Week 6 of this newsletter and we're well over 4,000 readers! Thank you so much. I'm really enjoying it so far. I set up a Discord if you want to hop in there too. I'll be building out a few more things like a job board, you know, the usual - soon.

Welcome to the 250 new folks joining us since Friday. And yes, my meal plan was exactly what I ordered.

Let's get to it. It's Monday and we've all got shit to do!

Prompt: List the topics in today’s email:

🐣 Free AI beginners course📊 Text-to-financial reports⚒️ 12 yo built an ML app🗣️ AI voice cloning

🫦 BEN'S BITES

GPT-4 Rumors From Silicon Valley⁸³⁷. From people I know who have access, I get the same reactions “it’s a big jump” “gamechanger” etc. Do we think it’ll be before end of year?

See the sentiment of tweets²⁸⁶ on your timeline. Hint: it’s probably negative from the last week 😅

DREAM.page⁴⁴⁹ uses AI to help you ideate, research, write and edit - as well as create beautiful art to go with the content you create.

As language models increase in scale they sometimes exhibit various useful emergent capabilities. “Characterizing Emergent Phenomena in Large Language Models¹⁷¹”.

👋 Too many links?! I created a database for all links mentioned in these emails. Refer 1 friend using this link and I'll send over the link database.

Multilingual Stable Diffusion³⁰⁴.

Text To Financial Reports³⁴⁰ - connecting accounting and finance data directly to spreadsheets. Sign up for the waitlist here¹⁷⁴.

A 12 yo built an ML app for his inter-school science project: Filter News for Social Wellbeing Using AI.²¹⁷ Giving people a choice to filter negative and positive News.

Producing pixel-level attribution maps from prompts²²², helping to show how different parts of the prompt affect output image.

Buildspace (disclaimer: I’m an investor) used to run cohorts for learning and building web3 projects. They’ve just raised $10m led by a16z²⁷² to expand their ‘school for builders’. For those who don't want to just "get a job" -- who want to instead pursue an alternative path. Now including AI cohorts⁴²⁸ - the first is called ‘Build your own AI writing assistant w/ GPT-3’³⁵⁹.

Open-source release of the Universal Video Quality (UVQ) model¹⁸³.

Brit Morin had Amit Gupta on her podcast - AI Is Not What You Think — It’s So Much More¹⁶⁷. Amit’s working on an AI writing tool - sudowrite²⁰⁴. Ben’s Bites even got a shoutout on the podcast 😍 ty, Amit!

DeviantArt introduced its new tool: DreamUp, a new tool to generate art⁵⁷³. You can control the amount of AI art in your feed, clear labelling of AI-generated art, a directive to opt out of AI datasets and the ability to opt-out of prompts. The community kicked up a big fuss, and now "all deviations are automatically labelled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets".

George Hotz tweeted that the next big thing is AI agents.⁴⁴⁰

Miguel, a fellow BB reader, wrote an exploration into the AI world¹⁴⁴, by assembling a kind of testing exercise, which leverages two different AI generative tools.

Dreambooth D&D model³⁷⁶, trained for 30,000 steps on 2500 manually labelled images.

A tutorial on BLOOMZ - InstructGPT OpenSource Equivalent for MultiLanguage LLM NLP Tasks.³⁷⁹

I’m testing this AI voice generator for voice cloning⁴²⁸. I’ll see if I can automatically create an audio version of the email for each issue.

Create a pro-quality blog article in less than 15 seconds³¹⁰ with Jaq n Jil.

AI reunites Holocaust survivor with childhood photos.¹⁸³ 

Cohere Thanksgiving AI Transformers Hackathon¹⁵³

Quiz generation from any text in 100+ languages.²⁰⁵

Free AI for beginners course⁴⁸¹.

A Stable Diffusion tutorial on how to make seamless animations.²⁹⁵

Scientists taught an AI to ‘sleep’ so that it doesn't forget¹⁸⁵ what it learned.

AI-generated wall art⁴¹⁸.

Jot - automatically generates infinite ad copy variations³¹⁶ for you using AI.

🖼 AI IMAGES OF THE DAY

Bob Ross Motorcycle Gang called The Bad Bobs

Starbucks seasonal nacho cheese latte

👋 SEE YA