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Let’s Get You Caught Up on This Week in GenAI
The AI Bloke
May 04, 2023
No newsletter intro by ChatGPT Dave Chapelle or Will Ferrell today because the plan is to speedrun some headlines from the past two weeks. There’s a lot of them lol. But first…
Now, get ready for a truckload of AI...
News Headlines
ChatGPT Code Interpreter 👨💻
ChatGPT Let’s You Turn off History ⏰
Pi Time 🥧 (These new LLM names out of hand)
Stable Diffusion Keeps Groovin’ 🕺
AI Music Going Mainstream? 🎵
OpenAI Trademarking GPT 😧
Big Brain Time: Google DeepMind 🧠
Bodacious AI Stuff
Dare to Compare: Compare the performance of multiple LLMs side by side 😱
Dropchat: Drop any document / file / video and talk with a chatbot trained on that info
✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️
ChatGPT Code Interpreter
I know you guys are tired of hearing about these mystical ChatGPT plugins that you can’t actually use unless you have a premium subscription, but I’m going to tell you about one more anyway 😬.
The ChatGPT code interpreter is a Python code sandbox that affords users the following capabilities:
Solving mathematical problems, both quantitative and qualitative
do data analysis and visualizations
Converting files between formats
It’s become very popular as a stand in data scientist, allowing people to quickly analyze and draw insights from data without the need to code or parse files. I know I personally would love to never have to use the Python Pandas library again, despite its deceptively cute name. This plugin can do stats, make pretty graphs, and do anything a data analyst could in a fraction of the time, making it a no brainer to expedite the process. However, don’t go firing your data scientist / analyst just yet. They know what questions to ask and how to interpret results better than most others!
Data analysts finding out about this plug in
ChatGPT Let’s You Turn off History ⏰
Amid concerns about privacy and several companies banning the use of ChatGPT by their employees, OpenAI has added an option that allows you to turn off your chat history (meaning all your previous conversations on the left hand side would be gone). With this enabled, ChatGPT does not use the data you give it for further training, preventing the leakage of potentially sensitive information into the model (which is what some companies are concerned about). They don’t want ChatGPT to start blabbing out company secrets to any Joe Shmoe (understandable).
Not particularly relevant to little ol’ me with my unimportant data, but at least I get to use this meme now.
PI Time : The New LLM on the Block 🥧
You’re probably having a tough enough time keeping track of all the different chatbots and language models available right now, so I thought, why not put another out there (sorry 😂).
This one’s called Pi, short for personal intelligence, and it’s brought to you by a pretty hotshot group of people, including an ex DeepMind Google employee, a LinkedIn cofounder, an OpenAI board member, and others with similarly impressive résumés. So what’s the big deal with Pi? It’s meant to be a personal chatbot similar to Poe, but also a virtual companion, learning from each and every one of your interactions with it. Pi plays the role of the active listener, helping users talk through questions and problems with a back and forth dialogue, which is not to say it can’t provide factual responses as well, like ChatGPT. Inflection.ai, the company behind Pi, claims that this isn’t even their best model, but I’ll believe that when I see some proof.
Stable Diffusion Just Keeps Groovin’ 🕺
For a company with only about 100 employees, Stable Diffusion is killing it.
Their models have always been good, but they’ve also historically had noticeable quirks. For example, for a time they were unable to create realistic hands (often had some extra fingers sneaking in or other shenanigans). Another longstanding problem with many generative image models, not just Stable Diffusion, is an inability to create images with English words or numbers in them. For example if I asked for a T-shirt that said “free hugs”, you might end up getting “flea mugs” or “tree frugs” or increasingly nonsensical alternatives.
Now, Stability AI and DeepFloyd have partnered up to make my “free hugs” tee a reality. They created a text-to-image model, called DeepFloyd IF, that is capable of generating photorealistic images and integrating readable text into them. The model is based on Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model developed by Google Research that combines elements of ChatGPT and generative image models. Pretty cool huh? This opens up new avenues for artists now that the models won’t butcher the text you want included (for example you could make comic books from prompts 👀)
AI Music Going Mainstream? 🎶
If you haven’t listened to an AI generated song yet, please give it a try. Just hop on YouTube and lookup your favorite artist and chances are there could already be an AI song made using their voice. The community of these AI song producers is growing, with the discord server where it all started (the AI Hub) ballooning to around 50000 members at this time (remember the AI Drake song by Ghostwriter dropped 2 weeks ago).
Of course, not everyone is pleased with this turn of events, with apps like Spotify and Apple Music aggressively purging AI songs at the request of labels and artists. However, other artists like Grimes, welcome the changes AI are bringing and are actually seeking to collaborate with the AI producers in exchange for a cut off the profits. The legitimacy and legality of such music is still very much on the rocks and it remains to be seen what role it will play in the music industry. If music streaming app SoundCloud is any indicator though, AI music will have an important role to play in the future and SoundCloud is trying to position themselves accordingly with an entire catalogue and station specifically dedicated to AI music.
OpenAI Trying to Trademark GPT 🫢
OpenAI has applied to trademark GPT. If approved, this could be bad news for the multitude of software products that have included GPT in their name as they will need to rebrand or risk a lawsuit.
That’s what I sent out this a couple weeks ago back when the newsletter was called The Week in ChatGPT (oops).
Shoutout to my uncle for recommending I change the name of the newsletter. I’ll never doubt you ever again (unless you are trying to convince me to listen to country music).
Big Brain Time: Google DeepMind 🧠
Google’s feeling the pressure. With their commitment to building out and releasing Magi on a tight timetable, which is their new and improved generative AI search system, Google is consolidating their two acclaimed AI research groups, DeepMind and Google Brain, into Google DeepMind. Google Brain definitely feeling a little miffed right now on the way the name turned out, but you win some you loose some.
this merge reminds me of the infamous Pen Pineapple song abbreviated as PPAP. If you haven’t listened, I can’t in good conscience tell you to, but it’s pretty funny.
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow (But Please Keep Reading LOL)
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