AI News & Launches

WonsultingAI offers an array of AI-powered tools to streamline your job search, enabling tracking of job applications, resume building, and more. With services like InterviewAI, AutoApplyAI, ResumAI, and CoverLetterAI, job seekers can harness technology to optimize their employment pursuits with ease.

Alice is a privacy-focused desktop app aimed at boosting productivity by leveraging AI models like GPT-4. It offers chat functionality with a great UI and reliable results, keyboard shortcuts, pre-built prompts for automation, and can be integrated with other apps to execute commands.

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL have developed a tool called 'distribution matching distillation' that speeds up AI image generation significantly, enabling high-resolution image creation 30 times faster than before, while offering a balance between speed and detail.

Dopeloop.ai offers a variety of music-making apps designed to foster creativity using AI. These apps include beat generators, loop sync tools, and melody creators compatible with multiple devices, helping to generate royalty-free music for users.

A recent study titled 'GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: A Clinician-Evaluated Assessment' has been submitted to arXiv. The paper, authored by Senthujan Senkaiahliyan and others, evaluates the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4V in medical image interpretation. It concludes that despite identifying and explaining images, such as CT scans and MRIs, the model's diagnostic accuracy is poor, and it poses risks to patient safety when used for clinical decisions.

David Luan of Adept discusses why Google failed to create GPT-3 and proposes multimodal agents as the path towards AGI. He emphasizes the importance of agents executing tasks with high reliability, the shortcomings of chatbots as the sole interface for AI, and Adept's distinction as an enterprise-focused company providing solutions for complex workflows.

Adam Karvonen presents findings on manipulating Chess-GPT's internal world model to alter its chess playing skill level and board state representation. Experiments involved the use of linear probes and simple additions to the model's activations to increase and decrease the perceived skill level of players, demonstrating a deeper understanding of chess through self-supervised learning. Despite the model's smaller size and limitations, these interventions showcase Chess-GPT's ability to predict next tokens in chess games, suggesting only partial success due to the primitive state of machine learning interpretability. The full work is detailed in a paper and additional resources including code and datasets are available on GitHub.

The article details the creation of a highly capable DIY AI training server named WOPR with seven Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs. The author emphasizes the DIY nature and potential for occasional PCIe errors when using tools like Deepspeed ZeRO-3 but maintains the system is largely stable and efficient. The setup includes an ASROCK Rack ROMED8-2T mainboard, an AMD Epyc 7002/7003 series CPU, and 512GB RAM. The system is targeted at AI hobbyists and is a cost-effective alternative to commercial solutions like Tinybox.

The blog post by Brandon Ngacho discusses a solution to coordinate emails requiring future action with calendar events. The author created a tool that assists in formatting these actionable items directly into a calendar via an add-on, leveraging Language Learning Models (LLM) like ChatGPT and open-source alternatives like Mistral Instruct model.

A Hacker News thread discusses various non-AI tech projects users are working on, ranging from app development to enterprise software. The conversation highlights the community's diverse interests beyond the current AI trend.

Sander Dieleman, a Research Scientist at DeepMind, writes about modelling music directly in the waveform domain, detailing successes and challenges in generative models like WaveNet and SampleRNN. He discusses the development of adversarial and likelihood-based models, emphasizing the computational demands of waveform modelling and the potential for future research, including adversarial models catching up with likelihood-based models.

Theo, an AI robot, is now an essential part of combating disease in Dutch tulip fields by identifying and eliminating infected bulbs to prevent the tulip-breaking virus from spreading.

Kapa.ai is seeking a full stack engineer with 3+ years of experience to join their seed-stage AI startup. The position offers $80K - $120K salary with equity options, is fully remote, and involves working with cutting-edge AI and systems design.

Martin is a state-of-the-art AI butler designed to function like Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. Users can interact with Martin via text, email, or voice, allowing for a seamless and intuitive human-AI interaction. With integrations to calendar, email, and multiple search engines, Martin adapts to the user's habits and needs, offering proactive assistance such as scheduling, sending reminders, and providing information.

Background Supply offers a collection of stunning AI-generated backgrounds for design projects. Users can browse and download 6K resolution backgrounds and access Midjourney prompts to customize designs. Collections include various themes like Metallic, Neon, Twilight, and more.

Kobble.io offers a platform to monetize APIs by adding authentication, analytics, and payment processing. It simplifies setup, allowing developers to focus on their core product while managing user permissions and syncing with Stripe for payments.

DermaQ offers a dermatology-AI assistant named Pulse, providing free hair loss diagnosis and personalized advice for skin and hair care. Powered by data from medical journals, Pulse offers accurate symptom prediction, treatment guidance, and lifestyle recommendations like diet and sleep protocols.

Remove Background by Radaar is an online tool designed to help users automatically and quickly remove backgrounds from their images. With the ease of a single click, users can transform their photos by making backgrounds transparent, ideal for creating professional-looking graphics, product photos for e-commerce, or any other situation where a cutout image is required.

Creatie.ai is a platform leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance creativity and productivity in various fields. It offers innovative AI-driven tools and solutions to streamline workflows, generate ideas, and facilitate complex tasks.

AI Anywhere provides an innovative platform for seamless messaging and communication with advanced AI integration, enabling users to interact in real-time.

Vocab Scrabble is an engaging online game designed to enhance your English vocabulary within 60 seconds per round by guessing words from AI-provided letters. Aim to guess as many words in five minutes to improve your vocabulary skills substantially.

Earnie is a personal finance AI designed to help users save money effortlessly. It connects with bank accounts to track spending and find opportunities to save.

Moirai is a novel time series foundation model designed by Salesforce AI Research for universal forecasting. It addresses challenges such as handling multiple frequencies, varying dimensionality, and flexible predictive distributions. The research introduces LOTSA, a large-scale dataset for training, and demonstrates robust zero-shot forecasting capabilities across various domains.

The article discusses the trend of AI datacenters relocating to areas near nuclear power plants, as they provide cheap, low-carbon energy which is appealing for power-intensive operations. NE Edge seeks to build AI datacenters adjacent to a 2GW Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut, but faces local concerns over electricity costs. AWS and Microsoft are also exploring nuclear-powered options for their datacenters.

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.