The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #5
Michael Spencer
A.I. Writer, researcher and curator - full-time Newsletter publication manager.
Where professionals skim the A.I. News of the past week.
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Quote of the Day
"AI is intrinsically good, because the effect of AI is to make people smarter" - Yann LeCun VP and Chief Scientist at Meta (Facebook)
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??Introduction for Today??
Considering it's the summer, still a lot of intrigue happening in A.I., startups and the quantum, robotics and emerging tech space. Here are some of the best stories of the week:
Robotics are having a big year in 2023: RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent (Google DeepMind)
??Top News ??
The economic potential of generative AI : The next productivity frontier (McKinsey)
Inflection AI has developed in-house one of the most sophisticated LLMs in the market. Inflection-1: Pi’s Best-in-Class LLM (see Technical memo )
OpenAI considers app store for AI models
AI Is a Lot of Work : As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere
ElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19m Series A Round
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM , now ready for business
China's Creator of TikTok, ByteDance, Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year
Bill Gates’ venture firm, with backing from Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma, just minted a $1 billion A.I. unicorn
??Public Relations??
Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications (a16z)
Microsoft achieves first milestone towards a quantum supercomputer
Introducing the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center! ??
Accenture to Invest $3 Billion in AI to Accelerate Clients’ Reinvention
OctoML launched OctoAI , a platform for running, tuning and scaling generative AI models
SoftBank to get offensive on AI
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??Partnership & Announcements??
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL 0.9, a "leap forward" in AI image generation
Tencent Cloud launches Chinese language model service
MosaicML MPT-30B-Chat & MosaicML challenges OpenAI with its new open-source language model
Meta's LLaMA v2 could shake up the Chatbot business
Figma has acquired Diagram - AI: The next chapter in design
Vimeo intros a trio of AI-powered editing features
Harvard - CS50 Will Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Course Instruction
Hugging Face and AMD announced a strategic alliance for accelerating foundation models on GPU platforms
Google Cloud Launches Anti-Money-Laundering Tool for Banks , Betting on the Power of AI
NLP labeling platform Datasaur unveiled a new set of features supporting the evaluation of LLMs
??Videos??
The most interesting thing in tech: Will future AI models be able to improve themselves by training on synthetic data created by AI, instead of data created by humans?
Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #386
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky On Amazon’s $100 Million Investment Into Generative AI [link ]
The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED
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??Novel Tools??
ElevenLabs - Unleash the power of our cutting-edge technology to generate realistic , captivating speech in a wide range of languages
FinanceGPT - Transform Your Financial Analysis and Research
BeforeSunset - Transform your workday from chaos to clarity
AI-powered ‘Help me organize’ starts rolling out in Google Sheets
Best AI Tools for Product Managers in 2023 [ link ]
Leet Resumes - Use Generative A.I. to re-write your resumes
Current – Share work-in-progress with your team & get weekly AI-powered summaries
Gamma - The AI presentation tool now allows PowerPoint export ( Tweet )
Olvy 2.0 - Analyze user feedback 10x faster with AI
Embedchain - Framework to easily create LLM powered bots over any dataset
Fin Intercom’s breakthrough AI bo t for your support team
Cohesive - Transform Your Storytelling with Human-like AI Voices
??Hacker News??
People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI [Read 188 comments ]
Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’ [read 396 comments ]
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard [read 105 comments ]
Do you use Snapchat's AI chatbot? Here's the data it's pulling from you
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?? Papers ??
RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation ( Google DeepMind )
CLINICALGPT : LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FINETUNED WITH DIVERSE MEDICAL DATA AND COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION
FinGPT - an open-source LLM for the finance sector ; it takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers & practitioners with accessible resources to develop FinLLMs
WebGLM : Towards An Efficient Web-Enhanced Question Answering System with Human Preferences ( GitHub )
FULL PARAMETER FINE-TUNING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WITH LIMITED RESOURCES
Improving Language Model Negotiation with Self-Play and In-Context Learning from AI Feedback ( GitHub )
Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap
Inflection-1 Technical Memo
?? Learning Video Representations from Large Language Models
??Noted Newsletters??
Keynote Speech: Breakthroughs in LLM Research and Constitutional AI
What "GPT" actually means
On giving AI eyes and ears
?? Robotics ??
DeepMind’s RoboCat learns to perform a range of robotics tasks
HomeRobot: Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation
Robots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube
Teaching robots how to touch
Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato picking robot
Uber Rival Bolt Taps AI Robots For Food Delivery
??Healthcare??
Healthcare billing and claims automation startup Outbound AI raises $16M
￡21 million to roll out artificial intelligence across the NHS
?? Science ??
Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm
AI reveals ancient symbols hidden in Peruvian desert famous for alien theories
AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Google Bard Don’t Meet EU Law Standards: Study (take #2)
??Stock Market ??
The AI boom could fizzle out soon - but that'll just be an opportunity to buy the dip, Barclays says
The world's wealthiest people have seen their fortunes grow by more than $150 billion thanks to the AI-fueled stock-market boom
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?? Startups ??
Here are a list of the 10 hottest AI startups, ranked by funding rounds ( Tweet )
AI startup wants to bring foundation models to game development
Data lakehouse platform Dremio unveiled new generative AI capabilities
ML monitoring startup WhyLabs unveiled LangKit , a new platform for safeguarding LLMs
Kibsi raises $9.3M for its no-code computer vision platform
Dandelion Health - Amid the AI gold rush, a new company forms to vet models and root out weaknesses (bias)
Riding ChatGPT’s waves: Two Taiwanese startups innovate upon shoulders of giants
Armilla AI debuts AutoAlign, allowing enterprises to fine-tune their AI models to block hallucinations, harm
Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
??AGI and ASI ????
How Tesla plans to win the robot race with foundation models
Google Deepmind's new AI agent learns 26 games in two hours
?? Education & Learning??
ChatGPT Guide: Use these prompt strategies to maximize your results
Hugging Face space on QR code AI art generator
The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place
Falcon – A guide to finetune and inference
??Videos & Podcasts???
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on the Future of AI [ link ]
Personal Intelligence with Mustafa Suleyman [AI miniseries]
Mustafa Suleyman Talks About The AI Race On Closing Bell [ link ]
How Generative AI Is Going to Disrupt YouTube and TikTok (Tech Strategy – Podcast 152)
???National Defense & Military???
Primer Technologies announced a $69 million funding round to accelerate the development of AI solutions for the U.S Government
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??Future of Work & Automation??
The economic potential of generative AI : The next productivity frontier (McKinsey)
AI has the potential to automate 40% of the average work day (see the full report Valoir - 13 slides)
92% of programmers are using AI tools , says GitHub developer survey
Airbnb CEO predicts AI will pave the way for 'millions of startups' instead of replacing jobs
IKEA Uses AI to Transform Call Center Employees Into Interior Design Advisors
Nvidia's new supercomputer is coming for programmers' jobs
Parallel Domain’s API lets customers use generative AI to build synthetic datasets
The AI workforce - An exploration of AI’s impact on the nature of work and companies ( Whitepaper download )
??Venture Capital??
The New New Moats - Why Systems of Intelligence are still the next defensible business model (Greylock)
Investing in ElevenLabs (a16z)
Introducing Prophetic AI
AI monitoring platform Deepchecks raised $14 million in a new round
Market Map and Analysis: Gen AI Search Companies
Dropbox launches $50M AI-focused venture fund , intros AI features
Training data platform Refuel AI announced $5 million in new funding
Ian Hogarth has been appointed Chair of the UK's Foundation Model Taskforce with ￡100M in funding
It’s not just hype , corporate America is making huge bets on AI transforming their businesses
It’s Not a Computer, It’s a Companion! (a16z)
?? China A.I.??
U.S.-China tech battle entering its ‘primetime’ — and generative A.I. could be the next frontier
US should stop China’s IP-theft ‘playbook’ for stealing AI
Goals of 'Made in China 2025' Are Unachievable: Tsinghua Professor
Group-IB Discovers 100K+ Compromised ChatGPT Accounts on Dark Web
???? ♂?Dystopian ??
Snapchat's My AI is my daughter's new best friend . Should I be worried?
Chatbots allow people with no lab training to create pandemic viruses, study finds
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??Governance and Regulation??
OpenAI lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations
Who owns the code? If ChatGPT's AI helps write your app, does it still belong to you?
AI regulation is impossible without compromise, which means the US is doomed
US calls upon volunteer experts to help address generative AI risks
Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit
Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law
What is the EU AI Act?
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks (54 slides)
??Opinion Editorial??
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
??Entertainment & the Arts??
Should we use AI to bring musicians back from the dead?
Artists are upset that ‘Secret Invasion ’ used AI art for opening credits
??Manifestations of Utopia???
??Quantum Computing??
Microsoft expects to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years
That's all for your summer A.I. reading.
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