Ben's Bites
Posts
I prefer a flan

I prefer a flan

✍️ Write → get code, Overview of the space, AI-generated entertainment, OpenAI DALL-E API

Ben Tossell
October 24, 2022

Thanks for reading! Ben’s Bites is a roundup of what’s going on in AI. Not subscribed? Do that here.Link overload? Refer 1 friend with this link and get access to the filterable+searchable database.

Happy Monday, hope you all had a good weekend. I had a fabulous one stuck in traffic for around 8 hours in total. Love it. But we're back to all the action here in our little AI corner.

I've had several of you surfacing links I should check out - thanks! So I made a little form here to make it easier for you (and me).

Let's get into it

Prompt: List the topics in today’s email:

✍️ Write → get code📓 Overview of the space📺 AI-generated entertainment🛠 OpenAI DALL-E API

🫦 BEN'S BITES

Type → get code written for you, in any programming language. SourceAI

This is a pretty good overview of the new “Generative Tech” wave. They also have a list of the top investors in the space.

A comic built on top of Stable Diffusion. It's really impressive! Put together by a few ex-creative directors at Epic Games.

Elad Gil is following up on the fireside chat he did with Sam Altman. Tonight, he’s chatting with Emad Mostaque, CEO of StabilityAI. I’ll post a summary in tomorrow’s email.

Research aimed at increasing the capabilities of Neuroscience and AI. Based on the premise that a better understanding of neural computation will reveal basic ingredients of intelligence and catalyze the next revolution in AI. Potentially surpassing human capabilities.

WTF are NeRFs?! No, not the toy guns or whistling footballs. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) of course! This thread is a simple explainer (the account breaks down technical AI, worth a follow if that’s your jam).

AI-generated movie trailers?! MovieCLIP: Visual Scene Recognition in Movies. This paper shows leveraging features from models pre-trained on MovieCLIP benefits downstream tasks such as multi-label scene and genre classification of web videos and movie trailers.

👋 Too many links?! I created a database for all links mentioned in these emails. Refer 1 friend using this link and I'll send over the link database.

An implementation of Phenaki Video, to produce text-guided videos of up to 2 minutes in length.

Astria lets you upload a photo and use AI to turn that photo into many variations.

Flan anyone? Well Google AI has released an open-source language model called Flan-Td. It is instruction-finetuned on 1,800+ language tasks, leading to dramatically improved prompting and multi-step reasoning abilities. And yup, it’s already available on Hugging Face for you to play around with

AI-generated entertainment. A live stream of “The ML Show” - an automated cartoon that can create an endless stream of YouTube kid’s animation. Although it was live for only 48 hours. Check on the kids every few days maybe?

Fast.ai have released part 2 of their course; From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion. The first 5.5 hours are free!

An NYT piece about AI, including an interview with Stability AI founder, Emad. A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

Mike Mignano (who founded Anchor, which sold to Spotify) wrote a piece on the creator economy and its evolution. Naturally, AI got its own shoutout on how it may be used by creators now and in the future.

An artificial intelligence-based stats query tool that can answer questions put to it in regular English. AskCricinfo is focusing on Cricket stats.

OpenAI DALL-E API looks to be released soon and here’s an early look. They already have a customer using it for a specific enterprise-ready use case.

Midjourney Remix - You can now “remix” your text-to-image prompts on Midjourney.

Large Language models can self-improve

Many existing song creation models require clean recordings of a singer’s voice for training. But this proposes a way to train even on distorted recordings. Related (behind a paywall): Can Taylor Swift Be Dethroned by Artificial Intelligence?

A campfire scene captured with LUMA AI.

3D meat printing is coming. It doesn’t look that appetising…

GoogleAI are very busy, they also released U-PaLM 540B! What is it? Basically, it improves existing language models and their scaling curves with a relatively tiny amount of extra compute.

Alphabet Google is in talks to invest at least $200 million into artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., which creates natural language processing software that developers can then use to build artificial intelligence applications for businesses, including tools for chatbots and other features that can understand human speech and text.

The End of Scarcity - Nuclear fusion is the primordial source of the sun’s energy. For decades, scientists have been trying to recreate it on Earth. Now they’re closer than ever to achieving it and to unlocking a future of clean power for all.