Week ended 17 December 2023
The past week has been busy with AI announcements with some continuing into this week. Here are some of the key highlights that you may have missed:
- Google introduced Gemini Pro, the latest addition to its AI model family, which is now available to developers through Google AI Studio and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform. This includes an upgraded Imagen 2 text-to-image diffusion tool and a family of foundation models fine-tuned for the healthcare industry known as MedLM, alongside the general availability of Duet AI for developers and security operations
- OpenAI released a Prompt Engineering Guide - The guide is useful for anyone trying to maximize LLMs. The guide suggests six steps to Improving your prompts. These include; Write clear instructions, Provide reference text, Split complex tasks into simpler subtasks, Give the model time to "think”, Use external tools, and Test changes systematically.
- Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard - Microsoft rolled Copilot chat (formerly Bing Chat) into its famous SwiftKey keyboard on Android.
- AI Studio was launched by Google, a tool designed to help developers create apps and chatbots using the Gemini model. AI Studio, formerly known as MakerSuite, provides a web-based environment for developers to quickly develop prompts and Gemini-based chatbots, with the ability to scale up to 60 requests per second even on its free tier
- EU AI Act - On the legislative front, the European Union made progress on the EU AI Act, which sets out rules and regulations for the development and use of AI. Some of the obligations under the new law will become binding within two years, with prohibitions on certain AI systems, such as predictive policing, taking effect six months after the law is passed
- Microsoft released Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms other models like GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks and is capable of running on a laptop or mobile device
- Berkeley humanoid - Berkeley Research’s work on a learning-based approach for humanoid locomotion that could help with labor shortages and assist the elderly made headlines in AI applications.
- Other developments included as well as Google’s introduction of W.A.L.T, an AI model for photorealistic video generation.
As always stay curious my friends
