GSV's AI News & Updates (05/05/22)
Bing Upgrades, Generative Coding ReplitLM, "Godfather of AI" Warns of Danger Ahead, AI to Read People's Thoughts, AI Disrupts Education Stocks, Navigating the AI Job Apocalypse
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General 🚀
Microsoft announces significant upgrades to Bing’s AI-powered search engine:
Multimodal support: it can support charts, graphs, and other image/video formats in addition to natural language.
Bing Plugins: developers will soon be able to build on top of Bing with third-party plugins, like using an OpenTable plugin to book a reservation or Wolfram Alpha to answer math questions.
Other features: permanent chat history, export and share functionalities, and Bing in your Edge sidebar.
No more waitlist!
Inflection launches Pi: it is designed to be a personal chatbot that can develop into virtual companionship over time as it learns from your personal interactions. You can talk to your bot across various platforms, across which its memories of your interactions are maintained.
Replit Releases ReplitLM, specialized on code completion: replit-code-v1-3b is out! It specializes in generative coding, claiming state-of-the-art performance on the typical benchmarks better than OpenAI’s Codex, and is open-source commercially.
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead: for half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
Agents on the Brain: autonomous agents’ traction is undeniable. On the other hand, it’s unclear how useful these AI applications are today for real tasks. Sequoia unpacks their potential, and help separate the hype from reality.
AI Singers Are Unnervingly Good and Already Ubiquitous: the software that cloned Drake and the Weeknd is easy to use—and impossible to shut down.
Europe to ChatGPT: Disclose Your Sources: proposed legislation requires developers to list copyright material used in generative AI tools.
Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts in Breakthrough: an AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
Alphabet and Microsoft Are Among Firms Attending White House Meeting on AI Safeguards
Education and the Future of Work 📚
Khan Academy showcases Khanmigo: Khan shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.
AI race is disrupting education firms: companies’ shares plunge in London and New York after Chegg report that ChatGPT has hit revenues.
The next six months will be crucial for many established companies to prove that their businesses are differentiated enough (relative to ChatGPT) to retain customers.
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models: research conducted by OpenAI on the labor market claim 80% of US workers are likely to have some of their work tasks impacted by GPT.
How to survive the coming AI job apocalypse: when everyone can do superhuman amounts of work, what happens? Do we do less work and have more leisure time? Do we work more and each do the jobs of ten people? Will there be more jobs, rather than fewer?
GPT makes learning fun again: a tale of two workflows.
(GitHub Repo) Mr. Ranedeer: Your personalized AI Tutor!: a customizable prompt that delivers personalized learning experiences for users with diverse needs and interests.
Startups and Tools 🛠️
Superhuman AI: a suite of new AI features that help you save time, move faster, and take your productivity to the next level - turn an idea into email, type at the speed of thought, summarize long communication, polish your writing, research anything.
Holly: AI powered Virtual Recruiter, creates a vetted list of candidates every week and engages with candidates on your behalf.
Parsio: extract valuable data from your PDFs, emails and other documents with an AI-powered parser.
AudioNotes: effortless voice-based note-taking that captures, organizes, transcribes, summarizes, and generates content.
Folk: lightweight, customizable CRM powered by AI.
Tech 💻
Towards Complex Reasoning: the Polaris of Large Language Models: Complex reasoning is important not only because it is the number 1 differentiator of stronger v.s. weaker models, but also it serves as the foundation for the model to become next-generation computation platform/ operating system. Authors discuss the recipe for building models of strong reasoning abilities: pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning.
(Github Repo) Chat Chat: allows you to use multiple APIs from OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Claude, Cohere, Hugging Face, and more to make your AI conversation experience even richer.
Listen 🎧
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on AI and the Future: Sam and Greg trace their journey—from articulating their mission to early company projects and decisions to scaling and sharing GPT-4 with the world. They also explore the transformative impact artificial intelligence can have on other industries, like energy, medicine, education, and law.
Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes - with Reza Shabani of Replit
