The first AI to laugh and Lex Fridman interviews Richard Feynman

Got room for dessert? Think of us as petit four to finish up.

Then, on to the weekend! It is a very simple one for me; food, walking the dog, building a pizza oven stand, getting used to our new carpet which is horrible, you know - the usual.

Let's get to it.

🤌 Ben's Picks

• The first AI to laugh. Eleven Labs, ‍generating long-format speech in any voice and in any language, is scarily good at the AI-generated voices they produce. Worth a look/listen! (link)

• Podcast.ai were behind the Joe Rogan <> Steve Jobs interview a few weeks ago. They’ve released their second ‘podcast’, this time, Lex Fridman interviewing Richard Feynman. (link)

• A gentle, illustrated introduction to how Stable Diffusion works. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• SD Space Creator - Create a gradio space for your Diffusers model. (link)

• Amazing Photos - Create amazing profile photos with AI. Apparently, the results are 5x better, and cheaper. (link)

• SheetAI - Use AI to transform your text instructions into a Google Sheet formula quickly. (link)

• Glasp Chrome Extension is an easier and faster way to highlight text and leave notes on the web. With one click, the content you’ve collected appears across all your devices. (link)

• Turn your podcast into a short-form TikTok clip. (link)

• Codesquire - AI code writing assistant for data scientists. (link)

• Meepo – a smarter search engine for Superbalist (leading South African fashion and homeware store 🇿🇦). It’s so awesome to see a single developer just upgrade this e-commerce website's search engine with AI. (link)

• Profile Picture AI has 168 styles now. (link)

🔬 Research

• RoentGen: Vision-language foundation model for chest X-ray generation. (link)

• OWL-ViT - find similar objects within an image using a query image of your target object. (link)

• OpenFold is a fast, memory-efficient, and trainable implementation of AlphaFold2, and OpenProteinSet, the largest public database of protein multiple sequence alignments. The article discusses the benefits of these new resources for the protein modelling community. (link)

• Details of the work at DeepMind on using reinforcement learning to help large-scale commercial cooling systems save energy and run more efficiently. (link)

🤓 Everything else

• Hugging Face and arXiv are hosting a virtual event to build demos for recent machine-learning papers. (link)

• Emad wrote a thread of notes about the latest Stable Diffusion release. (link)

• Tutorial: How to use Stable Diffusion v2.0 on Colab with Gradio UI using Diffusers. (link)

• You can now embed your Hugging Face Space easily. (link)

• Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America (if you bought the upgrade). (link)

• A thread outlining the monumental changes coming to software this decade, from Replit CEO, Amjad. (link)

• Future Diffusion - Fine-tuned Stable Diffusion 2.0 model trained on high-quality 3D images with a futuristic Sci-Fi theme. Literally, a version of SD, released within 24 hours. Madness! (link)

• The Humans Only Clause is a license condition drafted by PayToTrain that applies a narrow, minimal-form restriction on top of existing open-source licenses to specifically protect programmers from having their code used for generative AI training purposes. (link)

• NEVIS’22 - a new benchmark developed using 30 years of computer vision research, from DeepMind. (link)

• BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities. (link)

• A web UI for Stable Diffusion 2.0. (link)

• The Applied AI Company raises $42 million Seed (!!!!!!) - It creates software products that automate repetitive and data-rich, i.e. prone to human error, processes. (link)

• Play with Stable Diffusion 2.0 model on Replicate. (link)

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