weekend ai reads for 2023-11-08

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: OPENAI DEV DAY

• OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote (45:35)   Open AI, YouTube

• Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event Tech Crunch

  • the “rest”

• OpenAI has put in a lot of work into RAG (retrieval augmented generation). Accuracy has jumped from 45% to 98% with things like retaining, prompt engineering, and query expansion.   Ben Parr, Twitter (sorry)

• Introducing GPTs — You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.   Open AI Blog

  • related, BestGPTs — Top ranked OpenAI GPTs   AgentOps, Github

• OpenAI’s vision: a chatbot in every app Understanding AI

• OpenAI’s ‘Extinction Event’ For Other AI Startups The Information ($)

• The OpenAI Keynote Stratechery

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Hany Farid, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, on datasets used to train generative image models (source)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• AI is about to completely change how you use computers Gates Notes

  • related, ACI: the new type of AI that brands need to know about The Media Leader

  • related, Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)

• AI nearly twice as good as biopsy at assessing rare cancer — Researchers have developed an algorithm for more accurate risk grading of sarcomas   The Next Web

• via semafor, Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli arXiv

• The Future of AI Is GOMA — Four companies are taking over everything.   The Atlantic

  • related, Tech Giants Spend Billions on AI Startups—and Get Just as Much Back Wall Street Journal

• CBS News Launches Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation Deadline

• via abby, Crash Course — Artificial Intelligence

  • 20 short (<15m) explainer videos on various aspects of artificial intelligence

• Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet The Verge

🎓 EDUCATION

• Latimer — AI for Everyone

  • from their press release

• University Policies on Generative AI cetl6, Padlet

  • links to ai policies at many universities

• How Do We Get Educators To Embrace AI? Start By Building A Walled Garden Bethlam Forsa, Forbes Technology Council

  • interesting take

• AI is already disrupting education, but only 13 states are offering guidance for schools CRPE

• How to ChatGPT-proof Analysis Assignments e-Literate

  • related, Academic Integrity in the Age of AI Anthology, via Educause Sponsored Content

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Apple Silicon and the Mac in the Age of AI Creative Strategies

• Meet hackers’ favourite new tool: WormGPT The Sydney Morning Herald

• The “Secret Sauce” Behind DALL-E 3: How Is It So Good At Following Instructions? Why Try AI?

  • summary of Open AI’s paper on the topic (PDF)

  • the answer: better image descriptions

  • related, What’s new with DALL-E 3? Open AI Blog

• You're next, game devs. Now Microsoft to bring character, story design copilot to Xbox The Register

• NVIDIA's Eos supercomputer just broke its own AI training benchmark record — The system can train a 175 billion parameter GPT-3 model in under four minutes. It needs just 7.2 seconds for BERT.   Engadget

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• The Beatles’ final song is now streaming thanks to AI The Verge

  • The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video) (4:35)   The Beatles, YouTube

    • directed by Peter Jackson

    • does what a video is supposed to: makes the song better

  • making of (12:25)   The Beatles, YouTube

• via jim, Kagi Universal Summarizer — Summarize any content on the web - from articles to books - in a jiffy!

• Del Complex

  • we don’t know either …

• I just coded “Angry Pumpkins 🎃” using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics. Javi Lopez, Thread Reader

• These new fashion collections were designed by AI CNN

• Movie Deep Search Keytalk AI

  • sample prompt: “A totally absorbing drama film about an existential theme that uses bright sunlight and low-light camera work simultaneously”

  • sample output: The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Gorgonn - Life As A Beast (3:46)   180 Fact, YouTube