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😎 News From The Web

• ChatGPT plugins. ChatGPT testing new plugins with select users before launching for widespread use. Features from Wolfram, Slack, and Expedia have been created.

• The AI-powered storytelling format. Tome is an AI-powered storytelling platform that allows users to explain complex topics using narration and embeds from other sources.

• Stable Diffusion Reimagine — Stability AI. Stability.ai's Stable Diffusion Reimagine uses AI to make new images from originals. It has limits and biases, but will soon be open-sourced for betterment.

• GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience. GitHub unveils GitHub Copilot X, a developer experience that uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to provide a chat interface, and voice-to-code AI.

• Meet Bard. Bard is a Google AI experiment aiming to improve creativity and productivity by collaborating with users.

• Releasing Alpaca-30B. Article explains release of Alpaca-30B, "instruction-tuned" version of Facebook's Llama model, benefits of fine-tuning, usage steps and community involvement.

• Gen-2 by Runway. Gen-2 by Runway is an AI tool that can synthesize new videos using only an image, text prompt, or words without needing a camera or lights.

• Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI. Mozilla creates startup Mozilla.ai with $30m initial investment, led by AI expert Moez Draief. They focus on generative AI and people-centric systems.

📚 Guides From The Web

• AI trends in 2023: Graph Neural Networks. GNNs process graph data, understand entity relationships, and have exponential growth in published research. They are expected to continue growing in popularity.

• Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful. AI in classrooms improves learning by providing personalized experiences, generating examples, giving feedback, creating study groups, and diagnostic tests.

• ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic. OpenAI's ChatGPT integrates third-party tools like a Code Interpreter for generating & running code, analyzing data, graphing spreadsheets, and more.

• labml.ai Annotated PyTorch Paper Implementations. Get simple PyTorch implementations with documented explanations in labml.ai's Annotated PyTorch Paper Implementations. Updated constantly; easy to use.

• The Age of AI has begun. AI is groundbreaking, changing work, learning, travel, health care, communication. Also, it can reduce inequities and help address climate change.

• Getting started with Pytorch 2.0 and Hugging Face Transformers. PyTorch 2.0 boosts performance with TorchDynamo, AOTAutograd, PrimTorch, and TorchInductor. Pairs with HuggingFace; Hub offers model versioning.

🔬 Interesting Papers and Repositories

• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: A paper investigates early GPT-4 version, showing human-level performance in various domains. Societal implications and autoregressive challenges discussed.

• GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models. A study on GPTs' impact on the US workforce found 80% of the workers may face up to 10% task displacement, and 19% may see more than 50% displacement. Traits of LLMs suggest significant economic and social implications.

• MM-ReAct: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Action. MM-ReAct article explores ChatGPT's potential for multimodal reasoning & action.

• Vid2Seq: a pretrained visual language model for describing multi-event videos. Introducing Vid2Seq model for video captioning. Predicts events and captions as a sequence of tokens, achieves outstanding results on video benchmarks.

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