Artificial intelligence and machine learning have permeated nearly all practical spheres of our lives, making them an instant sensation with new tools and models promising new things every week. Here, I try to cover this AI popular culture as it unfolds, picking important news stories and publishing them after careful deliberation.
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AI companies need data. The usual datasets don’t suffice anymore. There’s a real need for human-generated content that can speak better to the users of AI tools. But people trying to fight this backed by human-oriented copyright laws are naturally losing.
“I think there will come a time in the not-so-distant future, like we’re not talking decades and decades from now, where frontier AI systems are capable of causing significant global harm. I’d be super nervous about regulatory overreach here. I think we get this wrong by doing way too much or a little too much. I think we can get this wrong by doing not enough.” Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (All-In Podcast E178)
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- Unitree Reveals $16000 G1 HumanoidIntelligent humanoid robots becoming commercially mass-produced is a distant dream, but the robotics company Unitree has taken the next step in closing the gap.
- Unknown GPT-2 Model Makes Appearance with GPT-4-Like CapabilitiesA new LLM named GPT-2 is making the rounds in the LMSYS arena. It feels similar, if not slightly better, than other models including GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini 1.5. Some call it the latest LLM from OpenAI.
- OpenAI Partners with StackOverflow for Better Responses to DevelopersStackOverflow is a leading community of technical users, developers, programmers, and other specialists. ChatGPT can now access all this forum data via an API.
- 10 Arguments for AI Being the Digital Atom BombHere’s an update on the dangers, fears, and risks of AI. Below are 10 recent developments that should scare human beings.
- Ukraine Has an AI-Generated DiplomatThe Ukrainian Foreign Ministry released an AI-generated persona or digital avatar as its spokeswoman named Victoria Shi.
- OpenAI & Microsoft Sued by 8 Daily Newspapers8 daily newspapers including New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune sued OpenAI and Microsoft accusing the companies of using news content illegally to train and power their chatbots.
- Chinese LLM SenseNova 5.0 Beats GPT4 TurboGPT4 Turbo is one of the best LLMs of our time. The latest LLM from Chinese company SenseTime, SenseNova 5.0, beats it across the board.
- Apple Launches OpenELMApple has released an open-source AI model family termed OpenELM that’s only trained on public domain data.
- Microsoft Announces New AI Models Called Phi-3The AI department of Microsoft has released 3 weights of a new family of language models called Phi-3 that primarily displays the importance of training in keeping a model’s sizes small while improving the quality of its output.
- Hollywood Talent Agency Tests AI ActorsA leading Hollywood Talent Agency has been testing AI clones. These are digital likenesses of major actors that can be used as per a project’s demands without actually having the person to act.
- Microsoft Researchers Publish VASA-1, Make Deepfaking LegitimateMicrosoft researchers have released a paper on their newest project VASA-1. You feed it a single picture of a person and a speech sample. It can then generate a talking face out of that with perfect lip-sync.
- Meta Launches Llama 3Meta has announced Llama 3, the next version of its highly popular open-source large-language model.
What happens on this website?
I keep a list of sources about AI, ML, deep learning, and related fields that I check regularly. Anything that’s worth talking is picked up from these sources. The sources include Twitter lists, subreddits, AI/tech sections of big news websites, and a bunch of daily newsletters. Of course, sometimes I miss a few stories. I also ignore stories that are too shallow, such as a rumor or a minor leak because of my limited bandwidth.
When I find a story worth covering, I research all of its facets, often reading multiple articles to formulate the core of the matter. Then, I write on the story with my own opinions and biases. Nobody’s knowledge is perfect, and so, I do my best to clarify my research process and link to important resources throughout my coverage.
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