Issue 33 25th December 2023

Highlights

Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries

AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.

The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists

From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama...

10 Generative AI Predictions for 2024: Unleashing Exciting AI Innovations

AI technology has been advancing rapidly, and with the help of Google Bard, we can explore some fascinating predictions for AI in 2024. By leveraging generative AI capabilities, Google Bard has imagined a future filled with exciting possibilities and innovative advancements. These 10 AI predictions span across various domains, offering a glimpse into how AI might transform our lives in just a few years.

Video

Fine-tuning an Azure Open AI model: Lessons learned

Open AI is the technology that has sparkled several waves of excitement, everyone is talking about it! One of its most powerful capabilities is known as fine...

Advanced Azure OpenAI Solutions With TTS Avatar

In this episode of The AI Show, we look at Vision AI Solution Accelerator and its capabilities for creating sophisticated Avatar-powered apps with ease AND we will demonstrate the workflow of creating a rich Avatar video.

Articles

Apple AI researchers publish papers on using human gaussian splats to generate animated 3D avatars and deploying LLMs on devices with limited memory (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Apple AI researchers publish papers on using human gaussian splats to generate animated 3D avatars and deploying LLMs on devices with limited memory — Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Google’s new multimodal AI video generator VideoPoet looks incredible

VideoPoet can generate larger and more consistent motion across longer videos, based on the examples posted by the researchers online.

Prompt Engineering Could Be the Hottest Programming Language of 2024 — Here’s Why

Large Language Models are the next generation of Operating Systems.

Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support To Its Limits

The GPT 3.5, 4 and 4 Turbo APIs all provide "function calling" - a misnamed feature that allows you to feed them a JSON schema and semi-guarantee that the output from the prompt will conform to that shape.

Practices for Governing Agentic AI Systems

Agentic AI systems—AI systems that can pursue complex goals with limited direct supervision—are likely to be broadly useful if we can integrate them responsibly into our society. While such systems have substantial potential to help people more efficiently and effectively achieve their own goals, they also create risks of harm.

6 Great Beginner-Friendly Tips to Overcome Your First Data Science Project

Do you feel like, with no experience, you do not know how to start your first data science project? Starting is often difficult, but it…

OpenAI Begins Tackling ChatGPT Data Leak Vulnerability

ChatGPT has long suffered from a frustrating data exfiltration vector that can be triggered by prompt injection attacks: it can be instructed to construct a Markdown image reference to an image hosted anywhere, which means a successful prompt injection can request the model encode data (e.g. as base64) and then render an image which passes that data to an external server as part of the query string.

A Simple CI/CD Setup for ML Projects

Apply best practices and learn to use GitHub Actions to build robust code..

Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration

Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno. Users can enter prompts into Copilot like “Create a pop song about adventures with your family” and have Suno, via a plugin, bring their musical ideas to life. From a single sentence, Suno can generate complete […]