AI News & Launches

The paper 'Is GPT-4 a Good Data Analyst?' by Liying Cheng, Xingxuan Li, and Lidong Bing investigates the capabilities of GPT-4 in performing end-to-end data analysis in comparison to human data analysts. Using carefully designed prompts and task-specific evaluation metrics, the study finds GPT-4's performance to be comparable to that of professionals, providing insights for future research on AI's role in data analysis.

Mark Burgess reflects on CFEngine's 30-year legacy, marrying configuration management with artificial intelligence. He recounts its origins at the University of Oslo, driven by the challenge of diverse Unix systems and inspired by Star Trek's self-healing computers. Autonomous agents, built-in security, and the evolution of Promise Theory marked its journey amidst emerging tools like Puppet and Chef. Despite industry changes, CFEngine's robust foundations continue to support vast IT infrastructures silently.

The Verge explores how AI tools from companies like Finesse, eBay, Amazon, and Shopify are transforming the online shopping experience. Finesse aims to reduce overproduction with AI that designs and markets to its target demographic, while other retailers employ AI for size fitting, product descriptions, and more. Despite the potential of these tools, it remains to be seen if AI can truly enhance online shopping, as the sector faces challenges with returns and product mismatches.

NameWith.ai offers an AI-powered service tailored to assist in finding the ideal baby name. The platform features personalization options for tailored recommendations, detailed name facts, and the ability to save and share favorites. Testimonials from expecting parents highlight the app's user-friendliness and innovative approach.

Unlock your full potential with smart, AI-powered goal management. Mentor is an app designed to guide you through achieving your complex goals by breaking them down into manageable tasks. It helps you simplify your ambitions, track your progress, customize your journey, and provides personalized guidance.

Adsby AI Ad Generator is a free tool designed to create search ads quickly and effectively using AI. It automates ad text and keyword selection within seconds, tailored to any business type without the need for prior advertising expertise.

GovernanceAI streamlines API development with automated reviews, fostering standardization and consistency. With top-10 lists for best practices, it ensures cost savings, faster development cycles, and a higher adoption rate.

Otto Engineer is an innovative AI sidekick capable of testing its own code and iterating autonomously until successful. It runs safely in isolation using Web Containers, requires no setup, and operates in a realistic environment.

Ramban.AI is an all-in-one AI content creation platform that offers a range of features including article generation, content improvement, blog creation, ad creation, text to speech, and more, with support for over 100 pre-trained chatbots and the ability to generate content in various languages.

Eternity AI is revolutionizing the way machines understand and access the internet with its HTLM-7B model. It's an intelligent writing assistant powered by OpenAI that offers diverse templates for various types of content like code, videos, newsletters, and more. The service is trusted by millions and offers accessible plans and seamless integration with popular platforms.

Slate is a powerful note-taking and collaboration tool designed to increase productivity across various platforms, offering seamless synchronization and intuitive user interface.

Google and Apple may collaborate to integrate Google’s Gemini AI model into the iPhone, suggesting AI's key role in smartphones. The deal, still a rumor, indicates Apple is accelerating generative AI adoption in the face of Android competition, while continuing to develop its own AI tools. Analysts view this potential partnership as a step to keep the iPhone competitive as generative AI becomes crucial in modern smartphones.

Training data poisoning in LLMs involves introducing harmful data during training, affecting model performance. The article covers attack scenarios, past attacks, and prevention methods with examples - like Microsoft's Tay, artists countering image generators, and the Virus Total incident.

Microsoft appoints DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman as executive vice president and CEO of the new Microsoft AI division, to lead consumer AI products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Fellow Inflection AI cofounder Karén Simonyan joins as chief scientist, with plans for several team members to follow.

Macaify offers AI enhancements for Mac apps, providing users with a shortcut to leverage AI capabilities in text processing, code generation, and automation tasks. It features over 1000 robot templates, keyboard-driven operations, and upcoming features to bridge AI with Mac and Internet interfaces. The service is free to start, with premium plans for additional AI features and quotas.

AlexiLearn is a free app aiding individuals with alexithymia or autism in identifying and expressing emotions through facial expression recognition, interactive lessons, and daily reflections. It offers features like a camera-based identification tool, image uploader, minigames, and comprehensive learning and practice sections.

Sebora.ai is an AI-driven tool that simplifies the process of content creation for bloggers and digital marketers. It offers keyword generation, AI-generated content with SEO optimization, article scheduling, and direct WordPress integration for efficient content publishing.

Humanize AI offers advanced technology to bypass AI text detection and achieve undetectable human-like content. Their user-friendly solution provides fast and high-quality rewriting, ensuring original outputs with minimal plagiarism risks. It supports a wide content range, encrypts data, and urges responsible use.

DataMotto simplifies the data preparation process with AI, helping users clean, enrich, and preprocess data for better decision-making. Analysts can automate tedious tasks and ensure quality and privacy.

UCLA bioengineers have developed a breakthrough wearable adhesive neck patch that helps people with dysfunctional vocal cords to speak. This AI-assisted device translates muscle movements into audible speech with 95% accuracy. The technology could revolutionize communication for those who have lost their voice ability.

A recent study on LLM providers unveiled hidden rate limits that throttle API throughput during peak demand, leading to a significant drop in performance, especially for latency-sensitive applications. Providers regulate throughput caps due to GPU shortages and high costs, contributing to performance variability.

Unify AI is offering a career opportunity for an LLM Engineer (Contributor) in London, GB. The position is for those interested in Machine Learning and can be remote or of another nature.

Google begins testing AI-generated overviews in the main search interface without requiring users to opt into the SGE labs feature. The test, aimed at a subset of complex queries, seeks to evaluate the usefulness of generative AI responses for a broader audience.

Promoted.ai, a YC-funded startup, is seeking an experienced Enterprise Account Executive with 3+ years of SaaS sales experience, offering a $120K position in San Francisco or remote. The role focuses on new business development for their marketplace optimization services.

ScriptMind is a web-based note-taking assistant that provides features such as AI-assisted writing, text-to-speech, 3D knowledge graphs, and auto-save functionality. It's designed for effortless organization and connectivity of ideas, revolutionizing the way we capture and visualize insights.

LinkSafari is an AI-powered SEO suite specialized in link building without requiring a budget. It includes a variety of tools to manage and check SEO metrics, as well as automatic email outreach for backlink opportunities. With tiered pricing including a free version and subscription plans for more extensive features, LinkSafari caters to different levels of SEO professionals and agencies.

re:tune offers a no-code AI app solution, enabling users to build custom AI apps, such as chatbots for various use cases. The platform supports data integration, chatbot training, and integration with favorite tools.

Infinity AI offers tailor-made AI tools with the Shopifinity Engine™, designed to augment sales and enhance efficiency of Shopify stores through automation, personalized marketing, and advanced AI algorithms, ensuring growth and high ROI.

Emad Mostaque resigns as CEO of Stability AI to pursue decentralized AI. Board appoints Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs. Company searches for permanent CEO to continue growth. Focus remains on open-source generative AI.

Software Engineering Internship for Summer 2024 at Empirical Health, focused on utilizing AI, health sensors, and value-based payment models to revolutionize primary care. Position in New York, NY with a strong emphasis on impacting the healthcare system.

Tennessee became the first U.S. state to pass the ELVIS Act – Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act – to protect artists from unauthorized AI impersonation, with AI-specific protections added to the state's previous right of publicity law.

Leaping is an open-source project hosted on GitHub that offers a pytest debugger capable of tracing Python test execution and provides an AI-powered debugging experience with natural language queries.

Hacker News users share experiences with AI, from life-saving autonomous driving to seamless AI chatbots, music and image processing, and personal reading assistants.

Butternut AI is the world's first text-to-website builder that allows users to create full-fledged, multipage websites using AI technology. In just 20 seconds, users can generate multipage websites from a single prompt, eliminating the need for designers, developers, and SEO agencies.

makeMoE is an open-source project that implements a sparse mixture of experts language model from scratch, taking inspiration from Andrej Karpathy's makemore. The project, developed using Databricks, features top-k gating, noisy top-k gating, and an autoregressive character-level architecture with expert capacity, focusing on hackability and readability.

This article discusses the performance comparison between OpenAI's GPT-4 and Groq's Mistral 8x7B, specifically in the context of HTML parsing speed and accuracy. While GPT-4 demonstrated perfect accuracy, its longer processing times were outmatched by the considerably faster speeds of Mistral 8x7B, though Mistral made occasional errors.

Alfred 5.5 introduces new workflow views such as Grid, Text, Image, and PDF, enhancing interactions with results. The update features integrations with ChatGPT and DALL-E, a Memory Pairs game, and Thumbnail Navigation workflow, with community members already utilizing the new views.

DataDepot.xyz offers AI-powered research tools to help users streamline the research process and personalize the access to insights. It provides a trusted marketplace for connecting research providers and professionals.

Claros is a website with a search functionality that seems to help users find what they want to buy. The site features an example option and allows users to initiate a new search.

Colone.app is a productivity platform designed to streamline project management and facilitate team collaboration, especially for remote work environments. It offers a suite of tools that enhance communication and improve the workflow.