AI News & Launches

A new poll by consultancy firm Edelman reveals a mounting public skepticism towards AI. With a global dip in trust from 61% in 2019 to 53% now, the U.S. shows an even steeper decline to 35%. AI's 'bad management' is criticized by many, while tech industry trust remains high at 76%, leaving a gap that suggests a need for responsible AI development and transparent community partnerships.

Google's AI-focused Pixel 8 is reportedly unable to run the latest smartphone AI models due to hardware limitations. The Gemini Nano, designed for on-device AI, runs on Pixel 8 Pro, but not Pixel 8, despite both having the same Google Tensor SoC. This issue has raised concerns about transparency and has disappointed consumers considering the promises of seven years of OS updates.

NIST staff members are reportedly considering resignation over the expected appointment of effective altruist AI researcher Paul Christiano to the US AI Safety Institute. Critics fear his ties to the movement may disrupt the objectivity of AI safety initiatives.

AIConfig Editor turns Visual Studio Code into a generative AI IDE. It supports a wide range of AI models and providers allowing seamless integration into development workflows, with prompts and settings saved in .aiconfig files.

Relari, a Y Combinator W24 company, introduced their continuous-eval framework to diagnose and address issues in large language model applications at a component level. It offers granular metrics to isolate the fault within complex systems such as finance copilots and corporate search tools.

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LemonRocks is a platform aimed at revolutionizing the way innovators and backers connect in the web3 space. It offers a suite of tools for discovering startups, VCs, and talent, enhanced by smart data insights.

HaiJoy offers an interactive chat experience where users can engage with various characters, ranging from original creations (OC) to celebrities and fictional personas. The app includes diverse chat themes such as fluff, dominance, and fantasy genres across movie & TV contexts.

DraftAid utilizes advanced AI technology to streamline the fabrication drawing process, reducing drawing time from weeks to minutes. It's compatible with major 3D modeling software and is designed to free designers from repetitive tasks, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

Charmed AI provides an AI-powered chatbot platform designed to automate customer service interactions, improving response times and user satisfaction. Their platform integrates with various messaging services to deliver a seamless customer support experience using advanced natural language processing technologies.

Super-Rag is a high performance RAG pipeline for AI applications offering summarization, retrieval/reranking, and code interpreters through a simple API.

Ocular is an AI-powered platform that enables search, visualization, and actions across work and engineering tools, offering a unified experience for enterprise search and action derivation.

Questflow.ai is a platform designed to streamline business processes through the use of cutting-edge AI and workflow automation technology, improving efficiency and task management.

The article discusses the investment surge and fervor surrounding large language models (LLMs), likening the phenomenon to a modern AI gold rush. It compares the rapid commercial interest to historical gold rushes, stressing the surprise, spreading information, and economics driving such waves. ChatGPT is highlighted as an LLM that marked a notable surprise in AI capabilities, receiving more attention than 5G and Google's Bard. The piece advises a cautious approach, forecasting a supply chain for LLM support and potential cost debates for future models.

The New Yorker article details a new type of scam that uses AI to clone the voices of individuals to make threatening ransom calls to their loved ones. A Brooklyn couple was deceived into believing their relatives were being held at gunpoint and paid the scammers in panic. The article delves into the advancements of AI technology, its beneficial applications, as well as its potential for misuse in crimes like fraud and impersonation.

Answer.AI introduces an open source system combining FSDP and QLoRA that allows training of a 70b parameter language model on just two 24GB GPUs, making AI more accessible to smaller labs and enthusiasts. Deep collaboration with Hugging Face, U Washington, and support from the open source community made this breakthrough possible.

Inflection introduces Inflection-2.5 for Pi, their empathetic AI, bringing substantial improvements in performance and efficiency. Now comparable to leading models like GPT-4, Inflection-2.5 uses only 40% of the compute used by its competitors and showcases excellence in IQ tasks, especially in STEM. The release sees high user engagement and overall better performance on various industry benchmarks.

Stealth Rocket introduces Dispatch, a serverless orchestrator designed to simplify distributed systems development. The Dispatch SDK enables Python developers to effortlessly build on this platform, ensuring reliability and scalability while reducing operational complexity.

Hacker News users discuss various AI programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot, JetBrains AI Assistant, and newer models like Claude 3 and Phind Model. Many share their preferences based on functionality, ease of use within IDEs, and effectiveness in development tasks.

Researchers have developed ArtPrompt, a method that bypasses safety measures in chatbots such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 by using ASCII art. This enables the chatbots to respond to queries they would normally reject, such as how to build bombs or make counterfeit money.

The Pile is an expansive 825 GiB dataset designed for language modeling, combining 22 high-quality datasets to promote diversity in source material. It is publicly available for download in jsonlines format and is particularly useful for training and benchmarking large language models. The dataset shows that variety in training data can enhance model performance across various domains.

Louis Barclay discusses the threat AI poses to the supply side of the online ad industry, which is worth $1 trillion annually. With ad revenues from tech giants like Google, Facebook, and TikTok amounting to $383 billion in 2023, a simple command, 'AI, no ads please', could potentially wipe out significant income. Barclay is starting a series exploring the impact of AI on adtech, the rise of AI operating systems, and their implications for consumer ad exposure.

The United States is on the brink of a power shortage due to the explosive demand for electricity from AI, data centers, and clean-tech manufacturing. Utilities and regulators are struggling to keep up with the demand for industrial power, which has significantly surpassed projections. The aging power grid faces bottlenecks, and new energy consumers, particularly in clean energy, are experiencing increased wait times for connections. The transition to cleaner energy is threatened as utility executives lobby for the prolongation of fossil fuel plants to meet growing energy needs, which may impact the ability to meet climate goals.

Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding has been charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with two China-based companies. Arrested in California, Ding faces up to 10 years in prison per charge. This case underlines concerns over Chinese economic espionage and the significance of AI technology control.

In 'OpenAI’s Own Goal', Gary Marcus criticizes OpenAI for straying from their original mission of openness and altruism by prioritizing profits and exclusive partnerships, especially with Microsoft. He highlights their shift from intended open-sourced contributions to tight control over their AI technology, citing evidence from legal filings and recent statements that contradict OpenAI’s initial promises.

Prompt Board is a powerful A.I. prompt management tool designed for iOS devices. It allows users to manage, organize, and directly access over 2,000 quality prompts from their keyboard, catering to various ChatBots and AI models.

AI Interviewer Pro is an innovative tool designed to streamline the recruitment process by utilizing artificial intelligence to conduct interviews. It offers 24/7 interview services, automated personality and skills assessments, and evaluates candidate-company fit, aiming to reduce recruitment effort, minimize bias, and enhance retention rates.

Outfindo utilizes AI to enhance e-commerce by guiding customers through product selection with easy questions, resulting in improved conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

Athina is a sophisticated tool for monitoring, debugging, analyzing, and improving LLMs in production environments. It helps in detecting and rectifying hallucinations, accuracy issues, and other quality-related errors. Featuring integrations with cutting-edge libraries, custom evaluations, and a variety of productivity tools, Athina is a trusted solution for top-tier tech teams.

Kapwing's AI Dubbing feature automates video localization by translating audio in videos using advanced speech detection and translation AI. It offers efficient, end-to-end automated dubbing, quality translations with humanlike AI voices, and integrates features like transcript editing with auto-generated subtitles.

Zainii.ai is an online education platform that leverages AI to enhance learning experiences. Their AI-powered study buddy is designed to simplify digital learning, offering interactive, avatar-led tutoring sessions. Users can access their services across any device, voice-command functionality, and a convenient dashboard for tracking progress.

Priorli is a platform offering users the ability to integrate their bio link with multiple resources and services to enhance their social media presence. Accessible at https://www.priorli.com/en .

Text Enhancer AI Tool is a free, AI-powered online platform for enhancing writing skills. Catering to a global user base, it provides features such as grammar improvement, rephrasing, and text enrichment. Trusted by over 30,000 users, it promises to deliver plagiarism-free, quality content.

Roe AI is the future of data science, introducing a data warehouse specialized for unstructured data, powered by AI from the future. Streamline data processes with an array of services like ONE STORE for eliminating data silos, GEN-AI ENGINES for extracting insights, OMNI SEARCH for comprehensive data discovery, and end-to-end DATA SECURITY to protect your assets.

Vmaker AI is a futuristic AI-powered video editor that transforms raw footage into impressive videos in minutes. It offers automatic enhancements like B-rolls, stickers, BG music, and much more. With Vmaker AI, users can convert long-form videos into short clips suitable for social media platforms and access advanced editing features designed for beginners and seasoned creators alike.

A bulletin from the Wolfram Physics Project covers Jonathan Gorard's reproduction of single-slit, double-slit, and multi-slit photon diffraction using the Wolfram model. The work builds on path weights and quantum mechanics formulations within the model, presenting convergence with conventional quantum mechanics predictions for these interference phenomena.

The article from kapa.ai discusses best practices for optimizing technical documentation for the efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs). Over 80 technical teams have worked with kapa.ai to implement these systems to enhance developer experience. It covers the importance of documentation structure, separating content by sub-products, including troubleshooting FAQs, and providing code snippets, among other practical tips.

Flux, an innovative PCB design platform, has announced a significant partnership with Ultra Librarian, the largest online electronic component CAD library. This collaboration integrates millions of trusted components into the Flux ecosystem, streamlining the design process and offering access to verified parts from manufacturers. Flux users benefit from a variety of tools including the AI design assistant Flux Copilot, which leverages Ultra Librarian’s library for improved efficiency.

The GitHub repository 'fructose' by bananaml is a public project providing a python package for creating strongly-typed interfaces around LLM calls. It allows developers to define functions with the `@ai()` decorator to handle requests to language models like OpenAI. It supports complex data types and offers configuration options for model types and prompting behavior.

Fathom is hiring a Platform Engineer for a full-time remote role offering $150K - $200K and targeting candidates with 6+ years of experience. Fathom's mission is to eliminate the need for meeting notes with their AI assistant product.