AI-Weekly for Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – Volume 108

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence
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News

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

A.) 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.

B.) 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.

C.) 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.

D.) 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.

E.) 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!

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4.) Multi-bot Chat is Now Available on Poe | Quora.com | April 15, 2024

Today we are adding an important new capability to Poe: multi-bot chat. This feature lets you easily chat with multiple models in a single thread.

5.) The Right Way To Build AI Agents With CrewAI (Bonus: 100% Local) | Matthew Berman | April 15, 2024

This is the “golden path” for building AI Agents using CrewAI. If you follow this template, you’ll be set up to use all upcoming features with CrewAI, such as an automatically created API for your agents.

6.) Adobe Previews AI Object Addition And Removal For Premiere Pro | Engadget.com | April 15, 2024

It also introduced generative extend, text to video, redesigned timeline waveforms and more.

7.) Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 19 Arrives With AI-Powered Motion Tracking And Color Grading | Engadget.com | April 12, 2024

Blackmagic Design released its annual NAB 2024 update and announced over a dozen new products, including a new version of its popular DaVinci Resolve editing suite. Other key products include the Micro Color Panel for DaVinci Resolve on iPad, a 17K 65mm camera and the Pyxis 6K cube camera.

8.) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model For The Community | HuggingFace.co | April 12 2024

We are excited to release Idefics2, a general multimodal model that takes as input arbitrary sequences of texts and images, and generates text responses. It can answer questions about images, describe visual content, create stories grounded in multiple images, extract information from documents, and perform basic arithmetic operations.

9.) Introducing OpenAI Japan | OpenAI.com | April 12, 2024

We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language.

10.) Almost Timely News: Generative AI Needs Better Data, Not Bigger Data | Chris Penn | YouTube.com | April 13, 2024

In today’s episode, I discuss the quality of your AI data. You’ll learn that better data translates to better results, regardless of your model size. You’ll gain insights on how to focus on your best customers instead of every customer to maximize the effectiveness of your AI strategy. Finally, you’ll benefit by learning how prioritizing the knowledge of your employees and customers provides the richest AI data for optimal results.

11.) New Mixtral 8x22b Tested — Mistral’s New Flagship MoE Open-Source Model | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 13, 2024

Mistral AI just launched Mixtral 8×22, a massive MoE open-source model that is topping benchmarks. Let’s test it!

12.) AI News: The AI Arms Race is Getting Insane! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 12, 2024

Here’s all the AI news you probably missed.

13.) Google Releases AI Agent Builder! Worth The Wait? | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 12, 2024

Google announced Google Agent Builder through its Vertex AI product. Let’s examine it and other announcements from Google Cloud Next.

14.) Incredible New AI Use Cases Available Right Now | The AI Advantage | YouTube.com | April 12, 2024

Today we’ll take a look at all the top releases and updates from this week in the world of AI. New top-tier open source models, a free music generator that will make your jaw drop, and more!

15.) Grok-1.5 Vision Preview | X.ai | April 12, 2024

Introducing Grok-1.5V, our first-generation multimodal model. In addition to its strong text capabilities, Grok can now process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok-1.5V will be available soon to our early testers and existing Grok users.

16.) SAG-AFTRA Union Secures AI Protections For Artists In Deal With Major Record Labels | Reuters.com | April 12, 2024

Hollywood performers and media professionals have reached a tentative deal with major record labels such as Warner Music Group, opens new tab and Sony Music Entertainment, opens new tab that includes increases in minimum salaries and protections against the use of AI.

17.) Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram | TechCrunch.com | April 12, 2024

Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp, the company is also experimenting with putting Meta AI in the Instagram search bar for both chat with AI and content discovery.

18.) Forbes 2024 AI 50 List — Top Artificial Intelligence Startups | Forbes.com | April 12, 2024

By spring of 2023, the massive popularity of apps like ChatGPT had prompted a mass scramble among businesses trying to implement the latest advances in generative artificial intelligence. One year later, the craze continues. In turn, a new tech economy has emerged to help businesses develop and deploy AI-powered apps. That’s reflected by the makeup of Forbes’ sixth annual AI 50, produced in partnership with Sequoia and Meritech Capital, which recognizes the most promising privately-held artificial intelligence companies.

19.) Freepik redefines AI image generation with unrivaled realism in real-time | MarTechSeries.com | April 12, 2024

Freepik redefines AI image generation with unrivaled realism in real-time.

20.) Udio, the Mysterious GPT Update, and Infinite Attention | AI Explained | YouTube.com | April 11, 2024

It’s been a strange 48 hours in the world of AI, with the ‘ChatGPT moment for Music’ from Udio, that has reminded millions of what AI is capable of, and papers from Google that show that models can give infinite attention to text but we also got befuddling updates from OpenAI that suggest that not all is smooth sailing.

21.) Google Makes HUGE AI Announcements at Cloud Next (Supercut) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 11, 2024

Looks like Google isn’t dead yet, far from it. They dropped a bunch of new announcements at Google Cloud Next. Here’s a supercut of the event.

22.) Adobe purchases videos at $3 per minute to drive AI | NairaMetrics.com | April 11, 2024

Adobe Inc. is investing $3 per minute in video content to fortify its artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video generator. This move is aimed at narrowing the competition by OpenAI’s Sora.

23.) Is Robotics About To Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment? | TechnologyReview.com | April 11, 2024

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes.

24.) Dyson’s AR App Shows You Where You’ve Vacuumed | TheVerge.com | April 11, 2024

It only works on a $1,000 stick vacuum and requires an iPhone Pro and a clamp that’s sold separately.

25.) Intel Unveils Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, Says It Beats Nvidia’s H100 | GSMArena.com | April 11, 2024

Intel kicked off its Vision 2024 conference with the unveiling of the Gaudi 3 AI processing chip. Gaudi 3 is designed to accelerate AI workloads at an enterprise level, and Intel reckons it’s faster than the current industry benchmark — Nvidia’s H100 GPU.

26.) Review: Humane AI Pin | Wired.com | April 11, 2024

This wearable, touch-activated “second brain” is too bare-bones and not all that useful.

27.) Google Will Open Its Magic Editor AI Photo Tools to Everyone for Free, With a Catch | CNet.com | April 11, 2024

Ahead of its Google I/O developer conference, the internet giant announces a bunch of free AI upgrades to its Google Photos.

28.) Meta’s AI chief: LLMs Will Never Reach Human-Level Intelligence | TheNextWeb.com | April 11, 2024

Sorry, Elon — AGI won’t arrive next year.

29.) Humane AI Pin Review: The Post-Smartphone Future Isn’t Here Yet | TheVerge.com | April 11, 2024

For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work.

30.) Google And Intel Challenge Nvidia On AI Chips. It Won’t Be Easy. | QZ.com | April 11, 2024

The AI chip maker faces growing competition, even from its biggest customers. But don’t expect it to lose its shine anytime soon.

31.) Humane’s $699 AI Pin Is Now Available | TechCrunch.com | April 11, 2024

Humane today announced the availability of its first product, the AI Pin. The Bay Area-based hardware startup has been kicking around since 2017, a year after co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri left Apple. Since then, the company has been well-funded, to the tune of $230 million, and focused on building stand-alone AI devices.

32.) How Perplexity.ai Is Disrupting The Future Of Search | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | April 10, 2024

Is our search functionality changing? How will AI change how we find information? Who will usher in the next wave of the online search experience?

33.) Generative AI Can Turn Your Most Precious Memories Into Photos That Never Existed | TechnologyReview.com | April 10, 2024

The Synthetic Memories project is helping families around the world reclaim a past that was never caught on camera.

34.) Card Game Developer Paid An ‘AI Artist’ $90,000 To Generate Card Art | PCGamer.com | April 10, 2024

“For us to get this with a team of traditional artists it would cost us a lot more money, and time,” the developer told us.

35.) Former Google Deepmind Researchers Launch Udio, A New AI-Powered Music App | PRNewswire.com | April 10, 2024

Backed by a16z, with participation from angel investors like will.i.am, Common, Kevin Wall, Tay Keith, Steve Stoute’s UnitedMasters, Mike Krieger (Cofounder & CTO of Instagram) and Oriol Vinyals (head of Gemini at Google), Udio enables everyone from classically trained musicians, to those with pop star ambitions, to hip hop fans, to people who just want to have fun with their friends to create awe-inspiring songs in mere moments.

36.) Mistral Releases New Mixtral 8x22b Model Via Torrent on X | Mistral | X | April 10, 2024

Torrent here.

37.) Gemma Family Expands with Models Tailored for Developers and Researchers | Google.com | April 10, 2024

Today, we’re excited to announce our first round of additions to the Gemma family, expanding the possibilities for ML developers to innovate responsibly: CodeGemma for code completion and generation tasks as well as instruction following, and RecurrentGemma, an efficiency-optimized architecture for research experimentation. Plus, we’re sharing some updates to Gemma and our terms aimed at improvements based on invaluable feedback we’ve heard from the community and our partners.

38.) Our Next Generation Meta Training And Inference Accelerator | AI.Meta.com | April 10, 2024

We’re sharing details about the next generation of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), our family of custom-made chips designed for Meta’s AI workloads.
This latest version shows significant performance improvements over MTIA v1 and helps power our ranking and recommendation ads models.
MTIA is part of our growing investment in our AI infrastructure and will complement our existing and future AI infrastructure to deliver new and better experiences across our products and services.

39.) Meet Your New Chief AI Officer: Introducing The Next Wave from the HubSpot Media Network | HubSpot.com | April 10, 2024

In episode one of the new podcast and YouTube channel, co-hosts Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands explore open source vs. closed source, the evolution of search, and what AI means for content creators.

40.) The Next Wave: Your Chief AI Officer, Hosted by Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | April 9, 2024

Get ready for the Next Wave: A.I. and the Future of Technology. Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands bring you the latest insights and trends in A.I. Think of them as your Chief A.I. Officer, guiding you with simple, easy to understand strategies to implement A.I. into your business and life.

41.) AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot But So far Devin AI And Others Still Really Need Humans | Spectrum-IEEE.org | April 9, 2024

A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged — and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine.

42.) OpenAI Prepares To Fight For Its Life As Legal Troubles Mount | WashingtonPost.com | April 9, 2024

The company has hired more than two dozen in-house lawyers and adopted a new Washington playbook.

43.) OpenAI Releases “Majorly Improved” GPT-4 Turbo Model | OpenAI | X | April 9, 2024

Majorly improved GPT-4 Turbo model available now in the API and rolling out in ChatGPT.

44.) New Bill Would Force AI Companies To Reveal Use Of Copyrighted Art | TheGuardian.com | April 9, 2024

Adam Schiff introduces bill amid growing legal battle over whether major AI companies have made illegal use of copyrighted works.

45.) Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding and More | Google.com | April 9, 2024

Today, we’re making Gemini 1.5 Pro available in 180+ countries via the Gemini API in public preview, with a first-ever native audio (speech) understanding capability and a new File API to make it easy to handle files. We’re also launching new features like system instructions and JSON mode to give developers more control over the model’s output. Lastly, we’re releasing our next generation text embedding model that outperforms comparable models. Go to Google AI Studio to create or access your API key, and start building.

46.) Meta Confirms That Its Llama 3 Open Source LLM Is Coming In The Next Month | TechCrunch.com | April 9, 2024

At an event in London on Tuesday, Meta confirmed that it plans an initial release of Llama 3 — the next generation of its large language model used to power generative AI assistants — within the next month.

47.) Apple Vision Pro Brings A New Era Of Spatial Computing To Business | Apple.com | April 9, 2024

Incredible new enterprise experiences leverage spatial computing to customize workspaces, collaborate on 3D designs, deliver specialized employee training, and guide remote fieldwork in entirely new ways.

48.) Google Cloud Next 2024: Gemini and generative AI updates | Google.com | April 9, 2024

This week at Cloud Next, we’re sharing more ways we’re bringing our decades of innovation and research in AI to organizations around the world.

49.) Gemini For Google Cloud Is Here | Google.com | April 9, 2024

We are excited to share with you that Gemini for Google Cloud is here. Generative AI’s capabilities have grown tremendously over the last year, and we have infused it throughout our product portfolio.

50.) CodeGemma — An Official Google Release For Code LLMs | HuggingFace.co | April 9, 2024

CodeGemma is a family of open-access versions of Gemma specialized in code, and we’re excited to collaborate with Google on its release to make it as accessible as possible.

51.) Introducing Stable LM 2 12B | Stability.ai | April 8, 2024

Introducing the latest additions to our Stable LM 2 language model series: a 12 billion parameter base model and an instruction-tuned variant, trained on 2 trillion tokens in seven languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Dutch.

52.) OpenAI Transcribed Over A Million Hours Of YouTube Videos To Train GPT-4 | TheVerge.com | April 8, 2024

A New York Times report details the ways big players in AI have tried to expand their data access.

53.) Prime Minister of Canada on Securing Canada’s AI advantage | PM.GC.CA | April 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has incredible potential to transform the economy, improve the way we work, and enhance our way of life. The global race to scale up and adopt AI is on, and Canada is at the forefront of this technology. To make sure we can seize every opportunity in the economy of the future, and set every generation up for success, we need to scale up our innovation ambitions. And do it in a way that brings everyone along. For Millennials and Gen Z, who feel their hard work isn’t paying off like it did for previous generations, we must invest in good-paying opportunities that help them get ahead. That’s why we’re focused on creating more good jobs, including in innovation and technology, which are among the highest paying of all industries.

54.) Elon Musk Predicts AI Will Be Smarter Than The Smartest Human Next Year | Reuters.com | April 8, 2024

CEO Elon Musk on Monday predicted development of artificial intelligence that was smarter than the smartest human probably by next year, or by 2026.

55.) Spotify Premium Users Can Now Turn Any Idea Into a Personalized Playlist With AI Playlist in Beta | Newsroom.Spotify.com | April 8, 2024

We know that discovery happens on Spotify, with nearly two billion discoveries happening on our platform every day. Features like our AI DJ and daylist power those discoveries and bring fans closer to the artists they love. Now we’re providing our Spotify Premium subscribers with another tool to fuel discovery and music curation. With AI Playlist in beta, you can effortlessly turn your most creative ideas into playlists.

56.) AI Is Now Analyzing Your Garbage to Reduce Food Waste | BusinessInsider.com | April 8, 2024

Restaurants and grocery stores are using AI to cut down on food waste. A staggering 30% to 40% of food grown in the US goes uneaten and trashed. To combat that, companies are training AI to analyze food waste, inventory, and purchases.

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