News
1. OpenAI introduces GPTs
GPTs are a new way to customize ChatGPT for specific purposes and that anyone can create a GPT, even without coding knowledge (OpenAI).
2. Other OpenAI announcements
Updates include GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window and reduced pricing, a new Assistants API for building AI apps, and GPT-4 Turbo with Vision. Also introduced were new multimodal capabilities in the platform, encompassing vision, image creation with DALL·E 3, and text-to-speech technology, marking significant advancements and enhancements across OpenAI’s range of AI offerings (OpenAI, Stratechery).
3. AI 3D model creation
Stable 3D is an AI-powered app designed to generate textured 3D objects for graphic designers, digital artists, and game developers. Stable 3D enables users to quickly create thousands of 3D objects at a low cost (TechCrunch).
4. Elon Musk’s xAI
Grok is a newly announced AI by x.ai, designed to answer a wide range of questions and even suggest questions to ask. It is characterized by its wit and a rebellious nature, offering real-time world knowledge and the capability to address questions typically rejected by other AI systems. xAI has released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research (X.AI).
5. Adept experiments
Adept AI has introduced “Adept Experiments,” a series of self-contained mini-tools or demos that showcase the technology being developed for enterprise use cases. The first of these experiments is a web-based workflow builder called “Workflows,” which can be configured using plain language. This tool is designed to assist users in automating software workflows that are tailored to their specific job or company needs (Adept).
6. Humane’s AI Pin
Humane’s AI Pin, a wearable device resembling a screenless smartphone, is set to launch at a price of $699 with a $24 monthly subscription. This device, which integrates with OpenAI and T-Mobile, features a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, various sensors, a “personic speaker,” and a unique interaction system including voice commands and a green laser projector (TheVerge).
7. Olympus to take on ChatGPT
Amazon is developing a new AI model, codenamed “Olympus,” reportedly twice the size of GPT-4 with two trillion parameters. It is part of Amazon’s broader AI strategy, including a $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic and plans to integrate advanced AI into its online store and Alexa smart speakers (BusinessInsider).
8. CDC expands testing of international air traveler samples
The CDC is expanding its Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) program to include early detection of flu, RSV, and other respiratory viruses in addition to SARS-CoV-2 (CDC).
Articles
1. AI’s challenge of understanding the world (Science)
A Twitter post describes a Tesla self-driving car that stopped abruptly at a billboard of a sheriff holding a stop sign, failing to recognize the context that it was not an actual stop sign. Though large language models like ChatGPT show impressive abilities, current AI systems lack the rich internal models of the world that enable deep understanding and generalization like humans have.
2. Paper Digest from NeurIPS 2023 (PaperDigest)
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, a leading machine learning conference, is scheduled to take place in New Orleans. To assist the community in quickly understanding the conference’s content, the Paper Digest Team processed all accepted papers, providing a highlight sentence for each to capture its main idea.
3. How open-source drug discovery could help us in the next pandemic (MIT Tech Review)
The Covid Moonshot project, an open-source initiative for drug discovery involving over 200 volunteer scientists from 25 countries, led to the creation of 18,000 compound designs and the synthesis of 2,400 compounds, one of which is now a leading candidate targeting the coronavirus’s main viral enzyme. This approach highlights the benefits of open-source drug development, including global access and the potential to address future pandemics.
4. Top inventions of 2023 (Time)
The page contains a list of 200 innovations changing how we live in Western countries.
