AI-Weekly for Tuesday, April 30, 2024 – Volume 110

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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

A.) 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.

B.) 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.

C.) 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.

D.) 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.

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

AI-Weekly, a premier, human-curated, news aggregation service powered by Mind Vault Solutions Ltd., today announced that it has surpassed 16,000 weekly readers.

April 30, 2024

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April 29, 2024

5.) ChatGPT Has Rolled Out “Memory” For All ChatGPT Plus Users | OpenAI | X | April 29, 2024

Memory is now available to all ChatGPT Plus users. Using Memory is easy: just start a new chat and tell ChatGPT anything you’d like it to remember. Memory can be turned on or off in settings and is not currently available in Europe or Korea. Team, Enterprise, and GPTs to come.

6.) OpenAI Faces Complaint Over Fictional Outputs | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | April 29, 2024

European data protection advocacy group NOYB has filed a complaint against OpenAI over the company’s inability to correct inaccurate information generated by ChatGPT. The group alleges that OpenAI’s failure to ensure the accuracy of personal data processed by the service violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union.

7.) FT and OpenAI Ink Partnership Amid Web Scraping Criticism | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | April 29, 2024

The Financial Times and OpenAI have announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement that will integrate the newspaper’s journalism into ChatGPT and collaborate on developing new AI products for FT readers. However, just because OpenAI is cozying up to publishers doesn’t mean it’s not still scraping information from the web without permission.

8.) China Unveils Vidu: A Powerful Text-to-Video Generator | Maginative.com | April 29, 2024

China’s Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University have unveiled Vidu, a text-to-video model capable of generating 16-second clips at 1080p resolution with a single click. The announcement was made at the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, where they tried to position Vidu as a strong competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.

April 28, 2024

9.) ChatGPT Gets Smarter The More You Use It Now! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 28, 2024

ChatGPT rolled out a cool new memory feature.

10.) Massive Step Allowing AI Agents To Control Computers (MacOS, Windows, Linux) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 28, 2024

OS World gives agents the ability to fully control computers, including MacOS, Windows, and Linux. By giving agents a language to describe actions in a computer environment, OS World can benchmark agent performance like never before.

11.) Almost Timely News: Building a Synthetic Dataset with Generative AI | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | April 28, 2024

In this week’s issue, we’ll dive into the world of synthetic datasets! You’ll learn why you’d want to create them, how generative AI transforms your data, and the different use cases for this powerful technique. Whether you’re battling missing data, striving for privacy compliance, or yearning for better model performance, you’ll gain the knowledge to boost your analytics with synthetic data. Tune in to unlock the secrets of synthetic datasets!

12.) Github Copilot Workspace: Welcome To The Copilot-Native Developer Environment | GitHub.blog | April 28, 2024

We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace — where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software, all in natural language.

13.) Sam Altman’s OpenAI Reportedly In Partnership Talks With His Other Firm, Worldcoin | CoinTelegraph.com | April 28, 2024

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company co-founded and helmed by Sam Altman, is reportedly in partnership talks with Tools For Humanity’s Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency-based universal basic income and identity verification firm also co-founded by Sam Altman.

14.) Meta’s ‘Set It And Forget It’ AI Ad Tools Are Misfiring And Blowing Through Cash | TheVerge.Com | April 28, 2024

Advertisers report that costs per impressions on the automated ad platform Advantage Plus have skyrocketed and performance has dropped.

April 27, 2024

15.) Large Language Models (e.g., ChatGPT) As Research Assistants | Lemire.me | April 27, 2024

The primary skills of academics are language-related: synthesis, analogy, extrapolation, etc. Academics analyze the literature, identify gaps, and formulate research questions. They review and synthesize existing research. They write research papers, grant proposals, and reports. Being able to produce well-structured and grammatically correct prose is a vital skill for academics. Unsurprisingly, software and artificial intelligence can help academics, and maybe replace them in some cases.

16.) 3 Things We Learned From Professional Creatives About Their Hopes For AI | Google.com | April 27, 2024

Over the past 18 months, AI has augmented and inspired the work of many creative professionals. At the same time, many are concerned about the effects of this technology on their careers and work. Our Responsible AI User Experience (RAIUX) and Technology & Society teams have been tracking these concerns to make this emerging technology even more helpful and tailored to the needs of creatives.

April 26, 2024

17.) Grow With Google Launches New AI Essentials Course To Help Everyone Learn To Use AI | Google.com | April 26, 2024

Learn from experts at Google and get essential AI skills to boost your productivity with Google AI Essentials, zero experience required.

18.) AI News: They’re Putting AI into Everything? | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 26, 2024

Here’s the AI News you probably missed from this week.

19.) Rabbit R1 Honest Review — Another AI Pin? | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 26, 2024

This is my honest, not sponsored by Rabbit, review of the Rabbit R1 device.

20.) Rabbit R1 First Impressions: How I’ve Been Using the Handheld AI Assistant So Far | CNet.com | April 26, 2024

The Rabbit R1 can answer questions, play Spotify and record voice memos. But on my first day with it, the camera intrigued me the most.

21.) Maryland Teacher Arrested After Principal Allegedly Framed With AI-Generated Racist Rant | NBCNews.com | April 26, 2024

Dazhon Darien, a physical education teacher and the athletic director at Pikesville High School in Maryland, created a fake audio recording of the principal spewing hateful comments, authorities say.

22.) Apple’s OpenAI Talks Intensify As It Seeks To Add AI Features | Bloomberg.com | April 26, 2024

The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google. Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update.

23.) Biden Administration Taps Tech CEOs For AI Safety, Security Board | NBCNews.com | April 26, 2024

The board also includes executives from major corporations like Delta and government officials including the mayor of Seattle.

24.) AI-Powered Home Security System Strikes Back With Paintballs And Tear Gas | FoxNews.Com | April 26, 2024

New high-tech deterrence to keep intruders away.

25.) Drake has taken down his diss track featuring AI Tupac | TheVerge.com | April 26, 2024

Tupac’s lawyers’ threat of taking Drake to court over his ‘Taylor Made’ diss track seems to have led to the song being pulled.

26.) Google Announces New Investments In Data Centers And AI Upskilling | Google.com | April 26, 2024

We are announcing an investment in internet infrastructure in the U.S., as well as a $75 million AI Opportunity Fund and Google AI Essentials Course.

27.) TechCrunch Minute: Rabbit’s R1 vs Humane’s AI Pin — which had the best launch? | TechCrunch.com | April 26, 2024

After a successful unveiling at CES, Rabbit is letting journalists try out the R1 — a small orange gadget with an AI-powered voice interface. This comes just weeks after the launch of the Humane AI Pin, which is similarly pitched as a new kind of mobile device with AI at its center.

April 25, 2024

28.) How to Choose the Best AI ChatBot For You! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 25, 2024

Sharing a cool tool I’ve been playing with and talking about why it’s tough to compare LLMs.

29.) AI Pocket Assistant — New Rabbit R1 | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 25, 2024

Rabbit sent me the R1 device early so I could play around with it and figure out how it fits into my life.

30.) Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels | Wired.com | April 25, 2024

Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

31.) Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out. | QuantaMagazine.org | April 25, 2024

The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas.

32.) An AI Startup Made A Hyperrealistic Deepfake Of Me That’s So Good It’s Scary | TechnologyReview.com | April 25, 2024

I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the opposite. I am, in a way, about to live forever, thanks to the AI video startup Synthesia. For the past several years, the company has produced AI-generated avatars, but today it launches a new generation, its first to take advantage of the latest advancements in generative AI, and they are more realistic and expressive than anything I’ve ever seen. While today’s release means almost anyone will now be able to make a digital double, on this early April afternoon, before the technology goes public, they’ve agreed to make one of me.

33.) Meditron: An LLM Suite For Low-Resource Medical Settings Leveraging Meta Llama | AI.Meta.com | April 25, 2024

In medicine, access to the right information at the right time in the right place can determine everything — from deciding to take preventative measures to seeking care when needed, receiving a timely diagnosis, and taking medications as prescribed.

34.) Sanctuary’s New Humanoid Robot Learns Faster And Costs Less | TechCrunch.com | April 25, 2024

Sanctuary AI often isn’t mentioned in the same breath as humanoid robotics firms like Boston Dynamics, Agility, Figure and 1X, but the Canadian company has been operating in the space for some time. In fact, a new robot introduced on Thursday is actually the seventh-generation of its Phoenix line.

35.) Metro Installing AI-Powered Cameras On Buses To Issue Tickets To Illegally Parked Vehicles | ABC7.com | April 25, 2024

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is getting some help to issue parking tickets to vehicle owners parked in bus lanes. Artificial intelligence-powered cameras are being installed on Metro buses, according to the Los Angeles Times.

36.) OpenAI Customer Story: Moderna | OpenAI.com) | April 25, 2024

Moderna and OpenAI partner to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments.

37.) Watch It And Weep (Or Smile): Synthesia’s AI Video Avatars Now Feature Emotions | TechCrunch.Com | April 25, 2024

Generative AI has captured the public imagination with a leap into creating elaborate, plausibly real text and imagery out of verbal prompts. But the catch — and there is often a catch — is that the results are often far from perfect when you look a little closer.

38.) New Research On Generative AI And The Economy | Google.com | April 25, 2024

Today, we released a report from inaugural Technology & Society Visiting Fellow1 Andrew McAfee on the potential economic impacts of generative AI. This report is the product of McAfee’s original research on AI and the economy, working closely with experts across Google to focus on how the recent surge in generative AI may impact productivity, labor markets, and the skills workers need to succeed in an AI-powered economy.

39.) Google Thinks It Can Cash In on Generative AI. Microsoft Already Has | Wired.com | April 25, 2024

While both Alphabet and Microsoft boasted strong quarterly earnings, only one tech giant showed that its generative AI bet is starting to pay off.

April 24, 2024

40.) Phi-3 Beats Mixtral And Fits On Your Phone! | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | April 24, 2024

Microsoft just released Phi-3, a set of small models that uses the same training technique as Phi-2 to produce a tiny but highly performant model.

41.) Rabbit’s AI Assistant Is Here. And Soon a Camera Wearable Will Be Too | Wired.com | April 24, 2024

WIRED went along to the company’s launch event where customers picked up the very first R1s and learned of an inbound “all-seeing” accompanying AI device.

42.) Adobe’s Impressive AI Upscaling Project Makes Blurry Videos Look HD | TheVerge.com | April 24, 2024

VideoGigaGAN can improve video resolution by 8x without introducing flickering or other visual distortions.

43.) Tupac’s Estate May Sue Drake Over ‘Taylor Made’ AI-Generated Diss Track | TheVerge.Com | April 24, 2024

Tupac’s lawyers are threatening to sue Drake for using an AI-generated Tupac soundalike on his recent ‘Taylor Made’ diss track without permission.

44.) Eric Schmidt-Backed Augment, A Github Copilot Rival, Launches Out Of Stealth With $252M | TechCrunch.com | April 24, 2024

AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it.

45.) Rabbit R1 Hands-On: Early Tests With The $199 AI Gadget | TheVerge.com | April 24, 2024

What it does, the R1 seems to do well enough — with some typical AI quirks. But where are all the features we were promised?

46.) Snowflake Releases A Flagship Generative AI Model Of Its Own | TechCrunch.com | April 24, 2024

All-around, highly generalizable generative AI models were the name of the game once, and they arguably still are. But increasingly, as cloud vendors large and small join the generative AI fray, we’re seeing a new crop of models focused on the deepest-pocketed potential customers: the enterprise.

47.) Microsoft’s Mini AI Is Built To Run On Your Phone, And That’s A Key Difference | CNet.Com | April 24, 2024

The tech giant is building lightweight AI that’s more power-efficient and can run on PCs and phones.

April 23, 2024

48.) The Next Wave | YouTube.com | April 23, 2024

Are you ready for speech A.I.? Because it’s here, not in 6 months or a year, but now. AI-generated voice technologies will have a major impact on many things in our daily lives. This technology will effect everything spanning applications in language learning, music creation, emotional AI interfaces, and the evolving landscape of personal digital interactions. These tools out there now that you can communicate with directly by voice, and there are things you need to be ready for. Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands dive deep into both the incredible potential and the inherent risks of this groundbreaking tech and how you can take advantage of it.

49.) The Robots Are Coming (What the Future Holds) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | April 23, 2024

Let’s talk about robots!

50.) New Reka Core SOTA Model Does Text, Audio, Video, And More | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | | April 23, 2024

Reka AI just released 3 multimodal models that can handle text, audio, video, and other file formats. It’s a state-of-the-art LLM, and we’re going to test it out!

51.) AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | QuantaMagazine.com | April 23, 2024

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

52.) A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI | Wired.com | April 23, 2024

Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.

53.) Apple Cuts 2024 & 2025 Vision Pro Shipment Forecasts | Medium.com | April 23, 2024

Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400—450k units (vs. market consensus of 700—800k units or more).

54.) Microsoft Launches Phi-3, Its Smallest AI Model Yet | TheVerge.com | April 23, 2024

Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other LLMs.

55.) Adobe’s New Firefly Model Makes It Easier To Use PhotoShop’s AI Tools | TheVerge.Com | April 23, 2024

New generative AI tools for creating backgrounds, enhancing detail, and using reference images are now available in the Photoshop desktop beta.

56.) Mustafa Suleyman: AI Is Turning Into Something Totally New | Ted Talk | Ted.com | April 23, 2024

When it comes to artificial intelligence, what are we actually creating? Even those closest to its development are struggling to describe exactly where things are headed, says Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, one of the primary architects of the AI models many of us use today. He offers an honest and compelling new vision for the future of AI, proposing an unignorable metaphor — a new digital species — to focus attention on this extraordinary moment.

57.) Introducing More Enterprise-Grade Features For Api Customers | OpenAI.com | April 23, 2024

Increasing enterprise support with more security features and controls, updates to our Assistants API, and tools to better manage costs.

58.) OpenAI’s Commitment To Child Safety: Adopting Safety By Design Principles | OpenAI.com | April 23, 2024

We’re joining Thorn, All Tech Is Human, and other leading companies in an effort to prevent the misuse of generative AI to perpetrate, proliferate, and further sexual harms against children.

59.) New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Styles and Meta AI Updates | About.FB.com | April 23, 2024

We’re expanding the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses collection with new styles. We’re adding video calling with WhatsApp and Messenger to share your view on a video call. We’re rolling out Meta AI with Vision, so you can ask your glasses about what you’re seeing and get helpful information — completely hands-free.

60.) Introducing the Open Chain of Thought Leaderboard | HuggingFace.co | April 23, 2024

Chain-of-thought prompting is emerging as a powerful and effective design pattern for LLM-based apps and agents. The basic idea of chain-of-thought prompting is to let a model generate a step-by-step solution (“reasoning trace”) before answering a question or taking a decision. With the Open CoT Leaderboard we’re tracking LLMs’ ability to generate effective chain-of-thought traces for challenging reasoning tasks.

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