These Weeks in the World of Artificial Intelligence
I finally caught up with a number of AI-related newsletters. Here are a few things I learned.
One key take-away: presentations are going to be much funnier in the coming year.
- Midjourney version 6 is looking mightily amazing. I may subscribe just to liven up my presentations. Adios iStock. Hello crazy presentations.
- Lawyers are sharpening their pencils to figure out how to comply with the EU’s AI Act. Even for our simple bot, we’ll need to understand this better.
- The UK Supreme Court already settled that AI cannot be named a patent ‘Inventor’.
- AI shines when you have to remember lots of information, such as case law and medical diagnoses. Enter Nabla, a French startup, whose product lurks in the background of the doctor’s office to help the doctor. Google and Microsoft have both released models trained on medical data: MedPaLM-2 and Medprompt.
- Google NotebookLM seems interesting, especially if it could pin newsletters and websites. It would be ideal if paired with getmatter.com.
- AnyText may be the answer to eliminate the gibberish text from generated images.
- Aragon.ai is another headshot generator. However, that’s small potatoes compared to Google’s VideoPoet. ModiFy provided a flashback to the blinking websites from the early internet.
- AI will surely drive the push for more capable consumer electronics. E.g., The exciting drawww.app doesn’t run on my iPad Air as it requires more powerful Apple silicon.
- I spent this weekend understanding the options on a new Volvo sedan: Volvo S60 {B5 , T8 Recharge} {Core, Plus, Ultimate} {Dark, Black Edition}. That was easy compared to keeping track of all the LLM models: GPT 3.5, 4 or 4.5, GPT 3.5 or 4 Turbo, Gemini, Gemini Pro, DeciLM 6b and 7B, 13B, 8x7B, etc.
- New lingo: Chain of Thought (CoT) and Tree of Thought (ToT)
The Sources
- Unwind AI
- Deep Learning Daily Community
- You Probably Need a Robot newsletter
- VentureBeat 2024 AI predictions