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Here's what’s shakin’:
OpenAI is closing off their metrics
Midjourney launches a new subscription (or two)
Everyone and their mother has a take on GPT-4
Baidu will release an AI ERNIE on March 16th
OPENAI SPARKS A DEBATE ABOUT OPENNESS
Prompt: a robot tells a secret Style: Georgia O’Keeffe
Buried in the depths of the GPT-4 technical paper was one paragraph that left the AI community irked.
It reads:
“Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar.”
Translation: We won’t tell you how we trained this model or how many parameters it is because this took a lot of work. That’s work we don’t want Google getting, signed Microsoft.
Did Microsoft have anything to do with this change of heart? Probably.
Can I verify that? Not really.
Regardless, the open-source community lives to hear these facts, and that transparency goes a long way.
The days of open collaboration are long gone.
The lack of open data affects our understanding of the safeguards implemented and what might cause hallucinations in GPT-4.
Independent researchers can’t weigh in on these issues as much when they don’t know the underlying assumptions. It’s as if you were tasked with sailing a boat that’s already leaking.
You don’t know where the hole is, but you know it needs to be plugged.
GPT-4’s ARC test (which examines its ability to plan independently) compounds the worry around safety and at the worst possible moment.
So not only do we not know the details, but we’re also told this was the most challenging safety effort ever conducted by the Red Team at OpenAI.
Granted, the Red Team also believes they did a fantastic job, and the Chief Scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, argues that closing off this information is safer in the long run.
There’s no choice here but to trust them.
Still, it feels like OpenAI has become ClosedAI these last few months.
MIDJOURNEY LAUNCHES A MAGAZINE. WHAT YEAR IS IT?
The generative AI darling is bringing back the print industry from the brink of collapse! Okay, not really, but they are launching a new magazine subscription that features users' work.
I love this concept.
The magazine costs $4 monthly and curated art pieces from over 10,000 submissions. There are also interviews with artists in the community on their process and inspiration.
The decision to run this will help increase the adoption of AI artists.
Let’s face it; not everyone loves AI art taking over.
Then you see the amount of prompting to complete these pieces and immediately second guess that notion.
Midjourney’s doing this to bring attention to their brand, but the fact people will pay for this validates another use case for AI. It works on so many different levels.
This growing company is a small-funded startup focused on the design aesthetic in generative AI. Creating a coffee table magazine to celebrate the best creations is next level for them.
I’m sure they’ll make some money off this, but I also hope the artists get compensated.
We’re not far from art galleries that focus entirely on AI art, and a new movement is growing.
One hiccup, David Holz, the CEO of Midjourney, did not indicate how many issues they printed but did suggest that they’ll run out fast.
Oh yeah! They also announced Midjourney V5 is officially out now. We talked a lot about the new upgrade earlier this week and it seems that those assumptions held.
They nailed the anatomy of humans and hyperrealistic photos feel more real than ever now.
Who knows, I may even switch from Stable Diffusion 👀
Quick Nuggets
🎤 An interview with the President of OpenAI, Greg Brockman
⛑️ Google is adding AI technology meant for the health industry
🪧 Wanted: an AI Czar for NYC to share an office with their new Rat Czar
5️⃣ 5 ways that GPT-4 outsmarts ChatGPT, according to TechCrunch
🤠 SXSW is done with crypto. This year it was all about AI
🎓 College campuses are right in the middle of the AI arms race
🔗 LinkedIn is expanding its generative AI services even further
🌲 Park Rangers are in a constant fight against poaching—AI can help
👻 Snapchat’s AI is already in timeout after it encourages booze and sex
💀 Ghost debuts an anonymous group messaging app with ChatGPT baked in
👔 Chinese companies are hiring AI employees and Baidu is behind it
👀 March 16th Baidu is launching an AI ERNIE, according to rumors
💰 $350m raise: Adept wants AI to take actions on your computer for you.
🪶 Poe is adding a subscription for users to chat directly with GPT-4
🎲 How do you want to do this? This guy played Dungeons & Dragons with AI
🐥 Flappy Bird: designed, programmed, and played by GPT-4, so cool
👯 AI clones: Motherboard test if this is finally possible thanks to generative AI
7️⃣ 7 problems that the future of AI search is facing today
🌝 It’s a lie. The zoomed-in photo of the moon on your phone is made by AI
🧻 Microsoft is rationing access to AI hardware within the company
🕶️ Forget reality. Meta is now all-in on AI based on their latest earnings call
📚 The book on GPT4 is already written by Reid Hoffman…that was fast
🦓 Stripe is all in on GPT-4 as well and announced a new collab
🔥 Fresh Products
Shop - added a new AI shopping assistant (link)
Inworld - allows you to speak to AI characters, including a game master (link)
Meetingflow - gathers all the information you need for your next meeting (link)
Meet Atomic Habits - An AI resource based on the famous book (link)
HarvyAI - helps make your emails sound more professional (link)
Retrato - creates magical portraits of you (link)
Collato - becomes your team’s brain and knowledge center for referencing (link)
Intercom - released new AI capabilities for their service (link)
2short - generates YouTube shorts from your original content (link)
Radicalbit - an ML toolbox for your streaming event (link)
Vizologi - can answer any business strategy questions you have (link)
Good Content, Wild Turducken
Today, AI answered a question I did not need the answer to. I now know what a turkey-duck-hybrid would look like uncooked. I want this framed.
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