The Generative A.I. Brief Issue #18

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Hey Everyone,

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I hope you appreciate links and reading about A.I. as much as I do! 🚀 Week of October 16th, 2023. Far few links in this issue, I tried to keep it brief and pick only higher quality links.

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Marc Andreessen think he’s a techno-optimist shark with an enemy-list. He’s also a man of many AI generated ‘manifestos.’

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💬Introduction for Today🎯

This week my phone broke, hence the short edition, but I noticed A.I. news is noticeably slower.

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🚀Read A.I. Startups | 📑 Read A.I. Papers | 🌌 Quantum Foundry | 📊 Data Science​

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📢Top News 📺

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​The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, this wouldn’t be news except Generative A.I. funding might take a huge dive sometime in the next eighteen months (a16z)

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AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type (Wired)

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Inflection’s Chatbot Pi, get’s real-time web access as well​

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Anthropic reaches 95 more countries - see the list​

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Google: New ways to get inspired with generative AI in Search​

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📰Noted Newsletters📬

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​Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? (The Future Now and Then)

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​An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness (The Gradient)

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Scoop: OpenAI Dropped Work on New ‘Arrakis’ AI Model in Rare Setback (Paywalled, The Information)

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Github Copilot vs. ChatGPT? OpenAI plans major updates to lure developers with lower costs, sources say (Reuters) - starts November 6th​

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📝 Papers 🗏

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OpenAgents: An Open Platform for Language Agents in the Wild (October 16th)

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Llemma:An Open Language Model For Mathematics​

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Forecasting the future of artificial intelligence with machine learning-based link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network (Nature)

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MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems - Paper (October 12th)

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Real-time Photorealistic Dynamic Scene Representation and Rendering with 4D Gaussian Splatting​

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📱Semiconductor Notes📝

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Nvidiathought it found a way around U.S. export bans of AI chips to China—now Biden is closing the loophole and investors aren’t happy (Fortune)

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💸Venture Capital🦄

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​The Techno-Optimist Manifesto​

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​AI Funding Soars to $17.9 Billion While Rest of Tech Slumps (Bloomberg)

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💼 Business to Business (B2B)📈

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GameGPT: Using AI to Automate Game Development​

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💬 Chat | 📢 Sponsor Us | 🧾 Reddit Links | 💁 Refer a Friend​

👾Hacker News📰

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​How I think about LLM prompt engineering​

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🤖 Robotics 🦿

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​Who will Mass Produce Humanoid General Purpose Robots First?​

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🥼Healthcare🩺

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​Clinical Text Summarization: Adapting Large Language Models Can Outperform Human Experts (Stanford)

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🧪 Science 🔬

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Tsinghua University: Inverting Transformers Significantly Improves Time Series Forecasting​

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💬 Open-Source LLMs 👐

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Adept AI: Fuyu-8B: A Multimodal Architecture for AI Agents​

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New Anyscale service enables fine-tuning of open source LLMs (it’s called Endpoints)

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💰Stock Market 🛒

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​AI Funding Soars to $17.9 Billion While Rest of Tech Slumps (Bloomberg)

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💀AGI and ASI 👽🌋

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​OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’​

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🎓 Education & Learning📚

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​Scaling Large (Language) Models with PyTorch Lightning​

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​Train and Deploy Mistral 7B with Hugging Face on Amazon SageMaker​

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➡️ Prompt Engineering 🧠

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​How to talk to an LLM (with your voice)​

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🎥Videos & Podcasts🎙️

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Acquired Podcast with Nvidia’s CEO [link]

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🐲 China A.I.🏯

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Former Arm China Execs Establish New Government-Backed Chip Firm (Tom’s Hardware)

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🦹🏻‍♂️Dystopian 🗽

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​AI Could Usher in a New Age of Bioweapons, RAND Report Warns​

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🏛Governance and Regulation⚖️

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​The Foundation Model Transparency Index​

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Anthropic: Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input​

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💬Opinion Editorial🙄

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​How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (Politico)

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🎭Entertainment & the Arts🎨

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ByteDance’s video editor CapCut targets businesses with AI ad scripts and AI-generated presenters​

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🌏Manifestations of Utopia🏙️

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​How AI is speeding up scientific discoveries​

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🌌Quantum Computing⚗️

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​Google and Covestro push the boundaries of near-term quantum computing (Covestro)

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📣Public Relations💞

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​GPT-4 is Getting Faster 🐇 (Portkey)

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Last Memes🎭

​Civilization depends on more AI, Marc Andreessen says 🙉

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Gary Marcus fights back: Two kinds of Techno-Optimism​

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🏋️‍♀️ Thanks for skimming, I hope you managed to find something of interest. 👀

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