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Cooking this week:
Bad and good about Microsoft and AI
Opera makes bold AI move
A new AI language model that can learn to use tools
Elon warns humanity
Top 5 AI tools
Let's dive in.
Bad and good about Microsoft and AI
Remember the big AI battle when we all freaked out over Google's Bard bot making a mistake last week?
Turns out we missed the fact that Bing's chatbot made even more mistakes during its demo. I guess we were too hyped up to notice the blunders. It claimed the downside of a cordless vacuum is its short cord, said you could book a reservation at a restaurant where reservations aren't taken, and even conjured up some random numbers from a financial statement.
Yep, all of this happened during the demo. So I guess Google and Microsoft are tied now? The score is Google 1, Microsoft 1.
But hold on a second! Rumour has it that Microsoft is planning to go all-in on ChatGPT, and I'm not talking just Bing or Edge. I'm talking about integrating ChatGPT across the whole Microsoft ecosystem: Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, and every other productivity service you can think of.
Can you even imagine how wild that would be? Word documents automatically generate suggestions, Powerpoint creates one-of-a-kind visuals, and Outlook responds to emails in your unique style.
This could be the start of a whole new era of productivity, my friends.
Opera makes bold AI move
Well, it looks like Opera is making some bold moves into the world of generative AI. Their latest venture involves integrating AI-generated content services directly into their PC and mobile browsers. With so many people now relying on AI services like ChatGPT, Opera sees an opening to become the go-to gateway for a new generation of AI-powered browsing.
But that's not all - they're also exploring ways to enhance the browsing experience even further. One exciting new feature is a "Shorten" button that appears right in the address bar. With this nifty tool, you can generate short summaries of any webpage or article you visit.
How's that for a powerful browsing experience?
A new AI language model that can learn to use tools
Alright, folks! Let's take a moment to learn new models. Today, we're discussing Language Models or LMs for short.
When it comes to LMs, larger models tend to excel at new tasks with only a few text instructions, while smaller models are best at basic functionalities such as math and fact checks.
But now, we have an exciting development to share: Toolformer!
This new language model can teach itself how to use external tools by making simple API calls. Toolformer brings the best of both worlds, combining the large LMs' ability to tackle new tasks and small LMs' expertise in basic functionalities. And get this, it can even learn to use external tools like search engines, calculators, calendars, and more all on its own.
Exciting times, indeed!
Elon Musk warns humanity
Elon Musk is making headlines yet again.
This time, he's bringing attention to the advancement of AI and the potential dangers it poses to our society. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk pointed to ChatGPT as a prime example of how far AI has come and how important it is to regulate its safety.
According to Musk, "One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI." He went on to say, "It is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine."
While Musk believes that regulation may slow down AI's development, he remains concerned about the potential dangers that AI possesses.
And it's not the end.
According to a recent study, large language model AI systems (LLMs) are now as good at understanding what others think and believe as a 9-year-old child. Who would have thought that a machine could understand human emotions and beliefs at the same level as a child? It's kind of like when your dog understands you more than your friends do, but in this case, it's a machine.
This is a significant step forward for AI and its ability to interact with humans. But, to be honest, I'm a little worried. I mean, if machines can understand our emotions and beliefs, what's next? Will they start telling us what we should be feeling and thinking? Maybe they'll even start making their own memes and jokes. I can already see it now - AI machines taking over the comedy world. Oh no, I think I just made myself laugh... or did the AI make me do it?
Top-5 AI tools this week
Capsule - video editing tool that empowers teams to produce stunning video for any audience — with no expertise (link)
Photo AI - Train model of a person and generate a photo shoot anywhere (link)
Imagine AI - Build your Django and Node apps faster than ever using Imagine’s powerful project starter engine (link)
Elephas - Personal AI Writing Assistant for Mac, iPhone, and iPad (link)
BigVi - Create Video scripts with AI (link)
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2 Mn+ Pre-built eCommerce Prompts (link)
How to create free GPU-powered ML apps in Python in just 5 minutes (link)
Create your custom AI avatar generation website with Stable Diffusion (link)
Open-set Multimodal 3D Mapping (link)
Control Midjourney to create beautiful images (link)
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