Issue 63

Highlights

With Google in its sights, OpenAI unveils SearchGPT

OpenAI may have designs to get into the search game — challenging not only upstarts like Perplexity, but Google and Bing, too. The company on Thursday unveiled SearchGPT, a search feature designed to give “timely answers” to questions, drawing from web sources. UI-wise, SearchGPT isn’t too far off from OpenAI’s chatbot platform ChatGPT. You type […]

SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images

Segment Anything is Meta AI's model for image segmentation: for any image or frame of video it can identify which shapes on the image represent different "objects" - things like vehicles, people, animals, tools and more.

‘Enough is enough’: Hollywood’s video game actors go on strike

Voice actors and motion capture performers to strike over AI protections after nearly two years of negotiations Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections.

Study across multiple brain regions discerns Alzheimer’s vulnerability and resilience factors

Genomics and lab studies reveal numerous findings, including a key role for Reelin amid neuronal vulnerability, and for choline and antioxidants in sustaining cognition.

Generative AI Myths: The 5 Biggest Misunderstandings

Uncover the five biggest myths surrounding generative AI, from fears of replacing human creativity to misunderstandings about its intelligence and origins.

Research

Paper of the week: Generating LLM alignment data with LLMs

This week’s paper is a strange one. If you’ve tried using an open-source LLM, you know that not all of them are aligned yet, so you may end up with unwanted responses. To align an open-source LLM to give you proper responses, you need a lot of data. Getting alignment data is hard, but not if you can use an existing aligned LLM to generate that data. The authors of this week’s paper tried it out, and it works!

Video

Copilot L33t Sp34k | AI Security Research

Hyrum Anderson, CTO of Robust Intelligence, speaks to Sarah about the history of AI security, what we should be concerned about in the present day and upcoming industry standards and regulations for AI security.

Articles

Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Meta's machine learning model, Segment Anything, has a sequel: It now takes the model to the video domain, showing how fast the field is moving.

How Data Engineering Evolved since 2014

In this discussion, I aim to explore the evolving trends in data orchestration and data modelling, highlighting the advancements in tools and their core benefits for data engineers.

AI could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims Google

Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by it Almost two-thirds of British jobs could be “enhanced” with AI, Google has claimed, with only a tiny proportion at risk of being “phased out” entirely. Instead of worrying about job losses caused by AI, the focus needed to be on making sure the millions of Britons who could work in smarter and faster ways with AI tech got the support to use it, the company said.

The Evolution of AI Humor

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced significantly, touching various aspects of our lives.

AI models have an expiry date — Continual Learning may be an answer

In the Continual Learning scenario, a learning model is required to incrementally build and dynamically update internal representations as the distribution of tasks dynamically changes across its lifetime .” Why, in a world where the only constant is change, we need a Continual Learning approach to AI models.

Bing previews its answer to Google’s AI Overviews

Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experience: Bing generative search. Available only for a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, powered by a combination of large and small generative AI models (mum’s the word on which, exactly), aggregates info from around the web and generates a summary […]

Code

Python Concurrency — A Brain-Friendly Guide for Data Professionals

Moving data around can be slow. Here’s how you can squeeze every bit of performance optimization out of Python. Continue reading on Towards Data Science »