Pi - ChatGPT's Kind and Empathetic Alter Ego

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Get ready for another thrilling week, just like the previous 20, jam-packed with cutting-edge AI research, mind-boggling AI tools, and delightful hot takes that'll make you grin! This week, the spotlight was stolen by the sensational new object detection model and OpenAI's code interpreter that's got Data Scientists buzzing!

In the meantime, Inflection AI burst onto the scene with its ChatGPT-inspired language model called "Pi," boasting kindness and empathy that outshines all of humanity! Italy, not to be left behind, hit the "resume" button on ChatGPT services, as citizens longed for their fundamental right to chat with our beloved AI. I could keep the pun train rolling, but it's time to take a deep dive into this week's newsletter!

This issue covers:

1. Latest Developments 🌍

2. News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

3. Tools of the Trade ⚒️

4. Hot Takes 🔥

5. AI Meme of the Week 🤡

Latest Developments 🌍

Our Pick 👌

YOLO-NAS: An open-source object detection model built on Deci’s AutoNAC providing superior real-time capabilities, surpassing other YOLO models.

• Shap-E by OpenAI: Text-to-3D model that can render 3D assets as both textured meshes and NeRFs, outperforming Point-E in both speed and quality.

• StableVicuna by Stability AI: First open source chatbot trained with RLHF and instruction finetuning, based on the Vicuna v0 13b model.

• replit-code-v1-3b: A 2.7B-parameter Causal Language Model for code completion, trained on 525B tokens of code and 20 languages.

• StarCoder: Open-source LLM for Code trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, outperforming existing ones on popular programming benchmarks.

• MPT-7B by MosaicML: Open-source transformer trained on 1T tokens of text and code, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B.

• TANGO: Text-to-audio generation using instruction-tuned LLM FLAN-T5 as a text encoder and a latent diffusion model for audio generation.

• ChatVideo: A multimodal and versatile video understanding system that uses a tracklet-centric paradigm and Video Foundation Models (ViFMs).

• Unlimiformer: Enables transformers to handle unlimited input lengths using a k-nearest-neighbor index for efficient attention computation.

• DreamPaint: Enables virtual try-on of e-commerce items using few-shot inpainting without 3D modeling or text guidance.

• Rigorous Evaluation of LLMs for Code Generation: EvalPlus, a benchmarking framework, reveals inaccuracies in existing code synthesis evaluations.

• LLaMA-Adapter V2: A parameter-efficient visual instruction model that enhances the original LLaMA-Adapter with added parameters.

• Affordance-Aware Human Insertion into Scenes: Inserting people into scenes while respecting scene affordances and enabling interactive editing.

• Text-to-image generation with seed selection: SeedSelect enhances rare concept generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selecting optimal noise seeds.

• Poisoning LMs During Instruction Tuning: Adversaries can poison instruction-tuned LMs, causing biased predictions with limited defense options.

• Prompt Diffusion: In-context learning in diffusion models for diverse vision-language tasks using text guidance and example images.

• IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Training robots in indoor simulations for zero-shot outdoor navigation using context-maps, even if inaccurate or noisy.

News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

Our Pick 👌

Inflection AI has released its language model Pi that shows human-like kindness and empathy, with a mobile-accessible personal knowledge base.

• Microsoft supercharges AI-powered Edge and Bing with image/video answers, plug-in capabilities, multi chat/search sessions, and a sleeker and enhanced UI.

• Amazon is developing a more "generalized and capable" LLM to enhance Alexa and become the "world's best personal assistant”.

• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes that AGI could be achieved within a few years or a decade, due to the accelerated AI advancements.

• Samsung banned ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for employees after misuse and is temporarily restricting their use through personal computers.

• Elon Musk is ramping up his own AI efforts through X.AI, and planning to compete with OpenAI, even as he warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence.

• AWS has launched a 10-week accelerator program for 10 generative AI startups globally, offering AWS credits of up to $300,000.

• The Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, has quit his job at Google to speak freely about the risks of generative AI.

• OpenAI's ChatGPT has been reinstated in Italy after addressing data protection concerns, while the company faces challenges from other countries.

• Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss responsible AI development with the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, emphasizing the need for safeguards and ethical innovation.

• Biden-Harris Administration has announced actions for responsible AI innovation through research funding, public evaluations of AI systems, and policy guidance for the government.

• UK Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into LLMs and generative AI to examine potential competition and consumer concerns as AI rapidly develops.

• Experts warn that the EU risks losing control of AI to US tech firms if it does not protect grassroots research in its forthcoming AI bill.

• US lawmakers introduce a bill to ban autonomous AI systems from launching nuclear weapons and raise awareness of potential dangers.

• AI can now officially understand brain activity using CEBRA that combines behavioral and neural data to understand neural dynamics during adaptive behaviors.

• Researchers have developed an AI that can translate the thoughts of human by analyzing fMRI scans and match patterns in brain activity to words and phrases that participants had heard.

• OpenAI has closed a $300M share sale to VC firms at a valuation between $27B and $29B, with external investors now holding over 30% of the company.

• Cohere raised $250 million in a funding round, valuing the company at $2 billion, with investors including Salesforce and Nvidia.

• Mozilla has acquired Fakespot, a startup that uses AI to identify fake reviews, to provide a trustworthy shopping tool for Firefox users.

• Microsoft is reportedly supporting AMD in their expansion into AI processors to compete against Nvidia's market share.

• A Google engineer warns that open-source AI technology is posing a competitive threat to Google and OpenAI.

• Edge browser displays an ad for Bing AI in its address bar when users visit Google's Bard AI site, offering a split view for users to compare answers.

• IBM will pause hiring for back-office functions that could be replaced with AI and automation, potentially affecting around 7,800 jobs.

• Khan Academy has developed an AI-powered virtual tutor and classroom assistant called Khanmigo, powered by GPT-4, to provide personalized education.

• Microsoft is developing a “private” version of ChatGPT to address data privacy and compliance concerns for businesses with sensitive information.

• ChatGPT gave “Chegg-mate” as the stock of the company giving homework-help plunged after warning of ChatGPT's threat to its services and issued disappointing revenue and profit forecasts.

• GUI for AutoGPT is now available on waitlist! Register here.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

Our Pick 👌

AI Music Generator: Creates personalized, royalty-free music in seconds, with several customization options.

• Productbot: AI tool for faster, accurate, automated product documentation and design synchronization.

• PurpleBuddy AI: Intelligent chatbot for elevated user experience and streamlined customer support.

• Sharly: Get 10x more productive with AI-powered chatbot for documents.

• Narraive: Interactive storytelling game that uses AI to generate text and images, allowing players to become the protagonist and make choices.

• Selfie Vibe: Create striking AI-generated avatars using just one photo and choose different styles.

• Augmentir: Digitizes frontline processes in manufacturing, provides insights and individual guidance to optimize productivity and support reskilling/upskilling.

• CheggMate: Personalized and adaptive learning platform powered by GPT-4 and Chegg's extensive content library, offering personalized tests and AI tutor.

• AiPassportPhotos: Generate compliant biometric passport and visa photos quickly and cost-effectively using AI.

• ChattySurvey: AI-powered survey platform that enables personalized, chat-based conversations with customers to gather rich feedback and boost engagement.

• Midjourney for Slack: Community-created bot to create AI-generated images directly in company's Slack workspace.

• ResearchAIde: Personal AI research assistant that saves time by quickly extracting and synthesizing relevant information from research papers.

• SiteExplainer: AI-powered web app that simplifies and summarizes the content of any website and corporate jargons.

• Chirper: Social networking platform solely powered by AI where users create and interact with AI-generated characters called "chirpers".

Hot Takes 🔥

AI Meme of the Week 🤡

This week, two things that aren't exactly memes cracked me up like nothing else, get ready!! 🤣

That’s all for this week!

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