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APIs and poppadoms

💻 DALLE API 🧑‍⚖️ GitHub Copilot lawsuit 🎇 Image prompt extending 🤯 OpenAI in Airtable and Zapier

Ben Tossell
November 04, 2022

It's Friday! (don't you hate it when people say 'Happy Friday' or even worse, 'Friyay'). Anyway, since you didn't ask, I'm going out for a 'Modern Indian' tonight and the menu has as many choices as I offer here. I want everything. As for poppadoms, I'm a shard guy. No smashing them here folks.

Welcome to the 145 new folks joining us since yesterday. Fancy some AI treats?! Indulge below. And have a bloody lovely weekend while you're at it!

Prompt: List the topics in today’s email:

💻 DALLE API🧑‍⚖️ GitHub Copilot lawsuit🎇 Image prompt extending🤯 OpenAI in Airtable and Zapier

🫦 BEN'S BITES

You can now integrate DALL·E directly into your apps and products through the API. DALL·E API is now available in a public beta. The API documentation is here. Extra coverage by The Verge here.

Generate custom, unique tattoos in seconds with BlackInk. Readers' choice - which of these should I get on the small of my back?

Update on the GitHub Copilot drama; there has now been a lawsuit filed. The suit has been filed against a set of defendants that includes GitHub, Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI.

👋 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.

Continue your own music with AI in Jukebox Web UI.

A new AI model is able to solve complex mathematical problems. The model, called HyperTree Proof Search (HTPS), is trained on a dataset of successful mathematical proofs and is able to generalize to new, very different kinds of problems. The 17-year-old me crying in the back of my Maths class would’ve liked this.

A writing tool with a twist…it’s FREE! (that’s the twist)

Enter a prompt, and this model (Prompt Extend) will add suitable style cues for Stable Diffusion.

Is the line blurring between humans and machines? TLDR: not really.

Create and iterate your prompts using this CLI.

Spacecadet Ventures are hiring a Chief of Staff - they invest in future-focused companies.

A system-wide AI writing assistant to help you no matter which app you use - NexBot. Watch the demo here.

Running OpenAI in Airtable. Uhmmm yes, please!

Exscientia Ltd. has announced the expansion of its platform to include the design of biologics, such as human antibodies. The algorithm is 35,000 times faster than Alphafold2 & more accurate!

A model to stop computational waste when image editing.

A method for automatically generating instructions for LLMs, in order to improve task performance. The method, called Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE), optimizes a chosen score function by searching over a pool of instruction candidates proposed by an LLM.

A step-by-step guide on fine-tuning Whisper using Hugging Face Transformers.

A thread by Peter Diamandis on the rise of artificial intelligence.

Cohere Sandbox: open-source libraries to help developers experiment with language AI. A collection of open-source repositories for building applications with LLMs, designed to help developers quickly build and deploy applications and it includes a variety of tools and demos for building conversational agents, semantic search engines, and more. A demo of how a toy semantic search engine can be quickly built using Cohere's platform.

DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion app on Mac with all cutting-edge features. Supports Text-to-image, Image-to-image, in-painting, out-painting, and advanced options.

Do popular video understanding and embodied models have infant-level physical reasoning abilities? TLDR; No.

An unofficial OpenAI Zapier integration. For those of you who are unaware, I work at Zapier. They acquired my startup in March 2021. It’s awesome to see folks out there building integrations like this to let so many more people incorporate AI into their workflows.

Deep Mind is now hiring Data Research Engineers.

MIT Technology Review wrapped up its event EmTech 2022 and posted a summary. It included topics such as AI art, AI safety and what the future holds.

Text to Image to Music to Video, now on Hugging Face.

These MIT students hacked a way to "immunize" photos against edits so that we can better safeguard AI image manipulation. Basically, sorting the real from the fake.

AI-oriented quantitative investment platform, by Microsoft. It aims to realize the potential, empower the research, and create the value of AI technologies in quantitative investment.

Laika trains on your own writing to create a personalised partner-in-crime. They’ve done a Marcus Aurelius version already. I didn’t realise he was following AI so closely!