AlterEgo: Speak Your Mind to AI 🧠

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Get ready to think-talk with AlterEgo, discover how big tech is making AI safer, meet the new AI kids on the block giving ChatGPT a run for its money, and see how NYC's subway is getting smarter at catching ticket dodgers. All aboard for a quick tour of today's coolest AI updates!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

AlterEgo 🧠

Imagine a world where you can communicate with machines and other people just by thinking. This is where AlterEgo steps in, a wearable device that picks up your internal word articulation—no voice or movement needed. It's like talking to yourself, but this conversation can be heard by AI. And the best part? It talks back, through audio that only you can hear, without interrupting your daily activities.

Big Tech’s AI Safety Plan 🏁

On Friday, seven big names in AI, including Amazon, Google, and OpenAI, got together at the White House. They made a promise to the Biden administration to make their AI systems safer and more secure. This includes making sure people can tell if something was created by an AI. President Biden was excited about this, saying that AI is going to change the world, and it's important to make sure it's done safely. The companies plan to put more money into safety research, have their systems tested for security, and let third parties check for any weak spots.

Stability AI’s OpenSource LLMs 🔓

Stability AI just launched two Opensource LLMs:

• Freewilly 1: Fine-tuned on Llama65B model on an Orca style Dataset.

• Freewilly 2: Fine-tuned on Llama-v2 70B model on an Orca style Dataset.

Both of them beat ChatGPT in multiple benchmarking tasks despite their small size!

NYC Subway Uses AI to Spot Fare Evaders 🚊

Riding the NYC subway without paying might soon be a thing of the past. With fare evasion bleeding $285 million from its coffers in 2022, the MTA has upped its game, deploying AI surveillance software in a bid to catch ticket dodgers. The software, designed by Spanish AI firm AWAAIT, is currently operational in select stations, with plans to roll it out further. It can spot a fare evader and instantly alert station agents, making free rides a lot trickier.

More AI Developments

• ChatGPT App is now available for Android on Google Play Store.

• Billions, not Millions: Publications including The New York Times and News Corp. are forming a coalition to sue companies that have used their data to train AI models, and secure billions as compensation.

• Biological Computing: An Australian research team receives a $600,000 grant for their project DishBrain, to merge AI with human brain cells and create AI machines with lifelong learning capabilities.

• China’s new opensource LLM: Baichuan-13B is a 13 billion parameter model, trained on both Chinese and English data, outperforming competitors of a similar size. It is available for commercial use.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Gen-2 by RunwayML: Gen-2 can now generate videos from images in the input.

• Image Search in Perplexity AI: Perplexity AI search engine now shows images also when you search for people, places, or things.

• Tagbox: Tool for organizing creative assets with AI-generated tags, custom filters and search capabilities.

• KAI Conversations: Record your conversation and uncover hidden human insights using AI.

• Flyfin: AI tax tool for self-employed individuals that finds maximum deductions and optimizes tax-filing process.

Hot Takes 🔥

• If you’re not the product, you’re the training set. ~Bojan Tunguz

• The only bad way to react to AI is to pretend it doesn’t change anything. ~Ethan Mollick

Meme of the Day 🤡

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