What's Buzzing in the AI-verse

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Welcome to the third week of the new year and the latest edition of our Unwind AI newsletter. While AI is revolutionizing the way we work, interact and live, it has become imperative to be clued-in on some of the most important AI developments and how we can use them to our advantage. This week, we have many exciting updates and cool tools to share that you can’t let pass without notice.

So, let's dip our feet into what's happening in AI.

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 🌍

Google’s Tool for Shelf Inventory Management 📦

Google Cloud has created a new AI tool called "shelf inventory" to help big-box retailers better track their inventory on shelves. The tool uses videos and images from the retailer's own cameras or store associates to identify and analyze the availability of consumer-packaged goods on shelves. The tool is currently in preview and will be available to retailers in the coming months. This tool will help retailers improve product availability, replenish out-of-stock items faster and lose fewer sales opportunities.

(Source: Analytics Insight and WSJ)

ChatGPT’s Competitor!? - Claude by Anthropic AI 🤯

Anthropic, an AI startup, has developed a new AI assistant named Claude, which is similar to ChatGPT. Based on the research paper on Constitutional AI, Claude differs from ChatGPT in its approach to reinforcement learning and uses a model to generate the initial rankings of fine-tuned outputs, rather than human feedback.

Claude is a serious competitor to ChatGPT, with improvements in some areas like its ability to write coherently about itself and its limitations, and has more naturalistic writing. However, it has some shortcomings in tasks like code generation and reasoning through logic problems.

Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation 🔮

Here’s a new AI tool that allows for personalizing text-to-image generation using textual inversion. The approach is based on learning to generate specific concepts, like personal objects or artistic styles, by describing them using new "words". These new words can be composed into natural language sentences, guiding personalized creation in an intuitive way, including visual art styles, and can reduce biases inherited from the training data.

News from the Industry 🧑‍🏫

Microsoft + OpenAI = Azure OpenAI Service ☁️

Microsoft just announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, a tool that allows businesses to access the most advanced AI models, including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2. The service lets you create cutting-edge applications, improve user experiences and streamline internal efficiencies. It also includes ChatGPT which runs inference on Azure AI infrastructure.

Azure OpenAI Service is part of Microsoft’s commitment to democratizing AI and its ongoing partnership with OpenAI.

ChatGPT Pro is here! 🚀

OpenAI has released Chat GPT Professional right now in “Early Pilot” which will be always accessible (even in high demand), generate fast responses from ChatGPT, and provide early access to new features. What are you waiting for?!

AI-Assisted Data Science 🤖

Abacus.AI is hosting an event on January 24 where they will give a demo of their AI-assisted data science platform that allows data science teams to use prompts to create state-of-the-art models, evaluate them, and put them into production in 30 minutes. Register now!

AI art - Legal or Illegal? 🖼️

A group of three artists has filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, claiming that they have infringed the rights of "millions of artists" by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web "without the consent of the original artists." The lawsuit has been filed by the same lawyers who are also currently suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI in a similar case involving the AI programming model CoPilot.

Will we finally have some clarity from a legal perspective on this controversial issue?

(Source: The Verge)

NanoGPT - Build your own GPT from scratch 🐥

Andrej Karpathy has released a new video on YouTube titled "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out", where he builds and trains a Transformer in less than 2 hours following the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, ending up with the core of nanoGPT.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

Wingman for Web Apps🧑‍✈️

Vivid is an AI-powered tool to build, edit and preview web apps quickly and easily. It provides boilerplate code when you click components on your screen, and makes in-browser edits that sync with your source code. It also has a smarter inspect element feature that helps you understand and modify your design with one click and allows you to keep using your browser and IDE (Integrated Development Environment) without needing an extra window.

Engineer Prompts like a pro 👩‍🔬

PromptLayer is a new platform that allows engineers to track, manage, and share their GPT prompts. It acts as a middleware between the code and OpenAI's python library, and records all OpenAI API requests, allowing engineers to search and explore request history in the PromptLayer dashboard. The platform helps engineers to track, debug and replay old completions. It is designed to aid the process of exploration that is prompt engineering.

Told ya! Prompt Engineering is a full-fledged career now. Read the blog to know more about it.

AI-powered Software Development ⚙️

Cursor is a new IDE built from the ground up with Large Language Models. It allows users to quickly ship new features and make complex changes across multiple files. It also includes AI-powered linting to flag problematic code and suggest fixes. Cursor also has IntelliSense support, split panes, vim mode, multi-file search, and support for CoPilot. Invitations will be rolling out soon and till then, sign up for the waitlist!

Your AI Salesperson👩‍🚀

MagicForm is a tool that allows users to train an AI salesperson in just a few minutes to improve website conversions by 20%. It utilizes ChatGPT and can use real-time conversations to engage with potential customers, providing them with the information they need to make an informed purchase decision.

AI Travel Planner 🍹

Getaiway is a service that uses AI to instantly create personalized travel plans. It allows you to enter your preferences, budget, and trip details, and it will instantly create a personalized travel plan, including an itinerary by the hour. It eliminates the need for endless research and asking friends for recommendations. The service uses Open AI's Chat-GPT to generate travel plans.

Hot takes 🔥

AGI or nothing 🦾

And that’s how we went from AGI to Kindergarten 👶🏻

GPT-4 being Multimodal 😲

AI Meme of the Week 🤡

That’s all for this week!

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