Issue 30 4th December 2023

Highlights

Microsoft to join OpenAI’s board after Sam Altman rehired as CEO

Altman says tech giant, which owns 49% of ChatGPT maker after investing $13bn, will take non-voting, observer position on board Microsoft will take a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board, its CEO, Sam Altman, said in his first official missive after taking back the reins of the company on Wednesday. The observer position means Microsoft’s representative can attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information but will not have voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors.

The Power of Prompting

Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz explains how new prompting strategies can enable generalist large language models like GPT-4 to achieve exceptional expertise in specific domains, such as medicine, and outperform fine-tuned specialist models.

Pika Labs, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M

The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. Case in point, Pika Labs, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos from captions and still images, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Homebrew, Conviction Capital, SV Angel, Ben’s Bites

Stable Video Diffusion Is Here — Stability AI’s Text-To-Video AI Model

Stability AI announced Stable Video Diffusion, an AI tool that can generate video from text or image input.

Video

AI in Health

Let's dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector with our expert guest and Executive Dean from RMIT University, Karin Verspoor, who brought a wealth of knowledge in natural language processing (NLP) and biomedicine. Together, we explored the remarkable impact of AI on healthcare, particularly in imaging applications, while also discussing the challenges in accessing and standardizing clinical data.

Articles

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm today announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models. SageMaker HyperPod is now generally available. Amazon has long bet on SageMaker, its service for building, training and deploying machine learning models, as the backbone of its machine learning […]

Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models

Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading some schools to ban ChatGPT. In addition, these models are also prone to producing text with factual errors, so wary readers may want to know if generative AI tools have been used to ghostwrite news articles or other sources before trusting them.

GPT — Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained

Exploring the architecture of OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformers.

A Requiem for the Transformer?

Will be the transformer the model leading us to artificial general intelligence? Or will be replaced?

llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer

Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it's now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy of ChatGPT) on your own computer.

Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch II: GPT, Fast

This post is the second part of a multi-series blog focused on how to accelerate generative AI models with pure, native PyTorch. We are excited to share a breadth of newly released PyTorch performance features alongside practical examples to see how far we can push PyTorch native performance. In part one, we showed how to accelerate Segment Anything over 8x using only pure, native PyTorch. In this blog we’ll focus on LLM optimization.

What does the future hold for generative AI?

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.

Hands-On Deep Q-Learning

Level up your agent to win more difficult games!

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