DeepMind cofounder says Generative AI is old news. Here comes Interactive AI.
Microsoft's Phi-1.5 takes the ML world by storm. HeyGen introduces autotranslation tool.
The Long Read
MIT Technology Review: DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next? Interactive AI.
DeepMind and Inflection cofounder Mustafa Suleyman
DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In this interview, he talks about the shift from generative AI to interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done. He also calls for robust regulation—and doesn’t think that’ll be hard to achieve.
🔥 Latest news
Phi-1.5: Microsoft’s 1.3B-parameter LLM outshines Llama 2. What’s most impressive: it was trained for less than 2 weeks on just 8 A100s, and on synthetic data generated by existing LLMs. This could point to a future where you don’t need extensive and specialized compute power to train AI with results comparable to leading LLMs — making this capability accessible to many more players. https://tinyurl.com/ym43xmz3
Google’s upcoming generative AI Gemini is reportedly five times more powerful than GPT-4 models. A small number of developers have been given access to Gemini, which Google plans to make available to companies through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service. https://tinyurl.com/bc729vn5
AI agents powered by LLMs like GPT 3.5 could run a software development agency on its own. They even developed software in under 7 minutes. Researchers from Brown University in collaboration with multiple Chinese universities ran a study to see if AI agents, assigned roles like CEO, CTO, Designer, could run a software development agency without prior training. https://tinyurl.com/mu97msj3
✨ Inspiration
Artist Brian Gothong Tan imagines what a technicolor musical done in 1960s Singapore could have looked like. Made with Midjourney.
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🎓 Recent Academic Papers
Enhancing GPT-4 summarization through chain of density prompts https://tinyurl.com/kynwmbbh
Microsoft researchers present InstructDiffusion: A unifying and generic AI framework for aligning computer vision tasks with human instructions https://tinyurl.com/4eyybn3u
MagiCapture: High-resolution multi-concept portrait customization https://tinyurl.com/bdfe5hf5
🔧 Cool Tools and Experiments
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HeyGen Labs Video Translator offers instant language translation with voice cloning and modified facial movement https://tinyurl.com/mrxuy54k
Meta rolls out its VR social app Horizon Worlds on web and mobile https://tcrn.ch/45UqtF8
Google introduces emoji mashup maker that allows users to create emoji combinations from Google Search https://tinyurl.com/bdzxbe7c
💰 Latest Startup Fundings
Series AI raises $7.9M in seed funding for game-building tools https://tinyurl.com/u3xns87f
Stealth startup Favs raises ~$1M for its close-friends-only social network https://tcrn.ch/3sTPIbX
AI-powered marketing platform Pixis raises $85M to help marketers orchestrate and analyze campaigns https://tinyurl.com/5jc48bxe