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Michael Kevin Spencer
June 04, 2023

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

This week was dominated by more design announcements in A.I. with Adobe and Nvidia among them.

📢Top News 📺

Nvidia launches Neuralangelo [link]
Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool [link]
Google launches its generative AI search [The Decoder, link]
Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision [OpenAI, link]
Character.AI, the a16z-backed chatbot startup, tops 1.7M installs in first week [link]
Stability AI Releases StableStudio: An Open Source Design Suite For Generative AI [link]
Snap (Snapchat) wants its AI to reply to you with Snaps [link]
Microsoft announces Intelligent meeting recap in Teams Premium [link]
Falcon - Technology Innovation Institute Open-Sourced Falcon LLMs: A New AI Model That Uses Only 75 Percent of GPT-3’s Training Compute, 40 Percent of Chinchilla’s, and 80 Percent of PaLM-62B’s [link]

Products & Announcements🏭

CrowdStrike introduced a generative AI assistant called Charlotte AI to help customers assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities. [link]

Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT [link]

Asana Unveils Generative A.I. Features [link]

Arm released two products — one GPU and one CPU — to support the performance of AI apps on smartphones. [link]

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🎬Videos🎥

State of GPT, with Andrej Karpathy [link]

Palantir CEO: Not Sure We Should Sell Our AI to Some Clients

Alex Karp is super entertaining.

⚒️Novel Tools🔥

Paige - Rewrite your web presence in a page generated in 30 seconds. [link]

Any Summary - Enables users to quickly and accurately summarize various types of files, such as documents, interview audio or video files. [link]

Fina - Financial tracking and analysis tool that lets you create custom calculations or predictions. Connect your bank and crypto accounts and use a notion-style interface to organise your finances. [link]

Checklist.gg - An AI-driven checklist management tool designed to help organizations get things done right every time. [link]

Gamma - A new medium for presenting ideas. Powered by AI. [link] Let AI finish your presentation for you, shape your content, add visuals, and even rewrite sections for you.

Fathom - This tool records, transcribes, highlights and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversations. [link]

Mason - Meet mason - your AI Shopping Copilot! Goodbye lackluster sales, hello shoppers. [link]

Stork - AI-based collaboration for hybrid teams. [link]

📝 Papers 🗏

Landmark Attention: Random-Access Infinite Context Length for Transformers [link]

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model [link]

Discovering New Interpretable Conservation Laws as Sparse Invariants [link]

Improving accuracy of GPT-3/4 results on biomedical data using a retrieval-augmented language model [link]

📰Noted Newsletters📬

30% Lifetime Discount on A.I. Supremacy [Link]

Last Week in AI #221 [link]

🔥 Top A.I. Newsletters of 2023 🧠🐱‍💻🤖🚗🚀 [link]

🤖 Robotics 🦿

Just another Humanoid robot that can write poems [link]

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💬Large Language Models (LLMs)👅

MIT researchers develop self-learning language models that outperform larger counterparts [link]

A PhD Student's Perspective on Research in NLP in the Era of Very Large Language Models [link]

🥼Healthcare🩺

AI integrated into children’s healthcare at hospital [link]

🧪 Science 🔬

How artificial intelligence is creeping into work routines [link]

Minecraft bot Voyager programs itself using GPT-4 [link]

💰Stock Market 🛒

ChatGPT sparks media frenzy similar to Bitcoin in 2021 [link]

Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom [link]

🚀 Startups 🧠

OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman [link]

🎓 Education & Learning📚

All-In-One Guide For Midjourney: The Art Of Prompts [link]

What is Gorilla? [link]

Macaw-LLM is an exploratory endeavor that pioneers multi-modal language modeling by seamlessly combining image, video, audio, and text data, built upon the foundations of CLIP, Whisper, and LLaMA. [Github link]

🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

Last week in A.I. [Podcast, link]

🎖️National Defense & Military🕊️

Military drones are swarming the skies of Ukraine and other conflict hot spots – and anything goes when it comes to international law [The Conversation, Link)

South Korea’s Naver to target foreign governments with latest ChatGPT-like AI model [link]

🔮Future of Work & Automation🦾

Banking giant JPMorgan advertised more than 3,600 AI-related jobs, report says, as Wall Street starts to embrace the revolutionary tech [link]

The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated [link]

💸Venture Capital🦄

Baidu’s $145M AI fund signals China’s push for AI self-reliance [link]

China AI startup MiniMax raising over $250 million from Tencent-backed entity, others [link]

German AI startup Nyonic aims to build generative AI for Europe [link]

VC Giants Accel, Sequoia Scour Portfolio Startups for AI Risk [link]

London-based Hypervision Surgical raises €7.5 million to redefine surgical imaging with AI and clinical edge computing [link]

🐲 China A.I.🏯

Concerns are growing over China’s AI rules [link]

Alibaba begins rollout of its ChatGPT-style tech as China A.I. race heats up (link)

China Telecom Invests $434 Million (US) to Create China Telecom Quantum Information Technology Group (link)

🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

Creeping toward dystopia [link]

AI copyright far from settled as Japan and Israel stake out early positions [The Decoder, link]

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training [link]

🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

Statement on A.I. Risk [link]

AI Everywhere, All at Once [link]

Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? [link]

💬Opinion Editorial🙄

The White House agrees you have a small brain [link]

AI Is Not an Arms Race [link]

We are an auto-immune disease [link]

📊Studies &Infographics 📏

A Pew study found that 58% of US adults are familiar with ChatGPT, and 14% have used ChatGPT. [link]

🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

Harnessing AI's Potential to Improve Equity [link]

🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

China Unveils New Quantum Computing Cloud Platform [link]

🙉Last Memes🎭

No great memes this week. Just kidding.

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