🤖 AI-ncredible Week: Language Models and Generative Art Take Over!

Hold onto your 🎩 hats, folks! It's been a wild ride this week as AI continues to evolve faster than we can keep up. With generative art and large language models making headlines left and right, it's starting to feel like we're living in an episode of The Jetsons. Let’s get into it!

💸 Bank Run 2.0: The Rise of Social Media Panic in the Banking Sector

Looks like social media influencers have added another skill to their resume: bank-run orchestrators. Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) collapse is being dubbed the first-ever Twitter-fueled bank run, where customers withdrew $40 billion in just a few hours after the bank decided to raise funds through a share sale. Who needs a bank robbery when you can just tweet your way to a financial meltdown?

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⛵️ Ahoy, Mateys! Google's New AI Features are Making Waves in the Workspace Apps

Google is joining the AI race by announcing new generative AI features for its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The features include AI writing and brainstorming tools that could be useful for busy HR professionals or parents planning pirate-themed birthday parties. While Google warns that their AI sometimes gets things wrong, let's hope it doesn't cost users money or create a real-life pirate invasion.

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🤌🏻 Google who? The launch of GPT-4 overshadows Google’s announcement with one swift stroke

Move over GPT-3, there's a new AI in town and it's smarter than a bar exam taker and a biology Olympian combined! OpenAI has launched GPT-4, the upgraded version of the wildly successful ChatGPT AI chatbot. With improved accuracy and reasoning skills, GPT-4 is immediately integrated with big names like Morgan Stanley and Stripe, and even runs Bing.

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🦙 Alpaca: A Low-Cost and Efficient Language Model That Runs on Your Local Machine!

Stanford Alpaca is a language model fine-tuned from the LLaMA 7B model on 52K instruction-following demonstrations. It behaves similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while being surprisingly small and easy/cheap to reproduce (<600$). The biggest weakness in the LLaMA models released by Meta research last month is their lack of instruction-tuning. Alpaca demonstrates that it is possible to train a GPT-3 class language model using openly available resources. However, it is still not ready for commercial use and is intended only for academic research.

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🖼 Midjourney v5: Generating Photorealistic Images that Make You Question Your Own Reality

Midjourney's latest AI image-synthesis service, version 5, is getting a lot of buzz for producing photorealistic images that are almost too perfect, even creepy according to some. It's like getting glasses for the first time and seeing everything in 4k, except now it's just more overwhelming and amazing. But don't worry, the hands are finally correct most of the time, with five fingers instead of seven to ten on one hand.

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🙀 Meet Your New Co-Worker: Microsoft 365 Copilot - The AI Assistant Who Won't Steal Your Lunch

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered virtual assistant designed to transform the way people work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with data from the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps, enabling users to give natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy” and generate status updates based on emails, meetings, and chat threads. Copilot works alongside users in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more, helping to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and upskill workers.

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