The Generative A.I. Brief - Issue #8
Michael Spencer
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The Generative A.I. Brief - Issue #8
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- A lot happend this week in A.I., I got you covered though.
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Hello Everyone,
This is an issue for links to articles about A.I., if that’s your thing, the last week had some curious topics. This series is a stand-alone Newsletter I’m growing on ConvertKit, you can join here.
I’m going to make some effort to include more events, A.I. related jobs and more A.I. papers in the future.
??Introduction for Today??
Friends, so it turns out about 60% of news readers only read the headline. It’s perfectly okay if that’s you.
The Summer dip has hit ChatGPT and what could it mean for the future of Generative A.I.? Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT's website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, the data shows. Google searches are also way down.
GPT-4 Leaks continued to pour out, some of them not flattering.
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??Top News ??
Anthropic's Claude 2 Launches and Goes public
GPT-4 (Leaks) Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, MoE (Semianalysis)
ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
GPT-4 architecture, datasets, costs and more leaked (bullet points, Decoder)
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
According to the OECD's 2023 Employment Outlook, AI automation threatens 27% of jobs in OECD countries, with Eastern European countries most at risk.
The Generative AI Revolution: Exploring the Current Landscape (30 min read)
Meta's new AI model aims to break the dominance of OpenAI and GPT-4 (LLaMA v2)
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I’m starting to listen to a lot more podcasts, videos and Ted Talks about A.I. I will do a post with some of the best soon.
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??Partnership & Announcements??
Code Interpreter Goes live for ChatGPT Plus Users
Google: Introducing NotebookLM
Elon Musk Launches x.AI on Twitter and Website
Stability A.I's Stable Doodle turns doodles into high-quality AI images with SDXL
China's Alibaba and Huawei add products to AI frenzy
Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud with NVIDIA and Run:ai
Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools
Google Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
Indian tech giant Wipro will invest $1 billion in AI, including training all staff
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??Videos??
AI Expert's Urgent Wake-Up Call: Unveiling the Silent Threat w/ Mo Gawdat | EP#51 [ link ]
??Novel Tools??
Try Rift, your own open-source language server and IDE extension that lets everyone deploy a personal AI software engineer.
ChatGPT’s new Code Interpreter and what it means for you (article)
Thiggle Categorize anything with LLMs
LoopGenius - attraction more customers to your Side Hustle
ScaleVP launches a Job board for Engineers
Poe is being upgraded
??Hacker News??
Sign-up for the Anthropic Hackathon July 29th , 30th
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?? Papers ??
Generative Pretraining in Multimodality
Focused Transformer: Contrastive Training for Context Scaling
And still reading: A Survey of Large Language Models
Semantic-SAM: Segment and Recognize Anything at Any Granularity
CarperAI Introduces OpenELM: An Open-Source Library Designed to Enable Evolutionary Search With Language Models In Both Code and Natural Language
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??Noted Newsletters??
Getting s tarted with Code Interpreter
State of Computer Vision in 2023
Yam Peleg's Post on GPT-4 Leaks
OpenAI Launches Superalignment Taskforce (LessWrong)
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Inflection AI & The Future of Personal Intelligence (Privacy concerns)
?? Robotics ??
Humanoid robot GR-1 to aid aging population in China
Simbe’s inventory robots score $28 million in funding
Verity Raises Additional $11M in Series B Funding
??Healthcare??
How AI Is Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
AI Is Becoming Increasingly Accurate in Assessing Medical Scans
?? Science ??
Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
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Securing AI systems — defensive strategies
??Stock Market ??
Nvidia's AI Chip Rivals
The world's most powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber. ' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance.
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?? Startups ??
Prompt engineering startup Vellum.ai raises $5M as demand for generative AI services scales
?? Education & Learning??
Ted AI , on 17th October 2023 - Focus on the power and impact of AI
EngBlogs - learn from y our favorite tech companies’ blogs
??Videos & Podcasts???
Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 - Podcast on Latent Space
"Will Superintelligent AI End the World?" | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED | [ link ]
"There will be Zero Programmers with A.I." ( link ) - YouTube Short
???National Defense & Military???
Pentagon seeks solutions to counter growing threat of cheap AI-powered weapons
??Future of Work & Automation??
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??Venture Capital??
Nvidia invests $50 million in biotech company Recursion for A.I. drug discovery (CNBC)
Causaly raises $60M to fuel generative AI-powered drug discovery
Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M
San Francisco AI Companies Got $11B in Funding So Far This Year
AI Will Save the World (reloaded)
AI Startup Hugging Face Is Raising Fresh VC Funds At $4 Billion Valuation
?? China A.I.??
China’s search engine pioneer unveils open source large language model to rival OpenAI (Baichuan Intelligence)
Elon Musk says he told China's leaders that if a 'digital superintelligence' is created , it could take charge of the country
China developing ‘brain-disrupting’ weapons analysts warn
China just gave the world a blueprint for reining in generative A.I. like ChatGPT and Bard
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Google quietly ditched plans for an A.I.-powered chatbot app for Gen Z
Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows stud
AI is making politics easier, cheaper and more dangerous
How AI could help local newsrooms remain afloat in a sea of misinformation
US Expert Warns of One Overlooked AI Risk (wealth inequality)
??Governance and Regulation??
We’re Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With AI Regulation, Despite Better Options
Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools
Medical AI Chatbots Need Standards—but Not From Google
AI-driven neurotechnology ‘on steroids’ needs regulation, says Unesco (FT)
??Opinion Editorial??
My A.I. Writing Robot
??Entertainment & the Arts??
Netflix’s AI-assisted green screen bathes actors in eye-searing magenta
??Manifestations of Utopia???
Wildfire detection startup Pano AI extends its $20M Series A with another $17M
??Quantum Computing??
Quobly Secures €19 Million in Funding to Propel Development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
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??Public Relations??
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive (Verge)
Adobe says Firefly has now generated 1B images, takes it global
Microsoft LongNet could deliver web-scale AI for future LLMs
Notion hits €300M for its f ifth fund but is unimpressed by big rounds into generative AI startups
??Last Memes??
Threads grew to $100 million users in five days from a platform with over 2 Billion users. Great, five percent of Instagram joined Threads. Half of them didn't show up the next week .
A lot is going on even when it seems like not much happened in A.I. in a given period. For previous issues you can read here.?
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