Google announces ChatGPT rival. Is Microsoft ready?

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Google announce an upcoming chatbot search engine

The Microsoft vs Google saga is seeeeriously heating up right now. Hot on the heels of the announcement of a ChatGPT-powered Bing, Google’s ‘code red’ has turned into code Bard - the name of their very own chatbot that could power their very own search engine. And it looks like it does everything that the former can!

But to add fuel to the fire, Microsoft has announced a SURPRISE media event today alongside Google’s on Wednesday. This is their chance to really give them a run: demos of the new Bing? Demos of AI-driven Teams meetings? AI-generated powerpoints? These could all be on the agenda… If I’ve got my timings right, it should be at 6pm London time, 10am Washington time - not too long after this hits your inbox!

Apple are also hosting an 'AI Summit' for staff according to this post. It's notable as it's being held in the Steve Jobs Theater at the Apple HQ and streamed to employees also.

OH and ALSO, Baidu is launching 'Ernie Bot' in March and saw their share price increase 13%! (paywall removed)

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Getty images sue Stability AI for stealing images

Uh oh, there’s about to be some instability going on at Stability AI… Getty images have officially filed a lawsuit against them for using 12 million (yes, 12 million) images illegally to create their AI art machine. Big, scary phrases like “brazen infringement” and “staggering scale” are getting thrown around by lawyers.

This could be the start of a shift in the speed with which AIs get released going forward, where companies are gonna have to have more care for the contents of their training data, and probably spend more money on it too.

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Educational chatbot on Telegram

I always thought Telegram was just for Bitcoin Bros, but these guys have done an awesome job of turning it into a pirate-themed educational tool using chatbot technology. (Don’t worry, you can learn about anything, not just pirates.)

Enter a topic of your choice and, after a few mins, a list of chapters gets displayed and you can work through them. After each chapter it offers quiz questions, you can go back and forth between sections, and it saves the output to a web page. I asked it to teach me about String Theory and it did a great job. (Although it still sounds like gibberish.)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• DocuChat - Get answers from your documents with GPT-3 powered chatbots. (link)

• Talently - Search, match & hire expert remote developers. (link)

• Private Mini Yohei - First LLM based chatbot with advanced capabilities like VC blog search, crunchbase search, drafting emails etc. (link)

• Clippy - Add AI-powered search and chat to your company's docs. (link)

• EvenUp - Turn medical docs and case files into AI-driven demand packages for injury lawyers. (link)

• GPT Friends - Chat with the most human AIs ever created from GPT. (link)

• Edward Teach Bot - Study any topic from a Telegram chat. (link, co-founder’s blog here)

• Invideo - Turn any content or idea into video. (link)

• Gen-1 from Runway ML - A new AI model that uses language and images to generate new videos out of existing ones. (link, MIT tech review’s POV) Go and watch their intro video!!

🤓 Miscellaneous

• Amid wave of layoffs, some tech giants are elevating AI. (link)

• Exclusive: Bill Gates on advising OpenAI, Microsoft and why AI is the hottest topic of 2023. (link)

• Chat your data challenge from LangChain. (link)

• CapitalG - Alphabet’s independent fund for growth stage companies. (link)

• Latent Technology raises $2.1M to bring generative AI to video games. (link)

• ChatGPT + natural language + personal context = a more useful personal home device. (link)

• Voice AI - General public licence violations with a side of DRM. (link)

• AI-generated ‘Seinfeld’ suspended on Twitch for AI-generated transphobic jokes. (link)

• Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement. (link)

• Baidu surges as hope mounts over Chinese answer to ChatGPT. (link)

• ChatGPT and generative AI in the enterprise. (link)

• Stable Attribution: A new tool could ruin generative AI, or it could save it. (link)

• How will productivity using ChatGPT evolve? (link)

🎓 Learn

• How to use GPT embeddings for a second brain note-taking system? (link)

• A primer on FOMO - Foundational model orchestration. (link)

• Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector. (link)

🔬 Research

• AV-NeRF - Learning neural fields for real-world audio-visual scene synthesis. (link)

• The SSL Interplay - Augmentations, inductive bias, and generalization. (link)

• TR3D - Towards real-time indoor 3D object detection. (link)

• Multi-view masked world models for visual robotic manipulation. (link)

• AIM - Adapting image models for efficient video action recognition. (link)

• Languages are rewards - Hindsight fine tuning using human feedback. (link)

• Grounding large language models in interactive environments with online reinforcement learning. (link)

• Representation deficiency in masked language modeling. (link)

• Measuring the impact of programming language distribution. (link)

• Zero-shot image-to-image translation. (link)

• Structure and content-guided video synthesis with diffusion models. (link)

• Mixture of diffusers for scene composition and high resolution image generation. (link)

• Eliminating prior bias for semantic image editing via dual-cycle diffusion. (link)

• Regulating ChatGPT and other large generative AI models. (link)

• Design Booster - A text-guided diffusion model for image translation with spatial layout preservation. (link)

• SE(3) diffusion model with application to protein backbone generation. (link)

• Multi-source diffusion models for simultaneous music generation and separation. (link)

• Language models secretly perform gradient descent as meta-optimizers. (link)

• Hugginface demo of BioGPT-Large. (link)

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• AI/ML YouTube creator Siraj Raval will be building ChatGPT from scratch at the Founders, Inc. lab on Friday. Register here to drop by >>>

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