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Great first week for Ben's Bites. Friday's email went out to 270 people, this one is going out to over 700!!! Thank you, this is growing very quickly. 10k in 30 days? Let's see if we can do it.

My project tracker is available if you refer 2 friends to the list - using this link. It has all the links I mention in the emails, filterable and searchable for ease.

There may be a few more links today (and Mondays in general) as I'm catching up with the action from over the weekend. AI never sleeps. And neither can I with all these new shiny toys to play with!

Let's get to it.

Prompt: List the topics in today’s email:

📝 A new writing tool with a twist 🧑‍💻 GitHub Copilot code 'borrowing' 🥊 AI vs Google search 🧊 Text-to-3D🧑‍🏫 Education links and resources

🫦 BEN'S BITES

Google docs with AI baked in. That’s the promise¹⁸⁵ of a new product ‘Lex’ from Nathan Baschez. The waitlist is now over 20k users (I’m around 2k). You can view the demo here⁴¹³ and sign up for the list here³¹⁷.

Why is this product interesting? Well, it follows the path that Github Copilot has taken. It helps you when you’re in the workflow. It’s not something to generate the perfect output off the bat. You write, and it suggests content based on that. This interface for AI is going to be the big winner. Otherwise, we end up with a chatbot problem. Enter a question, get an undesirable output, give up, cry, and move on.

Nathan writes for a living. Creatives who embrace AI are going to be much more productive than those of us trying to BE a writer by using an AI tool.

Luckily I know Nathan (fun fact: he wrote the original code for Product Hunt) and am interviewing him about Lex. Hopefully, he’ll give us all an early invite to use the product. If you’re interested in that, tweet this¹⁰⁹.

• OpenAI’s Playground is pretty straightforward but this is even easier²⁹⁴. Tom made a super simple interface for interacting with GPT-3.

• This video render²²⁵ was captured on a phone (literally walking around the subject), with no drone involved. It’s so smooth!

• 40 Million previously uncharacterised proteins have now been annotated¹⁴¹ using a natural language processing model by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Google Research.

• Are you as bad at writing resumes as me? Upload your resume and get feedback³ in 30 seconds from an AI created by the experts. It helps optimize your LinkedIn profile to land 5x more interviews.

• thismoviedoesnotexist.org²³⁴ uses AI (GPT-3 + StableDiffusion) to generate fake movie posters + title + synopsis.¹⁷⁰

• Ultra-large AI models are over. No, they’re not breaking up…But here’s an analysis¹⁵⁷ on why AI companies may have reasons not to pursue them.

• (NO) Panic at The Gradio Disco. Disco stands for Disentangled Image Colorization via Global Anchors. Catchy huh?! Essentially, this colourizes images¹⁵¹.

• An animation-focused workflow¹⁷³ frontend for Stable Diffusion

• Prompt engineering, with a twist²⁴⁷ that makes it easier²⁴⁷! Live drag-and-drop AI writing augmentation.

• Outpainting/inpainting with a simple editor¹²⁴ - getimg.ai

• Google has released¹³⁶ a novel language pre-training paradigm that improves the performance of language models by using a mixture of training objectives. Called UL2

• 600M AI-generated high-quality captions¹⁵⁸ for publicly available web-images.

• Hate sending emails? Me too*. You can generate email responses¹⁷⁶ in seconds with Elephas.*except these emails. I love sending these :)

• A clear example¹⁸³ of the experience searching on Google vs asking GPT-3.

• Creatives can get so much more out of AI than regular people. IF they embrace it. This music producer did and he produced this track and video in 12 hours¹⁸² using Stable Diffusion (and his years of experience).

• A demo¹⁴⁵ of text-to-3D

• Last week DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix multiplication, conquering a 50-year-old record. This week, two Austrian researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz claim they have bested that new record⁸⁶ by one step.

• This drug delivery breakthrough¹⁴³ helps gene editing technology infiltrate cells.

• OpenAI’s GPT-3 simulates human subpopulations for social research¹⁴³ – or information warfare.

• 15 industries that DALL-E 2 is already disrupting^194† (opportunities for indie hackers)

• GitHub’s Copilot AI can write up to 40% of the code¹⁰⁵ for programmers and is heading up to 80% within five years. But, what code is it trained on to give its suggestions? This user¹⁴³ found his copyrighted code was used as a suggestion with no attribution. We’ll be on the lookout for how this progresses.

• Restore blurry/low-res faces from old photos¹⁸². CRAZILY well.

• Lex Fridman spoke with Kate Darling¹³⁴, human-robot interaction and robot ethics researcher at MIT.

• A great resource¹⁹⁰ to learn GPT tricks and tips.

• Edit your AI-generated images¹⁸⁷ directly with prompts. Prompt-to-prompt from Google is out now.

• Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers¹²⁷ by Ben's Bites reader Christopher Mims, WSJ.

• An article¹⁰¹ based on the research from the State of AI report (which I covered last week) “Pace of Artificial Intelligence investments slows, but AI is still hotter than ever".

• 9 Ways¹⁰⁹ in Which Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Change the Landscape of the Sports Industry.

• A StableDiffusion add-on for Blender¹²⁵. It renders an AI-generated image based on a text prompt and your scene in Blender.

• Education. There’s a lack of it in the AI space but a few things sprouted up recently. There’s this short thread¹³⁴ on free resources. A collection of 70 free courses¹²⁷. 120+ Artificial Intelligence Resources and links¹¹³ (I’ve added all these to Ben’s Bites Project Tracker). This YouTube playlist¹¹³ - Machine Learning Algorithms: From Zero to Hero, this free course¹⁸¹ is for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems. And even Samsung has come out with a free innovation & AI bootcamp⁹⁵ (although US only).

💰 FUNDING ROUNDUP

Will move this section to once a week, on Fridays.

🖼 AI IMAGES OF THE DAY

An olive fighting a pickle

Thicc spiderman

Toddlers in a black metal band

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