AI-Weekly for Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - Volume 109

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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

A.) 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.

B.) 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.

C.) 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!

D.) 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.

E.) 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.

April 23, 2024

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April 22, 2024

6.) AI-Weekly Surpasses 16,000 Weekly Readers | EINPresswire.com | April 22, 2024

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7.) Writing Prompts Is Not Prompt Engineering. Here’s How To Use Both For Superior Results. | Aaron Di Blasi | AI-Weekly.ai | April 22, 2024

Do you write your own prompts? Or do you engineer them? Because I am here today to explain, in great detail, why one is not the other. I know many people who still think that they are, so I am here to dispel that notion and differentiate, clearly, the difference between “writing” a prompt and “engineering” a prompt, and discuss the proper application of each.

8.) New Free Course: Getting Started with Mistral | Andrew Ng | DeepLearning.ai | April 22, 2024

In this course, you’ll access Mistral AI’s collection of open source and commercial models, including the Mixtral 8x7B model, via API calls. You’ll learn about selecting the right model for your use case, and get hands-on with features like effective prompting techniques, function calling, JSON mode, and RAG. This beginner-friendly course is perfect for recommending to your friends and colleagues who want to leverage large language models in a clear and approachable way. If you have taken ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers or Prompt Engineering with Llama 2, this course is a great next step.

9.) Climate Tech Startups Integrate NVIDIA AI for Sustainability Applications | Nvidia.com | April 22, 2024

Sustainable Futures initiative supports startups building accelerated computing applications for climate, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and more.

10.) Microsoft To Forge AI Partnerships With South Korean Tech Leaders | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | April 22, 2024

Microsoft is set to host top executives from South Korea’s leading technology firms next month to strengthen its AI partnerships.

11.) 12 Insane Predictions That Will Change The World (Vinod Khosla) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 22, 2024

Vinod Khosla makes 12 predictions, all of which have the power to change humanity. Let’s review what he predicts.

12.) Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta | About.FB.com | April 22, 2024

We’re opening up the operating system that powers our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers. We’re working with leading technology companies to create a new ecosystem of mixed reality devices, and we’re making it even easier for developers to build mixed reality apps that reach a wide audience. This more open ecosystem will help bring the power of mixed reality to more people and businesses around the world.

13.) Jack Of All Trades, Master Of Some, A Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent | HuggingFace.co | April 22, 2024

We’re excited to share Jack of All Trades (JAT), a project that aims to move in the direction of a generalist agent. The project started as an open reproduction of the Gato (Reed et al., 2022) work, which proposed to train a Transformer able to perform both vision-and-language and decision-making tasks. We thus started by building an open version of Gato’s dataset. We then trained multi-modal Transformer models on it, introducing several improvements over Gato for handling sequential data and continuous values.

14.) Report: Apple Acquires French Startup Behind AI And Computer Vision Technology | 9to5Mac.com | April 22, 2024

Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab, a Paris, France-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. According to French business magazine Challenges, the acquisition was finalized in December.

15.) Microsoft Hires Former Meta Exec To Bolster Ai Supercomputing Team | TheVerge.com | April 22, 2024

Former Meta executive Jason Taylor is joining Microsoft’s AI supercomputing team. In a LinkedIn post on Monday, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says Taylor will take on the role of corporate vice president and deputy CTO to help “build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.”

April 21, 2024

16.) LLaMA 3 “Hyper Speed” is INSANE! (Best Version Yet) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 21, 2024

What happens when you power LLaMA with the fastest inference speeds on the market? Let’s test it and find out!

17.) The Future Of AI Gadgets Is Just Phones | TheVerge.com | April 21, 2024

Inside my illuminating and incredibly dumb quest to create an AI wearable from phones I had lying about.

April 20, 2024

18.) Almost Timely News: Does Prompt Engineering Still Matter? | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | April 20, 2024

In this week’s issue, I tackle the lingering question: does prompt engineering still matter in the age of generative AI? You’ll learn why the answer isn’t so straightforward, and why prompt engineering remains important for certain critical use cases. I’ll also introduce the PARE framework to help you become a skilled prompt engineer. Tune in to discover how you’ll benefit from mastering the art of crafting effective prompts.

April 19, 2024

19.) LDG Tech Advisors Publish Guide to the AI Industry | LDGTechAdvisors.com | April 19, 2024

LDG Tech Advisors announces the publication of “Gasman’s Guide to the Artificial Intelligence Industry”. This Guide is aimed at IT executives, product and marketing managers, investors, entrepreneurs, and others who need to understand the current structure of the AI industry.

20.) LLaMA 3 Tested!! Yes, It’s Really That Great | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 19, 2024

Full Test of LLaMA 3, including new math tests.

21.) A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings | Wired.com | April 19, 2024

An AI-powered wearable from startup Limitless promises to make meetings more productive. It’s the beginning of a wider transformation of human interactions.

22.) AI News: The Best Open Source Model Ever | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 19, 2024

Here’s all the AI News you might have missed (there’s a lot this week).

23.) Blockade Labs Improves Quality For AI-Generated 3D Art For 360-Degree Apps | VentureBeat.Com | April 19, 2024

Blockade Labs is releasing an update for its Skybox AI as the premier 360-degree AI seamless environment art creation platform. And now the quality is much better than before, with the ability to create and download in 8K visual quality.

24.) How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You | Wired.com | April 19, 2024

ChatGPT’s conversation tools are fantastic — when the chatbot isn’t constantly talking over you. Try these tips for a better AI audio experience.

25.) To Build A Better AI Helper, Start By Modeling The Irrational Behavior Of Humans | News.Mit.Edu | April 19, 2024

A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals.

26.) The Ethics Of Advanced AI Assistants | DeepMind.Google | April 19, 2024

Imagine a future where we interact regularly with a range of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — and where millions of assistants interact with each other on our behalf. These experiences and interactions may soon become part of our everyday reality.

27.) AI Now Surpasses Humans In Almost All Performance Benchmarks | NewAtlas.com | April 19, 2024

Stand back and take a look at the last two years of AI progress as a whole… AI is catching up with humans so quickly, in so many areas, that frankly, we need new tests.

28.) Real-Time Object Detection Has Gotten Better with AI: Here’s How to Use It | TechBullion.com | April 19, 2024

Object detection is a fundamental task computer vision technique crucial for identifying and pinpointing objects within images or video frames. It goes beyond simple image classification by not only recognizing objects but also determining their precise locations through bounding boxes.

April 18, 2024

29.) ‘Her’ AI, Almost Here? Llama 3, Vasa-1, and Altman ‘Plugging Into Everything You Want To Do’ | AI Explained | YouTube.com | April 18, 2024

Llama 3, Vasa-1, and a host of new interviews and updates, AI news comes a bit like London buses. I’ll spend a couple minutes covering the last-minute Llama drop before turning to the arguably more interesting development in the world of deepfakes. How you speak to an AI is — sooner than you think — going to change, probably forever…

30.) Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3 | Wired.com | April 18, 2024

The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works.

31.) Building For Our AI Future | Sundar Pichai | Google.com | April 18, 2024

Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared a number of structural changes to improve velocity and execution across the company.

32.) Stability AI to Announce Layoffs, Major Restructuring Weeks After Audio Generation Tool Launch | TechTimes.com | April 18, 2024

Just weeks after launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of generating audio from a text prompt, Stability AI is now planning a major restructuring alongside layoffs.

33.) Hugging Face Releases A Benchmark For Testing Generative AI On Health Tasks | TechCrunch.com | April 18, 2024

Generative AI models are increasingly being brought to healthcare settings — in some cases prematurely, perhaps. Early adopters believe that they’ll unlock increased efficiency while revealing insights that’d otherwise be missed. Critics, meanwhile, point out that these models have flaws and biases that could contribute to worse health outcomes.

34.) Breaking: LLaMA 3 Is Here and Smashes Benchmarks (Open-Source) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 18, 2024

Meta finally dropped LLaMA 3, and it’s a banger! Let’s review the announcement and see why this changes the face of AI.

35.) ChatGPT Is A Squeeze Away With Nothing’s Upgraded Earbuds | TechCrunch.com | April 18, 2024

Nothing today announced a pair of refreshes to its earbud line. The naming conventions are a touch convoluted here, but the Nothing Ear is an update to the Nothing Ear (2), while the Nothing Ear (a) is more of a spiritual successor to the Nothing Ear Stick.

36.) Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available | Stability.ai | April 18, 2024

Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo are now available on the Stability AI Developer Platform API. We have partnered with Fireworks AI, the fastest and most reliable API platform in the market, to deliver Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo. In keeping with our commitment to open generative AI, we aim to make the model weights available for self-hosting with a Stability AI Membership in the near future.

37.) Meta Adds Its AI Chatbot, Powered By Llama 3, To The Search Bar Across Its Apps | TechCrunch.com | April 18, 2024

Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest large language model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp) across multiple countries. Alongside this, the company launched other new features, such as faster image generation and access to web search results.

38.) US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight | TheVerge.Com | April 18, 2024

The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year.

39.) Wide Open: Nvidia Accelerates Inference On Meta Llama 3 | Blogs.Nvidia.com | April 18, 2024

The latest open large language model from Meta — built with NVIDIA technology — is optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs from the cloud and data center to the edge and the PC.

40.) Meet Your New Assistant: Meta AI, Built With Llama 3 | About.FB.com | April 18, 2024

Thanks to our latest advances with Meta Llama 3, we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant you can use for free — and it’s available in more countries across our apps to help you plan dinner based on what’s in your fridge, study for your test and so much more.

41.) Introducing Meta Llama 3: The Most Capable Openly Available LLM To Date | Ai.Meta.com | April 18, 2024

Today, we’re introducing Meta Llama 3, the next generation of our state-of-the-art open source large language model.

April 17, 2024

42.) You Can Now Converse And Collaborate With Multiple Chatbots At Once, Thanks To Poe | MSPowerUser.com | April 17, 2024

Poe’s multi-bot chat offers context-aware recommendations for comparing AI model responses. Users can @-mention specific bots in a conversation for seamless integration based on expertise. The feature facilitates comparative analysis of image-generation models’ outputs for optimal image selection.

43.) Boston Dynamics New Humanoid Robot Shocks The Entire Industry! (Atlas 2.0) | Matthew Berman | April 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics dropped a stunning video of their new, fully electric humanoid robot Atlas. It is like nothing I’ve seen previously.

44.) Hala Point: Intel Reveals World’s Biggest ‘Brain-Inspired’ Neuromorphic Computer | NewScientist.com | April 17, 2024

A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve the efficiency and capabilities of artificial intelligence models.

45.) An Update On Amazon’s Plans For Just Walk Out And Checkout-Free Technology | AboutAmazon.com | April 17, 2024

While a lot has changed in the 10 years since we started the journey to reimagine the physical shopping experience, one thing has remained constant: Shoppers still don’t like waiting in lines. That was the notion that originally led us to use computer vision, sensor fusion, and generative AI to invent checkout-free technologies like Just Walk Out, Amazon Dash Cart, and Amazon One (our palm recognition service for entry, identification, and payment).

46.) Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Humanoid Robot Goes Electric | TechCrunch.com | April 17, 2024

A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics’ CEO discusses the company’s commercial humanoid ambitions.

47.) Google Will Provide AI To The National Guard For Disaster Response | WashingtonPost.com | April 17, 2024

The National Guard will soon use the tech giant’s image-recognition AI to scan images of disaster zones and help prioritize its response.

48.) Google Will Pump More Than $100B Into AI Says Deepmind Boss | TheRegister.com | April 17, 2024

Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

49.) Logitech Announces AI Prompt Builder Software With Matching Mouse | VentureBeat.com | April 17, 2024

Logitech announced today that it’s launching a new tool called Logi AI Prompt Builder, which incorporates ChatGPT into the Logi Options+ app. This allows users to more readily access ChatGPT’s AI functions as part of their workflow. In addition, Logitech is launching a new mouse: The Signature AI Edition Mouse, which has its own AI prompt button.

50.) Microsoft Announces New Industrial AI Innovations From The Cloud To The Factory Floor | Blogs.Microsoft.com | April 17, 2024

After years of uncertainty from supply chain disruption and increased customer expectations, to changes in consumer demand and workforce shortages, manufacturing remains one of the most resilient and complex industries. Today, we are witnessing the manufacturing industry enter a transformative era, fueled by AI and new AI-powered industrial solutions.

51.) New Grok1.5 Vision — Big Step Towards AGI (Better Than GPT4 Vision!) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 17, 2024

Grok 1.5 with Vision was just announced and will be released soon. Let’s take a look at the announcement and the truly incredible examples.

April 16, 2024

52.) Pendant AI: The $99 AI Assistant (What AI Pin SHould Have Been) | Matthew Berman | April 16, 2024

Limitless, the same company behind Rewind.AI, just announced a $99 AI device called Pendant. Let’s look at what it can do!

53.) iOS 18 To Include Limited On-Device AI Features | AppleInsider.com | April 16, 2024

Apple’s AI push in iOS 18 is rumored to focus on privacy with processing done directly on the iPhone, that won’t connect to cloud services.

54.) 5 Highlights From Google Cloud Next 2024 | Google.com | April 16, 2024

Last week, we wrapped up Google Cloud Next ’24. Tens of thousands of attendees joined us in Las Vegas to experience the latest technologies and features that are helping organizations around the world accelerate their business transformation — and more than 300 customers and partners shared their gen AI successes.

55.) Amazon Music Follows Spotify With An AI Playlist Generator Of Its Own, Maestro | TechCrunch.com | April 16, 2024

Spotify isn’t the only company to dabble with using AI to generate playlists — on Tuesday, Amazon said it would do the same. Amazon Music is now testing Maestro, an AI playlist generator, allowing U.S. customers on both iOS and Android to create playlists using spoken or written prompts — which can even contain emojis.

56.) Adobe Explores OpenAI Partnership As It Adds AI Video Tools | Reuters.com | April 16, 2024

Adobe is in the early stages of allowing third-party generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI’s Sora and others inside its widely used video editing software, the U.S. software maker said on Monday.

April 15, 2024

57.) Humane AI Pin is Worst Gadget MKBHD Has Ever Reviewed | MKBHD | YouTube | April 15, 2024

The Humane AI pin is… bad. Almost no one should buy it. Yet.

58.) This AI Meme Went Viral (Here’s How It Was Made) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 15, 2024

This AI Meme has been going viral. You can swap anyone into any video with Viggle.

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