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Hey folks, today we’ve got RedPajama releasing a 1.2 trillion-word dataset model, MiniGPT-4 with multi-model functionality (tell me what’s in this image) and an interesting economic case for AI not stealing our jobs (phew).

The Ben’s Bites x Every Hackathon kicks off today; build something related to AI. It’s that straightforward! Join the discord²³⁰ to take part, Dan and I will be hosting on the Stage at 12 am ET.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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RedPajama is the biggest open-source rival to Big Tech yet^1,155

You’ve gotta love the determination of open-source to go toe-to-toe with Big Tech - it reminds me of all that GameStop stuff a few years back! And RedPajama is the latest initiative looking to drive this forward with bold goals. They have a 3-step plan to rival the big dogs with fully open-source, reproducible, leading language models: 1) Produce a dataset, 2) Train a suite of base models, and 3) Implement instruction-tuning.

Today they announce the completion of stage 1 - a 1.2-trillion-word dataset mimicking that used to train LLaMA. With promises of fully-trained base models released in a matter of weeks and apparent progress on instruction tuning with OpenChatKit, I can feel the trembling of something big in the pipeline.

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MiniGPT-4 has beaten OpenAI to a chatbot that can describe images^1,062

Believe it or not, someone’s actually managed to deliver something faster than OpenAI. These researchers at King Abdullah University have unveiled a chatbot feature that OpenAI has been promising¹⁴³ for a while now: the ability to answer questions about specific images.

Called MiniGPT-4, it’s built on top of something called BLIP-2 as well as a LLaMA-derived language model. (You can’t read anything AI-related these days without being reminded of those long necks and strange faces!) For those of you wanting to get really stuck in, they plan to release a 7B parameter model which might be just the one for you

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An interesting economic case for why AI won’t steal jobs^1,605

Time to get a little bit philosophical and a tad economics-ish on you guys - this is a great blog post on the impact of AI on jobs! The Not Boring post uses two real-life economic quirks/principles/whatever to make the argument that the supply of AI will unlock a ‘latent’ demand for services, whereas increasing abilities simply means that people will demand far higher speed and quality of services.

Within the framework of the whole impact-on-jobs debate: added demand means jobs would be far less likely to get displaced as the required output will jump so much. Designers will have to design much better and much faster; people will sue far more people as legal docs become easier to draw up; and consultants will be expected to consult much more efficiently.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

• PromptBot - Simplify the process of creating detailed, powerful prompts for GPT-based bots & APIs. (link^1,543)

• AutoGPT by SamurAI - Let AI agents operate autonomously to complete tasks for you in your browser. (link^1,351)

• Llama Lab - A repo dedicated to building cutting-edge projects using LlamaIndex. (link³⁹⁷)

• ThinkGPT - Agent techniques to augment your LLM and push it beyond its limits. (link⁶¹⁹)

• WebscrapeAI - Collect data from the web without the hassle of manual scraping. (link^1,363)

• Single Prompt AI - A collection of single-purpose AI interfaces that do one thing and one thing only. (link^851†)

• Trivia - Automatically create questions on any topic for a quick trivia. (link⁵⁶⁵)

• Kidgeni - AI art generator for kids. (link⁶²⁵)

• Chat with a kinda fucking rude Clippy. (link⁷⁵⁶)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

• Developers are looking for creative ways to build AI-powered chatbot assistants. (link⁴⁰⁵)

• The monkey's paw, Norbert Wiener, and the alignment problem. (link²⁸¹)

• How much can I do with AI with a single sentence? (link^304†)

• Superchat’s new AI chatbot lets you message historical and fictional characters via ChatGPT. (link²⁵⁹)

• Adobe brings Firefly to its video tools. (link³¹⁷)

• The AI-powered VC - Yohei Nakajima, creator of Baby AGI and co-founder of Untapped Capital. (link³³⁴)

• Community is the future of AI - Blog post from Stack Overflow’s CEO + user opinions on it. (link²⁵⁴)

• Exploring the goods and bads of AutoGPT. (link⁴⁴¹)

• DINOv2 - A self-supervised vision transformer model from Meta. (blog¹¹¹, project page^100†)

• AI-powered medical knowledge - Revolutionising care for rare conditions. (link^370†)

• Accelerating Hugging Face transformers with AWS Inferentia2. (link¹³⁴)

• Synthetic data from diffusion models improves imagenet classification. (link¹⁰⁶)

• LLaVA - Visual instruction tuning. (link¹⁷⁰)

• DeepMind developed an AI program that created a 3D mapping of all 200 million proteins known to science. (link²²⁹)

• The AI revolution: Google's artificial intelligence developers on what's next in the field. (link⁴⁰⁴)

• Low-code LLM - Visual programming over LLMs. (link³⁵⁷)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

• How I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create a painted portrait of my dog. (link⁴⁶²)

• Create a no-code ChatGPT clone in 30-minutes with step-by-step video tutorials. (link⁴²⁹)

• Designing a long-term, reflection-based memory system for generative agents. (link³¹²)

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• How to build an AI chatbot¹⁷⁴ by Dan Shipper. 10% off checkout with coupon BENSBITES.

• Wonderchat²⁶⁴ - Build ChatGPT-powered chatbots in 5 minutes from a link to your website or PDF files.

• Tap into Driven Data's largest community (100k people) to hire your ideal data scientist. (link^103†)

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