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Ben's Bites Your daily dose of what's going on in AI. In 5 minutes or less, with a touch of humour. Read by over 15,000 others from Google, a16z, Sequoia, Amazon, Meta and more. https://www.bensbites.co/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:30:07 +0000 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:30:01 +0000 2023-01-13T14:30:01Z 2023-01-13T14:30:07Z Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Technology Copyright 2023, Ben's Bites https://media.beehiiv.net/uploads/publication/logo/447f6e60-e36a-4642-b6f8-46beb19045ec/Group_10.jpg Ben's Bites https://www.bensbites.co/ https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification beehiiv en-us support@beehiiv.com (Beehiiv Support) Sparrow DeepMind's chatbot to rival ChatGPT https://www.bensbites.co/p/sparrow https://www.bensbites.co/p/sparrow Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:30:01 +0000 2023-01-13T14:30:01Z Ben Tossell

Hey folks! Friday is the hero that arrives just in time to save the week from being just work. This is Ben's Bites. You're friendly neighbourhood AI email. 

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1/

Worth a read: DeepMind's CEO, Demis Hassabis, talks to TIME about AI (duh). A few folks have been pointing out the sparrow in the room...no seriously, Sparrow is DeepMind's Chatbot that they're running a closed beta for in 2023. No doubt a response to ChatGPT. It'll be able to cite sources in its responses, which ChatGPT may be able to do - although we've not been allowed to do that (remember the browing:disabled prompt that it has?). Another interesting part of this interview is when Hassabis said “We’re getting into an era where we have to start thinking about the freeloaders, or people who are reading but not contributing to that information base,” he says. “And that includes nation states as well.” He declines to name which states he means—“it’s pretty obvious, who you might think”—but he suggests that the AI industry’s culture of publishing its findings openly may soon need to end." Let's see what happens! 

2/

Everyone likes to pretend they know about the new capabilities that GPT-4 can bring. "Apparently it can look after a house plant", "It can heal animal wounds by listening to their breath", "It can run a billion dollar company by itself" and on and on the rumours swirl. BUT, we're going to have to wait. It's release was originally planned for late Q4 2022/Q1 2023 which may move back slightly if I'm reading this tweet correctly... 'OpenAI’s GPT-4 will launch only when they can do it safely & responsibly. “In general we are going to release technology much more slowly than people would like. We're going to sit on it for much longer..."' Oh and a video model is apparently in the works too...!

3/

We all know Reid Hoffman; PayPal, Linkedin and Greylock. He's started a podcast with a familiar co-host, ChatGPT. Yup, it's happening folks. In the first episode, ChatGPT and Reid start with self-reflection by talking about the Turing Test, and expand into AI’s potential impact across several creative fields. Talking AI with AI - ChatGPT as a podcast guest. (link)

4/

I just have to proudly say this - my wife asked if I wanted a McDonald's breakfast this morning and I said NO. Can I get a virtual high five?! That's pretty insane will power I'd say. Anyway... McDonalds just released an advertisement for Lunar New Year 2023 where Luma AI NeRF + Fields Editor is used. p.s. she brought home a hash brown for me anyway. So I get the pleasure of saying no and pleasure of eating the best part. Bah de bah bah bah, I'm lovin' it. Sorry, had to.

Sahil invests in early-stage startups, $100k-$250k at a time. He’s an investor in Figma, Notion, and Vercel. And you?! Send him an email at sahil@hey.com.

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • AI Depot - A hand-curated list of the best AI tools out there. (link)
  • A semantic search engine built on top of Lenny’s Podcast. (link)
  • Bardeen AI - AI assistant enabling non-tech-savvy individuals to easily use and automate OpenAI prompts. (link)
  • Airtest - Generate unit tests using AI. (link)
  • Predis.ai 3.0 - AI generated videos and scheduling. (link)
  • Booth - Create pro quality product photography with AI. (link)
  • Somi - Ask Slack questions using AI. (link)
  • Boo - Your AI-powered writing assistant. (link)
  • MagicBlog - Write high-quality long-form blog content that's 100% original and SEO optimised in just one click. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • Personalised AI chatbot created using a newsletter’s content. (link)
  • Sara Dietschy published a YouTube video "14 AI tools creators should actually use". (link)
  • Google’s reply to large websites using AI generated content with human editors. (link)
  • Researchers have started adding ChatGPT as co-author on their papers. (link)
  • What OpenAI’s ‘bonkers’ deal structure means for Silicon Valley. (link)
  • Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M. (link)
  • How AI is changing art - a FT podcast. (link)
  • "Machine Learning And Deflationary Contagions" - the impact of generative AI on various industries, and how it is related to Moore's Law and deflation. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • Implementing reinforcement learning with human feedback with trlX. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • WIRE - Implicit neural representation using a continuous complex Gabor wavelet activation function. (link)
  • SemPPL - New semi-supervised learning method that combines labelled and unlabelled data to learn informative representations. (link)
  • Domain expansion of image generators. (link)
  • Recovering lighting from accidental light probes - common, shiny objects like Coke cans, which often appear in daily scenes. (link)
  • Tracr from Deepmind - Compiled transformers as a laboratory to interpret and understand machine learning models. (link)
  • Guiding text-to-image diffusion model towards grounded generation. (link)

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]]> Update on MSFT + OpenAI PLUS: the simplest, fastest repository for training https://www.bensbites.co/p/update-msft-openai https://www.bensbites.co/p/update-msft-openai Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 2023-01-12T14:00:00Z Ben Tossell

Roll up, roll up! Welcome one and all to the most spectacular email on earth! The AI circus is in town and we've got a lineup of acts that will leave you in awe.

Me getting ready to write the email:

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1/

An update on the AI love story of the year, Microsoft & OpenAI; “Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid (to Microsoft) and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI.” This was from the article in Fortune: "Inside the structure of OpenAI’s looming new investment from Microsoft and VCs". Gary Marcus commented about it here. 

Then The Information published its piece, "Microsoft + OpenAI: Inside Tech’s Hottest Romance", which revealed a few more interesting points.

  • proposing nonprofit status again after profit is paid back
  • potentially increasing investor cap. Instead of hard cap, 20% increase per year. So investors can still get VC-like returns
  • Altman hasn’t got equity in the for profit arm. Unclear if this deal changes that

I wonder what today will bring for this story...

2/

Andrej Karparthy, previously Director of AI at Tesla, and OpenAI, launched (not on purpose) his project: NanoGPT - The simplest, fastest repository for training/fine tuning medium-sized GPTs. In 2 weeks, Andrej is releasing a video where he 'will build nanoGPT from scratch and aspire to spell everything out'. It'll be the last video from his series 'Neural Networks - Zero to hero'. (link)

3/

For those of you who don't know, I work at Zapier. I'm now focusing on people who want to build with AI + Zapier for anything! My teammate, Reid, wrote this awesome blog post: How to write an effective GPT-3 prompt. 

p.s. I'm running a build program for using AI and Zapier. If you want access, pop your email here. I'll be letting users into the Slack regularly. We'll show what we've built and how, give feedback for products and feature/integration requests.

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Mason's AI Assistant - Revolutionising data analytics by generating answers optimised for your team. (link)
  • Manna - AI autocomplete across your MacOS apps. (link)
  • Metavoice Studio - AI voice editing platform for creators. (link)
  • Penelope AI - Markdown editor powered by AI writing assistant. (link)
  • Vivid - AI wingman to build your web app. (link)
  • ChatGPT Detector - Bilingual ChatGPT detector to detect AI generated text and answers. (link)
  •  Godly AI - A super simple way to add context to GPT3 for relevant and accurate completions. (link)
  • Campbell - Write better performance reviews for your team members. I genuinely had to write performance reviews on Tuesday and was close to tears looking at the blank page. It's so difficult! Not any longer... this was sent to me via our Discord and the founder, , even did a review of this newsletter using the tool 😂 . I like it! (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • ChatGPT takes my midterm and gets a D. (link)
  • Unofficial implementation of Tune-A-Video: One shot tuning of image generation models for text to video generation. (link)
  • Buildspace Notes - Stories, tips, tricks, tutorials and learnings from top builders. (link)
  • How language models could be misused for disinformation and how to mitigate those risks. (link)
  • Generative Voice AI - This voice doesn't exist. (link)
  • Seek AI secures $7.5m to build generative AI platform for data. (link)
  • Giggles - GPT-4 generates superhuman catfishing output to steal this man’s wife over WeChat. (link)
  • Lay of the land and what might happen next in AI in 2023. (link)
  • Elicit deploys a new model for abstract summaries trained using RLAIF. (link)
  • This take on AI image tech by an artist is the most lucidly honest and hilarious one yet. (link)
  • CNET is quietly publishing entire articles generated by AI. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • Mickey, CEO of FlairAI, showing how to do AI-powered product photoshoots. (link)
  • Train custom models on your own art style with Runway Academy. (link)
  • An introduction to Unity ML agents. (link)
  • Generative question answering with OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and Davinci. (link)
  • Simple ML for Sheets - Build machine learning models directly within Google sheets. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • Hold onto your diamond pickaxes 'cause Google just announced DreamerV3 - the first general and scalable RL algorithm for playing games. It outperforms previous approaches and it's the first to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without any help from human data or curricula. Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models. (link)
  • This paper takes a deep dive into OpenAI's text-davinci-003 and the previous versions of GPT to see if they're ready for the big leagues. And let me tell you, the results are iiiiinteresting. Text-davinci-003 scored a 14.4% accuracy on a sample regulation exam, but the latest and greatest generation of GPT-3, it hit an accuracy of 57%."GPT as knowledge worker - A zero-shot evaluation of its capabilities with the CPA examination. (link)
  • Latent Blending: Incredibly smooth transition videos between two prompts within seconds. (link)
  • Model pruning approaches can be used to further optimise ConvNets trained through neural architecture search. (link)
  • ORBIT: A unified simulation framework for interactive robot learning environments. (link)
  • Geometry-biassed transformers for novel view synthesis of an object. (link)
  • Learning without forgetting from multiple tasks arriving sequentially using HyperTransformers. (link)
  • Learning to exploit temporal structure for biomedical vision–language processing. (link) 
  • Transformer-based LLMs are computationally universal when augmented with an external memory. (link)
  • Does localization inform editing? Surprising differences in causality-based localization vs. knowledge editing in language models. (link)
  • ReVISE - First universal audio-visual speech enhancement model powered by SSL. (link)
  • The Bananarama Conjecture - Ethics and use capabilities of ChatGPT for academic finance research. (link)

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]]> ChatGPT upgrades, Spotify playlists, and AI checklists And how zero-shot Generative AI can create de novo antibodies from scratch https://www.bensbites.co/p/chatgpt-upgrades-spotify-playlists-ai-checklists https://www.bensbites.co/p/chatgpt-upgrades-spotify-playlists-ai-checklists Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 2023-01-11T14:00:00Z Ben Tossell

Hey everyone, this is Ben's Bites: The AI newsletter that will make you laugh, learn, cringe and want more, just like a Ryan Reynolds' movie.

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The handsome marketing magician is at it again...Ryan Reynolds recorded this video where he asked ChatGPT to write a commercial, in his voice (swearing and all), for Mint Mobile (which he owns/part-owns?) ChatGPT isn't nearly as handsome as Ryan, but it's marketing chops aren't all that bad! Did I mention I think Ryan Reynolds is handsome? Don't worry, my wife agrees.

ChatGPT got some shiny new upgrades; improvements to the model - which is very vague - but it should be 'generally better'. Shouldn't we all?! And, stop generating - you know, when its spitting out nonsense and you just wish it would stop!!! Yeah, it's got that now. ChatGPT, coming soon to your bank account - It's also looking at monetisation methods (via OpenAI's Discord). AND, OpenAI have opened a waitlist for it's professional, paid, version of ChatGPT. (link)

What would happen if ChatGPT and Wolfram Alpha had a baby? Find out here. 

I built a Photo Restorer with Zapier and Replicate. Input an image, an automation takes it through an AI API and spits back a restored image! It actually works, although could use some finer tweaks. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Langotalk - Learn languages 6x faster by chatting with AI. (link)
  • Retune - Build GPT-3 powered apps without writing any code. (link)
  • OriginalityAI - Plagiarism checker and AI detector. (link)
  • checklist.gg - AI-driven checklists. (link)
  • Playlist AI - Create playlists from AI prompts, images, videos, and your most-listened-to music. Two things I'm awful at: a job and listening to music. I'm picky and like 80s/90s hip-hop like NWA that is sort of lost by these fluffy rappers who just speak with elongated words. That aint rappin' and it aint singing. Move along. Anyway, I got sent this link and it does a pretty good job of generating a Spotify playlist based on artists you like. Give it a go and lmk what you think. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • How to use ChatGPT to boost your writing? (link)
  • Germany's BioNTech buys British AI startup InstaDeep. (link)
  • Three reasons why we don't need to be worried about ChatGPT making the essay obsolete. (link)
  • AI creates illustrated video summary of advice for machine learning beginners from Lex Fridman and Andrej Karpathy. (link)
  • Scale AI cuts 20% of its workforce. (link)
  • Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations. (link)
  • The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI. (link)
  • WashU just emailed instructors about the use of AI in coursework. (link)
  • ChatGPT helped me build a website in under 2 hours that uses AI to answer questions. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • How to get a job in machine learning. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • An image is worth one word - Personalising text-to-image generation using textual inversion. (link)
  • Dreamer V3 -  Solving tasks across many domains with world models. (link)
  • MAL - A high-quality transformer-based mask auto-labelling framework for instance segmentation using only box annotations. (link)
  • Santa models by The BigCode Project- Tech report on de-risking the model architecture and the data processing pipeline for code LLMs. (link)
  • Scaling laws for generative mixed-modal language models. (link)
  • YOLOv8 - Version 8 of the YOLO model presenting a new state of the art for object detection and instance segmentation. (link)
  • Unlocking de novo antibody design with generative artificial intelligence. (link)

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]]> The real winner in AI and the wolf of GPT street https://www.bensbites.co/p/real-winner-ai https://www.bensbites.co/p/real-winner-ai Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:00:23 +0000 2023-01-10T14:00:23Z Ben Tossell

Hello and welcome to Ben's Bites, the #1 daily AI newsletter. Like your attention span, it's short and excitable. 

Let's get to it.

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The real winner in AI so far? Microsoft. Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT.

Whew, who saw that coming?! Not me. A little recap of how well they're doing:

  • $1bn in OpenAI (2019)
  • Owns GitHub which released Copilot
  • Dalle powers Bing Image Creator
  • Valle which produces an AI voice from 3s of input
  • GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc
  • GPT-powered Bing
  • $10bn, 49% stake in OpenAI + 75% profit

The last point is from the recent news reported by Semafor. Apparently, Microsoft is eyeing up a $10bn deal with OpenAI. They'd get 49% ownership (49% to investors and 2% to OpenAI's non-profit parent). 

Also 75% of profits would go to Microsoft until it recoups it's investment. 

Satya Nadella is a boss. 

Oh and you may have overlooked VALL-E which I included a few days ago. Trained on 60k hours of English speech, it can generate speech in any voice from only 3s of that voice input. (link) A good post on it here.

Is this huge win for Microsoft somewhat of a loss for OpenAI and the rest of us? I guess we will wait to find out. 

Oh, and don't feel bad for Google sitting in their code red bunker. 

  • Google paid ~$650M to acquire DeepMind in 2014
  • OpenAI is currently "valued" $29 Bn
  • OpenAI's revenue is "tens of millions"
  • DeepMind's 2020 revenue was $1.13 Bn and was profitable (source)

This year will be a big one for Microsoft vs Google. Who you betting on?

Two relevant reads from Ben Thompson:

AI and the big five. (link)

More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft. (link)

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🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Steno - Your favourite podcasts, fully transcribed. (link)
  • restorePhotos - Restore old and blurry face photos for free with AI. (link)
  • Talk With Wind - Record sounds of anything (birds, wind, fire, train station) and chat with it. (link)
  • API for Tortoise TTS - A usage-based, pay-as-you-go API for Tortoise based on open-source code. (link)
  • Pick a Pic - An app for collecting human feedback on AI-generated images for supporting academic research in AI. (link)
  • Sentient - An AI chatbot for your company documents. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • How AI will reshape politics, education, creativity, and pet ownership? (link)
  • What is an optimum degree of LLM hallucination? (link)
  • AI in war: How artificial intelligence is changing the battlefield. (link)
  • Search is Gmail’s achilles heel & the wedge (with AI) to build a great next-generation email client. (link)
  • Six OpenAI rivals Google and Microsoft are watching. (link)
  • Why the Chaser is going to put up a paywall? Hint: AI. (link)
  • Isomorphic Labs, an AI-first biology company announces new scientific advisory board. (link)
  • Sketchy ChatGPT app soars up app store charts, charges $7.99 weekly subscription. (link)
  • RETRO models are a giant capability unlock for LLM tech, and they're shockingly under the radar. (link)
  • My lawyer, the robot. (link)
  • Making beef stew with ChatGPT. (link)
  • Can AI pass the bar exam? (link)
  • Large language models like ChatGPT say the darndest things. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • Build a GitHub support bot with GPT3, LangChain, and Python. (link)
  • Reinforcement Learning - A gentle introduction to learning from decisions. (link)
  • Use ChatGPT to do data science for you. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • Variance Reduction System - A new offline RL framework developed by Meta to help ensure a more equitable distribution of ads. (link)
  • D3VAE - Bidirectional variational auto-encoder equipped with diffusion, denoise, and disentanglement for generative time series forecasting. (link)
  • 3DAvatarGAN: Bridging domains for personalised editable avatars. (link)
  • Diffused Heads: Diffusion models beat GANs on talking-face generation. (link)

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]]> LLMs vs search engines Plus uploading your own data and using AI with it. https://www.bensbites.co/p/llms-vs-search-engines https://www.bensbites.co/p/llms-vs-search-engines Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 2023-01-09T14:00:00Z Ben Tossell

Happy Monday and welcome to the 1,155 new folks joining since last week. 

This is Ben's Bites, the daily AI newsletter that kicks off the week faster than a strong cup of coffee. And it is Monday, so coffee is necessary...

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I built a way to upload data and you can ask it questions with AI. So you could theoretically upload any data (my example is animal facts) to a google sheet, then use this automation to enter a question e.g. "What is the tallest mammal?" and AI using embeddings will search through the data and return the response. All built without any code. (link)

Microsoft looks to add OpenAI’s chatbot technology to Word and email. (link)

What would an AI + search engine look like? Well, wonder no more. Neeva have released NeevaAI. 

It combines the power of AI with a search stack to give you fast, accurate, and up-to-date results. And, it provides sources where the information was pulled from. (Not made up sources btw).

Neeva AI - Authentic, real-time AI search. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Notos - AI-powered transcription app based on OpenAI’s Whisper. (link)
  • ExplainThis - A chrome extension-based assistant that can explain concepts to you in plain language. (link)
  • Magician by Diagram - AI design tool that allows you to write and edit copy in Figma. (link)
  • Codeium announces free AI-powered code completion in Jupyter notebooks for all developers. (link)
  • PromptLayer - Free platform for prompt engineering. Track, debug, and tag old completions. (link)
  • NeRF Reshoot by Luma AI - Capture lifelike 3D and create multiple incredible shots without reshooting using AI. (link)
  • Context - Ask a question to your favourite podcast host. (link)
  • PeopleAI - Converse with some of human history’s most influential and significant figures and learn. (link)
  • RoastOrToastGPT - Tag it in a reply, and it will either praise or roast the original tweet. (link)
  • arXiv Xplorer - Semantic search engine for arXiv papers. (link)
  • GPT Index 0.2.0 - Structured data support introduced to GPT Index. (link)
  • AIHelperBot - Build SQL queries instantly with AI. (link)
  • Connect OpenAI to Albato and integrate with Telegram. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • The end of organising. (link)
  • Someone asked AI to turn each country into a villain. (link)
  • Stability AI's CEO Emad Mostaque on the future of generative AI, creating real-time movies, and societal impact of AI. (link)
  • The simple but profound insight behind diffusion. (link)
  • Text to audio model VALL-E has striking resemblance to DALL-E version 1 and Google’s Parti. (link)
  • What is artificial intelligence and how it will impact marketers? (link)
  • Progress in two vital areas had slowed, AI could change that. (link)
  • A new area of AI booms, even amid the tech gloom. (link)
  • A sceptical take on the AI revolution with Gary Marcus. (link)
  • Database of PhD fellowships with 195 fellowships and funding opportunities. (link)
  • Microsoft vs Google: Will language models overtake search engines? (link)
  • A chat with dead legends & 3 forecasts. (link)
  • The current climate in AI has many parallels to 2021 web3. (link)

🎓 Learn

  • Build your own semantic search index for any YouTube channel or playlist. (link)
  • Use Stable Diffusion for concept art with Stability Photoshop plugin. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • Constitutional AI -  Training a harmless AI assistant through self-improvement, without any human labels identifying harmful outputs. (link)
  • GLM 130B - Open-source model that beats GPT-3 175B and is competitive with Google’s PALM 540B. (link)
  • Filtering, distillation, and hard negatives - Improvements in the contrastive pre-training pipeline for vision language models. (link)

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]]> A $29Bn offer That's quite a lot innit? https://www.bensbites.co/p/29bn-offer https://www.bensbites.co/p/29bn-offer Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:56:32 +0000 2023-01-06T14:56:32Z Ben Tossell

Happy Friday folks! This is Ben's Bites, the daily newsletter that illuminates the world of AI like a futuristic neon sign. 

Sorry a little late today. Let's get to it, it's the freaking weekend.

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Let's talk about the $29Bn elephant in the room... OpenAI is raising at an eye-watering valuation. It was valued at a $14Bn in 2021. So 2x in 1 year. Cool, cool, cool.

The deal is being negotiated with Thrive Capital and Founders Fund, and it could total at least $300 million in share sales. (Altman says OpenAI has no plans to be acquired or go public so investors would only be able to cash out through secondary share sales.)

They're calling it a tender offer (no, not a very sweet, loving offer). It means existing shareholders like employees can sell their shares to the investors.

NO deal has been made yet! But I reckon it'll happen any minute now...

A few important things to know/remember:

  • OpenAI was founded as a non-profit but has a for-profit arm, created in 2019
  • Investors returns are capped at ~20x
  • Sam Altman said they'll make $1Bn revenue 'soon'
  • This valuation would make it one of the most valuable startups in the US

Sam Altman has talked about Trillion dollar companies being made in AI. I think OpenAI will be the first. And at this rate it could be in the next 1-2 years. 

ChatGPT creator in investor talks at $29B valuation. (link)

I was on the Infinite Loops podcast with Jim O'Shaughnessy to talk about AI. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • HTTPie AI - Generate API requests using plain language. (link)
  • GitHub Copilot Labs now comes with a test generator to create and refine tests. (link)
  • Asknow AI - Ask famous personalities anything and get an AI summarised answer with references. (link)
  • Buildt: Google for your codebase! AI-powered search to find code by searching for what it does, not just what it is. (link)
  • The Jam Machine - Generative AI composer trained on text transcription of MIDI music. (link)
  • AskThee - Ask a question to a big thinker, artist, or scientist. (link)
  • Text2SQL AI - Translate plain English to SQL for free with AI! (link)
  • Fact GPT - Generate fresh and relevant user-sourced content with citations. (link)
  • Empath - Test your empathy with GPT-3 chatbot. (link)
  • GPTDuck - Question answering against any Github repository. (link)
  • GPTQL - A gpt agent that can adaptively query GraphQL schemas. (link)
  • Widget by ChatBotKit - Allows anyone to easily integrate AI chatbots into their website without coding. (link)
  • Autocommit - AI-Generated Git commit messages, editable before performing the commit. (link)
  • Nostalgia Photo - Bring old photos back to life with AI. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • Samsung’s 2023 TV lineup bets everything on picture upgrades and AI tricks. (link)
  • Why use your own key apps can make sense for developers? (link)
  • 100+ trends reports for 2023, including Adobe, Accenture, Gartner, and more. (link)
  • Open source highlights 2022 for machine learning & AI. (link)
  • NYC education department blocks ChatGPT on school devices, networks. (link)
  • My predictions for 2023 by Greg Isenberg - AI, internet, and social networks. (link)
  • Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers. (link)
  • Sketch of an LLM idea maze a la Balaji. (link)
  • Teachers are absolutely loving the student who made a tool that shows if your essay was written by AI. (link)
  • Self-assembling proteins can store cellular “memories.” (link)

🎓 Learn

  • How to translate a website into different languages with GPT-3. (link)
  • How to use Microsoft Bing AI image creator. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • SODA - First publicly available dataset of social interactions containing 385K conversations labelled with 1.7K unique emotions. (link)
  • GIVL: Improving geographical inclusivity of vision-language models with pre-training methods. (link)
  • Improving robustness of dynamic radiance field reconstruction by joint estimation of camera parameters. (link)
  • HyperReel - New high-fidelity 6-DoF video representation with a small memory footprint that enables high frame rate rendering at high resolutions. (link)
  • Developing agents that learn goal-conditioned policies offline with self-supervised reward shaping. (link)
  • PACO - Dataset and models with parts and attributes of common objects. (link)
  • All in Tokens - General purpose visual task solver made by unifying output space of visual tasks via soft token. (link)
  • CiT: Curation in training for effective vision-language data. (link)
  • VALL-E by Microsoft - A neural codec language model that can be used to synthesise high-quality personalised speech. (link)

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]]> Apple's AI service Plus AI negotiating refunds, curing loneliness and OpenAI's 7th birthday. https://www.bensbites.co/p/apples-ai-service https://www.bensbites.co/p/apples-ai-service Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 2023-01-05T14:00:00Z Ben Tossell

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Apple's got a new audiobook service. I forgot Apple Books was a thing, genuinely.

It uses AI to narrate the books instead of humans (of course).

It'll make it easier and cheaper for authors and publishers to make audiobooks. Say goodbye to expensive, time-consuming recording sessions.

Right now, it's only available for English-language romance and fiction books and only two voices, Madison and Jackson, are available. 

The funny thing is, Apple is really specific about which kinds of romance and fiction books it will do. It's only literary, historical, and women's fiction right now. No mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, or fantasy. If you search for "AI narration" in the Books app, you'll find a bunch of romance novels narrated by Apple's AI.

As with any AI voice, they're perfectly understandable, but they don't have the warm, loving tone of a human voice. But I bet that'll change as AI voice technology improves. Try getting AI to whisper sweet nothings in your ear.

Apple was supposed to launch the service in November, but it got delayed because of all the drama with Elon Musk at Twitter and some layoffs at Meta. Apparently, Apple has been trying to get independent publishers to use its service and is willing to cover the production costs in exchange for royalties. 

Unlike Apple, Amazon's Audible service only allows human narrators (at the moment). But I bet that changes soon.

Spotify is also trying to make audiobooks a big part of its streaming service, but it's been having some problems with Apple's rules about in-app payments.

Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks. (link)

DoNotPay AI bot with deepfake voice calls Wells Fargo to negotiate wire fees overturn. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

  • Interpret age and personality from an image using GPT-3 and Everypixel. (link)
  • Prompt Box - Organise, edit, and save your AI prompts across different AI tools. (link)
  • ToWords - Transform your YouTube videos into engaging blog posts. (link)
  • Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0 - Generate a photorealistic image based on your prompt. (link)
  • Rationale - A decision-making tool with in-content learning powered by GPT3.x. (link)
  • SlidesAI - Create professional, engaging slides from any text in no time. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

  • 7 cool OpenAI milestones in games, agents & robotics. In a nod to OpenAI's 7th Birthday! 🎉 (link)
  • Can AI decentralise Hollywood? $1000 bounty for the best 140-second video on Satoshi Nakamoto. (link)
  • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI. Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content. (link)
  • Top AI newsletters of 2023. (link)
  • Contribute to a repository of ChatGPT/LLM errors across different models. (link)
  • Government + AI = does not compute. What will happen when governments are confronted with sentience that can match or outpace humans? (link)
  • 10x your VC productivity with ChatGPT. (link)
  • List of AI projects built on NextJS and Vercel. (link)
  • NIA podcast - Bearly AI & top AI predictions for 2023. (link)
  • The fourth age of programming. (link)
  • Nim game in which a human plays against a GPT-3.5 powered AI. (link)
  • Democratisation of AI models and how AI will disrupt all industries with Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque. (link)
  • How AI can help with the loneliness epidemic. (link)
  • Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision - Where application-based research finds a home. (link)
  • Launchable: Foundation Models event with exceptional speakers, mentors, judges, and a chance to win $250K! Apply by 9th January. (link)
  • Could your marketing agency train an AI and bypass generic content? (link)

🎓 Learn

  • Create your own website with ChatGPT and Replit in 10 minutes. (link)
  • A quick intro to state-of-the-art semantic search in python. (link)
  • The hello world of deep learning! (link)
  • Get started with ML and model hosting in under 30 minutes with Replit Explorer. (link)
  • Tutorial to train your own AI models. (link)
  • Basic facts about language model internals. (link)
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🔬 Research

  • Rethinking mobile block for efficient neural models. (link)
  • Framework for diverse, semantically reasonable, and physically plausible scene synthesis based on human motion. (link)
  • GIT by Microsoft - The first model that can do video captioning and QA besides image captioning (decoder only). (link)
  • BLIP by Salesforce - A multimodal modelwith decoder and encoder both for image captioning, QA, and image-text retrieval. (link)

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