AI in the workplace

PLUS: AI flying a fighter jet & AI voice lawsuits

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Ben Tossell
February 15, 2023

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Generative AI tools for business productivity are starting to get rolled out as quickly (and energetically) as I rolled into McDonalds on my own for Valentine's dinner last night. The latest to hit the headlines is Jasper’s new business assistant: it looks pretty damn awesome and has a very Teamsy vibe, which I think we all like, right? You can specify your company’s ‘voice’ (bio, product overview, target audience etc), share the Jasper-generated content collaboratively, and even generate emails from a prompt targeted at specific colleagues.

I’m getting the feeling right now that generative AI is really gonna start taking over day-to-day business. There’s just so much wasteful rubbish that goes on every day and AI entrepreneurs are pouncing all over it, and effective users are going to love it.

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Well, we were going to have to step back from the usual up-beat tone in order to mention AI-in-war eventually. And this week several stories have hit the bill on the role of our wonderful tech in the military. Vice reported that DARPA has been able to control an F-16 jet autonomously with AI, a huge step in US military development after billions have been directed in that direction. They say the jets won’t be on their own, but will assist pilots in combat.

Going beyond recent advances, Wired published an interesting long read on the ex-Google CEO’s curious involvement with the army. Eric Schmidt talks about some kind of digital twins of manufactured equipment that can be tested in the Metaverse (which I’m totally clueless about), as well as the overly-lengthy processes that the Pentagon goes through in approving new equipment, and the need for the US military to continue to adapt to keep up with the use of AI in commerce.

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This is my favourite tool of the day. The creators of Capsule have had a tough few years with a few of their start-ups, but they seem to have hit the nail on the head with this one. They’re targeting enterprise short-form video editing with AI technology that interacts with clips to do things like insert interactive speech, title sections within the video, summarise sections, and generally be more creative than I could ever dream to be! I feel like I’m underselling it, so check out the demo in the link above.

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UH OH, it looks like the legal controversy facing AI art generation is beginning to hit AI voice generation. Audiobook distributor Findaway Voices is coming under fire by its users for giving Apple (Spotify) the rights to use its audiobook content to train ML models. The ML models will ultimately be used to do away with the very people who created them!

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🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Shotstack - Build dynamic video applications at scale. (link)

  • Fantoons - Create your own fan comic panels. (link)

  • Inngest - AI personalization and the future of developer docs. (link)

  • Replit Assistant - Discord chatbot designed to help developers on Replit. (link)

  • Tiny Forest - Write better and faster with AI. (link)

  • PPLeGPT workout generator - Your next exercise in seconds. (link)

  • Teach Anything - Teach you anything in seconds. (link)

  • Trav - Create your next travel adventure. (link)

  • Publish a YouTube summarization API in seconds. (link)

  • Writer - Figma plugin that writes. (link)

  • iOS app to turn your drawings into paintings, photos, app icons, and more. (link)

  • HF demo for semantic guidance for diffusion models. (link)

  • Codeium search - AI-powered, natural language based codebase search and synthesis. (link)

  • JnJ alpha - Generate pro quality content in seconds. (link)

  • Medical Tourism - A series of experiments with AI and medical tourism. (link)

  • Unofficial HF demo for ControlNet. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • Fireside Chat with Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, on AI with Elad Gil. (link)

  • ChatGPT can learn to control your computer. (link)

  • Has everyone gone chatbot crazy? (link)

  • A future of our interactions with AI. (link)

  • Wix launches AI text creator within the wix editor. (link)

  • Can GPT play Dungeons and Dragons? (link)

  • Otter.ai launches OtterPilot, its new AI meeting assistant. (link)

  • Why buy ChatGPT Plus if Bing does it for free? (link)

  • LangChain announces integration with Chroma, the AI native vector store. (link)

  • Google research, 2022 & beyond - Robotics. (link)

  • Founders Inc. and Leap announce remote AI hack challenge from 17th-19th February 2023. (link)

  • BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes creating personalised stories. (link)

  • Latent Space demo day calls for demos, submission deadline is Friday 17th February. (link)

  • Large language models for U.S. national security. (link)

  • OpenAI is going hard, three researchers move to Open AI from Google. (link)

  • Capsule snags $4.75M for its AI-powered video editor. (link)

  • Why the media frames generative AI the way it does? (link)

  • Berri AI is biking around SF from Feb 15th to Feb 17th building ChatGPT apps for offices. (link)

  • Stephen Wolfram answers what is ChatGPT doing … and why does it work? (link)

  • Facebook is going to explain more about how machine learning decides the ads you see. (link)

  • Why Colorado draft AI insurance rules are a “major leap forward” for AI governance. (link)

  • GitHub's Copilot for Business is now generally available. (link)

  • Some educators embrace ChatGPT as a new teaching tool. (link)

  • Dead Man's Couch releases the song RUN with an AI generate music video. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • LLM Chains using GPT 3.5 and other LLMs. (link)

  • Become a rapper with AI. (link)

  • How to create an AI app with a free GPU? (link)

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🔬 Research

  • ALAN - Autonomously exploring robotic agents in the real world. (link)

  • UniAdapter - Unified parameter-efficient transfer learning for cross-modal modelling. (link)

  • BlendNeRF from Naver - 3D-aware blending with generative NeRFs. (link)

  • Thermodynamic AI - Intelligence from nature. (link)

  • CodeBERTScore - Evaluating code generation with pretrained models of code. (link)

  • The generative toolkit for scientific discovery. (link)

  • Stable Diffusion webUI extension for ControlNet. (link)

  • Symbolic discovery of optimization algorithms from Google. (link)

  • ConceptFusion - Open-set multimodal 3D mapping. (link)

  • VQ3D - Learning a 3D-aware generative model on ImageNet. (link)

  • The Programmer’s Assistant from IBM - Conversational interaction with a large language model for software development. (link)

  • YOWOv2: A stronger yet efficient multi-level detection framework. (link)

  • Guiding pretraining in reinforcement learning with large language models. (link)

  • Simple hardware-efficient long convolutions for sequence modelling. (link)

  • Learning gain differences between ChatGPT and human tutor generated algebra hints. (link)

  • Multimodal universal guidance for diffusion models without retraining. (link)

  • Energy transformers from MIT and IBM. (link)

  • GenAug from Meta - Retargeting behaviours to unseen situations via generative augmentation. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

  • Promptbook is hiring for a fullstack developer. Learn more >>

  • Founders Inc. and Leap announce remote AI hack challenge from 17th-19th February 2023. (link)

  • Latent Space demo day calls for demos, submission deadline is Friday 17th February. (link)

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