AI News & Launches

Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 15, a major update to the Mac text editor, adding ChatGPT support. Users can now send commands to ChatGPT inside BBEdit via a ChatGPT Worksheet, receiving results in the same document. Additional features include Cheat Sheets for commands, a new Minimap view, and over 200 other updates, including enhancements for Accessibility compatibility.

YouTube has updated its policies to ban true crime videos that use AI to reanimate and simulate the voices of deceased children and victims of violent events. The platform's change was to address a genre of videos that amassed millions of views, where simulated voices of real murder victims narrated their own deaths, causing distress to viewers and survivors alike.

Feather AI is a versatile content creation platform offering plagiarism-free solutions in French and English. It is designed to cater to various content needs, including SEO-driven blog posts, social media content, and AI-powered visual content development. Featuring a partnership with Microsoft, the platform also provides model customization and optimal prompts.

Generative AI (GenAI) poses a significant threat to KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, as shown by viral posts demonstrating how falsified ID images created using AI could potentially bypass such identity checks. The implications are concerning as KYC, which is meant to prevent impersonation, could soon become ineffective with GenAI's improving capabilities.

aitoolkit is a GitHub repository that aims to provide a set of functionalities to give a brain to NPCs in games. It includes features like behavior trees, finite state machines, goal-oriented action planning, utility AI, and is written in C++ with a focus on C++23 features.

iStockphoto introduces a Generative AI feature powered by NVIDIA Picasso allowing the creation of unique, commercially safe imagery. Users can buy packages for AI-generated content, which is legally covered for commercial use and does not expend the creative library. The service incorporates a user-friendly prompt builder and upholds responsible AI practices.

EnglishCoach.ai provides a personalized English language coaching experience accessible via a mobile app. With the app, users can improve their English speaking and pronunciation skills, especially in work-related situations such as interviews and meetings, with content developed by Oxford University Press.

TurboScribe is an AI transcription service offering unlimited audio and video transcriptions with a high accuracy of 99.8% across 98+ languages. It features speaker recognition and private & secure processing, all powered by the state-of-the-art Whisper technology. Subscriptions are available at various price points, including a free tier and an unlimited plan at $10/month billed annually.

Items Design offers a unique collection of AI-generated design assets updated weekly that are free for use in commercial projects, ads, pitch decks, mobile apps, websites, and more.

Followr.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to automate and optimize social media management and content creation, increasing engagement and streamlining marketing efforts.

Research paper titled 'Mixtral of Experts' introduces Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) architecture primarily aimed for language modeling. It outperforms competitors like GPT-3.5 on various benchmarks and is fine-tuned for instruction-following to surpass other models in human benchmarks. The paper features 26 authors, was submitted on January 8, 2024, and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Melanie Mitchell discusses 'AI Breakthrough on Systematic Generalization in Language', highlighting a neural network's human-like systematic generalization in solving puzzles using compositional understanding and meta-learning.

In 'Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI' submitted on 5 Jan 2024 to arXiv, researchers present the largest AI survey to date. They forecast AI's capabilities by 2028 and discuss long-term impacts, including AI risks, misinformation, and inequality.

Nicholas Charriere discusses the state of AI, highlighting the year of generative AI, particularly in text, image, and video modalities, and the comprehensive advancement of AI models in consumer assistants, code generation, and unstructured data processing. He predicts in 2024, engineers will see increased productivity, design and product sense will grow in importance, models will transition to the edge, and big tech companies like Apple and Amazon will become major players in AI.

AdSyncMarketing offers AI-powered digital marketing solutions, including advanced website creation, SEO, social media, and PPC campaigns. They cater to enterprises with AI-enhanced security, scalability, and transparency.

A playful thought experiment where Harry Potter characters react to being told they are not real. Their responses range from disbelief and humor to philosophical musing. Harry contemplates his reality, Ron laments his treacle tart, Hermione analyzes the logic, while others like Dumbledore find deeper meaning in their stories, and Voldemort denies it outright. The characters showcase their quintessential traits, illustrating how they might handle the existential revelation.

Pipl.ai is an AI-powered platform designed for cold outreach campaigns. It offers features like unlimited email accounts and prospects, advanced personalization with AI, and inbox & IPs rotation for higher deliverability. The platform also provides a private warm-up pool, custom AI model training, and advanced deliverability controls.

Bland.AI's Turbo offers the fastest conversational AI, delivering sub-second responses to match human speed and quality. It allows for instant calls and encourages users to try the service for free.

MonetiseGPT.com is a platform designed to help individuals and businesses monetize Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology. It provides resources, tools, and guidance on integrating GPT models into various applications to generate revenue.

After six months of daily driving the Tesla Model Y, Fatih Arslan shares his mixed impressions. He appreciates the convenience of scheduled climate control and keyless entry but is frustrated by the car's stiff suspension, lack of physical buttons, and the autopilot's limitations. Despite these issues, the cost savings on electricity vs. gas and the utility the car provides make him happy with the purchase, yet uncertain if he'd keep it for years.

Rely.io offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing software services and user journeys. It includes features like an AI assistant for engineering knowledge, scorecards for best practices, and service reliability management to monitor service quality.

Stylar is an AI-powered graphic design tool that simplifies image creation with intuitive features like predefined styles, layer-based editing, and natural language prompts. It boasts a user-friendly interface suitable for all skill levels, with special enhancements for faces and hands, and supports high-resolution exports.

InteractWith.AI offers a platform for monetizing AI creations with features like billing, authentication, and multi-modal chat interface, a simple billing system through Stripe, freedom of ownership, and low platform fees at 5%.

Offline Chat: Private AI is an on-device app providing a private ChatBot experience without needing internet connectivity. For iOS and iPadOS 17.0+, and macOS 14.0+ with M1 chip, this $1.99 app from Opus Noma LLC offers creative assistance and task support through a fine-tuned Mistral 7B AI, although independent fact verification is suggested.

Anytext.pics offers a unique way to share text through images, ideal for sharing messages on platforms where direct text sharing is not available or is less effective.

MK1 Flywheel by MK One Technologies announces AMD Instinct Series GPUs now achieve comparable inference performance to NVIDIA's GPUs, offering cost-efficient large language model workloads handling. MK1 Flywheel design optimizes throughput and latency on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware platforms and supports native integration with AI frameworks like PyTorch.

Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet AI startup, has partnered with major pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Novartis in deals potentially worth $3 billion. Led by CEO Demis Hassabis, Isomorphic aims to leverage DeepMind's protein structure prediction model, AlphaFold, in drug discovery.

Adam Karvonen discusses the emergence of internal world representations in GPT models trained on games like Chess. Using linear probes, the 50M parameter model trained on millions of chess games learns to play at approximately 1300 ELO and internalizes rules and board states, even predicting player ELO ratings. All work is open source, posing new directions for understanding AI interpretability.

AI took the spotlight in 2023, sparking debate on its progress. 'Machine intelligence' emerged in the 1950s with the Turing test, challenging AI to be indistinguishable from humans in conversation. Eliza, created in 1966, was one of the first to pass this by mimicking a psychotherapist. Despite its simplicity, Eliza's design illustrates basic AI principles, using keywords and transformation rules to simulate conversation. The program, adaptable across languages, uses a basic response structure, synonym handling, and memory for more 'intelligent' interactions. However, Eliza is not true AI; it operates on pre-coded responses and patterns.

The New York Times has filed a complaint against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging copyright and other intellectual property infringements due to the use of The Times' content in training AI models. This high-profile case accuses both entities of using copyrighted material without proper authorization for AI training and model output, potentially leading to a major legal precedent in the field of AI.

Camocopy is a privacy-focused AI assistant offering features like ChatGPT with a commitment to user data protection, providing instant internet search responses, generating realistic images, and offering a subscription-free model with encrypted EU-based hosting.

Tesla has reduced the range estimates for several of its vehicles, including Model Y, S, and X in the USA after complaints about exaggeration. The online configurator now shows reduced mileages; the Performance trim of Model Y down from 303 to 285 miles, Model Y Long Range from 330 to 310 miles, Model X Plaid from 333 to 326 miles, and Model S Plaid from 396 to 359 miles. These adjustments align with new EPA requirements and 'comfort improvements.'

adamkarvonen's 'chess_llm_interpretability' GitHub repository focuses on evaluating LLMs trained on PGN chess games, using linear probes for understanding board states and ELO predictions.

Sebastian Raschka provides a curated list of ten AI research papers from 2023, focusing largely on large language models (LLMs), exploring topics such as training insights, open-source models, and efficiency in finetuning.

NIST unveils various types of AI-targeted cyberattacks and outlines adversarial machine learning threats, underscoring the lack of foolproof defenses. The publication aims to support trustworthy AI. Techniques detailed include evasion, poisoning, privacy, and abuse attacks against AI systems.

This is a rewriting service feature called Resume Rewriter, created by Nikolai Stepanov. Designed to assist users in reworking their resumes to better match job descriptions, the feature requires ChatGPT Plus subscription for usage.

Camera manufacturers Canon, Nikon, and Sony are implementing new technology to digitally watermark photographs, aiming to definitively prove their authenticity and combat the rise of AI-generated fakes. Particularly crucial for journalists and photo editors, this technology embeds a tamper-resistant digital signature into images, containing metadata such as date, time, location, and photographer's name.

Microsoft's model 'phi-2' has been updated on Hugging Face, changing license terms from 'microsoft-research-license' to 'MIT License', among other updates involving the LICENSE, NOTICE.md, and README.md files.

Reiki is a platform in the blooming web3 space aiming to integrate spirituality within the metaverse using the blockchain technology. The website introduces a novel concept where users can learn about and participate in healing and spiritual practices through a decentralized digital environment.

Brewed.dev is a platform that uses AI to bring web ideas to life, from single components to entire websites. It features a credit-based system for generating designs and offers resources for both novice and experienced designers.