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🤌 Ben's Picks

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Spirit Me lets you create AI-generated videos of yourself talking

Have you ever wondered what you’d look like if you were the baby of dubbed films and sound delays? Nah, nor have I actually. Anyhow, Spirit Me is a cool new tool that creates your digital avatar, works some voice cloning magic, and makes it possible for you to create fake videos of yourself talking about whatever you want to a camera. Despite looking a little like my first description, this is probably the best attempt at something like this that I’ve seen yet! Kinda creepy, but cool nonetheless.

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Gary Marcus brings us back to reality after we all laughed at Bing AI

I feel like I’m back at school about to burst with laughter whilst getting told off, as Gary Marcus is giving the AI community a slap on the back of the wrist for not taking the crazy Bing AI stories more seriously! He argues that the media have been irresponsible when reporting Bing AI in a positive/funny way, and that they need to address the serious issues in its manic responses.

If updates to LLMs are able to go so awry, then we seriously need to address the ease with which companies can update their AIs. According to him, lawmakers need to be faster to adapt regulation and people need to take the issue more seriously. You’re grounded for laughing at Bing!

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Researchers use AI to discover medicine to reduce opioid dependence

More positive AI developments in biology - just what the doctor ordered! Using AI, researchers claim to have discovered a number of compounds that are showing promise to decrease opioid dependence as a medicine. They used reinforcement learning techniques with rewards favourable to drug discovery, with the aim of identifying inhibitors of kappa-opioid receptors. Those are the ones that cause the need to use drugs during the withdrawal period. With the US’s opioid dependence problem, this is just the sort of thing we want to see, and could one day save millions of lives from addiction.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• AI-assisted product descriptions on Setary, a Woocommerce app. (link)

• AI SEO outlines - Generate amazing SEO content in seconds. (link)

• Shortcut AI - Your AI typist on macOS. (link)

• React GPT - a POC ChatGPT client that answers questions about React. (link)

• Neural frames - Create animations from text. (link)

• Please advise - AI generated excuses for the modern trucker. (link)

• NPM package with 3 different ways to access ChatGPT. (link)

• Bad Cook Club - Generate a recipe for ingredients that you have available. (link)

• HF space for the paper “a watermark for large language models.” (link)

• Text to Texture - Generate an infinite number of texture variants from a text prompt for a 3D model. (link)

• A cool demo of RunwayML Gen-1 with some early experiments. (link)

• Elaborate - Turn your thoughts into an incredible story in seconds. (link)

• Effectica - Create AI avatars. (link)

• AskAI - Build your own AI Q&A, with any content. (link)

  • They also built a searchable library of all the links in the email here.

• Feed AI - Generate AI photos from your IG feed turned model. (link)

• Mask and generate with AI canvas tool in Leonardo AI. (link)

• Dsign AI - Create prints and patterns with AI. (link)

• PoplarML - Help your team easily deploy ML models to production. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be 'that far away from potentially scary' AI and feels 'regulation will be critical'. (link)

• The biggest problem with AI. (link)

• Why is Bing so reckless? (link)

• How chatbots can change journalism, or not. (link)

• Jasper's generative AI conference breathes new optimism into the beaten down tech industry. (link)

• From CEOs to coders, employees experiment with new AI programs. (link)

• A malleable web. (link)

• Papers on the UX of AI programming assistants. (link)

• CheatGPT. (link)

• Welcome to AI warfare. (link)

• Artificial intelligence experts address bias in ChatGPT - “Very hard to prevent bias from happening.” (link)

• A human has beat an AI in possibly the most complex board game ever. (link)

• Apple’s ChatGPT competitor is a no-show at its timely AI summit. (link)

• How can AI support human creativity? (link)

• Bain & Company announces services alliance with OpenAI. (link)

• Can AI be trusted? The case for explainable AI. (link, without paywall here)

• Language models vs. the SAT reading test. (link)

• I say this unironically, our society is not prepared for this much awesome. (link)

🎓 Learn

• Experiment #1 - Creating a landing page using AI tools + No code. (link)

• How does ControlNet work? (link)

🔬 Research

• Composer from Alibaba - Creative and controllable image synthesis with composable conditions. (link)

• NerfDiff from Apple - Single-image view synthesis with NeRF-guided distillation from 3D-aware diffusion. (link)

• Cross-domain compositing with pretrained diffusion models. (link)

• How good are GPT models at machine translation? a comprehensive evaluation. (link)

• RetVec from Google - Resilient and efficient text vectorizer. (link)

• Poisoning web-scale training datasets is not hard. (link)

• Invertible neural skinning from Snap. (link)

• Temporal interpolation is all you need for dynamic NeRFs. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

• Dan Shipper (who's behind lots of amazing articles on how to use AI and his experiments) is running a workshop "Workshop: Learn to Write With AI" and is offering 20% off for BB readers. (redeem with this link)

• Netflix is hiring ML research interns. Learn more >>

• Runway is hiring a Sr. ML Ops Engineer. Learn more >>

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