Weekly AI and NLP News — February 20th 2023

Here are your weekly articles, guides, and news about NLP and AI chosen for you by NLPlanet!

😎 News and Guides From The Web

• PEFT, a method for Finetuning transformers with high efficiency and low data, now available on Hugging Face.

• A collection of 600+ apps powered by GPT3 and organized by category.

• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web: OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?

• Microsoft to integrate ChatGPT into Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon.

• After Google ads showed Bard inaccuracies, Bing showed inaccuracies as well in their AI demo.

• Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI: AI legal controversies may go into audio generation as well.

• Could Stable Diffusion Solve a Gap in Medical Imaging Data? Stanford scholars found a way to generate synthetic chest X-rays by fine-tuning the open-source Stable Diffusion foundation model.

• A law firm has been using its own chatbot to draft legal contracts.

• How should AI systems behave, and who should decide: a summary of how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and how OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT’s default behavior.

• ChatGPT Burns Millions Every Day. Can Computer Scientists Make AI One Million Times More Efficient?

• Zero-shot image-to-text generation with BLIP-2. The guide introduces BLIP-2 from Salesforce Research which enables a suite of state-of-the-art visual-language models that are now available in Hugging Face Transformers.

🔬 Interesting Papers

• Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents: an interactive planning approach based on Large Language Models tested on Minecraft.

• Level Generation Through Large Language Models: generating levels of the Sokoban videogame using LLMs.

• Augmented Language Models: a Survey. This survey reviews works in which language models are augmented with reasoning skills and the ability to use tools.

⌨ Interesting Repositories

• LangChain: Building applications with LLMs through composability.

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