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You know one of those days where technology just hates you and everything goes wrong? That's me today. But at least we've got a trust email from me to skim through, open 20 tabs and forget about.

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🤌 Ben's Picks

• Lexica Aperture is finally live! - a model that can generate realistic-looking photographs. (link)

• Automatic video narration. By repurposing LLMs to be visually conditioned “Narrators”, and using them to automatically generate video-language paired data (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Robin - Junior sales associate that automates tasks and outreach with a click. (Link)

• Chatsonic - ChatGPT-based content creation with access to the latest information. (link)

• Simple ML for Sheets - a free add-on for Google Sheets to use machine learning without coding (link)

• ChatGPT bot to negotiate bills with online customer support, (not public yet) (link)

• RunwayML’s new feature on generating multiple backgrounds for a single image (link)

• Sendo - chrome extension that reads & crafts instant replies to your emails with AI (accepting early testers) (link)

• Superpower ChatGPT - Add improvements to the ChatGPT user interface. (link)

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🎓 Learn

• Research paper walkthrough - Generating images of flowers with denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). (link)

• A thread explaining the process behind the training of Codex (link)

🔬 Research

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• End-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model (REVEAL) for visual question answering and image captioning (link)

• ULIP: Learning Unified Representation of Language, Image and Point Cloud for 3D Understanding (link)

• Impact of hyper-parameter refinement on CLIP’s fine-tuning performance (link)

• MIRA: Mental imagery for robotic affordances (link)

• MoDem: Accelerating visual model-based reinforcement learning with Demonstrations (link)

• NeuS2: Fast learning of neural implicit surfaces for multi-view reconstruction (link)

• Rodin: A generative model for sculpting 3D digital avatars using Diffusion (link)

• The Stable Artist - an image editing approach enabling fine-grained control of the image generation process (link)

• MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer - inpainting and outpainting features for video (link)

• Bringing together different meanings of measuring data and its implications for ML (link)

🤓 Everything else

• A chatbot based on Andrew Huberman’s podcast (link)

• 2023 prediction: A new kind of language model - introducing matrix models (link)

• A thread on how written work might survive in the age of AI (link)

• AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. (link)

• ChatGPT and how AI disrupts industries (link)

• ChatGPT could be AI’s iPhone moment (link)

• How good is ChatGPT? (link)

• The world’s largest semiconductor foundry TSMC is expanding beyond Taiwan, investing $40 billion in a U.S. factory. (link)

• Not all heroes wear capes - praising a free course on deep learning (link)

• China bans AI-generated media without watermarks (link)

• AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts, Lensa on top with 3.6M installs in December (link)

• A thread with a list of predictions for 2023 for the field of LLMs (link)

🧑‍💻 Who's hiring in AI

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