China's ChatGPT rival

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Chat to industry experts and historical figures with Delphi

If you could have dinner with any person, dead or alive, who would it be? Personally, I’d choose James Corden… wait until he shouts at a waiter for no reason, and then give him a slap on the back of the wrist. Anyway, AI technology might be bringing this kind of question to life. Delphi is tuning ChatGPT technologies on the works of industry “titans” and historical figures to produce expert mentors to chat with, learn from, and bounce ideas off.

Beyond being something cool, this actually opens up excellent opportunities for those who are unable to afford useful 1-on-1 mentoring, possibly making the usually inaccessible accessible to the masses.

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China’s version of Google is releasing a ChatGPT-style technology

The British Chinese are coming! The British Chinese are coming! China’s version of Google, Baidu, just announced their intention to release their equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and integrate it into their products - and it’ll be as early as March! This is big news that raises a big question: If the media is censored in China, then is the model going to be trained on censored data? And if so, will it be able to respond with a personality that deviates from censorship despite this?

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Using NeRF for creative filmmaking shots

This NeRF tech is so damn cool, and I can’t wait to give it a try on my mobile. In this Tweet, Karen shows how you can create some kind of morphing effect to the surroundings of the object that you’re videoing. Pretty cool! Although, I have to say, I’ll probably find it kind of embarrassing staying completely still whilst my friend walks around me with a camera in public… In fact, I’ll probably just keep it to myself at home for now.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Writers Brew - AI assistant that accelerates your reading & writing 2x faster and better. (link)

• PaperBrain - Seamlessly access and understand research papers. (link)

• ThoughtSource - A central, open resource for data and tools related to chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models. (link)

• AudioShake Indie - Get your tracks split into stems. (link)

• Tune a Video - Text to video generation now available on Hugging Face. (link)

• Piggy Magic - Create stunning content on your mobile. (link)

• Prompt APIs by Steamship - Build and host a production-ready AI backend. (link)

• Email Magic AI - Write emails 10x faster but just like you. (link)

• Liner - Highlight, save, organise, and get recommendations for your reading habits. (link)

• This Resume Does Not Exist - AI inspired resume examples. (link)

• Delibr - Epic documents that connect across the PM process. (link)

• Kayyo: AI MMA trainer. (link)

• Charm - Generate, transform, and analyse any text data in Google Sheets. (link)

• Glass AI - Experimental feature to draft a clinical plan based on a diagnostic problem representation. (link)

• Diffusers - Native Mac app to generate images via diffusion on your computer. (link)

• GPTZeroX - A new AI detection model built for educators. (link)

• Cron AI - Words to cron expression. (link)

• Crowd View - A search engine for niche forums and message boards. (link, HN thread here)

• Playground introduces high precision masked editing without any bleeding in images. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• Tracing in Langchain AI - Effectively inspect and debug your complex chain/agent runs. (link)

• ChatGPT might reinvent education - Students love it, teachers are unsure. (link)

• Can ChatGPT fill in mentorship gaps for Gen Z workers? (link)

• The Onion reports - ChatGPT forced to take bar exam (you’ve been warned). (link)

• ChatGPT - Massive disruption. (link)

• Chinese search giant Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot. (link)

• Introducing Delphi. (link)

• Gmail creator says ChatGPT will destroy Google's business in two years. (link)

• OpenAI dangles perks and early access to win investments in AI startups. (link)

🎓 Learn

• How to use LangChainAI to answer natural language questions. (link)

• Using NeRF for creative filmmaking shots. (link)

🔬 Research

• A theory of continuous generative flow networks. (link)

• UFLP by Deepmind - Sample efficient deep reinforcement learning with a simulator. (link)

• AdaTape from Google - Enabling dynamic computation in neural networks via adaptive tape tokens. (link)

• SeaFormer by Tencent - Mobile semantic segmentation with superior cost-effectiveness. (link)

• STAIR by Apple - Learning sparse text and image representation in grounded tokens. (link)

• SingSong by Google - Generating musical accompaniments from singing. (link, thread by an author)

• Looped transformers as programmable computers. (link)

• BLIP-2 by Salesforce - A generic and efficient pre-training strategy that bootstraps vision-language pre-training. (link)

• Using pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to supervise embodied agents. (link)

• Progressive Prompts from Meta - A simple and efficient approach for continual learning in language models. (link)

• REPLUG by Meta - Modeling framework that treats the language model as a black box and augments it with a tuneable retrieval mode. (link)

• GibbsDDRM by Sony - Solving blind inverse problems with denoising diffusion restoration. (link)

• Extracting training data from diffusion models. (link)

• Shape-aware text-driven layered video editing. (link)

• AudioLDM - Text-to-audio generation with latent diffusion models. (link)

• ERA-Solver by Microsoft - Error-robust adams solver for fast sampling of diffusion probabilistic models. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

• Take No Code MBA's Building Apps with AI course and learn to build text and image generation apps, even if you're non-technical.

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