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 Our picks 

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Youtube is partnering with Universal Music Group⁹²¹ and kicking off a Music AI Incubator. This includes artists like Anitta, Yo Gotti, Frank Sinatra estate, and more. Youtube’s working with three principles²¹⁵ in this experiment:

1) Getting big labels to understand AI is here.
2) Get artists paid for using their content.
3) Maintaining copyright and safety.

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Midjourney introduces Vary - Its version of inpainting.⁹⁶⁴ It comes in three styles, Vary: Strong, Subtle and Region. The region mode allows you to select a part of the image and then prompt the changes. Still dodgy but Grimes says it’s AMAMZING.^1,144 🤣

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Reinforced self-training (ReST) for language modelling.⁶⁰⁹ This new paper from DeepMind claims that you can improve a model by training on its own output.

TLDR¹⁸⁵ is that it will select only the best generations of an LLM and train on them -> Reinforcing only the "good parts" of the model.

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 From the community 

• I made Stable Diffusion XL smarter by finetuning it on bad AI³⁰¹-generated images.

• Anything but wrappers¹⁸⁹ - Llama Edition. Hack event on Saturday, Aug 26.

• The potato prompt.⁷¹⁹

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Elythea²⁹⁴ - Using ML to identify high-risk pregnancy complications weeks in advance.

• Quack AI³⁷⁴ - AI companion for developer onboarding.

• Deepfakes.lol^1,075 - Make anyone say anything with lip-synced deepfakes.

• Sphere⁶⁶⁸ - Scan a space with your phone and let AI create a photorealistic 3D tour.

• Logmeals^754† - Log meals with your phone camera and let our AI nutritionist count your calories for you.

• Endorsed³⁵⁹ - Screen job applications faster and smarter with AI.

• Include Health¹⁸⁰ - A digital platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) providers to deliver hybrid care.

• Leo⁴⁶¹ - Brave’s browser-native AI assistant, now available in testing. Built with Llama 2.

• Musicfy.lol⁶²⁸ - Use AI to create music with your voice.

• Canvas⁴⁵⁶ - Connect all your product, sales, marketing, and finance data to understand your startup.

• Dili AI⁵²⁷ - Accelerate due diligence with AI.

• Kraftful^312† - Copilot for product builders to analyze user feedback.

 From the network 

• Early days of AI³²⁶ - The tech discontinuity between the AI waves.

• A definitive guide to using Midjourney.⁵⁵⁸

• LlamaIndex + Metaphor²⁸⁶ - Towards automating knowledge work with LLMs. (ps: I’m an investor)

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Arkifi raises over $9 million²¹² for AI-powered financial analyst tools.

• Custom instructions for ChatGPT now available in the EU & UK!¹⁶⁴

• Opera adds Aria to Opera for iOS¹⁰⁶, bringing free browser AI to all major platforms.

• Open-sourcing SQLCoder²²⁹ - A state-of-the-art LLM for SQL generation by Defog AI.

• AP Stylebook cautions journalists¹⁰⁷ to avoid language that attributes human characteristics to AI systems.

• The NYT’s robot.txt page¹⁷⁰ now specifically disallows OpenAI’s GPTBot.

• Chess as a case study in hidden capabilities in ChatGPT.²⁸⁰

• Genesis Therapeutics raises a $200M¹⁰⁷ Series B co-led by a16z, for using AI to discover and develop small-molecule drugs.

• Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI.²³⁸

• Snapchat is expanding further²⁵⁰ into generative AI with Dreams.

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