AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 23, 2024 – Issue 122

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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A.) iOS 18 Hands-On: Top 5 Features! | Marques Brownlee | YouTube.com | July 15, 2024

iOS 18. Coming soon to an iPhone near you.

B.) OpenAI Working On New Reasoning Technology Under Code Name ‘Strawberry’ | Reuters.Com | July 15, 2024

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” according to a person familiar with the matter and internal documentation reviewed by Reuters. The project, details of which have not been previously reported, comes as the Microsoft-backed startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities.

C.) Amazon’s AI Shopping Assistant Rolls Out To All Users In The US | TheVerge.Com | July 12, 2024

Rufus will answer questions about shopping and also politics.

D.) Claude 3.5 “Artifacts” LEAKED — Anthropic’s Secret Revealed | Matthew Berman | July 15, 2024

Let’s review how the Claude 3.5 Artifacts feature works by examining its system prompt!

E.) Elon’s Monster GPU Farm, Apple/MSFT Ditch OpenAI, Nintendo AI, Big Claude Updates, Robots, Ollama | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | July 12, 2024

Lots of news this week. Here’s your full breakdown! Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Elon, Ollama, Amazon, Robots, Nintendo… so much to discuss!

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July 22, 2024 📅️

5.) Not Yet Panicking About AI? You Should Be — There’s Little Time Left To Rein It In | TheGuardian.com | July 22, 2024

Publisher (Di Blasi): Rein it in? It’s not a bull. But I do think that anyone who believes that AI can be “reined in” is full of a fair amount of it. Bull that is. In order to meaningfully “stop,” “slow,” or “rein-in” AI would require doing these things everywhere in the world that AI is being developed. All at once. Which we all know is impossible. So what we are left with is a race. Which then begs the question, “what happens if we don’t win that race?” Perhaps these humans believe that if they choose not to sign up for the race, that no winner will be declared. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Daniel Kehlmann: Only a handful of people grasp the magnitude of the changes that are about to hit us. They’re exciting — and terrifying.

6.) AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet | TheVerge.com | July 22, 2024

If you can’t tell the difference between AGI and RAG, don’t worry! We’re here for you.

7.) RouteLLM Tutorial — GPT4o Quality But 80% CHEAPER (More Important Than Anyone Realizes) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | July 22, 2024

Full tutorial for how to use RouteLLM.

8.) Mind Readings: AGI Part 1: Demystifying AGI — What It Is and What It Isn’t | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | July 22, 2024

In today’s episode, you’ll learn all about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a hot topic with a lot of misconceptions floating around. You’ll benefit from a clear and concise explanation of what AGI is and what it isn’t, helping you gain a deeper understanding of this game-changing technology. You’ll also discover why talk of a “singularity” or machines taking over the world is premature and based on misunderstandings of how AGI is developing. Tune in to separate AGI fact from fiction!

9.) OpenAI Founder Sam Altman Gave Thousands Of People Free Money. Here’s What Happened. | Forbes.com | July 22, 2024

A landmark study from OpenResearch provides more data on the benefits of universal basic income, the OpenAI founder’s favored solution for a future in which AI takes everyone’s jobs.

July 21, 2024 📅️

10.) Almost Timely News: My AI-Enabled Content Marketing Process | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | July 21, 2024

In this issue, you’ll go behind the scenes of my AI-powered content marketing process, learning where my ideas come from and how I transform them into engaging content across various platforms. You’ll discover the three key content strategies: “done for you,” “done with you,” and “done by you” — and understand which one might be right for you. Finally, I’ll share how I use AI to streamline tasks without sacrificing the joy of content creation, inspiring you to find your perfect balance. Tune in to elevate your own content marketing game!

11.) Meta’s LLaMA 3.1 405B Base Model Gets Leaked 1 Day Ahead Of Release | Reddit.com | July 21, 2024

Meta’s LLaMA 3.1 405B Base Model gets leaked one day ahead of release.

July 20, 2024 📅️

12.) GPT4o Mini — Lightning Fast, Dirty Cheap, Insane Quality (Tested) | Matthew Berman | July 20, 2024

I’m blown away by OpenAI’s GPT4o Mini, which may be the most important model they’ve ever released.

July 19, 2024 📅️

13.) AI News: We’re One Step Closer To AGI This Week! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | July 19, 2024

Here’s the AI news you might have missed this week.

14.) AI News: GPT4o Mini, Vampire Drones, New Jailbreak, LLaMA 400b, Robot with HUMAN Hands | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | July 19, 2024

All the latest updates.

15.) OpenAI’s Latest Model Will Block The ‘Ignore All Previous Instructions’ Loophole | TheVerge.com | July 19, 2024

Its latest model, GPT-4o Mini, applies a new safety method to prevent tricking chatbots.

16.) Figma Explains How Its AI Tool Ripped Off Apple’s Design | TheVerge.com | July 19, 2024

The company says it didn’t vet ‘components’ or ‘example screens’ it added to the tool as closely as it should have.

17.) California Fights For AI Laws Amid Trump Plan To Curb Regulation | WashingtonPost.com | July 19, 2024

With the GOP pledging free rein for the new technology and action in Congress stalled, Sacramento is pushing plans to put guardrails on AI.

July 18, 2024 📅️

18.) Apple Stealing Data From YouTubers?!? | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | July 18, 2024

Major tech companies like Apple, NVIDIA, and Anthropic used a dataset that contained 100k+ stolen YouTube video subtitles. Let’s talk about it.

19.) Together Announces An Inference Stack That Provides Decoding Throughput 4X Faster Than Open-Source vLLM | Together.ai | July 18, 2024

Today we are announcing a new inference stack, which provides decoding throughput 4x faster than open-source vLLM, and outperforms commercial solutions including Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI, Fireworks, and Octo AI by 1.3x to 2.5x. The Together Inference Engine achieves over 400 tokens per second on Meta Llama 3 8B by building on the latest advances from Together AI, including FlashAttention-3, faster GEMM & MHA kernels, innovations in quality-preserving quantization, and speculative decoding.

20.) Mistral Releases Nemo, Their Best Small Model: 12B Model With 128k Context Length That Outperforms LLama 3 8B | Mistral.ai | July 18, 2024

Today, we are excited to release Mistral NeMo, a 12B model built in collaboration with NVIDIA. Mistral NeMo offers a large context window of up to 128k tokens. Its reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy are state-of-the-art in its size category. As it relies on standard architecture, Mistral NeMo is easy to use and a drop-in replacement in any system using Mistral 7B.

21.) The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near | Wiree.com | July 18, 2024

Tech companies — including OpenAI — are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too.

22.) Robot Dog Cleans Up Beaches With Foot-Mounted Vacuums | Spectrum.ieee.org | July 18, 2024

Thanks to VERO, Genoa has fewer cigarette butts littering the ground.

23.) Meta Puts A Halt To Training Its Generative AI Tools In Brazil | TechCrunch.com | July 18, 2024

Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to build out its AI products in Brazil, a market with more than 200 million people.

24.) The Biggest Names In AI Have Teamed Up To Promote AI Security | TheVerge.com | July 18, 2024

Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are joining the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) to share info on making ‘secure-by-design’ AI.

25.) Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? | The Hoy of Why | Apple Podcasts | July 18, 2024

Common sense rules our world. This fundamental, sometimes trivial knowledge is inherent to how humans interpret language. Yet, some of these simple human truths are so obvious that they’re rarely put into words. And without the data of common sense to train on, large language models such as ChatGPT have bizarre, often humorous blind spots.Yejin Choi, professor and the chair of computer science at the University of Washington, calls common sense the “dark matter” of intelligence. In this week’s episode of “The Joy of Why,” Choi talks with co-host Steven Strogatz about decoding the interstitial glue of language and comprehension. Together, they explore the question: Should we program more humanity into the next generation of artificial intelligence?

26.) The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’ | Wired.com | July 18, 2024

This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human — a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.

26.) GPT-4o Mini: Advancing Cost-Efficient Intelligence | OpenAI.com | July 18, 2024

OpenAI is committed to making intelligence as broadly accessible as possible. Today, we’re announcing GPT-4o mini, our most cost-efficient small model. We expect GPT-4o mini will significantly expand the range of applications built with AI by making intelligence much more affordable. GPT-4o mini scores 82% on MMLU and currently outperforms GPT-41 on chat preferences in LMSYS leaderboard. It is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, an order of magnitude more affordable than previous frontier models and more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.

28.) OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a ‘Mini’ Model | Wired.com | July 18, 2024

With competing models — including many free ones — flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI.

29.) Everyone Is Judging AI By These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close To Meaningless | TheMarkup.Org | July 18, 2024

Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority.

July 17, 2024 📅️

30.) Retro-Futurism of Synthetic Data | Olga Megorskaya | AI-Weekly.ai | July 17, 2024

Explore how synthetic data can shape a more positive technological future by enhancing privacy, security, and sustainability. Learn how it combats AI biases and supports environmental research, all while protecting sensitive information. Dive into the potential of synthetic data to reclaim privacy, create equitable AI systems, and reduce the ecological footprint of data-driven research. Discover the promise of a better future driven by synthetic data.

31.) The AI Bill that has Tech Startups Panicked ft. Anjney Midha | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | July 17, 2024

In this episode, Anjney Midha dives deep into the potential ramifications of California’s proposed bill, SB 1047, on the tech industry, startups, and researchers. The discussion covers why regulations could force AI companies to leave California, how the bill might favor big tech over smaller developers, and the broader implications for America’s leadership in AI. Anjney also introduces StopSB1047.com, a platform to raise awareness and mobilize opposition to the bill.

32.) HuggingFace Introduces SmolLM, A Family Of Powerful Models Small Enough To Run On Your Device | HuggingFace.co | July 17, 2024

HuggingFace Introduces SmolLM, a family of powerful models small enough to run on your device.

33.) TTT Models Might Be The Next Frontier In Generative AI | TechCrunch.com | July 17, 2024

After years of dominance by the form of AI known as the transformer, the hunt is on for new architectures. Transformers underpin OpenAI’s video-generating model Sora, and they’re at the heart of text-generating models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and GPT-4o. But they’re beginning to run up against technical roadblocks — in particular, computation-related roadblocks.

34.) Microsoft Designer Brings AI Image Generation To Iphone Before Apple Intelligence | AppleInsider.com | July 17, 2024

Microsoft Designer, a generative AI tool that produces images, has left preview and is now available as a free iOS app.

35.) OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough | Wired.com | July 17, 2024

The company announced a new technique to make the workings of its systems more transparent, but people familiar with OpenAI say more oversight is needed.

36.) Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models To EU | Axios.com | July 17, 2024

Meta will withhold its next multimodal AI model — and future ones — from customers in the European Union because of what it says is a lack of clarity from regulators there, Axios has learned.

37.) Mistral Releases Codestral Mamba For Faster Longer Code Generation | Venturebeat.com | July 17, 2024

The well-funded French AI startup Mistral, known for its powerful open source AI models, launched two new entries in its growing family of large language models (LLMs) today: a math-based model and a code generating model for programmers and developers based on the new architecture known as Mamba developed by other researchers late last year.

38.) New Ways To Get Creative With Microsoft Designer Powered By AI | Microsoft.com | July 17, 2024

Every creative process begins with an idea — and that idea starts with you. Today we’re announcing that the Microsoft Designer app is now generally available with a personal Microsoft account, with new features that help you create and edit like never before. You can express yourself in brand new ways and bring your most creative ideas to life in seconds—all with the help of AI. A blank canvas no longer has to be intimidating — just describe what you want to see, and Designer can create it for you. And if you’re not sure what that is, Designer can help you get started.

39.) Gemini Now Answers General Questions On Android Lockscreen | 9To5Google.com | July 17, 2024

After initially being limited to Google Assistant-level commands, activating Gemini on the Android lockscreen now lets you ask “general questions.”

40.) Turn Your Selfie Into A Printable 3D Character With Tencent’s AI-Powered App | GizmoChina.com | July 17, 2024

Tencent Yuanbao, a large-scale model application by Tencent, has introduced a groundbreaking feature called “3D Avatar Dream Factory,” transforming the landscape of 3D character creation. This feature allows users to effortlessly generate personalized 3D characters from a single front-facing image, making it the first universal app to achieve such high-quality 3D generation.

July 16, 2024 📅️

41.) Introducing Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use Models | Groq.com | July 16, 2024

Groq open sources Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use, a series of models optimized for function calling.

42.) Exclusive: FTC Seeking Details On Amazon Deal With AI Startup Adept, Source Says | Reuters.com | July 16, 2024

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked Amazon.com to provide more details on its deal to hire top executives and researchers from artificial intelligence startup Adept, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

43.) Trump Allies Draft AI Order To Launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ For Defense | WashingtonPost.com | July 16, 2024

The plan to “Make America First in AI” and roll back “burdensome regulations” would favor Silicon Valley investors, who are now flocking to support the former president.

44.) Andrej Karpathy Launches An AI+Education Company Called Eureka Labs | Andrej Karpathy On X | July 16, 2024

We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.

45.) Leonardo.AI Wants You To Be In Control Of AI Image Generation | CNet.com | July 16, 2024

The company behind the platform hopes natural language processing gives the tool an edge in a crowded sector.

46.) Anthropic Releases Claude App For Android | Anthropic.com | July 16, 2024

The new Claude Android app brings the power of Claude—including our most powerful model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet—to Android users. The app is free and accessible with all plans, including Pro and Team.

47.) Microsoft Faces Uk Antitrust Investigation Over Hiring Of Inflection AI Staff | TheVerge.com | July 16, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority is looking at Microsoft’s AI partnership under merger rules.

48.) Testing Math Notes And The Calculator App In iPadOS 18 | TheVerge.com | July 16, 2024

Math Notes has some quirks, but I already love being able to do basic math inside just about any text box.

49.) Apple Trained AI Models On YouTube Content Without Consent [MKBHD Responds] | 9To5Mac.com | July 16, 2024

A number of tech giants, including Apple, trained AI models on YouTube videos without the consent of the creators, according to a new report today.

Last Week 📅️

50.) Microsoft Cto Kevin Scott Thinks LLM “Scaling Laws” Will Hold Despite Criticism | ArsTechnica.com | July 15, 2024

Will LLMs keep improving if we throw more compute at them? OpenAI dealmaker thinks so.

51.) YouTube Music Sound Search Rolling Out AI Radio In Testing | 9To5Google.com | July 15, 2024

YouTube Music today is making official sound search, while acknowledging that it’s testing the “AI-generated conversational radio” for US Premium subscribers.

The Hum to Search-adjacent capability is called “sound search” in YouTube Music. It simply lets you query YTM’s “catalog of over 100 million official songs by sound.” Some users had it in May before the feature was rolled back for whatever reason.

52.) OpenAI Working On New Reasoning Technology Under Code Name ‘Strawberry’ | Reuters.com | July 15, 2024

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” according to a person familiar with the matter and internal documentation reviewed by Reuters. The project, details of which have not been previously reported, comes as the Microsoft-backed startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities.

53.) Announcing Google Vids An AI-Powered Video Creation App | Google.com | July 15, 2024

We’re excited to bring Google Vids into Workspace Labs! Vids is an AI-powered video creation app that’s designed for work and deeply integrated with the Workspace suite you use every day.

54.) Self-Organizing Drone Flock Demonstrates Safe Traffic Solution For Smart Cities Of The Future | TechXplore.com | July 15, 2024

After creating the world’s first self-organizing drone flock, researchers at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary have now also demonstrated the first large-scale autonomous drone traffic solution. This fascinating new system is capable of far more than what could be executed with human pilots.

55.) Whistleblowers Claim OpenAI’s NDAs Are Illegal | TheAIWired.com | July 13, 2024

Whistleblowers say that OpenAI illegally keeps employees from talking to government regulators about problems at work and removes their rights to rewards for blowing the whistle.

56.) AI Has Become a Technology of Faith | Charlie Warzel | July 12, 2024

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington told me that they believe generative AI can help millions of suffering people. I’m not so sure.

57.) The Rabbit R1 Has Been Logging Users’ Chats — With No Way To Wipe Them | TheVerge.com | July 12, 2024

If you own a Rabbit R1, be sure to install the new July 11th software update that addresses some concerning issues.

58.) Amazon’s AI Shopping Assistant Rolls Out To All Users In The US | TheVerge.com | July 12, 2024

Rufus will answer questions about shopping and also politics.

59.) AI System Achieves 96% Accuracy In Determining Sex From Dental X-Rays | PsyPost.Org | July 12, 2024

Researchers in Brazil created a machine-learning system that can determine an individual’s sex based on panoramic radiographs — wide-view dental X-ray images that capture the entire mouth. The system was 96% accurate when the resolution of the picture was good and the individual was older than 16. The accuracy was lower for younger individuals. The their findings were published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

60.) Why The Atlantic Signed A Deal With OpenAI | TheVerge.com | July 11, 2024

CEO Nicholas Thompson discusses the deal: ‘AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens.’

61.) Has Artificial Intelligence Co-opted the Sparkle Emoji? | Bloomberg.com | July 10, 2024

Do you believe in magic? Over the past year, versions of the sparkles emoji have popped up all over the AI landscape, particularly when it comes to marketing AI products to consumers. Alphabet Inc.’s Google uses a blue version of it to denote content produced by its Gemini chatbot. OpenAI uses slightly different sparkles to differentiate between the AI models that power ChatGPT. Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn has its own variety of sparkle adorning suggested questions to ask a chatbot on the social network. And Adobe Inc.’s take on the icon beckons users to generate AI images with its Firefly software.

62.) Sonnet 3.5 for Coding — System Prompt | Reddit.com | July 6, 2024

I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to make some really tricky changes to a few bits of code recently, and have settled on this System Prompt which seems to be working very very well. I’ve used some of the ideas from the Anthropic Meta-Prompt as well as covering a few items that have given me headaches in the past. Any further suggestions welcome!

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