It's Friday and time for me to be driving home for Christmas! Off to spend it with my family. I hope you'll all have a wonderful festive period.

Let's get to it and leave work early!

🤌 Ben's Picks

We ran a hackathon and here are the winners!

🏆 1st Place: Brancher.ai - Connect AI models to build powerful apps - without code. It was so impressive to see how much this team of 2 accomplished in one week. (link^1,360)

🥈 2nd Place: BCG-3: Generative AI for Slides. (link^1,163)

🥉 3rd Place: EcoSnap - Recycle your plastic better with Artificial Intelligence. (link⁶⁹⁷)

🤗 Best in Open-Source (Hugging Face prize): EcoSnap - Recycle your plastic better with Artificial Intelligence. (link⁶⁹⁷)

We have 75 submissions total and our judging panel gave scores based on originality, quality, impressiveness and real-world use-case. We'll chat to the winners and get a bit more of a background story to bring to you in the New Year.

Congratulations to all our winners and we'll be doing another hackathon soon! I'll announce the honourable mentions next week.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• ChatARKit - Using ChatGPT to create AR experiences with natural language. (link⁴²⁰)

• SlackGPT - Use GPT3 from within Slack to write emails, answer questions, be a code assistant, and much more. (link^388†)

• Chat with Santa - A fun GPT-3 powered web app for you to have a chat with Santa. (link^352†)

• AI content detector by Crossplag (Beta) - A tool to to shine the light on the content generated using AI. (link³⁴²)

• YouTube to Summary - Convert a YouTube video (in Spanish or English) into an illustrated summary. (link⁶²¹)

• Podly - Every Lex Fridman’s podcast summarised by AI. (link⁵⁹¹)

• AI Wall decor - Generate art with Stable Diffusion and get it shipped to you in as a high quality framed art. (link^556†)

• Anypod - AI search engines built for creators. Search through your favourite podcast like My First Million easily. (link^566†)

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🎓 Learn

• How to perform sentiment analysis in DataSpell IDE. (link¹⁷⁰)

• How to build a NextJS app that runs Stable Diffusion with Replicate. (link²⁵⁰)

🔬 Research

• SantaCoder: A 1.1B multilingual LM for code that outperforms much larger open-source models on both left-to-right generation and infilling. (link¹³⁵)

• 2022 - A year full of amazing AI papers: A curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI by release date with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article, and code. (link³⁰⁴)

• Imitation Is Not Enough: Robustifying Imitation with Reinforcement Learning for Challenging Driving Scenarios. (link¹³⁶)

• DiscoScene: Spatially disentangled generative radiance field for controllable 3d-aware scene synthesis. (link¹³⁹)

• ReVISE: Self-supervised speech resynthesis with visual input for universal and generalized speech enhancement. (link¹⁹⁹)

• GeoCode maps 3D shapes to a human-interpretable parameter space, allowing to intuitively edit the recovered 3D shapes from a point could or sketch input. (link¹⁸⁸)

• ​​GENIE: Large scale pre-training for text generation with diffusion model. (link¹⁶⁸)

• Tune-A-Video: One-shot tuning of image diffusion models for text-to-video generation. (link¹⁹⁴)

• Scalable adaptive computation for iterative generation. (link¹³¹)

• Reversible Column Network (RevCol): A new neural network design paradigm. (link¹⁴⁶)

👋 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.

🤓 Everything else

• An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the near-term future of AI. (link⁴¹²)

• Who believes more myths about humans: AI or educated humans? (link¹³⁶)

• Notion AI, ChatGPT – Writing by Artificial Intelligence. (link²⁹⁹)

• The first rap fully written and sung by AI in the voice of Snoop Dogg. (link³³⁰)

• Quora launches Poe, a way to talk to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. (link²⁰⁴)

• Karlo, the large scale replication of unCLIP, the DALL-E 2 technique is now on Hugging Face. (link⁴¹⁶)

• CBP-translate: PoC of a system that detects and transcribes speech in both English and Polish for a short video. (link¹³⁰)

• An evaluation of ChatGPT vs. Google on 500 search queries, diving into details about OpenAI’s existential threat to Google. (link³⁰⁵)

🖼 AI images of the day

👋 See ya