You know one of those days where technology just hates you and everything goes wrong? That's me today. But at least we've got a trust email from me to skim through, open 20 tabs and forget about.

Reminder: The Hackathon has begun. Please join the discord³¹⁸ and read the pinned message in the hackathon channel for where to sign up, vote and submit your submissions.

Let's get to it!

🤌 Ben's Picks

• Lexica Aperture is finally live! - a model that can generate realistic-looking photographs. (link^1,283)

• Automatic video narration. By repurposing LLMs to be visually conditioned “Narrators”, and using them to automatically generate video-language paired data (link⁴³⁷)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Robin - Junior sales associate that automates tasks and outreach with a click. (Link⁷⁵⁷)

• Chatsonic - ChatGPT-based content creation with access to the latest information. (link⁷⁹⁷)

• Simple ML for Sheets - a free add-on for Google Sheets to use machine learning without coding (link⁵²⁸)

• ChatGPT bot to negotiate bills with online customer support, (not public yet) (link³⁷⁵)

• RunwayML’s new feature on generating multiple backgrounds for a single image (link³⁹⁸)

• Sendo - chrome extension that reads & crafts instant replies to your emails with AI (accepting early testers) (link⁴³²)

• Superpower ChatGPT - Add improvements to the ChatGPT user interface. (link⁶⁰⁵)

Join Discord³¹⁸ | Hackathon¹⁰⁸ | Partner with us²²⁷  | Host or join a meetup¹⁷⁵

🎓 Learn

• Research paper walkthrough - Generating images of flowers with denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). (link¹⁶⁵)

• A thread explaining the process behind the training of Codex (link²⁰⁸)

🔬 Research

*Note: is the research section helpful? please reply with a yes/no.

• End-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model (REVEAL) for visual question answering and image captioning (link¹⁵⁸)

• ULIP: Learning Unified Representation of Language, Image and Point Cloud for 3D Understanding (link¹⁵²)

• Impact of hyper-parameter refinement on CLIP’s fine-tuning performance (link¹⁵⁸)

• MIRA: Mental imagery for robotic affordances (link¹⁴⁴)

• MoDem: Accelerating visual model-based reinforcement learning with Demonstrations (link²¹¹)

• NeuS2: Fast learning of neural implicit surfaces for multi-view reconstruction (link¹⁴⁶)

• Rodin: A generative model for sculpting 3D digital avatars using Diffusion (link²⁴⁹)

• The Stable Artist - an image editing approach enabling fine-grained control of the image generation process (link²⁰³)

• MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer - inpainting and outpainting features for video (link¹⁷¹)

• Bringing together different meanings of measuring data and its implications for ML (link¹⁵³)

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🤓 Everything else

• A chatbot based on Andrew Huberman’s podcast (link⁴¹⁶)

• 2023 prediction: A new kind of language model - introducing matrix models (link³⁰⁴)

• A thread on how written work might survive in the age of AI (link³²⁶)

• AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. (link²³⁴)

• ChatGPT and how AI disrupts industries (link³⁴⁴)

• ChatGPT could be AI’s iPhone moment (link²⁶³)

• How good is ChatGPT? (link²⁶³)

• The world’s largest semiconductor foundry TSMC is expanding beyond Taiwan, investing $40 billion in a U.S. factory. (link¹²⁰)

• Not all heroes wear capes - praising a free course on deep learning (link²⁸⁴)

• China bans AI-generated media without watermarks (link²²⁴)

• AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts, Lensa on top with 3.6M installs in December (link¹⁴⁹)

• A thread with a list of predictions for 2023 for the field of LLMs (link³⁴⁵)

🧑‍💻 Who's hiring in AI

VEED.IO - Simple Online Video Editing. VEED is hiring AI / ML engineers¹¹⁸ to level up its creative toolkit and make it more magical.

Buildspace - where builders, build! They're looking for an ML/AI instructor to build their new course²⁰⁹.

Add your company here¹²² | Join the Talent pool¹³⁷

🖼 AI IMAGES OF THE DAY

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