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AI researchers are green with envy over the international acclaim the beloved ChatGPT is getting. Meta's head honcho of AI research, who has won the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for AI, chimed in on ChatGPT's recent success, and we're here to give you the juicy details.

In today's edition:

• Meta's Chief AI Scientist chimes in on ChatGPT's success

• Roundups of the top headlines and hottest product launches

• Memes - come for the news, stay for the laughs

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Talks ChatGPT

Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun recently dished out some tough love for ChatGPT.

LeCun suggested OpenAI's tool is simply reinventing the wheel, pointing out that other companies and research labs have developed similar AI systems. While ChatGPT and its predecessor GPT-3 may seem like a breakthrough, LeCun argues they're just well-crafted and polished culminations of years of work by OpenAI's predecessors.

"In terms of underlying techniques, ChatGPT is not particularly innovative," LeCun said.

The man backed up his statements with some facts, as any researcher would. ChatGPT uses Transformer architectures, a Google invention that nowadays all language models use, and is trained using supervised and reinforcement learning techniques, which have been iterated upon for decades. He cited Yoshua Bengio's work from about 20 years ago, on the concept of attention, which Google built upon to create Transformers.

LeCun did give OpenAI its due, saying ChatGPT was a product of good AI engineering, but only after emphasizing that the company didn't do anything brand new.

"It's nothing revolutionary, although that's the way it's perceived in the public," LeCun said. "It's just that, you know, it's well put together, it's nicely done."

What about Meta's own plans for text generation, generative art, and other creation aids? LeCun made sure to reveal that the company is also in the game. He highlighted that Meta will soon be able to help small businesses promote themselves by automatically producing media for their brand. Mom-and-pop shops on Facebook may not have the resources to design a spiffy ad, so Meta plans to offer AI tools to change that.

Now then, if Google and Meta have had all the puzzle pieces to build neat AI products for so long, why didn't they get there first?

LeCun had an answer for that too: "Google and Meta have a lot to lose by putting out systems that make stuff up."

(ZDNet)

🤠 Headline Roundup

Microsoft invested in OpenAI, reportedly giving the startup $10 billion more, to continue developing AI "that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful." (Microsoft and OpenAI)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly voiced concerns for years that the company was slow to commercialize its AI research. So he threw money at OpenAI. (The Information)

The European Union launched a project to aggregate cancer imaging data to speed up innovation and early cancer diagnosis using AI. We can't think of a better purpose. (Reuters)

ChatGPT users reported a "pro" tier costs $42 per month, offering faster response speeds, higher reliability, and new feature priority access, but nothing is official. (The Verge)

CNET's AI journalist was caught red-handed committing extensive plagiarism of competitors' and colleagues' work, in addition to articles riddled with errors. (Futurism)

Editorial: As Deepfakes Flourish, Countries Struggle With Response (The New York Times)

Editorial: How ChatGPT And Natural Language Technology Might Affect Your Job If You Are A Computer Programmer (Forbes)

🔥 Hottest Product Launches

• IMGCreator.ai - design and edit images using only text (link)

• Zenen AI - imagine if ChatGPT and Siri had a baby (link)

• Lingobo - practice conversational language skills with an AI partner (link)

• Magician - a magical AI-powered design tool for Figma (link)

• AI Design Resource - over 200 curated high-quality AI resources for designers (link)

• Playground AI - generates or import images to create art, presentations, and more (link)

• Stylized - creates professional photos for e-commerce merchants in 30 seconds (link)

💼 Hiring Corner 

• ML Engineer at Gumroad

• Director of Communications at Anthropic

• Research Scientist Intern at Meta

• AI Research Scientist, Internship at Two Sigma

• Machine Learning Research Engineer at Osaro

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