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Hey folks, Big Bill (aka Bill Gates) came out with the best piece written about AI I’ve seen, Google shipped…a waitlist (but I got access, as did many others!), Adobe Fireflies into action with it’s AI tools and NVIDIA the massive woolly mammoth in the room rolls out some interesting new stuff…

Let’s get to it.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Bill Gates opines on the state of AI and how it can be used for good

Don’t forget about Bill Gates! In this GatesNotes piece, the man himself reminisces about how Microsoft began with the Windows GUI, and compares that momentous occasion to the beginning of GPT/chatbot AI development. He runs through the positive roles that AI can play in education, possibly tailoring approaches to different students, whilst expressing that it’ll never replace student-teacher interaction. Healthcare takes a focus too, with a discussion over freeing up admin times to let doctors do more doctoring, as well as providing AI advice to poorer areas with less access to hospitals. The overarching, game-changing aspect: eventually the main way of controlling a computer won’t be tapping and clicking, but typing out a simple request. Give it a read - it’s probably the best overview of AI I’ve seen!

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Google drop the waitlist for Bard, their search engine chatbot

Is this gonna be a real-world case of the tortoise and the hare? Is the frog about to leap? This feels like a really late follow-up to Microsoft’s Bing AI, but let’s ground ourselves for a second here - it’s only actually been a few months. Time just flies damn fast in this space. Anyway, Google has finally created a waiting list for Bard, which is coming as a lightweight/optimised version of their LaMBDA LLM. To my delight, I was on the waitlist for about 2 minutes before I got access. It has a google search button under every reply but feels pretty solid. Tech outsiders are about to see a big awareness shift.

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Adobe Firefly: their very own generative AI for creatives

Guys, we have a big dog wading into the generative art space, so this is Clifford levels. Adobe is pulling out all the shots with Firefly, their very own generative AI model for creatives, editors, artists, and any one of the ridiculous number of people that use Adobe on a daily. It’s only in beta for now, with waitlists and all that, so don’t get too excited. But they have a lot in the pipeline. You’ll be able to highlight part of a photo and generate variations; type out prompts to generate edits for a specific part of a photo; generate custom styles and textures from your sketches; and even edit videos with a text-based description.

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NVIDIA are becoming an enterprise-first AI provider

Talking of big dogs wading into spaces, NVIDIA are about to take itself from computer chip nerds to a full-on AI service provider, and they’re going all out. With NVIDIA AI Foundations, they’re marketing themselves as an enterprise-first AI provider, helping clients to build custom multimodal LLMs and generative models for their varying and fine-tuned use cases. There are some big partnerships going on for the generative images side of the “multi” in “multimodal”: Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Adobe. Looks like they’ve taken heed of the copyright complaints 😅. Check out the link for examples of projects based around Foundations.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

• Tripnotes - A travel AI with taste. Ask it for recommendations, itineraries, and more. (link)

• Bob from Magrathea AI - An advanced assistant that delivers personalised insights 24/7 in a judgement-free space. (link)

• API for uptime status of Open AI’s text and chat models. (link)

• Luma AR - Reshoot with NeRFs deployed as AR from your iPhone. (link)

• Chatblade - An one in all CLI swiss army knife for ChatGPT. (link)

• Vowel - The AI meeting tool adds a feature to generate action items for different members. (link)

• Chatshape - Build AI chatbots from your content, remarkably fast. (link)

• You-tldr - Get the TLDR of any YouTube video in seconds. (link)

• Magicflow - No-code drag-and-drop tool to build AI workflows that easily integrate into your app. (link)

• Pair - Open tool for coding with GPTs, built by coding with GPTs. (link)

• From low-def 3D ultrasounds to high-resolution images. (link)

• OpenTheo - Transcribed and searchable Bible teaching with Whisper cpp. (link)

• GPT4-powered Slack bot that can scrape URL contents. (link)

• Aoi - Auto-load database schema to ChatGPT and execute SQL. (link)

• Watermelon - GPT-powered code contextualizer. (link)

• Zing - Bing AI clone featuring functional GPT-4 and Bing API search integration. (link)

• Sustainability goals AI - Generate sustainability goals for your company with ChatGPT. (link)

• Lex now has a feature to get writing feedback from a smart AI editor, check out the demo here. (link)

• Halfway words - Find words halfway between two others. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

• Apple and AI, lobotomized lovers, XR companions. (link)

• A podcast with AI avatars of All In Pod’s hosts. (link)

• Bing image creator is now live in the new Bing. (link)

• Lambda has raised $44M to build the best cloud for training AI. (link)

• Nvidia DGX Cloud - Train your own ChatGPT in a web browser for $37K a month. (link)

• Pilot AI taps algorithms to extract info from sales calls. (link)

• Early reviews for new AI bots Bard, Ernie, and Bing Image Creator. (link)

• Are Roblox’s new AI coding and art tools the future of game development? (link)

• Biotech AI startup Unlearn adds $15M and OpenAI CTO to board. (link)

• Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service. (link)

• Startup accelerator Neo is partnering with Open AI and Microsoft for mentoring startups about AI. (link)

• Understanding AI moats using Silicon Valley the show. (link)

• Google Bard vs. OpenAI ChatGPT - The dice problem part one. (link)

• Eleuther AI, the non-profit research lab, has released the dataset library and 2.0 versions of their models. (link)

• Google’s Bard lags behind GPT-4 and Claude in head-to-head comparison. (link)

• Adventure is out there! Opportunities in AI x Travel. (link)

• GPT-4 - The bitterer lesson. (link)

• GPT retakes my midterm and gets an A. (link)

• My objections to "we’re all gonna die with Eliezer Yudkowsky" (link)

• Cancer-testing AI startup Artera raises $90M. (link)

• Why I'm a better editor than GPT-4 (& probably GPT-5). (link)

• Applied Intuition acquires the SceneBox platform for better ML data ops solutions. (link)

• Sarah Guo writes about how every company needs an AI strategy. (link)

• Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself - Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail. (link)

• ChatGPT didn’t title this podcast. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

• AI Proof - Course from Metacrafters on prompt engineering and using AI as a coding copilot. (link)

• Building a CSV to JSON converter using GPT-4 and Replit. (link)

• Using English as the programming language for recursive LLM prompts. (link)

• How to build a functioning chrome extension in 10 steps and 45 minutes, with no coding experience. (link)

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🔬 Research

Published research papers

• Visual representation learning from unlabeled video using contrastive masked autoencoders. (link)

• Dexterity from Touch - Self-supervised pre-training of tactile representations with robotic play. (link)

• Text2Room - Extracting textured 3D meshes from 2D text-to-image models. (link)

• Real-time volumetric rendering of dynamic humans from Meta. (link)

• MM-REACT - Prompting ChatGPT for multimodal reasoning and action. (link)

• Vox-E - Text-guided voxel editing of 3D objects. PS: Voxel is the 3D version of a pixel. (link)

• Stable Bias - Analysing societal representations in diffusion models. (link)

• Text2Tex - Text-driven texture synthesis via diffusion models. (link)

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