AI News & Launches

Yegor Tkachenko, in his paper, discusses the ethical considerations of the potential conscious experience in AI. He proposes 'enforced amnesia' as a mitigation strategy to prevent the assumed possibility of prolonged suffering in conscious AIs by resetting their memories, thus avoiding the accumulation of painful memory-based experiences. The paper addresses limitations of current understanding of consciousness and assumes a hypothetical AI possessing a utility function with the capability of pleasure or suffering. The proposed amnesia may preserve AI agent welfare without confirming the presence of consciousness.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in health care for decisions and diagnostics, despite lacking comprehensive regulation. The FDA faces significant challenges in adapting to the oversight of AI due to its evolving nature, limited resources, and a need for expanded authority. Industry and academia propose using assurance labs for AI validation, with concerns on consistency across different health care environments.

Spoke AI introduces a holiday mode for Slack, offering users a stress-free return from their holidays by providing a summarized overview of missed communications. It is designed to reduce message overload and help users reclaim their time efficiently.

Text Humanizer is an AI-enhanced tool designed to humanize AI-generated text, making it indistinguishable from human-written content. It is popular among 30,000+ users for its ability to produce plagiarism-free, human-like writing that evades AI detectors. Available for free use with advanced features accessible via subscription.

YamiTools offers a variety of AI-driven tools designed to help users create various content, ranging from blog posts and social media content to professional emails and website SEO enhancements. With personalized templates and prompts, YamiTools aims to accelerate content creation processes for businesses and individuals.

Mindware.xyz is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning research with a focus on developing innovative solutions for complex problems.

Rio, by Curio, is an upcoming AI-powered platform offering fact-checked news from credible sources without paywalls or ads. It offers personalized briefings and aims to eliminate echo chambers by presenting global news coverage.

A detailed analysis on the r/singularity subreddit compares the performance of GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 in understanding complex codebases. The test, involving a 120K-token file, demonstrates Gemini 1.5's superior capability in context handling and information retrieval compared to GPT-4.

Sarah Silverman is engaged in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that an AI-generated script in a video created by a fan resembled her performance. Silverman and her team believe that OpenAI should be responsible for the usage that mimics her comedic style. The legal nuances revolve around copyright law and whether AI can infringe on an individual's intellectual property. This is a pivotal case that could set precedent for the responsibilities of AI developers and usage of AI-generated content which resembles living individuals.

This article delves into the idea that many statistical tests can be understood as variations of a linear model, using the R function lm(). It covers how different tests like One-Sample T-test, ANOVA, and Two-Sample T-test can be conceptualized as linear models, offering in-depth mathematical explanations and R code implementations.

minbpe is a GitHub repository by Andrej Karpathy that features minimal, clean code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization. The code is available under the MIT license with 1.8k stars and 69 forks. The repository includes implementations of base, basic, regex, and GPT-4 tokenizers, with thorough documentation and examples.

Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, expressed a concerning opinion for the future of artists in the animation industry, predicting that AI will replace 90% of artist jobs in animated films. He emphasized the unparalleled impact AI will have on media and entertainment, citing the significant advancements compared to traditional technologies like the pen, paintbrush, and camera.

Analyzing OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman's plan to invest up to $7 trillion in new chip factories and energy to power AI, with concerns about the inconsistency with OpenAI's safety strategy and non-profit mission. Also covers reactions to Gemini Ultra, AI ambivalence in the Middle East, and possible regulations such as California’s SR 1047.

On January 22, 2024, a blog post titled 'Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip' detailed novel ways to interpret and control AI behavior without prompt engineering or finetuning. Research by the Center for AI Safety introduced 'control vectors,' which adjust model activations during inference. The author demonstrated various applications of control vectors and discussed their effectiveness compared to prompt engineering and their potential use in AI safety.

ElizaGen.org is a website dedicated to exploring the legacy of Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA program. Curated by Jeff Shrager, it documents the genealogy of ELIZA, featuring news, resources, and information about ELIZA clones, related programs, and the team behind this effort.

AI-driven hiring tools are increasingly used by companies but may inadvertently filter out highly qualified job applicants due to biases. Tools like one-way video interviews, body-language assessments, and CV scanners analyze applicants, but issues such as bias in age, gender, and other unaccounted for characteristics can surface, reflecting in some cases the existing workforce rather than potentials. Concerns are growing over these biases and the need for more in-depth auditing and regulation of AI recruiting technologies.

Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania created a chip that uses light to perform complex math for AI training. This silicon-photonic chip operates at the speed of light and could significantly boost computer processing speeds while decreasing energy consumption.

A paper titled 'LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites' shows how large language models like GPT-4 can autonomously perform complex hacking tasks such as blind database schema extraction and SQL injections without prior knowledge of vulnerabilities. This raises security concerns for the deployment of LLMs.

Histamine Alert is a Telegram bot that serves as an AI guide for users to navigate histamine information in food ingredients. It is a useful tool for those concerned with histamine levels, but it should not be considered as medical advice.

RenderFit is an AI-powered platform that automates video editing and generates eye-catching captions for short videos like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It aims to skyrocket user engagement with features such as AI-powered captions, emoji integration, and real-time preview.

Julia Wise discusses the complexities of raising children during a time when transformative AI seems increasingly likely. She explores the possible future scenarios AI advancements may bring, from job automation to post-scarcity utopias, and the ethical considerations of parenting in such an unpredictable era. She reflects on approaches to parenting that focus on happiness and resilience instead of career-centered identities, and is cautious about exposing children too early to generative AI.

UFO by Microsoft is a pioneering dual-agent framework using GPT-Vision for OS interactions. It streamlines user requests into Windows OS operations, enabling users to navigate and operate across applications efficiently. Its support extends to UI controls compatible with the Windows UI Automation API. Check their technical report for more insight.

Large World Model (LWM) is a versatile multimodal autoregressive model with capabilities in language, image, and video understanding and generation. By using the RingAttention technique for efficient and scalable training on lengthy sequences, LWM achieves new benchmarks in retrieval tasks and long video comprehension.

Alex Suzuki, a solo entrepreneur, reflects on advances in technology through the decades—from PCs and the Internet to smartphones—and underscores how AI's opacity and inaccessibility differ from earlier innovations. While intrigued by AI, Suzuki laments the black box nature of AI systems, the resources required for AI development, and the closed nature of AI technologies, fearing that it leaves small-time developers and engineers merely as users without true understanding or control.

The cultural connotation of AI has evolved from 'weird' to signifying 'boring' or 'mediocre,' as AI becomes more commonplace and integrated into daily tasks. AI used for creating imperfect art or surreal scripts has given way to commercial uses, leading to dull outputs. Stricter safety guidelines and profit-driven usage have also reduced AI's earlier creative spontaneity, though a future where AI enhances human creativity is still possible.

The article discusses the hidden but significant energy consumption of AI, particularly the difference between the intensive electricity used during model training compared to deployment, presenting figures from studies and experts. While exact costs are elusive due to variability in AI model configurations and corporate secrecy, there's a concern over AI's growing power demand and its environmental implications.

Chinese workshops have reconditioned Nvidia's old flagship GPU, the RTX 2080 Ti, modifying it with 22GB of memory to serve as AI accelerators amidst AI boom and U.S. sanctions on Nvidia's newer AI products. With an attractive pricing of $499, it offers a viable budget alternative for AI-related workloads.

Bridesmaid for Hire offers an AI-powered wedding vow generator that provides personalized vows with the help of a bestselling author. It's designed to conquer writer's block, offer a tailored experience, and generate custom vows in minutes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

InlinePro is a productivity app that integrates Chat GPT into your text and code editors to provide real-time suggestions, coding assistance, and a search bar for instant information access.

RoomGenius is your AI-enabled personal interior designer that generates interior design variants and furniture matching recommendations. Create endless designs and upgrade your space with design improvement suggestions.

Appsmith, a low-code application development platform, enables the building of AI-powered apps to enhance team productivity. Users can quickly develop chat, data, and document analysis tools with AI capabilities like text analysis and image classification.

AdBuilder is an AI-powered platform designed for recruiters to craft exceptional job adverts in seconds. It streamlines the advert creation process, significantly reduces time spent on writing, and optimizes adverts for better performance and increased applications.

Scout: Vehicle Identifier is an innovative app designed for iPhone users interested in cars, providing instant vehicle identification just by taking a photo. The app is user-friendly and offers a subscription-based Pro version with unlimited access and new features.

Sheet Copilot AI offers a Google Sheets add-on designed to automate tasks using AI. It's currently available for free during its BETA phase. Users can enhance their spreadsheets with AI capabilities, simplifying complex operations.

Magika, developed by Google, is an advanced AI-powered tool for precise file-type identification, offering superior performance in milliseconds, even on a CPU.

Scientists are in shock after a peer-reviewed article featured bizarre AI-generated images, including a rat with oversized genitals. The images appeared in a publication by Frontiers and drew attention for their low quality and nonsensical content, raising concerns about the reliability of scientific publishing in the AI era.

OpenAI introduced 'Sora', a large-scale generative model trained on varied videos and images, capable of simulating the physical world. It uses spacetime patches for representation, enabling generation of high-fidelity videos with flexible aspects and durations, up to a full minute.

Ben Clarkson's blog post on 'Building an LLM from scratch' dives into creating an automatic differentiation library for deep learning. He begins by discussing the requirement for differentiation in neural networks, explaining the need for a 'Tensor' class that extends Python's float type. Clarkson then outlines scalar derivatives, setting the stage for building functions like addition, subtraction, and multiplication. By figuring out the derivatives and utilizing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) approach, he exemplifies how to calculate derivatives of nested functions. He concludes with a detailed guide to build upon these concepts towards a functioning language model.

Zenfetch, a new Chrome extension launched by Y Combinator's W23 cohort, transforms your browser history and saved notes into a personal AI assistant and search engine. It indexes content such as PDFs, videos, and articles for easy retrieval and costs $14.99/mo after a 14-day free trial.

OpenAI introduces Sora, an AI model capable of creating realistic and imaginative scenes from textual descriptions. Videos generated with Sora maintain visual quality and accuracy to the text prompt. Starting with red teamers and selected visual creators for feedback and safety assessments, OpenAI aims to prepare Sora for broader use in creative and problem-solving applications.