AI Weekly Digest #3: Democratizing AI

Welcome to the third edition of our AI newsletter, where we bring you the latest updates on artificial intelligence and its impact on our world. No BS!

So much to cover! In this issue, we'll explore:

• The Main Headlines: Democratizing AI with Nvidia AI as a platform, Github Copilot X, Google Releases Bard, ChatGPT plugins

• Hot Topics: Dalle-2 in Bing, Adobe Firefly and, Video generation with Gen-2!

• Beyond the Hype, the story: Human vs AI, or Humans with AI?

Beyond the Hype, The Story

Humans vs AI, or Humans with AI?

In late 2022, a number of studies were conducted to evaluate the ability of artificial intelligence to perform on human-specific benchmarks, including college-level entrance exams, Olympiad competitions, bar exams, and other similar tasks. The results of these studies were conclusive, demonstrating that AI models such as the GPT series and Google PaLM models consistently outperformed human participants in these tasks.

What does it mean for humans? Well, recent studies show two things:

1. OpenAI release a paper evaluating AI’s potential to replace humans. In a nutshell, university level graduates are at risk, with fully replaceable jobs such as copywriting, translation, proof reading and so on: read full paper here.

2. A Nov 2022 study showed however that, even though AI has reached human level at certain tasks, human experts assisted by AI still outperform both humans and AI. Read our post on the topic here.
   

Main Headlines

• Nvidia, AI as a platform, with its Foundation Platform. In a nutshell,

  #1-Nvidia announces AI Foundation, AI as a service focused on building & running generative AI models.

  #2-It will be Multimodal: text, images, videos & 3D!

  #3-AlphaFold like API that should help drug discovery at large scale.

  Looking forward to playing with these models!

• Microsoft Announced Github Copilot X: a new coding assistant powered by OpenAI's GPT4 model. Developers can ask Copilot questions about their code, request suggestions or explanations, or even use voice commands to interact with the assistant!

• Google Releases Bard to compete with BingAI: early feedback comparing chatGPT to Bard shows that Bard still has room for improvement though. But we can bet that it will get better quickly relying on users feedback!

• ChatGPT plugins: Most important announcement this week!
  OpenAI has launched a new capability for ChatGPT, which enables it to interact with various APIs through a marketplace of plugins. This feature allows ChatGPT to perform tasks such as browsing the web and connecting with Zapier. OpenAI also released a template code source for users to create their own plugins, making ChatGPT's abilities even more powerful.

  

Hot Topics!

The end of this week has been shaken by several announcements! Not available to general public yet, but stay tuned! It’s coming in the next couple of weeks.

• Bing Image Creator: a new preview of text to image generation in BingAI, powered by GPT4 and Dalle2. “Alongside this new image creator, Microsoft is also bringing its Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0 features of Bing to all users. Stories offer a snippet of information with images and short videos, while Bing’s latest AI-powered Knowledge Cards highlight key information.”

• Adobe Firefly: prompt based image editing and assets creation!

• Video generation with Gen-2: RunwayML announced the new version of its video generation model. It offers several features, such as text to Image generation (see example below), and image+text to video generation.

Bonus!

Start building your ChatGPT plugin, for you business or for fun! Everything you need to get you started!
Enjoy!

That’s it for today! If you made it this far, I’d appreciate a quick feedback 😋! I know there’s room for improvement! So don’t hesitate to share with me the things you liked and those that you didn’t.

Have a great Sunday and may AI always be on your side!