Regulation is on the way dear

PLUS: Open AI's bug bounty program and Twitter is buying GPUs, for Elon knows what.

April 12, 2023

Hey folks, today we’ve got everyone’s favourite topic….regulation 💀 both in the US and China, Elon’s up to something (else) with AI, OpenAI launched their bug bounty program and Zapier now gives you the power to create your own ChatGPT, run automations from it and soon a way to build a Q&A system for your data.

Let’s get to it.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Sorry guys, but we’re gonna have to dip our toes into the ugly but necessary world of tech regulation - there was lots of it hot off the press yesterday! According to the WSJ, the Biden administration is weighing up options around the regulation of AI, specifically language models. Given that the likes of OpenAI have been operating in a regulation-free zone for the past few years, and moves like this could shift the ground a lot. They’re reportedly considering such things as requiring that models get a certification prior to their release - I’m getting whiffs of the ‘Pause AI Letter’ with that one! (Un-paywalled here.)

For a few good pieces on the Chinese government swooping in to squash Alibaba’s big release of their ChatGPT equivalent, check this and this out.

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Was Elon Musk reeeaally that concerned about the speed of AI development, or was he just a tad jealous of OpenAI’s pure dominance with ChatGPT? I’m leaning towards the latter. There are rumours going around that he’s just gone in on GPUs for Twitter, buying 10,000 or so of them a month after hiring two established Google DeepMind scientists. And we all know what that combination of purchases means… It looks like he’s got plans for a language model of his own! I have to say, it’d be pretty cool to have chatbot and AI capabilities within Twitter, but I can’t imagine it’ll do their bot problem many favours.

Un-paywalled here.

3/

Time for you hackers to buy some energy drinks, sit in a gaming chair and get hacking. OpenAI has started its first bug bounty, allowing the public to report security vulnerabilities and receive rewards for doing so. Ranging from $200 all the way up to $20,000 for severe catches, it’s not bad at all! I don’t have the foggiest about digging around inside the inner workings of a computer, so I’ll leave it up to you lot.

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If you didn’t know, Zapier Interfaces is an easy way to drag, drop, and create dynamic pages, business processes, and even apps. Now they’ve enabled anyone to:

  • Build your own customized ChatGPT-powered bot and share/embed it anywhere

  • Trigger automations based on chat responses with inline Zap buttons

  • [Coming soon] Integrate your own data and build your own Q&A products with your own business data

That means anyone with any technical ability can build a Q&A system for their data, create their own ChatGPT and automate a bunch of processes from the interactions.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Oasis - Speak naturally & AI writes for you in multiple formats. (link)

  • Hume - The empathic AI toolkit for researchers and developers. (link)

  • Havana - Help your sales teams to generate call summaries and post-call emails with AI. (link)

  • PhaseLLM - A framework designed to help manage and test LLM-driven experiences for your users. (link)

  • Baby AGI + Langchain tools - The execution step can now look up real info, take actions instead of outputting just a LLM response. (link)

  • Lore - Playground for GPT models right on your Mac. (link)

  • LLaMA chat - Chat with your favourite models like LLaMA, Alpaca or GPT4All. (link)

  • Table Blocks - The easiest tool for turning text into videos. (link)

  • Reprompt - Collaborative prompt testing to save developers time. (link)

  • Zotero RA - Your AI research assistant for article search, Q&A, and summarisation. (link)

  • Caption anything - Versatile image processing tool with Segment Anything, Visual Captioning, and ChatGPT. (link)

  • Create autonomous agents on Replit within seconds. (link)

  • Kili - Empower your business to answer questions in seconds, not days. (link)

  • SAM on Web - Find objects with almost pixel-perfect precision in any image in your web app. (link)

  • AirOps Apps - Task-specific AI where you need it most. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Artifact, the news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders, adds a social discussion feature. (link)

  • GPT-4 outperforms elite crowdworkers, saving researchers $500,000 and 20,000 hours. (link)

  • Reddit moderators brace for a ChatGPT spam apocalypse. (link)

  • Forbes AI 50 - New entries include Adept, Runway, Insitro and Synthesia. (link)

  • GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam. (link)

  • Developing an ageing clock using deep learning on retinal images. (link)

  • Experimenting with LLMs to research, reflect, and plan. (link)

  • AGQ - Survival skills in the age of AI. (link)

  • Robot metal workers, better pay for data wranglers, and more. (link)

  • Putting 2 agents in a sandbox with each other and watching them interact. (link)

  • Five takeaways from the April 2023 AI economy. (link)

  • DeepSpeed chat - Easy, fast and affordable RLHF training of chatgpt-like models at all scales. (link)

  • Teaching large language models to self-debug. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • Maximising the potential of LLMs - A guide to prompt engineering. (link)

  • Semantic search using LlamaIndex and Langchain. (link)

  • How to use ChatGPT in your PM work. (link)

  • How the Lex Fridman plugin for chatGPT was made. (link)

  • Running Python micro-benchmarks using the ChatGPT code interpreter alpha. (link)

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