Robots that recycle

PLUS: Python foundation under risk, new image generation paradigm and an italian menu.

April 13, 2023

Hey folks, today, the Python foundation is concerned about staying open-source, OpenAI has a new image generation model, Google built robots that recycle and Italy is giving OpenAI orders…

Let’s get to it.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Houston, we have a problem! Now this isn’t really AI-related per se, but it’ll certainly be of interest to anyone involved with AI. The EU has drafted a Cyber Resilience Act, and according to the people who manage Python, if enacted it could question their ability to keep it open-source. Yeah, you heard that right. Because it doesn’t distinguish between large corporates and not-for-profits, authors of open-source projects may end up bearing financial and legal responsibility for any tech built using it. That includes the Python foundation itself… Keep your eyes peeled for petitions to sign, and write to your local MEP if you’re in the EU!

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Believe it or not, despite the success of ChatGPT, OpenAI does still care about AI art and image generation! And their latest is definitely something worth keeping an eye on. They recently published something called a Consistency Model (it’s super mathsy, don’t bother) that reaches its final output in a handful of steps rather than thousands. The results aren’t as good as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion yet, but if they manage to get the technique to the same levels of image quality they’ll leapfrog straight into the lead. The first to succeed at speeding things up will be the first to hit mobiles and everyday applications - let the races begin!

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I always find that robotics researchers choose the strangest tasks to demonstrate their abilities, like arranging shaped blocks and… sorting rubbish bins. Using deep reinforcement learning, these guys at Google AI have managed to produce something pretty damn cool. The robots are able to effectively sort rubbish in real offices, reducing the contamination rates by 50%. Just watch those creepy little things zooming around doing our recycling for us, it’s great!

Project page with full deets here.

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Among a dozen other things and legal clarifications here’re a few things Open AI needs to do to operate in the country:

  • Provide ways to ask for corrections of disinformation generated by ChatGPT (or else have the data deleted) by Apr 30.

  • Conduct a local awareness campaign to inform Italians that it's processing their information to train its AIs by May 15.

  • Immediate adoption of age gating to prevent minors from accessing the tech and move to more robust age verification measures by September 30.

I’m blocking chatGPT in my house until they can give me; unlimited free credits, early access to every release and a bag of cash. Hope they comply with Italy AND Ben’s Bites HQ.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Loopin Chrome Extension - AI meeting notes for Google Meet. (link)

  • Librarian AI - Choose your 3 favourite books and let AI suggest personalised book recommendations. (link)

  • Samantha AI - Chatbot designed to learn about and understand human emotions. (link)

  • Chat origin - Enhanced AI chat experience, multi-model without API keys. (link)

  • Airfeed - Daily catchup on the latest AI research. Customised to your interests. (link)

  • Single object 3D reconstruction with a single image by combining SAM, ZoeDepth, and MCC. (link) Cool demo of hacking with multiple approaches mashed together.

  • ChitChat for iOS - The best ChatGPT app for iOS. (link)

  • ChatHub - All-in-one chatbot client. (link)

  • yAgents by YeagerAI - Langchain agent builder to make AI agent creation accessible to everyone. (link)

  • Apollo, the airpods app, can now shift conversation style from asking questions to just forwarding you articles. (link)

  • Turboboot - Reduce serverless GPU cold boots for all generation models. (link)

  • Kitt - Have live audio/video conversations with ChatGPT. (link)

  • Personal Assistant - HyperWriteAI's agent that can use a web browser like a human. (link)

  • SanFranciscoGPT - Query SF public databases with just natural language. (link)

  • Equals Command K - An all-in-one spreadsheet shortcut to use smart fill, formula debug, and all spreadsheet commands. (link)

  • A free Gradio web UI for running 10+ open-source LLMs like llama, gpt-j, Pythia, and Galactica. (link)

  • Ask an AI accountant your tax questions with CPA fact-checking. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Sony backs Raspberry Pi machine makers with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips. (link)

  • Streaming services urged to clamp down on AI-generated music. (link, without paywall here)

  • How to think about the current moment in artificial intelligence. (link)

  • Free Dolly from Databricks - Introducing the world's first truly open instruction-tuned LLM. (link)

  • Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages. (link)

  • AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: “I’ve got your daughter.” (link)

  • Targeted representation learning with an online agent that, given a task, learns on the web, self-supervised. (link)

  • You can now deploy, run, and fine-tune large language models on Replicate. (link)

  • LangChain implementation of CAMEL - Create two agents in a sandbox and watch them interact. (link)

  • Chroma announces their hacker in-residence program. (link)

  • How Alexandr Wang turned an army of clickworkers into a $7.3 billion AI unicorn. (link)

  • The new deep-speed chat paper outlines training a 7B model from scratch on a single GPU. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • ChatGPT can give great answers but only if you know how to ask the right question. (link)

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  • Replit developer day livestream is happening on 25th April with new features launch. (link)

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