weekend ai reads for 2023-08-04

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: AUDIO

• Meta’s AI music generator could be the new synthesizer — or just muzak The Verge

  • More accurate would be “Generating audio from text descriptions”

  • related, with examples: Open sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio made simple and available to all Meta

• Audio Atlas — The world’s first natural language music search engine

  • Provides popular (aka: major record label) and “licensable” music based on a prompt

  • Doesn’t seem to be able to search by lyric, but by mood, occasion, and artist (kind of)

• WavJourney: Compositional Audio Creation with Large Language Models

  • Demos at the link

• Artificial Intelligence in Music [PDF] Tune Core

  • survey of 1,558 artists

    • 50% of respondents are aware and engaged in AI; have a positive view of its benefits and opportunities

    • 39% are unaware and apathetic toward AI; have fears and concerns with the technology

    • 27% have used some type of AI music tools

• via andy, AI Concerts AI Concerts, YouTube

  • Popular songs (relative, we know) remixed with deepfake AI cartoon voices; seems to be Spongebob-heavy

  • e.g., Squidward sings Creep (Ai Concert)

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Daniel Kahneman (source)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• More than 70% of companies are experimenting with generative AI, but few are willing to commit more spending Venture Beat

  • related: As companies debut AI offerings at a breakneck pace, consumer concerns grow Digiday

• Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back Decrypt

• Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models Social Science Research Network

  • related: Bloated Disclosures: Can ChatGPT Help Investors Process Financial Information? arXiv

• Who Gains From AI? — How will recent innovations impact jobs and corporations? Meta's earning call offers some hints. Dror Poleg

  • Honestly, worth clicking just for the banner image at the top.

• Malleable software in the age of LLMs (from March 2023) Geoffrey Litt

  • Interesting throughout; a thorough look at a potential future of software developmentandand

🎓 EDUCATION

• Practical AI for Instructors and Students Part 1: Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students (10:16) Wharton School, YouTube (aka: Ethan Mollick & Lilach Mollick)

  • Number one in a series; the series is not in its own easy-to-follow channel

• Edtech companies jump on generative AI bandwagon — A slew of edtech companies — edX and Coursera — have announced plans to incorporate generative AI into their products. Ed Scoop

• Instructure and Khan Academy Announce Partnership to Enhance Teaching and Learning With Khanmigo, the AI Tool for Education press release

• Course Factory — Create online courses and learning live session 10x faster, eliminate routine tasks, enhance course quality and localize for your audience

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• via adam, So you want to build your own open source ChatGPT-style chatbot… Mozilla Hacks

• Llama-2: Easiest Way to Fine-tune on Your Data (14:15) Prompt Engineering, YouTube

  • Straight-forward Python scripts with medium technical difficulty

• The tricky truth about how generative AI uses your data Vox

• AI Hardware, Explained (15:47) The A16z Podcast

  • Compute, data, and models are the key components for AI. A look at one of the three.

• A problem so hard even Google relies on Random Chance (12:05) Breaking Taps, YouTube

  • Short explanation of HyperLogLog, or “Why AI is doing more guessing than you think”

• Nvidia AI Image Personalization Method Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train Decrypt

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Ideas are Dimes a Dozen: Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation SSRN

• Giga Brain — GigaBrain scans billions of discussions on reddit and other online communities to find the most useful posts and comments for you

• YouTube Summary Glasp

  • Something similar may have been posted before, but this uses Claude, which supports many more tokens, and can summarize much longer videos

• Tldr This — Tldr This helps you summarize any piece of text into concise, easy to digest content so you can free yourself from information overload.

  • Free tier that is seems to work well

• How to make photos confusing to AI — A new tool out of MIT makes it so AI cannot edit your photos. The Hustle

  • paper: Raising the Cost of Malicious AI-Powered Image Editing arXiv

  • related: Glaze, from 2023-07-21

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Internet Search Tips — A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples. gwern