GSV's AI News & Updates (11/12/23)
OpenAI Dev Day, Humane Ai Pin, xAI's Grok, LinkedIn AI Assistant, GitHub Copilot Expansion, AI and Open Source, Learnosity's Author Aide, State Guidance on AI in Schools
We announced the inaugural ASU+GSV AIR SHOW: On April 13-15th we're launching ASU+GSV's inaugural AIR (AI Revolution) Show in San Diego, California. Done in conjunction with our 15th Annual ASU+GSV Summit, the AIR Show will be an immersive showcase of the world's most important AI in EDU companies. Tickets are complimentary for attendees.
General 🚀
New models and developer products announced at OpenAI DevDay: GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more. Full keynote video here.
OpenAI Introduces GPTs: you can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills. In the long term, OpenAI's vision is to evolve GPTs into fully autonomous agents.
Humane officially launches the Ai Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable: Humane is launching a wearable device called the Ai Pin that can take photos, send texts, project a visual interface onto a person's palm, and comes with a virtual assistant. Humane essentially wants to strip away all the interface cruft from your technology - the idea is that you can just talk to or touch the Pin, say what you want to do or know, and it’ll happen automatically.
xAI has announced its first LLM, Grok: xAI trained Grok-0 (33B) and Grok-1 models in these 4 months. The Grok-1 model will power the consumer-facing product “Grok”.
Snap’s latest version of its AR development tool includes a ChatGPT API, boosted productivity and more: Lens Studio 5.0 creates more workflow improvements for faster iterating and shipping, and has more AI-powered tools for asset and interactivity generation.
YouTube is testing new experimental generative AI features: they are testing 2 experiments that integrate generative AI into the YouTube viewing experience: (1) comment topics summarized by AI and (2) a conversational AI tool. For certain academic videos, the tool can aid learning journeys by providing quizzes and responses that encourage deeper understanding.
Introducing AI to FigJam: generate templates for weekly team syncs, brainstorms, and reviews, or plunge into planning mode with visual timelines and organizational charts—all from a simple prompt.
The Sort function automatically groups together stickies under common themes, adding structure to a chaotic whiteboard. Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do: GPTs show a near future where AIs can really start to act as agents, since these GPTs have the ability to connect to other products and services, from your email to a shopping website, making it possible for AIs to do a wide range of tasks. So GPTs are a precursor of the next wave of AI.
Xbox partners with Inworld AI to build generative AI tools for game development
Attenuating Innovation (AI): “this Executive Order is…rooted in the past, yet arrogant about an unknowable future; proscriptive instead of adaptive; and, worst of all, trivially influenced by motivated reasoning best understood as some of the most cynical attempts at regulatory capture the tech industry has ever seen.”
The Future of Music: How Generative AI Is Transforming the Music Industry
Education and the Future of Work 📚
LinkedIn surpasses 1B members and launches new AI chatbot to help you get a job: the new AI chatbot can help users gauge whether a job application is worth their time and point to potential gaps in a user’s experience that could hurt them in the job application process. It can also follow up by sending them a few 2nd or 3rd degree connection employee profiles who the user can then message about the opportunity.
GitHub is expanding Copilot into a full AI assistant for developers: this release will make Copilot ubiquitous across GitHub products and third-party IDEs, positioning it as an AI companion for developers throughout the software development lifecycle - reducing time spent on mundane tasks so developers can focus on creativity and fostering an ecosystem of third-party developer tool integrations to expand its capabilities.
How states are guiding schools to think about AI: Only California and Oregon issued official guidance for the current school year. While schools recognize the importance of teaching AI and allowing students to use it as a research tool, they're perplexed about how to keep the genie properly in the bottle. Teachers and administrators, who are short-staffed to begin with, are all at various stages of the AI learning curve.
AI, the Next Chapter for College Librarians: Librarians have lived through the disruptions of fax machines, websites and Wikipedia, and now they are bracing to do it again as artificial intelligence tools go mainstream: “Maybe it’s our time to shine.”
How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work: by using generative AI wisely, knowledge workers can reduce their cognitive load, focus on more important tasks, and achieve better performance.
Learnosity launches Author Aide, a new AI-powered tool that makes exam question creation 10 times faster: Author Aide leverages AI to allow assessment authors to create high-quality, high-volume item banks in any subject, at any level, and in multiple languages almost instantly.
Startups and Tools 🛠️
IBM debuts $500M enterprise AI venture fund: the company plans to invest in startups across stages, with no set target number of annual investments or capital deployment timeline.
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model: Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller “AI Superpowers” and in China for his bets on AI unicorns, is gaining impressive ground with his own AI startup, 01.AI. Seven months after its founding, 01.AI has released its first model, the open source Yi-34B.
Vidiofy: the easiest & fastest way to convert articles into reels.
Seek.ai: business analytics with generative AI-powered database queries.
Success.ai: meetings, & revenue with AI-powered cold emails.
Openlayer: manage models, identify edge cases, and detect production errors — all with a single line of code.
Tech 💻
The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023: (1) developers are building with generative AI in big numbers, (2) developers are operating cloud-native applications at scale, and (3) 2023 saw the largest number of first-time open source contributors.
What's new with DALL·E-3?: new features and capabilities include Prompt Rewriting, a new 'quality' parameter, new image sizes, two new styles (natural and vivid), icon and logo generation,
Introducing Adept Experiments: a new way to explore the technology being developed at Adept.
Regulation and Policy ⚖️
Big Tech wants AI regulation, the rest of Silicon Valley is skeptical: a growing group of venture capitalists, CEOs and others say regulation will snuff out competition.
Anthropic’s Thoughts on the US Executive Order, G7 Code of Conduct, and Bletchley Park Summit: they briefly summarize each of these events and what they believe they mean for AI policy.
SEAL: Scale’s Safety, Evaluations and Analysis Lab: Scale is increasing its investments in red-team testing and evaluation methods to improve the openness and consistency of LLM safety.
Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, citing security concerns
Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
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