AI News & Launches

SteamPulse.info offers data-driven insights and analytics about the Steam gaming platform. The website features latest trends, popular games, and user behavior patterns.

OpenAI introduced OpenAI Microscope, a collection of detailed visualizations for eight significant vision 'model organisms' used in interpretability research. The platform aims to facilitate the study of neural networks' features and improve research collaborations by providing quick and linkable access to neuron visualizations. Initially, it features nine vision models with valuable visualization techniques. OpenAI encourages community use and contributions to projects like the Circuits collaboration.

Google has terminated its contract with Appen, an Australian company that helped train its AI, impacting Appen's significant revenue from Google. Workers at AI training companies like Appen face layoffs and poor work conditions.

Recraft is a generative AI design tool that enables users to create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics. It offers powerful, easy-to-use tools for total creative freedom and style control.

Google Chrome introduces three new generative AI features, including a tab organizer, AI-generated browser themes, and writing assistance to improve web interaction. These features, made available in Chrome version M121, aim to simplify web browsing, add personalization, and assist with text creation on various websites. They are currently offered as experiments in the U.S. on Macs and Windows PCs.

Dealight.ai offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform that helps startups refine their pitch decks based on real-time insights from private and public data sources. The platform matches startups with investors through in-depth A.I analysis, scoring pitch decks against investor preferences and facilitating connections with suitable funding partners.

Text Reader is a free AI-powered text to speech generator that converts written content into realistic audio for various uses such as podcasts, video voice-overs, and IVR systems. Providing high fidelity TTS WaveNet voices, it supports multiple languages and accents, suited for personal and commercial applications.

Sparkling is a browser extension designed to empower professionals by providing access to daily must-read content for career advancement. It features a curated selection of resources, diverse sources, and utilizes AI for facilitating the curation process. The app is free with sponsored content spaces.

RealMockInterviews offers an AI-powered platform to practice job interviews with realistic scenarios using GPT-4 technology. It provides feedback, allows customization, and is endorsed by professionals. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back.

Volapyk is a platform in beta phase aimed at enhancing online safety by evaluating and scoring the data practices of various services such as Google, Apple, and Reddit. It recently won the Congressional App Challenge in 2023.

Text Wizard AI is a transformative text generation app built exclusively for Webflow, enhancing the content creation process by integrating AI-powered text directly into the user’s workflow. This app provides features like tailored text generation, effortless rephrasing, and customizable AI outputs.

Gift Note Writer is a Chrome extension designed to help users create thoughtful and personalized notes for gifts. It provides templates and suggestions to ensure that your gift messages are always special and well-received.

ReplyGuy is an AI-based service that helps businesses automatically mention their products in relevant social media conversations. By tracking specific keywords, it generates and posts personalized replies on Reddit and Twitter, efficiently engaging potential customers 24/7.

Google News searches prioritize AI-generated articles, including plagiarized versions of legitimate news, such as a New York Post exclusive about FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak. Google confirmed the content will be removed for policy violation. Experts expressed concerns at a Senate panel about AI threats to journalism. Google maintains their search ranking system's integrity.

The article titled 'Evolution of AI and Amara's Law' by Nuno Coração discusses the rapid advancements in AI over the past year, the implications of the technology's growth, and the concerns that come with it, such as knowledge gap, AI alignment, copyright issues, and the sustainability of AI business models.

The web post on iter.ca details a unique crash issue when GPT-3.5 is prompted with a specific phrase related to 'useRalativeImagePath'. It consistently errors out and does not resume normal functionality unless the phrase is omitted. OpenAI's use of tokens over characters is suspected to be the cause, potentially due to an exclusion of XML files in training data, making the model unfamiliar with the problematic token. The post explores the phenomenon and its potential implications, including the concept of data poisoning.

The article discusses a project to index iCloud Photos using AI with LLaVA and pgvector to enhance photo search capabilities. The author, Mustafa Akin, uses a locally operated multi-modal LLaVA that understands images and informative prompts to create image descriptions, which are then embedded as vectors for searchability.

Adaptiv offers personalized career recommendations and learning paths tailored to individual skills and goals using an AI-powered mentor, Ada. The platform provides unbiased job insights, cost and time efficiency through AI analyses, and long-term career planning with micro-learning courses.

HollyHires.ai offers an AI-powered virtual recruiter named Holly who simplifies the hiring process. Holly sources candidates automatically, vets them according to requirements, and reaches out to them. The platform can integrate with tools like LinkedIn, GitHub, and various ATS systems providing a seamless hiring experience. With a database of over 750m profiles, Holly brings efficiency to recruitment by managing sourcing, outreach, and screening, allowing clients to focus on interviews and decisions.

ai-o is a feature-rich AI Assistant web extension designed to enhance productivity by providing users with various tools for web browsing, chat management, and AI-powered assistance. It offers functionalities to chat with GPT-4 Turbo & GPT-4 Vision, import ChatGPT history, organize chats into folders, use custom prompts, text-to-speech, and Markdown support. Future updates will include an AI writing assistant, AI email assistant, and more.

OpenAI bans a developer who created a ChatGPT-powered bot mimicking presidential candidate Dean Phillips. The move was a response to a misuse of AI in political campaigns, violating OpenAI's rules. The action came after a Washington Post report on the bot developed for a super PAC, which was taken down upon OpenAI's account suspension.

The University of Chicago has developed Nightshade, a tool to combat the unauthorized use of images by AI models through 'data poisoning', making AI recognize images incorrectly. It complements Glaze, a defensive tool that prevents style replication. Nightshade has limitations, and its countermeasures may improve over time.

Langfuse, a Y Combinator-backed W23 company, is seeking a Founding Engineer for full-stack development on its open-source observability and analytics platform for LLM apps. The role is full-time with 3+ years experience required, based in Berlin, and offers €60K-€100K plus 0.10%-1.50% equity.

WittyWingMan is an AI-powered tool designed to help users craft smart, personalized replies for dating apps. By uploading chat screenshots, users receive context-aware suggestions and witty replies that reflect their personal style, improving their online dating conversations.

AI Lawyer is an innovative virtual assistant designed to simplify legal processes for consumers and lawyers. It offers document automation, case research, educational tools for law students, and 24/7 support, all aimed at making justice more accessible and cost-effective.

Meta Research introduces a new paradigm in language model training called Self-Rewarding Language Models (SRLMs), which utilize self-generated rewards for continual improvement, overtaking traditional training approaches. By leveraging Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and the LLM-as-a-Judge prompting, SRLMs, in just three iterations, have demonstrated GPT-4 level performance on benchmarks without the need for human-generated rewards.

AI-generated fakes are becoming increasingly undetectable, stumping detection software and rendering watermarks less effective. Despite efforts from tech companies and researchers, the pace at which AI is advancing suggests that fakes may evade current and future identification methods.

A study by AWS AI Lab discovers that over 57% of sentences on the internet are AI-generated, raising concerns about content quality and implications for non-English languages. Poor-quality translations, driven by machine translation tools, degrade web content. This hampers AI model training, particularly in lower-resource languages.

The paper 'Efficient LLM inference solution on Intel GPU' discusses advancements in the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) for inference on Intel GPUs. The authors propose a system with reduced memory access frequency and system latency, a segment KV cache policy, and a custom Scaled-Dot-Product-Attention kernel. Results show up to 7x lower token latency and 27x higher throughput compared to standard implementations.

Chile utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to locate over 1,000 individuals missing from Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. The initiative led by Justice Minister Luis Cordero aims to digitize millions of pages from judicial records and administrative case files. By implementing AI and data analysis, the government seeks crucial cross-referencing to identify the disappeared.

British comedian Stephen Fry reads a letter by Australian musician Nick Cave, expressing concerns about generative AI's impact on creativity. In an event at the Royal Albert Hall, Cave's letter discusses the threat of AI like ChatGPT to the 'collective, essential and unconscious human spirit', emphasizing the importance of the human struggle in the creative process.

FlushAI is a platform aimed at revolutionizing the way businesses integrate artificial intelligence into their processes. By offering cloud-based solutions, FlushAI makes access to advanced AI technologies simple and efficient for organizations of all sizes.

AItoZee is an AI-driven content platform offering a range of tools including AI Writer, AI Image, AI Code, AI Transcriber, and AI Voiceover. It provides a variety of templates, supports multiple content types, and is designed for individuals and businesses.

The FDA has approved DermaSensor, an AI-powered medical device capable of detecting all major types of skin cancer, including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. This groundbreaking device offers a non-invasive scanning process and AI-based risk assessment, promising to improve accuracy and accessibility of skin cancer screening.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, has indicated that achieving human-level artificial intelligence (AI) will take significant time and require new scientific breakthroughs. During a meeting in Davos, LeCun stated that human-level AI isn't around the corner, countering the push for premature regulation. Nick Clegg, president of Meta's Global Affairs, stressed the importance of regulating products, not research. The EU's AI legislation was a central discussion topic at the Davos forum, with experts exploring the nuances of enabling innovation while protecting citizens.

A French start-up named Mistral is aiming to rival industry giants such as Google and OpenAI in the field of artificial intelligence. Mistral's approach signifies a competitive edge in the dynamically evolving AI landscape, although details about their strategies or advancements are not accessible without a subscription to the Financial Times.

Voxos is a project under beta release, aimed at vocalizing desires through a voice interface. It is available at voxos.ai and is actively seeking funding support through a GoFundMe campaign.

Illustroke.com stands out as an innovative generative AI design tool, specifically tailored for creating vector illustrations from text prompts. This platform harnesses the power of AI to transform user-entered text into scalable vector graphics (SVG), a feature that is both unique and highly efficient in the realm of digital design. Its ability to generate three different illustration variants for each prompt offers users a valuable choice, catering to diverse design needs and preferences. Moreover, with over 40 distinct styles available, Illustroke is versatile enough to produce a wide range of illustrations, suitable for various applications such as website visuals, logos, and social media content.

Neverscene offers hyper-realistic AI-generated interior concepts for designers to find inspiration and redefine creativity. It provides an efficient workflow and complete ownership of created content.

AlphaGeometry, developed by Google's DeepMind, represents a significant advancement in AI's mathematical reasoning, particularly in solving complex geometry problems. It approaches the capability of a human Olympiad gold-medalist by solving 25 out of 30 problems within standard competition time limits. The system leverages a neural language model and a symbolic deduction engine, and has been trained on a vast dataset of synthetic examples.