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AI is the most important story of the past several years.

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Ben Tossell
December 23, 2022

It's Friday and time for me to be driving home for Christmas! Off to spend it with my family. I hope you'll all have a wonderful festive period.

Let's get to it and leave work early!

🤌 Ben's Picks

We ran a hackathon and here are the winners!

🏆 1st Place: Brancher.ai - Connect AI models to build powerful apps - without code. It was so impressive to see how much this team of 2 accomplished in one week. (link)

🥈 2nd Place: BCG-3: Generative AI for Slides. (link)

🥉 3rd Place: EcoSnap - Recycle your plastic better with Artificial Intelligence. (link)

🤗 Best in Open-Source (Hugging Face prize): EcoSnap - Recycle your plastic better with Artificial Intelligence. (link)

We have 75 submissions total and our judging panel gave scores based on originality, quality, impressiveness and real-world use-case. We'll chat to the winners and get a bit more of a background story to bring to you in the New Year.

Congratulations to all our winners and we'll be doing another hackathon soon! I'll announce the honourable mentions next week.

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • ChatARKit - Using ChatGPT to create AR experiences with natural language. (link)

  • SlackGPT - Use GPT3 from within Slack to write emails, answer questions, be a code assistant, and much more. (link)

  • Chat with Santa - A fun GPT-3 powered web app for you to have a chat with Santa. (link)

  • AI content detector by Crossplag (Beta) - A tool to to shine the light on the content generated using AI. (link)

  • YouTube to Summary - Convert a YouTube video (in Spanish or English) into an illustrated summary. (link)

  • Podly - Every Lex Fridman’s podcast summarised by AI. (link)

  • AI Wall decor - Generate art with Stable Diffusion and get it shipped to you in as a high quality framed art. (link)

  • Anypod - AI search engines built for creators. Search through your favourite podcast like My First Million easily. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • How to perform sentiment analysis in DataSpell IDE. (link)

  • How to build a NextJS app that runs Stable Diffusion with Replicate. (link)

🔬 Research

  • SantaCoder: A 1.1B multilingual LM for code that outperforms much larger open-source models on both left-to-right generation and infilling. (link)

  • 2022 - A year full of amazing AI papers: A curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI by release date with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article, and code. (link)

  • Imitation Is Not Enough: Robustifying Imitation with Reinforcement Learning for Challenging Driving Scenarios. (link)

  • DiscoScene: Spatially disentangled generative radiance field for controllable 3d-aware scene synthesis. (link)

  • ReVISE: Self-supervised speech resynthesis with visual input for universal and generalized speech enhancement. (link)

  • GeoCode maps 3D shapes to a human-interpretable parameter space, allowing to intuitively edit the recovered 3D shapes from a point could or sketch input. (link)

  • ​​GENIE: Large scale pre-training for text generation with diffusion model. (link)

  • Tune-A-Video: One-shot tuning of image diffusion models for text-to-video generation. (link)

  • Scalable adaptive computation for iterative generation. (link)

  • Reversible Column Network (RevCol): A new neural network design paradigm. (link)

👋 Too many links?! I created a database for all links mentioned in these emails. Refer 1 friend using this link and I'll send over the link database.

🤓 Everything else

  • An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the near-term future of AI. (link)

  • Who believes more myths about humans: AI or educated humans? (link)

  • Notion AI, ChatGPT – Writing by Artificial Intelligence. (link)

  • The first rap fully written and sung by AI in the voice of Snoop Dogg. (link)

  • Quora launches Poe, a way to talk to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. (link)

  • Karlo, the large scale replication of unCLIP, the DALL-E 2 technique is now on Hugging Face. (link)

  • CBP-translate: PoC of a system that detects and transcribes speech in both English and Polish for a short video. (link)

  • An evaluation of ChatGPT vs. Google on 500 search queries, diving into details about OpenAI’s existential threat to Google. (link)

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