AI-Weekly for Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – Issue 112

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

A.) 7 Fascinating AI Tools You’ve Never Seen Before (Underground AI #4) | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | May 6, 2024

Here are 7 AI tools you’ve probably never heard of as well as alternatives out there that are available for free.

B.) YouTube Premium Members Can Now Test AI ‘Jump Ahead’ | 9to5Google.com | May 6, 2024

Back in March YouTube started testing “Jump Ahead” and is now making it more widely available for Premium subscribers.

C.) New Microsoft AI Model May Challenge GPT-4 And Google Gemini | ArsTechnica.com | May 6, 2024

In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters.

D.) Hugging Face Launches Lerobot Open Source Robotics Code Library | VentureBeat.com | May 6, 2024

Earlier this year, in March 2024, the AI developer-focused startup Hugging Face — known for maintaining the largest online repository of open source AI models and code — made waves by poaching Remi Cadene, a former staff scientist at Tesla, Inc., to lead a new open source robotics project.

E.) NVIDIA and Alphabet’s Intrinsic Put Next-Gen Robotics Within Grasp | Nvidia.com | May 6, 2024

Companies unveil collaboration around use of NVIDIA AI, Isaac Manipulator and the Intrinsic platform at Automate in Chicago.

May 14, 2024

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May 13, 2024

6.) OpenAI Spring Update | YouTube.com | May 13, 2024

Introducing GPT-4o, updates to ChatGPT, and more.

7.) OpenAI Launches GPT-4o and Desktop ChatGPT — Full Video With Summary of Everything They Announced | AI-Weekly | May 13, 2024

On Monday, May 13, 2024, Mira Murati and her team at OpenAI introduced the latest flagship AI model, GPT-4o, along with a new desktop version of ChatGPT. Below are the key points covered in the presentation.

8.) OpenAI Launches GPT-4o and More Features for ChatGPT | CNet.com | May 13, 2024

ChatGPT is getting more conversational.

9.) OpenAI’s Big Event: CTO Mira Murati Announces GPT-4o, Which Gives ChatGPT A Better Voice And Eyes | BusinessInsider.com | May 13, 2024

Cofounder and CEO Sam Altman had teased “new stuff” coming to ChatGPT and GPT-4, the AI model that powers its chatbot, and told his followers to tune in Monday at 1 p.m. ET for its “Spring Update” to learn more.

10.) Apple Wrapping Up OpenAI Deal to Bring ChatGPT Features to iOS 18 | MacRumors.com | May 13, 2024

Apple has closed in on a deal with OpenAI that should see ChatGPT being used to power new features in its next iPhone operating system, according to Bloomberg.

May 12, 2024

11.) Anthropic Releases Metaprompt: A Powerful Prompt Engineering Tool | Anthropic.com | May 12, 2024

Anthropic released metaprompt, a tool that boosts performance in Claude-powered apps by turning brief task descriptions into optimized prompt templates. It uses a few-shot prompt with examples and supports variables like subject, length, and tone. Accessible via a Google Colab notebook requiring an Anthropic API key, it generates high-quality prompts for specific tasks, aiding prompt engineering. Additional resources include prompt engineering techniques, a cookbook with Jupyter notebooks, and a prompt library.

May 11, 2024

12.) Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | Wired.com | May 11, 2024

Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

13.) OpenAI Could Debut A Multimodal AI Digital Assistant Soon | TheVerge.com | May 11, 2024

A new report from The Information says OpenAI’s new assistant could help customer service agents detect sarcasm.

May 10, 2024

14.) Sam Altman Dispels Rumors of Search Engine Launch Ahead of Google I/O: OpenAI’s GPT-5 Not in the Cards | TechTimes.com | May 10, 2024

Altman has come forward to dispel rumors surrounding the alleged launch of a search engine ahead of Google I/O.

15.) OpenAI Revs Up Plans For Web Search, But Denies Report Of An Imminent Launch | ArsTechnica.com | May 10, 2024

The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached.

16.) Bloomberg: Apple Finalizing Deal With OpenAI To Bring ChatGPT Features To iOS 18 | 9to5Mac.com | May 10, 2024

Apple is finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to bring some of its technology to the iPhone this year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. With this deal, the report explains that Apple will be able to offer “a popular chatbot” powered by ChatGPT as part of its AI-focused features in iOS 18.

17.) What to Expect at Google I/O 2024, and How to Watch It | Wired.com | May 10, 2024

The annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Search, and Assistant, plus a whole lot of AI news.

18.) OpenAI Will Reportedly Announce An AI-Powered Search Engine Next Week — Here’s What We Know | Forbes.com | May 10, 2024

OpenAI will reportedly announce an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT on Monday, a much hyped and speculated feature that would ratchet up competition with search giant Google as startups and Big Tech alike race to cash in on the tech world’s latest gold rush.

19.) New Course With Qualcomm Launching Soon | DeepLearning.ai | May 10, 2024

We’re excited to announce that Introduction to On-Device AI, a new short course made in collaboration with Qualcomm and taught by Krishna Sridhar, Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, will soon join our catalog.

20.) OpenAI Plans To Announce Google Search Competitor On Monday, Sources Say | Reuters.com | May 10, 2024

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.

21.) Bumble’s CEO Says Your Dating ‘AI Concierge’ Will Date Hundreds Of Other People’s ‘Concierges’ For You | Tsarathustra | X | May 10, 2024

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd says the future of dating is having your AI date other people’s AI and recommend the best matches for you to meet.

22.) OpenAI Considers Allowing AI Porn | TechCrunch.com | May 10, 2024

This week in AI, OpenAI revealed that it’s exploring how to “responsibly” generate AI porn. Yep — you heard that right. Announced in a document intended to peel back the curtains and gather feedback on its AI’s instructions, OpenAI’s new NSFW policy is intended to start a conversation about how — and where — the company might allow explicit images and text in its AI products, OpenAI said.

23.) Hong Kong University Brings Albert Einstein To Life Using AI, Transforming Him Into A Virtual Lecturer | TechTimes.com | May 10, 2024

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is now testing AI-generated lecturers, featuring AI versions of personalities like Albert Einstein and popular anime characters taking the virtual stage as lecturers, AFP reports.

24.) Anthropic Now Lets Kids Use Its AI Tech — Within Limits | TechCrunch.com | May 10, 2024

AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least.

May 9, 2024

25.) Industry Report: AI and the Workforce: Examining Perceptions on AI Training and its Impact on the Workforce | MindRift.ai | May 9, 2024

How do people feel about the impact AI will have on the workforce? To discover it, we surveyed 1,000 US consumers aged 18+ and 229 AI Tutors from our own Mindrift community. With publicly available high-quality data forecasted to run out by 2026, the role of human-generated data is crucial to guarantee AI’s longevity. The results show that there is a delicate balance to be struck when it comes to the intersection of human involvement and AI.

26.) 6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic’s Claude Chatbot | Wired.com | May 9, 2024

Anthropic recently launched an iOS app for its Claude chatbot. We asked the company’s head of product design how to get the most out of the AI helper.

27.) Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships | AdWeek.com | May 9, 2024

The generative artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has been pitching partnership opportunities to news publishers through an initiative called the Preferred Publishers Program, according to a deck obtained by ADWEEK and interviews with four industry executives.

28.) Did Stanford Just Prototype The Future Of AR Glasses? | TheVerge.com | May 9, 2024

Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab has an advanced holographic imaging tech that could improve AR headset capabilities.

29.) Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient | QuantaMagazine.com | May 9, 2024

To make a language model’s answers more consistent — and make the model more reliable overall — Jacob and his colleagues devised a game where the model’s two modes are driven toward finding an answer they can agree on. Dubbed the consensus game, this simple procedure pits an LLM against itself, using the tools of game theory to improve the model’s accuracy and internal consistency.

30.) Stability AI Sows Gen AI Discord With Stable Artisan | VentureBeat.com | May 9, 2024

Stability AI is finally bringing its generative AI technology for text and video content to Discord. The new Stable Artisan Discord bot service officially launched today, enabling users to generate images with Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and video with Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) via a Discord bot. The idea of using Discord as an interface is one that rival gen AI image service Midjourney has had since it first debuted in 2022.

31.) We Tried the World’s Most Expensive Racing Simulator | Wired.com | May 9, 2024

Dynisma’s $2 million rig is state of the art. Just ask Ferrari, which has one for its F1 team. Now that a consumer model is in development, we decided to test the ultimate driving simulator.

32.) Krea Begins Rolling Out AI Video Feature | Krea | X | May 9, 2024

Krea Video is here. This is how it works.

33.) Elevenlabs Is Working On Suno/Udio-Style Song Feature | ElevenLabs | X | May 9, 2024

Here’s an early preview of ElevenLabs Music. All of the songs in this thread were generated from a single text prompt with no edits. Title: It Started to Sing. Style: “Pop pop-rock, country, top charts song.”

34.) Google I/O 2024: What to expect | TechCrunch.com | May 9, 2024

Developers season has officially commenced, and we’re mere days away from Google I/O 2024. The short answer to the question of what to expect is two letters: AI. Google I/O? More like Google A/I. There’s been an element of artificial intelligence/machine learning in almost every Google announcement for the past several years, but this time, you’re going to be sick of the subject by the time CEO Sundar Pichai leaves the stage.

May 8, 2024

35.) Multimodal: AI’s New Frontier | TechnologyReview.com | May 8, 2024

AI models that process multiple types of information at once bring even bigger opportunities, along with more complex challenges, than traditional unimodal AI.

36.) Introducing the Model Spec | OpenAI.com | May 8, 2024

OpenAI unveiled its Model Spec in a recent blog post to share its view on how AI models should behave. The goal is to be transparent regarding how they shape models’ behavior and allow us to distinguish between intentional engineering decisions and genuine bugs on the model’s end. This first draft defines objectives, rules and default behaviors models should follow.

37.) Approximately Half Of The Top 20 Apps In Education Category Are Now AI Cameras That Do Your Homework For You | Adam Ludwin | X | May 8, 2024

It’s true, approximately half of the top 20 apps in education category are now AI cameras that do your homework for you.

38.) New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble | QuantaMagazine.com | May 8, 2024

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes.

39.) OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn | Wired.com | May 8, 2024

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave — and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

40.) Robot Dogs Armed With AI-Aimed Rifles Undergo Us Marines Special Ops Evaluation | ArsTechnica.com | May 8, 2024

Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

41.) OpenAI’s “SearchGPT” Might Be Shown Next Monday Together With GPT-4-Lite | The-Decoder.com | May 8, 2024

Bloomberg also confirms OpenAI’s web product, which is presumably similar to Perplexity and can cite web sources. It’s also said to be able to answer questions with images if they’re relevant. According to OpenAI leaker Jimmy Apples, the unveiling of the new search product will take place next Monday. Meanwhile, new GPT2 bots have appeared in the test arena, and it is now clear that they are connected to OpenAI.

42.) New Course: Building Agentic RAG With LlamaIndex | DeepLearning.ai | May 8, 2024

Introducing Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex, made in collaboration with LlamaIndex and taught by its co-founder and CEO, Jerry Liu. Unlike the standard retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline — suitable for simple queries across a few documents — agentic RAG adapts based on initial findings to enhance further data retrieval. You’ll use this framework to build research agents skilled in tool use, reasoning, and decision-making with your data.

43.) Sam Altman Says AI’s Economic Impact Is a Top Concern | BusinessInsider.com | May 8, 2024

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI’s impact on the economy should be a top of mind concern. “I have a fear that we just won’t take that one seriously enough going forward,” he said Tuesday during a panel. Research suggests AI has the potential to affect millions of jobs and lead to lower wages.

44.) Microsoft Is Building A $3.3 Billion Data Center At The Former Foxconn Site | TheVerge.com | May 8, 2024

President Joe Biden is traveling to Racine, Wisconsin, today to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft, which will build an AI data center on the same site as the failed Foxconn project, according to a White House press release.

45.) Daimler’s Driverless Semi Trucks Will Hit The Road in 2027 | TheVerge.com | May 8, 2024

Daimler Truck, a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz parent company, revealed its first autonomous truck demonstrator that it said will pave the way to fully driverless freight hauling by 2027.

46.) Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 AI model | Google.com | May 8, 2024

Introducing AlphaFold 3, a new AI model developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs. By accurately predicting the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more, and how they interact, we hope it will transform our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery.

May 7, 2024

47.) Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M Fund To Counter Election Deepfakes | TechCrunch.com | May 7, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a $2 million fund to combat the growing risks of AI and deepfakes being used to “deceive the voters and undermine democracy.”

48.) OpenAI Strikes Licensing Deal With The Magazine Giant Behind People | TheVerge.com | May 7, 2024

Dotdash Meredith, publisher of People, Better Homes & Gardens, Investopedia, Food & Wine, and InStyle, signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT.

49.) Sperm Whale ‘Alphabet’ Discovered, Thanks To Machine Learning | TechCrunch.com | May 7, 2024

Publisher (Di Blasi): Could you ever have imagined us gaining the ability to communicate with an entirely different species? That is the promise that AI brings.
TechCrunch: Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which were published under the title, “Contextual and Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Vocalizations,” point to key breakthroughs in our understanding of cetacean communication.

50.) OpenAI Creating “Media Manager” So That Content Owners Can Manage How Their Works Are Used In AI | OpenAI.com | May 7, 2024

Just over a year after launching ChatGPT, AI is changing how we live, work and learn. It’s also raised important conversations about data in the age of AI. More on our approach, a new Media Manager for creators and content owners, and where we’re headed.

51.) Meet Pixel 8a: The Google AI Phone At An Unbeatable Value | Google.com | May 7, 2024

The Google Pixel 8a is here. Powered by our latest Google Tensor G3 chip, it’s equipped with many of the same must-have AI features as Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro — like Gemini, Best Take, Audio Magic Eraser and more. Designed to capture amazing photos, save you time and help keep your information secure, the Pixel 8a offers unbeatable value starting at $499.

52.) Apple Introduces M4 Chip | Apple.com | May 7, 2024

Apple today announced M4, the latest chip delivering phenomenal performance to the all-new iPad Pro. Built using second-generation 3-nanometer technology, M4 is a system on a chip (SoC) that advances the industry-leading power efficiency of Apple silicon and enables the incredibly thin design of iPad Pro. It also features an entirely new display engine to drive the stunning precision, color, and brightness of the breakthrough Ultra Retina XDR display on iPad Pro.

May 6, 2024

53.) How To Train Your First Machine Learning Model And Run It Inside Your iOS App Via CoreML | KrauseFX.com | May 6, 2024

Machine Learning (ML) in the context of mobile apps is a wide topic, with different types of implementations and requirements. As part of this blog series, we will be talking about variant 2: We start out by training a new ML model on your server infrastructure based on real-life data, and then distributing and using that model within your app. Thanks to Apple’s CoreML technology, this process has become extremely efficient & streamlined. We wrote this guide for all developers, even if you don’t have any prior data science or backend experience.

54.) Massive Prompts Can Outperform Fine-Tuning For LLMs, Researchers Find | The-Decoder.com | May 6, 2024

Researchers have found that giving large language models (LLMs) many examples directly in the prompt can be more effective than time-consuming fine-tuning, according to a study from Carnegie Mellon and Tel Aviv University.

55.) New Course With Hugging Face: Quantization in Depth | DeepLearning.ai | May 6, 2024

We’re excited to introduce Quantization in Depth, a new short course built in collaboration with Hugging Face, taught by Marc Sun and Younes Belkada, and designed to provide a deep technical understanding of quantization. This course lets you build and customize your own linear quantizer from scratch, going beyond standard open source libraries such as PyTorch and Quanto, which were the focus of our previous course, Quantization Fundamentals.

56.) 40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners | TechSpot.com | May 6, 2024

A new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves — ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It’s an AI audiobook revolution that has been turbo-charged by Amazon.

57.) Generative AI Will Be Designing New Drugs On Its Own In Near Future | CNBC.com | May 6, 2024

Scientists at Eli Lilly have been surprised by a novel design of molecules that AI has produced as part of hypothetical drug discovery research. Within a few years, experts at Lilly and Nvidia say AI will not only think up new drugs, but ones that humans could not create.

58.) The AI Music Era Is Here. Not Everyone Is a Fan | Bloomberg.com | May 6, 2024

AI songwriting has gotten shockingly good — with big implications for the music world.

59.) Apple’s New Photos App Will Utilize Generative AI For Image Editing | AppleInsider.com | May 6, 2024

A new teaser on Apple’s website could be indicative of some of the company’s upcoming software plans, namely a new version of its ubiquitous Photos app that will tap generative AI to deliver Photoshop-grade editing capabilities for the average consumer, AppleInsider has learned.

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