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Daily Digest #336

Hello folks, if you work at Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple or Amazon - I’d love to know if your company is doing anything internally to encourage AI adoption for employees; like hackathons, workshops, internal tools etc - reply here 🙂 I’m writing a post about it.

here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. Meta releases Code Llama 70B⁹¹⁹, a larger (and better) version of their code generation models. It achieves 67.8 on HumanEval benchmark which is higher than GPT-4’s base rating of 67. And again it’s open source with commercial use allowed. You can use the bigger models now on Huggingface³⁸⁸, Perplexity⁴²⁴ or locally with Ollama⁴⁹².

2. Common Sense Media and OpenAI are shaking hands³⁵⁶ to shape the future of AI for youngsters and their families. There are two goals of the partnerships: teach families to get the most out of it and deal with any risks by exposing kids to it.🍿Our Summary¹⁶ (also below)

3. AWS is organising a hackathon on its AI app-building playground called PartyRock.⁵²⁸ The deadline is 12th March and the top prize is $20,000 in AWS credits (with multiple other prizes in the few thousand $$ range, both cash and credits).

TOP TOOLS

• AI Autocomplete by Shortwave³⁰⁷ - Finish your sentences based on your previous emails.

• Supadash⁶⁴⁸ - AI-generated dashboard and charts from your database.

• Daydream⁵⁷⁶ - BI for C-level, finance and ops, with AI.

• Whisperfusion⁴⁸⁷ - Seamless conversations with AI with ultra-low latency.

• Podnotes⁵⁷⁵ - Turn podcasts into content with AI.

• Meetrics⁴⁷⁵ - Transcription doesn't solve bad meetings, meeting prep does.

• Unfetch⁵³⁹ - Create AI workflows with any API.

• Screenshot Save⁴²⁹ - Rename all your desktop screenshots with AI.

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NEWS

• How AI works^1,548 - An entirely non-technical explanation of LLMs.

• Generative agents and their power to simulate human reality.³⁸⁸

• A guide to large language model abstractions - from prompts to agents.⁴⁹⁹

• The OpenAI product ecosystem⁴⁸⁴ - Models, features and opportunities.

• Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI³⁴⁷ into something new.

• Microsoft closes the loophole¹⁵⁴ in its Designer app that let AI fakes pass through.

• China approves over 40 AI models¹⁸⁹ for public use in past six months.

• Big Tech’s attempt at making its own AI chips¹⁹⁶ (and reduce reliance on Nvidia).

• Hottest job in corporate America? The executive in charge of AI.³⁷⁹

• Ex-Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden raises $30.5M for Sema4 AI²¹⁴, his 3-month-old AI startup.

• Rebellions lands $124M¹⁰⁰ to develop its new AI Rebel chip with Samsung.

• Anthropic has an antitrust advantage¹³⁴ among FTC investigations.

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QUICK BITES

Common Sense Media and OpenAI are shaking hands³⁵⁶ to shape the future of AI for youngsters and their families. There are two goals of the partnerships: teach families to get the most out of it and deal with any risks by exposing kids to it.

What is going on here?

OpenAI and Common Sense Media partner to craft AI that's friendly for families and teens.

What does this mean?

Some context: Common Sense Media is a nonprofit creating advisory content for parents and kids to navigate the digital media landscape.

OpenAI and Common Sense Media are rolling out guidelines and educational stuff for the folks at home and in schools, ensuring everyone's up to speed on using AI without any hiccups. Plus, they're curating a section in the GPT Store that's all about family-friendly content, vetted by Common Sense's own standards.

Talking about this at the Common Sense Media summit, Sam Altman (CEO, of OpenAI) thinks that the idea that AI is bad for kids is flawed. There are risks, and OpenAI is anxious about them but to not teach them these tools is a bigger mistake. And about kids getting lazy? Altman has said in past: We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class.

Why should I care?

Common Sense Media has an AI section already with guidelines and ratings for top AI providers. But this partnership goes beyond putting up a stamp: “Hey, this is risky, don’t use it”. Both OpenAI and Common Sense Media are trying to create resources that families, schools and teens can actually use. And I guess that’s a step in the right direction.

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