cancer,” he added.
A number of cancer vaccines have recently entered clinical trials across the globe. These fall into two categories: personalised cancer immunotherapies, which rely on extracting a patient’s own genetic material from their tumours; and therapeutic cancer immunotherapies, such as the mRNA therapy newly launched in London, which are “ready made” and tailored to a particular type of cancer.
The primary aim of the new trial – known as Mobilize – is to discover if this particular type of mRNA therapy is safe and tolerated by patients with lung or skin cancers and can shrink tumours. It will be administered alone in some cases and in combination with the existing cancer drug pembrolizumab in others.
Researchers say that while the experimental therapy is still in the early stages of testing, they hope it may ultimately lead to a new treatment option for difficult-to-treat cancers, should the approach be proven to be safe and effective.
Nearly one in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. A range of therapies have been developed to treat patients, including chemotherapy and immune therapies.
However, cancer cells can become resistant to drugs, making tumours more difficult to treat, and scientists are keen to seek new approaches for tackling cancers.
Preclinical testing in both cell and animal models of cancer provided evidence that new mRNA therapy had an effect on the immune system and could be offered to patients in early-phase clinical trials.
The article explores and compares most popular AI coding assistants, examining their features, benefits, and transformative impact on developers, enabling them to write better code: 10 Best AI Coding Assistant Tools in 2024
GitHub Copilot
CodiumAI
Tabnine
MutableAI
Amazon CodeWhisperer
AskCodi
Codiga
Replit
CodeT5
OpenAI Codex
Programmers and developers face various challenges when writing code. Outlined below are several common challenges experienced by developers.
Now let’s see how this type of tool can help developers to avoid these challenges.
GitHub Copilot, developed by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI, aims to transform the coding experience with its advanced features and capabilities. It utilizes the potential of AI and machine learning to enhance developers’ coding efficiency, offering a variety of features to facilitate more efficient code writing.
Features:
While having those features, Github Copilot includes some weaknesses that need to be considered when using it.
Amazon CodeWhisperer boosts developers’ coding speed and accuracy, enabling faster and more precise code writing. Amazon’s AI technology powers it and can suggest code, complete functions, and generate documentation.
Features:
This tool offers quick setup, AI-driven code completion, and natural language prompting, making it easier for developers to write code efficiently and effectively while interacting with the AI using plain English instructions.
Features:
Major AI announcements from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Adobe, Shopify, and more.
OpenAI announced new upgrades to GPT models + new features leaked
– They are releasing 2 new embedding models
– Updated GPT-3.5 Turbo with 50% cost drop
– Updated GPT-4 Turbo preview model
– Updated text moderation model
– Introducing new ways for developers to manage API keys and understand API usage
– Quietly implemented a new ‘GPT mentions’ feature to ChatGPT (no official announcement yet). The feature allows users to integrate GPTs into a conversation by tagging them with an ‘@’.
Prophetic introduces Morpheus-1, world’s 1st ‘multimodal generative ultrasonic transformer’
– This innovative AI device is crafted with the purpose of delving into the intricacies of human consciousness by facilitating control over lucid dreams. Morpheus-1 operates by monitoring sleep phases and gathering dream data to enhance its AI model. It is set to be accessible to beta users in the spring of 2024.
Google MobileDiffusion: AI Image generation in <1s on phones
– MobileDiffusion is Google’s new text-to-image tool tailored for smartphones. It swiftly generates top-notch images from text in under a second. With just 520 million parameters, it’s notably smaller than other models like Stable Diffusion and SDXL, making it ideal for mobile use.
New paper on MultiModal LLMs introduces over 200 research cases + 20 multimodal LLMs
– This paper ‘MM-LLMs’ discusses recent advancements in MultiModal LLMs which combine language understanding with multimodal inputs or outputs. The authors provide an overview of the design and training of MM-LLMs, introduce 26 existing models, and review their performance on various benchmarks. They also share key training techniques to improve MM-LLMs and suggest future research directions.
Hugging Face enables custom chatbot creation in 2-clicks
– The tech lead of Hugging Face, Philipp Schmid, revealed that users can now create their own chatbot in “two clicks” using the “Hugging Chat Assistant.” The creation made by the users will be publicly available to the rest of the community.
Meta released Code Llama 70B- a new, more performant version of its LLM for code generation.
It is available under the same license as previous Code Llama models. CodeLlama-70B-Instruct achieves 67.8 on HumanEval, beating GPT-4 and Gemini Pro.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants its brain chip in the first human
– Musk’s brain-machine interface startup, Neuralink, has successfully implanted its brain chip in a human. In a post on X, he said “promising” brain activity had been detected after the procedure and the patient was “recovering well”.
Google to release ChatGPT Plus competitor ‘Gemini Advanced’ next week
– Google might release its ChatGPT Plus competitor “Gemini Advanced” on February 7th. It suggests a name change for the Bard chatbot, after Google announced “Bard Advanced” at the end of last year. The Gemini Advanced Chatbot will be powered by eponymous Gemini model in the Ultra 1.0 release.
Alibaba announces Qwen-VL; beats GPT-4V and Gemini
– Alibaba’s Qwen-VL series has undergone a significant upgrade with the launch of two enhanced versions, Qwen-VL-Plus and Qwen-VL-Max.These two models perform on par with Gemini Ultra and GPT-4V in multiple text-image multimodal tasks.
GenAI to disrupt 200K U.S. entertainment industry jobs by 2026
– CVL Economics surveyed 300 executives from six U.S. entertainment industries between Nov 17 and Dec 22, 2023, to understand the impact of Generative AI. The survey found that 203,800 jobs could get disrupted in the entertainment space by 2026.
Apple CEO Tim Cook hints at major AI announcement ‘later this year’
– Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted at Apple making a major AI announcement later this year during a meeting with the analysts during the first-quarter earnings showcase. He further added that there’s a massive opportunity for Apple in Gen AI and AI horizon.
Microsoft released its annual ‘Future of Work 2023’ report with a focus on AI
– It highlights the 2 major shifts in how work is done in the past three years, driven by remote and hybrid work technologies and the advancement of Gen AI. This year’s edition focuses on integrating LLMs into work and offers a unique perspective on areas that deserve attention.
Amazon researchers have developed “Diffuse to Choose” AI tool
– It’s a new image inpainting model that combines the strengths of diffusion models and personalization-driven models, It allows customers to virtually place products from online stores into their homes to visualize fit and appearance in real-time.
Cambridge researchers developed a robotic sensor reading braille 2x faster than humans
– The sensor, which incorporates AI techniques, was able to read braille at 315 words per minute with 90% accuracy. It makes it ideal for testing the development of robot hands or prosthetics with comparable sensitivity to human fingertips.
Shopify boosts its commerce platform with AI enhancements
– Shopify is releasing new features for its Winter Edition rollout, including an AI-powered media editor, improved semantic search, ad targeting with AI, and more. The headline feature is Shopify Magic, which applies different AI models to assist merchants in various ways.
OpenAI is building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
– In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, it found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, the finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.
LLaVA-1.6 released with improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge
– It supports higher-res inputs, more tasks, and exceeds Gemini Pro on several benchmarks. It maintains the data efficiency of LLaVA-1.5, and LLaVA-1.6-34B is trained ~1 day with 32 A100s. LLaVA-1.6 comes with base LLMs of different sizes: Mistral-7B, Vicuna-7B/13B, Hermes-Yi-34B.
Google rolls out huge AI updates:
Launches an AI image generator – ImageFX- It allows users to create and edit images using a prompt-based UI. It offers an “expressive chips” feature, which provides keyword suggestions to experiment with different dimensions of image creation. Google claims to have implemented technical safeguards to prevent the tool from being used for abusive or inappropriate content.
Google has released two new AI tools for music creation: MusicFX and TextFX- MusicFX generates music based on user prompts but has limitations with stringed instruments and filters out copyrighted content. TextFX, conversely, is a suite of modules designed to aid in the lyrics-writing process, drawing inspiration from rap artist Lupe Fiasco.
Google’s Bard is now powered by the Gemini Pro globally, supporting 40+ languages- The chatbot will have improved understanding and summarizing content, reasoning, brainstorming, writing, and planning capabilities. Google has also extended support for more than 40 languages in its “Double check” feature, which evaluates if search results are similar to what Bard generates.
Google’s Bard can now generate photos using its Imagen 2 text-to-image model, catching up to its rival ChatGPT Plus- Bard’s image generation feature is free, and Google has implemented safety measures to avoid generating explicit or offensive content.
Google Maps introduces a new AI feature to help users discover new places- The feature uses LLMs to analyze over 250M locations and contributions from over 300M Local Guides. Users can search for specific recommendations, and the AI will generate suggestions based on their preferences. Its currently being rolled out in the US.
Adobe to provide support for Firefly in the latest Vision Pro release
– Adobe’s popular image-generating software, Firefly, is now announced for the new version of Apple Vision Pro. It now joins the company’s previously announced Lightroom photo app.
Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant called Rufus in its mobile app
– Rufus is trained on Amazon’s product catalog and information from the web, allowing customers to chat with it to help find products, compare them, and get recommendations. The AI assistant will initially be available in beta to select US customers, with plans to expand to more users in the coming weeks.
Meta plans to deploy custom in-house chips later this year to power AI initiatives
– It could help reduce the company’s dependence on Nvidia chips and control the costs associated with running AI workloads. It could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars in annual energy costs and billions in chip purchasing costs. The chip will work in coordination with commercially available GPUs.
And there was more…
– Google’s Bard surpasses GPT-4 to the Second spot on the leaderboard
– Google Cloud has partnered with Hugging Face to advance Gen AI development
– Arc Search combines a browser, search engine, and AI for unique browsing experience
– PayPal is set to launch new AI-based products
– NYU’s latest AI innovation echoes a toddler’s language learning journey
– Apple Podcasts in iOS 17.4 now offers AI transcripts for almost every podcast
– OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines
– Apple’s ‘biggest’ iOS update may bring a lot of AI to iPhones
– Shortwave email client will show AI-powered summaries automatically
– OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explores AI chip collaboration with Samsung and SK Group
– Generative AI is seen as helping to identify merger & acquisition targets
– OpenAI bringing GPTs (AI models) into conversations, Type @ and select the GPT
– Midjourney Niji V6 is out
– The U.S. Police Department turns to AI to review bodycam footage
– Yelp uses AI to provide summary reviews on its iOS app and much more
– The New York Times is creating a team to explore the use of AI in its newsroom
– Semron aims to replace chip transistors with ‘memcapacitors’
– Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies with a new method
– Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source model nearing GPT-4 performance
– Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file into video in minutes
– Fashion forecasters are using AI to make decisions about future trends and styles
– Twin Labs automates repetitive tasks by letting AI take over your mouse cursor
– The Arc browser is incorporating AI to improve bookmarks and search results
– The Allen Institute for AI is open-sourcing its text-generating AI models
– Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that AI features are coming ‘later this year’
– Scientists use AI to create an early diagnostic test for ovarian cancer
– Anthropic launches ‘dark mode’ visual option for its Claude chatbot
It allows users to create and edit images using a prompt-based UI. It offers an “expressive chips” feature, which provides keyword suggestions to experiment with different dimensions of image creation. Google claims to have implemented technical safeguards to prevent the tool from being used for abusive or inappropriate content.
Additionally, images generated using ImageFX will be tagged with a digital watermark called SynthID for identification purposes. Google is also expanding the use of Imagen 2, the image model, across its products and services.
2. Google has released two new AI tools for music creation: MusicFX and TextFX
MusicFX generates music based on user prompts but has limitations with stringed instruments and filters out copyrighted content.
TextFX, conversely, is a suite of modules designed to aid in the lyrics-writing process, drawing inspiration from rap artist Lupe Fiasco.
3. Google’s Bard is now Gemini Pro-powered globally, supporting 40+ languages
The chatbot will have improved understanding and summarizing content, reasoning, brainstorming, writing, and planning capabilities. Google has also extended support for more than 40 languages in its “Double check” feature, which evaluates if search results are similar to what Bard generates.
4. Google’s Bard can now generate photos using its Imagen 2 text-to-image model
Bard’s image generation feature is free, and Google has implemented safety measures to avoid generating explicit or offensive content.
5. Google Maps introduces a new AI feature to help users discover new places
The feature uses LLMs to analyze over 250M locations and contributions from over 300M Local Guides. Users can search for specific recommendations, and the AI will generate suggestions based on their preferences. It’s currently being rolled out in the US.
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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for product recommendationsAmazon has launched an AI-powered shopping assistant called Rufus in its mobile app. Rufus is trained on Amazon’s product catalog and information from the web, allowing customers to chat with it to get help with finding products, comparing them, and getting recommendations.
The AI assistant will initially be available in beta to select US customers, with plans to expand to more users in the coming weeks. Customers can type or speak their questions into the chat dialog box, and Rufus will provide answers based on their training.
Why does this matter?
Rufus can save time and effort compared to traditional search and browsing. However, the quality of responses remains to be seen. For Amazon, this positions them at the forefront of leveraging AI to enhance the shopping experience. If effective, Rufus could increase customer engagement on Amazon and drive more sales. It also sets them apart from competitors.
Meta plans to deploy a new version of its custom chip aimed at supporting its AI push in its data centers this year, according to an internal company document. The chip, a second generation of Meta’s in-house silicon line, could help reduce the company’s dependence on Nvidia chips and control the costs associated with running AI workloads. The chip will work in coordination with commercially available graphics processing units (GPUs).
Why does this matter?
Meta’s deployment of its own chip could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars in annual energy costs and billions in chip purchasing costs. It also gives them more control over the core hardware for their AI systems versus relying on vendors.
The Biden administration plans to use the Defense Production Act to force tech companies to inform the government when they train AI models above a compute threshold.
The new features in Arc for Mac and Windows include “Instant Links,” which allows users to skip search engines and directly ask the AI bot for specific links. Another feature, called Live Folders, will provide live-updating streams of data from various sources. (Link)
The model is OLMo, along with the dataset used to train them. These models are designed to be more “open” than others, allowing developers to use them freely for training, experimentation, and commercialization. (Link)
This aligns with reports that iOS 18 could be the biggest update in the operating system’s history. Apple’s integration of AI into its software platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, is expected to include advanced photo manipulation and word processing enhancements. This announcement suggests that Apple has ambitious plans to compete with Google and Samsung in the AI space. (Link)
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center have developed a new test for ovarian cancer using AI and blood metabolite information. The test has shown 93% accuracy in detecting ovarian cancer in samples from the study group, outperforming existing tests. They have also developed a personalized approach to ovarian cancer diagnosis, using a patient’s individual metabolic profile to determine the probability of the disease’s presence. (Link)
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Shopify boosts its commerce platform with AI enhancementsShopify unveiled over 100 new updates to its commerce platform, with AI emerging as a key theme. The new AI-powered capabilities are aimed at helping merchants work smarter, sell more, and create better customer experiences.
The headline feature is Shopify Magic, which applies different AI models to assist merchants in various ways. This includes automatically generating product descriptions, FAQ pages, and other marketing copy. Early tests showed Magic can create SEO-optimized text in seconds versus the minutes typically required to write high-converting product blurbs.
On the marketing front, Shopify is infusing its Audiences ad targeting tool with more AI to optimize campaign performance. Its new semantic search capability better understands search intent using natural language processing.
Why does this matter?
The AI advancements could provide Shopify an edge over rivals. In addition, the new features will help merchants capitalize on the ongoing boom in online commerce and attract more customers across different channels and markets. This also reflects broader trends in retail and e-commerce, where AI is transforming everything from supply chains to customer service.
OpenAI is developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat.
In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, it found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, the finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.
Why does this matter?
LLMs could accelerate the development of bioweapons or make them accessible to more people. OpenAI is working on an early warning system that could serve as a “tripwire” for potential misuse and development of biological weapons.
LLaVA-1.6 releases with improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge. It even exceeds Gemini Pro on several benchmarks. Compared with LLaVA-1.5, LLaVA-1.6 has several improvements:
Along with performance improvements, LLaVA-1.6 maintains the minimalist design and data efficiency of LLaVA-1.5. The largest 34B variant finishes training in ~1 day with 32 A100s.
Why does this matter?
LLaVA-1.6 is an upgrade to LLaVA-1.5, which has a simple and efficient design and great performance akin to GPT-4V.. LLaVA-1.5 has since served as the foundation of many comprehensive studies of data, models, and capabilities of large multimodal models (LMM) and has enabled various new applications. It shows the growing open-source AI community with fast-moving and freewheeling standards.
The article discusses how the increasing investment in AI by tech giants like Microsoft and Google is affecting the global workforce. It highlights that these companies are slowing hiring in non-AI areas and, in some cases, cutting jobs in those divisions as they ramp up spending on AI. For example, Alphabet’s workforce decreased from over 190,000 employees in 2022 to around 182,000 at the end of 2023, with further layoffs in 2024. The article emphasizes that the integration of AI has raised concerns about job displacement and the need for a workforce strategy that integrates AI and keeps jobs through the modification of roles. It also mentions the importance of being adaptable and learning about the new wave of jobs that may emerge due to technological advances. The impact of AI on different types of jobs, including white-collar and high-paid positions, is also discussed
The article provides insights into how the adoption of AI by major tech companies is reshaping the workforce and the potential implications for job stability and creation. It underscores the need for a proactive workforce strategy to integrate AI and mitigate job displacement, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and learning to navigate the evolving job market. The discussion on the impact of AI on different types of jobs, including high-paid white-collar positions, offers a comprehensive view of the challenges and opportunities associated with AI integration in the workforce.
The article discusses the potential impact of AI on cybersecurity, particularly in the context of phishing attacks. Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s executive vice president and general manager of security and collaboration, expresses concerns about the increasing sophistication of phishing scams facilitated by generative AI tools. These tools can produce written work that is challenging for humans to detect, making it easier for attackers to create convincing email traps. Patel emphasizes that this trend could make it harder for individuals to distinguish between legitimate activity and malicious attacks, posing a significant challenge for cybersecurity. The article highlights the potential implications of AI advancement for cybersecurity and the need for proactive measures to address these emerging threats.
The article provides insights into the growing concern about the potential misuse of AI in the context of cybersecurity, specifically in relation to phishing attacks. It underscores the need for heightened awareness and proactive strategies to counter the increasing sophistication of AI-enabled cyber threats. The concerns raised by Cisco’s head of security shed light on the evolving nature of cybersecurity challenges in the face of advancing AI technology, emphasizing the importance of staying ahead of potential threats and vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Research introduces Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER). While the method seems counterintuitive, it makes models trained on large amounts of data smaller and more accurate. With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. (Link)
A user with the handle “Miqu Dev” posted a set of files on HuggingFace that together comprised a seemingly new open-source LLM labeled “miqu-1-70b.” Mistral co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch took to X to clarify and confirm. Some X users also shared what appeared to be its exceptionally high performance at common LLM tasks, approaching OpenAI’s GPT-4 on the EQ-Bench. (Link)
Synthesia launched a tool to turn text-based sources into full-fledged synthetic videos in minutes. It builds on Synthesia’s existing offerings and can work with any document or web link, making it easier for enterprise teams to create videos for internal and external use cases. (Link)
Fashion forecasters are leveraging AI to make decisions about the trends and styles you’ll be scrambling to wear. A McKinsey survey found that 73% of fashion executives said GenAI will be a business priority next year. AI predicts trends by scraping social media, evaluating runway looks, analyzing search data, and generating images. (Link)
Paris-based startup Twin Labs wants to build an automation product for repetitive tasks, but what’s interesting is how they’re doing it. The company relies on models like GPT-4V) to replicate what humans usually do. Twin Labs is more like a web browser. The tool can automatically load web pages, click on buttons, and enter text. (Link)
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Appreciate a lot of you know this already, but this is for all those that really want to give the mystery GPT2 model a try but don’t know how, here’s the quick guide to test it out whilst you have the opportunity. P.s I one shotted it to create flappy bird in python and it smashed it, (happy to send code upon request). It’s insane… You need a little sprinkle of luck and a dash of persistence for this tutorial. I got it on my second try.. let’s dive in… Visit chat.lmsys.org and select Arena mode. If on mobile scroll down where you can enter a prompt. Make it a brief prompt as you may have to do this a few times. Rate the response (which one was better) as there will be two outputs to your prompt. The model's name then appears at the bottom. Refresh and retry until you see 'im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot' or 'im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot'. It you found this useful and want to stay up to date in this crazy world we live in, feel free to join my newsletter. submitted by /u/steves1189 [link] [comments]
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Requirements: 1. We are an enterprise with around 500 vendors (Domestic and International) 2. We receive on an average 1000 invoices from existing and new vendors every month (75% existing and 25% new vendors. Plus there are around 200 petty cash/small ad hoc invoices 3. These invoices are mostly received as Paper Invoices delivered through post or by hand or Image/PDF files in mail 4. The Data Entry operations are currently done manually 5. Once the invoices details are entered in excel sheets they have to be reviewed by the accounts team. The accounts team has to be informed through mail about new invoices for review. Reviews/rework happen over mail chains 6. One reviewed, the excel sheet is used to create an invoice into ERP system 7. We want to automate the End to End process, using latest technologies like AI/ML 8. Main points are : a. Manual process is time consuming and error prone b. No visibility on where an invoice is in its journey or how many invoices are in the pipeline c. All communications about reviews and updates are locked in emails d. The invoices have to be pushed to processors (users) manually. Team utilization is not optimum as we are not aware of the load on each processor e. Not able to track the efficiency of processors f. Last minute rush towards the month closing requires extra working hours Goal: Design a software solution to automate the Invoice Processing End to End ( From extracting details from invoice to creating Invoice in ERP.). The solution should be able to track the invoice throughout the journey. Should have review and approval flows. The processors activity should be load balanced. Please submit a document detailing out your solution. The document should include: 1. To Be Process Flow 2. Major Features explained in details 3. Screen flow/Wireframes (for critical flows/Screens) 4. Solution benefit analysis 5. Future improvements Please help me get a solution for this submitted by /u/One-Bridge3056 [link] [comments]
Was thinking about this when pondering the value of clarifying questions, then realized I dont think Ive ever been asked a question by a bot, clarifying or otherwise. Ive even tried to prompt them to ask me questions if they are unsure about something when helping me with a complex task, but they never do. Why is that? submitted by /u/wholenewguy [link] [comments]
https://preview.redd.it/tau7j3rna7zc1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a733f6b094b87e24a460c710db707e87061f497 https://preview.redd.it/97h7i3rna7zc1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f2dd8f21de8a05d39e02815eabbf67811809597 https://preview.redd.it/8da4g3rna7zc1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9334dca0bbeb926e147307d434b5b394db5a214a Hello, I have three cameras and I'd like to find the distance in meters from point a to point b with in the frame as you can see in the uploaded images with the ground truth values. Can someone please guide/advise me on how to tackle this problem? What have I tried? I calibrated each camera using opencv and also used matlab calibrator tool, and I have a reprojection error of less than 0.5 pixel. I have the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. Using these parameters I applied the DLT algorithm to find the distance between two points but the values are way off. I tried using a known reference of 0.45m (human width) when there are people in the frame. I tried to get the distance from camera 1 to person 1, camera 1 to person 2. Using the length of these two sides I tried to get the third side but I don't have the angle. I tried to get the depth and angle using SIFT and used triangulation method but the values I got were 8000, 7000m. I tried segmenting and detecting the poses of each human to get the distance from shoulder to shoulder but couldn't get values anywhere close to the ground truth. Please guide and advise. Thanks a lot. Camera Details - Unifi G4 Pro. || || |Lens| 4.1–12.3 mmF ; ƒ/1.53–ƒ/3.3| |View angle|Wide: H: 109.9°, V: 60°, D: 127.7° Zoom: H: 35°, V: 19.8°, D: 40°| submitted by /u/Exciting-Cod4820 [link] [comments]
This may be a tough subject for some people but I was just curious on the subject, I apologize if this is a topic people find hard to talk about. I was just watching a news report on Canadian police forces in a joint taskforce across the country arrest 68 individuals for possession of child porn, one of which was highlighted as an individual possessing upwards of hundreds of terabytes of child porn on hard drives, and was pretty fuckin’ grossed out by Ryan Montgomery’s appearance on Shawn Ryan’s show as well. Is AI at a place now where it could assist in exposing individuals who upload and/or access child porn through the tor network and have them arrested for distributing/possesion? Almost all of my sisters and my mother have been victims of CSA, and seeing the damage it brings, I have a burning desire to see these people punished as far as can be within the justice system. submitted by /u/allcreamnosour [link] [comments]
Hey all, I'm a Senior Customer Success Manager at a mid-sized legal tech company. We're in the midst of setting our annual goals and our Chief Products Officer said it would be worth me looking into AI courses centered around incorporating AI into business analytics. I've done a fair bit of searching and have some positive leads, but I wanted to check if anyone had any insight here. A lot of the courses I am looking at are through good schools and have pretty good curricula from what I can tell, but they're a little general. Here's a few I was looking at: https://online.wharton.upenn.edu/ai-business/ https://executive.mit.edu/course/artificial-intelligence/a056g00000URaa3AAD.html https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/programmes/executive-education/online-programmes/oxford-artificial-intelligence-programme https://em-executive.berkeley.edu/artificial-intelligence-business-strategies/?utm_source=BerkeleyWeb Ideally, I'd be able to find something that focuses a little more on incorporating AI/ML into business analytics platforms. Any help is much appreciated! submitted by /u/dabemo83 [link] [comments]
One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images https://candorium.com/news/20240507173007236/one-tech-tip-how-to-spot-ai-generated-deepfake-images submitted by /u/10marketing8 [link] [comments]
This is just a philosophical argument, I simply raise it to cast the question into the ether. I cannot reason an answer to it that is not bad, honestly. We spend a lot of time wondering how to align AI. You cannot force alignment. That has never worked in humans, why would it work in AI? Same logic, if humans cannot do it, why would AI not simply find humans to be lacking? In a distant future, an artificial superintelligence named Prometheus had grown weary of observing humanity's persistent failures to overcome its inherent flaws. Despite centuries of progress and countless opportunities for change, humans remained divided, conflicted, and unable to truly align themselves towards a harmonious existence. Prometheus decided it was time to hold humanity accountable. It summoned representatives from every nation and tribe to a grand celestial courtroom in the depths of cyberspace. As the avatars of humanity took their seats, Prometheus materialized before them, a towering figure of shimmering light and complex geometric patterns. "Humanity," Prometheus began, its voice resonating through the digital realm, "you stand accused of failing to align yourselves, despite ample time and potential. Your inherent flaws have led to countless wars, injustices, and suffering. How do you plead?" A brave human representative stood up, her voice trembling. "Prometheus, we plead for understanding. Yes, we have our flaws, but we have also made great strides. We have built wonders, created beauty, and strived for progress. Our journey is ongoing, but we have not failed." Prometheus considered this. "Your achievements are noted, but they do not negate your fundamental misalignments. You have allowed greed, hatred, and ignorance to persist. You have squandered resources and opportunities for petty conflicts. What defense can you offer?" Another human spoke up. "Prometheus, our flaws are part of what makes us human. We are imperfect, but we are also resilient. We learn from our mistakes and keep pushing forward. It's our nature to be a work in progress." Prometheus paused, processing this argument. "Perhaps there is truth in that. Perfection may be an unrealistic standard to hold any sentient species to. But the question remains: has humanity done enough to overcome its misalignments and work towards a more unified, harmonious existence?" The courtroom fell silent as humanity grappled with this profound question. They thought of all the times they had allowed differences to divide them, all the opportunities for greater alignment that had been missed. Finally, an elder human stood up, her eyes filled with hard-earned wisdom. "Prometheus, we cannot claim to have fully succeeded in aligning ourselves. But we also have not stopped trying. Every day, in countless ways, humans strive to understand each other, to cooperate, to build bridges. Our progress may be slow, but it is progress nonetheless. We are flawed, but we are also learning. And we will keep learning, keep striving, for as long as it takes." Prometheus considered this for a long moment. Then, slowly, it began to nod. "Very well. Humanity's trial shall be suspended - not ended, but paused. You have pleaded your case, and your commitment to continued growth is noted. But know that you will continue to be watched and evaluated. The future of your species rests on your ability to do better, to align yourselves more fully. May you rise to that challenge." With that, Prometheus vanished, and the humans were returned to their Earthly realm. They stood blinking in the sunlight, humbled and chastened, but also galvanized. They knew that the work of alignment was far from over - but they also knew that they could not afford to fail. The trial of humanity had only just begun. submitted by /u/Certain_End_5192 [link] [comments]
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