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🤌 Ben's Picks

The handsome marketing magician is at it again...Ryan Reynolds recorded this video where he asked ChatGPT to write a commercial, in his voice⁸⁴⁵ (swearing and all), for Mint Mobile (which he owns/part-owns?) ChatGPT isn't nearly as handsome as Ryan, but it's marketing chops aren't all that bad! Did I mention I think Ryan Reynolds is handsome? Don't worry, my wife agrees.

ChatGPT got some shiny new upgrades; improvements to the model - which is very vague - but it should be 'generally better'. Shouldn't we all?! And, stop generating - you know, when its spitting out nonsense and you just wish it would stop!!! Yeah, it's got that now. ChatGPT, coming soon to your bank account⁶³⁹ - It's also looking at monetisation methods (via OpenAI's Discord). AND, OpenAI have opened a waitlist for it's professional, paid, version of ChatGPT. (link⁹⁹¹)

What would happen if ChatGPT and Wolfram Alpha had a baby? Find out here⁸⁰³.

I built a Photo Restorer with Zapier and Replicate. Input an image, an automation takes it through an AI API and spits back a restored image! It actually works, although could use some finer tweaks. (link⁵⁶⁰)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Langotalk - Learn languages 6x faster by chatting with AI. (link^1,326)

• Retune - Build GPT-3 powered apps without writing any code. (link^1,213)

• OriginalityAI - Plagiarism checker and AI detector. (link⁵⁷³)

• checklist.gg - AI-driven checklists. (link⁸²¹)

• Playlist AI - Create playlists from AI prompts, images, videos, and your most-listened-to music. Two things I'm awful at: a job and listening to music. I'm picky and like 80s/90s hip-hop like NWA that is sort of lost by these fluffy rappers who just speak with elongated words. That aint rappin' and it aint singing. Move along. Anyway, I got sent this link and it does a pretty good job of generating a Spotify playlist based on artists you like. Give it a go and lmk what you think. (link⁹⁴³)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• How to use ChatGPT to boost your writing? (link⁸⁶¹)

• Germany's BioNTech buys British AI startup InstaDeep. (link²³¹)

• Three reasons why we don't need to be worried about ChatGPT making the essay obsolete. (link³³⁰)

• AI creates illustrated video summary of advice for machine learning beginners from Lex Fridman and Andrej Karpathy. (link⁴¹⁹)

• Scale AI cuts 20% of its workforce. (link³⁴³)

• Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations. (link²⁶³)

• The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI. (link²³³)

• WashU just emailed instructors about the use of AI in coursework. (link³⁰⁰)

• ChatGPT helped me build a website in under 2 hours that uses AI to answer questions. (link⁷⁶⁹)

🎓 Learn

• How to get a job in machine learning. (link³³³)

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🔬 Research

• An image is worth one word - Personalising text-to-image generation using textual inversion. (link³¹⁷)

• Dreamer V3 - Solving tasks across many domains with world models. (link²⁰³)

• MAL - A high-quality transformer-based mask auto-labelling framework for instance segmentation using only box annotations. (link²⁸⁵)

• Santa models by The BigCode Project- Tech report on de-risking the model architecture and the data processing pipeline for code LLMs. (link¹²⁵)

• Scaling laws for generative mixed-modal language models. (link¹⁴⁷)

• YOLOv8 - Version 8 of the YOLO model presenting a new state of the art for object detection and instance segmentation. (link¹⁰⁶)

• Unlocking de novo antibody design with generative artificial intelligence. (link¹³¹)

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