AI-Weekly for Tuesday, April 9, 2024 – Volume 107

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence
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News

1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week

A.) Start using ChatGPT instantly | OpenAI.com | April 1, 2024

OpenAI has introduced a new feature allowing people to use ChatGPT instantly without the need for signing up. This change aims to make AI more accessible globally. Over 100 million users in 185 countries already use ChatGPT weekly. Users can opt to share their interactions with ChatGPT to help improve the model, but this can be turned off in settings. The update includes enhanced content safeguards. While using ChatGPT without an account offers immediate access, account creation provides additional benefits like saving chat history, sharing chats, and unlocking more features.

B.) AI Guide Dogs in China May Become a Reality Very Soon, Research Suggests | GizmoChina.com | March 28, 2024

Researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University in China have made a huge breakthrough in assisting the country’s 17 million visually impaired people. Their development of an AI guide dog using an artificial intelligence language model holds a lot of promise for providing navigation and companionship.

C.) Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly A Year After Launch | Futurism.com | April 1, 2024

Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google’s search AI is still spitting out confusing and often incorrect answers.

D.) OpenDevin Tutorial (Open-Source Devin) — Build Entire Apps From a Single Prompt | Matt Berman | YouTube | March 30, 2024

Open Devin is a 100% open-sourced version of the massively popular demo of Devin we saw a few weeks ago. I’ll show you how to install it and how to use it.

E.) New $10M Open-Source Foundational LLM Is Amazing! (DBRX by Databricks) | Matt Berman | YouTube | March 31, 2024

Databricks just dropped DBRX, a brand new Mixture of Experts foundational model with 132b parameters. It’s really impressive, let’s test it.

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4.) Uncensored Mistral v0.2 Dolphin LLM — Won’t Refuse Anything! | Matthew Berman | YouTube | April 8, 2024

This is (actually) the Mistral V0.2 Base model fine-tuned by Eric Hartfort with the Dolphin 2.8 data set. It is completely uncensored, let’s see how it performs.

5.) Spotify Launches Personalized AI Playlists That You Can Build Using Prompts: How to Find and Use the New Feature | CNet.com | April 8, 2024

Spotify now lets Premium subscribers build playlists using an AI prompt, but it’s not yet available in the US.

6.) How to Protect Yourself (And Your Loved Ones) From AI Scam Calls | Wired.com | April 8, 2024

AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

7.) Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Reveal Its Robotaxi On August 8, 2024 | TheVerge.com | April 8, 2024

Elon Musk has long-promised autonomous Teslas earning revenue for their owners by picking up and dropping off customers. But his promises have often failed to come true.

8.) Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London | Blogs.Microsoft.com | April 8, 2024

Microsoft recently announced the creation of Microsoft AI, a newly formed organization to help advance our consumer AI products and research, including Copilot. Building on that news, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft AI is opening a new AI hub in the heart of London. Microsoft AI London will drive pioneering work to advance state-of-the-art language models and their supporting infrastructure, and to create world-class tooling for foundation models, collaborating closely with our AI teams across Microsoft and with our partners, including OpenAI.

9.) Almost Timely News: Generative AI Optimization and Content Marketing Strategy | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | April 7, 2024

In today’s episode, I tackle a fascinating question: how can you get ahead of the curve in a world where generative AI is changing how we search? You’ll benefit from the latest tips on building your brand and dominating the content landscape. You’ll gain insights on how to influence AI models and optimize for this new world of search. Tune in as I explain how to stay ahead of the curve and use generative AI to benefit you!

10.) New Universal AI Jailbreak Smashes GPT4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 7, 2024

The Anthropic team just released a paper detailing a new jailbreak technique called “Many Shot Jailbreak” which utilizes the larger context windows and large model’s ability to learn against it!

11.) How To Keep Humans In Charge Of AI | VentureBeat.com | April 6, 2024

“We the people” need to stay in charge of AI — not tech companies or political elites. Google’s recent blunderfest with its Gemini AI system makes this abundantly clear.

12.) X Makes Grok Chatbot Available To Premium Subscribers | TechCrunch.com | April 6, 2024

Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said on its support page that only Premium and Premium+ users can interact with the chatbot in select regions.

13.) Publishers Give On-Site Search A Long-Needed Upgrade In The Form Of AI Chatbots | Digiday.com | April 5, 2024

Publishers are testing generative AI technology to update a rather boring function on their sites that hasn’t been updated in a while: search.

14.) AI Agent Automatically Codes With Tools — SWE-Agent Tutorial (“Devin Clone”) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 5, 2024

SWE-Agent is an open-source, fully autonomous coding agent that can solve GitHub issues. It scores almost as high as Devin in the coding benchmark. Here’s a full review and tutorial.

15.) There Was A Ton of AI News This Week! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 5, 2024

Here’s all the AI news you probably missed (there was a lot).

16.) YC’S Latest Demo Day Shows Fascinating Wagers On Healthcare, Chip Design, AI And More | TechCrunch.com | April 5, 2024

The second half of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort presented on Thursday, once again bringing dozens and dozens of new startups before a chunk of the venture investing community. As we did on Wednesday, a number of the TechCrunch crew watched the entire run of presentations, picking out a handful of favorites to highlight.

17.) Apple Reportedly Developing Robots That’ll Roam Your Home | CNet.com | April 5, 2024

After shelving its self-driving car project, the iPhone maker is eyeing bots as its ‘next big thing,’ according to Bloomberg.

18.) Our Approach To Labeling AI-Generated Content And Manipulated Media | About.Fb.com | April 5, 2024

We are making changes to the way we handle manipulated media based on feedback from the Oversight Board and our policy review process with public opinion surveys and expert consultations. We will begin labeling a wider range of video, audio and image content as ‘Made with AI’ when we detect industry standard AI image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content.

19.) This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories | Wired.com | April 5, 2024

Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language to help people understand what’s happening in a building, car, or human body.

20.) Here’s How to Remove Your Information From OpenAI’s Servers | CNet.com | April 5, 2024

Deleting your ChatGPT data isn’t as easy as you might think. But we’ve got you covered.

21.) ‘Compute is the New Oil’, Leaving Google, Founding Groq, Agents, Bias/Control (Jonathan Ross) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 4, 2024

Jonathan Ross, the inventor of the TPU at Google and founder/CEO of Groq, the company behind the LPU and the most insane inference speeds on the market, joins me for an in-depth interview on topics including the founding story, where the value will be created in AI, bias in models, and so much more.

22.) Anthropic Unveils Tool Use Capability For Claude 3, Enhancing AI Interactions | FutureTools.io | April 4, 2024

Anthropic announces tool use, or function calling, now in beta for all customers via the Anthropic Messages API. This capability allows Claude 3 models to interact with external tools, improving their ability to handle complex tasks. Tool use includes retrieving documents, accessing public APIs, and orchestrating Claude subagents for tasks like scheduling.

23.) The Circle’ Season 6 Cast Revealed, Including An A.I. Catfish | Ew.com | April 4, 2024

‘Entertainment Weekly’ has the exclusive first look at the brand new kind of catfish that will keep this #CircleFam on their toes.

24.) YouTube CEO: Using Platform’s Videos To Train AI Violates Terms Of Service | FutureTools.io | April 4, 2024

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has warned that using the platform’s videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, Sora, would violate YouTube’s terms of service. Mohan’s statement highlights the importance of protecting content creators’ rights and ensuring that their videos are not misused or exploited without proper authorization.

25.) Opera Becomes The First Major Browser With Built-In Access To Local AI Models | Press.Opera.com | April 4, 2024

Browser innovator Opera announced today that it’s adding experimental support for 150 local LLM (Large Language Model) variants from approximately 50 families of models to its Opera One browser in developer stream. This step marks the first time local LLMs can be easily accessed and managed from a major browser through a built-in feature. The local AI models are a complimentary addition to Opera’s online Aria AI service. Among the supported local LLMs are.

26.) Amazon’s Just Walk Out Actually Uses 1,000 People In India | BusinessInsider.com | April 4, 2024

Amazon has spent years promoting its AI-based checkout-free ‘Just Walk Out’ technology. But a new report suggests that most ‘Just Walk Out’ sales are reviewed by real people in India. Amazon is rolling back ‘Just Walk Out’ at Amazon Fresh stores, shifting instead to smart shopping carts.

27.) George Carlin’s Estate Settles Lawsuit Over Comedian’s AI Doppelganger | TheGuardian.com | April 4, 2024

Suit claimed Dudesy podcast violated Carlin’s copyright, calling it ‘a casual theft of a great American artist’s work.’

28.) Tech Giants Rally To Combat Ai-Driven Job Losses | TechTimes.Com | April 4, 2024

AI has already cost thousands of jobs since last year.

29.) Meet Storyblocks’ New AI Powered Search Engine | StoryBlocks.com | April 4, 2024

By incorporating OpenAI’s large language model into our on-site search engine, we’re able to show search results that go beyond your search queries.

30.) Waymo Vehicles Now Delivering Uber Eats In Phoenix | TelematicsWire.net | April 4, 2024

Uber and Waymo are revving up the future of food delivery in Phoenix. The companies announced the launch of autonomous Uber Eats deliveries via Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. This marks an expansion of their existing partnership, which already offers self-driving ride-hailing services in the Phoenix area.

31.) Introducing Improvements To The Fine-Tuning API And Expanding Our Custom Models Program | OpenAI.com | April 4, 2024

We’re adding new features to help developers have more control over fine-tuning and announcing new ways to build custom models with OpenAI.

32.) Build Entire Apps With A Single Prompt — Free Open-Source Devika Tutorial | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 3, 2024

Devika is the most popular open-source Devin clone, allowing you to use AI to build entire apps easily.

33.) Taiwan Quake Jolts Production of World’s Most Advanced Chips | Bloomberg.com | April 3, 2024

Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years disrupted production at the island’s semiconductor companies, with potential repercussions for the global technology industry. Taiwan plays a critical role in the manufacture of the advanced chips that power cutting-edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence and the latest smartphones and electric vehicles.

34.) Apple’s Realm AI Model Can ‘See’ And Understand Screen Context; ‘Substantially Outperformed’ GPT-4 | MSPowerUser.com | April 3, 2024

Apple’s ReALM understands what’s on your screen and responds to your requests accordingly. ReALM outperformed GPT-4 on various tasks despite having fewer parameters. ReALM excels at understanding user intent for domain-specific queries.

35.) Humane, Rabbit, Brilliant, Meta: The AI Gadgets Are Here | TheVerge.com | April 3, 2024

Humane, Rabbit, Brilliant, Meta, and countless other companies are just about to launch AI-first gadgets. AI hardware may not be as big as the smartphone, but it’s going to be big.

36.) Introducing Stable Audio 2.0 (With Longer Outputs And Audio-To-Audio) | Stability.ai | April 3, 2024

Stable Audio 2.0 sets a new standard in AI-generated audio, producing high-quality, full tracks with coherent musical structure up to three minutes in length at 44.1kHz stereo. The new model introduces audio-to-audio generation by allowing users to upload and transform samples using natural language prompts.

37.) Bhavish Aggarwal Teases Ola Solo, World’s First Self-Driven Electric Scooter | IndiaTimes.com | April 3, 2024

CEO Bhavish Aggarwal introduces Ola Solo, the first autonomous electric scooter. Packed with advanced AI technology, safety features, and a unique ‘Juice Up’ capability, the scooter aims to revolutionize ride-hailing and local commerce.

38.) Microsoft And Quantinuum’s Quantum Computer May Be Most Reliable Yet | NewScientist.com | April 3, 2024

A quantum computer built by Quantinuum uses “logical quantum bits” designed by Microsoft to run simple computational routines with an unprecedented level of reliability.

39.) OpenAI’s Stunning $100 Billion Supercomputer Project — ‘The Currency Of the Future’ | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 2, 2024

Project: Stargate aims to build a massive $100 billion supercomputer to power future OpenAI Models. Sam Altman believes compute will be the most important currency of the future.

40.) Why Does OpenAI Need a ‘Stargate’ Supercomputer? Ft. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas | AI Explained | YouTube.com | April 2, 2024

I will give you the 4 reasons OpenAI are asking Microsoft to build a $100 billion Stargate supercomputer, likely in a US desert. From matching Google, to artificial intelligences taking time to think, you’ll get a glimpse of what’s next over the coming years. Plus, I put it all to Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, and a former OpenAI researcher.

41.) Anthropic Researchers Wear Down AI Ethics With Repeated Questions | TechCrunch.com | April 2, 2024

How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions first.

42.) Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry And Other Musicians Sign Letter Against Irresponsible AI | TechCrunch.com | April 2, 2024

A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools.

43.) Now Apple Vision Pro Personas Can Float Freely Across Different Apps | TheVerge.com | April 2, 2024

With VisionOS 1.1, you can enable spatial Personas and collaborate through SharePlay-enabled apps.

44.) Yahoo Is Acquiring Artifact To Bring Its AI Features To Yahoo News | TheVerge.com | April 2, 2024

The Artifact app never quite caught on — but the AI tech underneath it is about to get a huge new audience.

45.) Is This AI? See If You Can Spot The Technology In Your Everyday Life | TheWashingtonPost.com | April 2, 2024

Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere. Fueled by huge technological advances in recent years and gobs of venture capitalist money, AI has become one of the hottest corporate buzzwords.

46.) Jon Stewart On The False Promises Of AI | The Daily Show | YouTube.Com | April 1, 2024

Publisher (Di Blasi): No matter how you feel about AI, or its future, this will make you laugh right now.
The Daily Show: Stewart tackles the AI revolution and how its creators are promising a better future while building technology to make human workers obsolete.

47.) I Tried The New Google. Its Answers Are Worse. | WashingtonPost.com | April 1, 2024

Google’s AI-‘Supercharged’ Search Generative Experience, or SGE, Sometimes Makes Up Facts, Misinterprets Questions And Picks Low-Quality Sources — Even After Nearly 11 Months Of Public Testing

48.) You Can Now Edit Images You Create With DALL·E | OpenAI.com | April 1, 2024

The DALL-E editor interface enables you to edit images by selecting an area of the image to edit and describing your changes in chat. You can also provide a prompt with your desired edit in the conversation panel, without using the selection tool. You can access the DALL-E editor interface by clicking on an image generated by DALL-E.

49.) A Conversation With OpenAI’s First Artist In Residence | Will Douglas Heaven | MITTechnologyReview.com | March 29, 2024

Alex Reben makes art with (and about) AI. I talked to him about what the new wave of generative models means for the future of human creativity.

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