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🌟 Doodle Dancing, Medical Marvels, Auto-GPT, Shogtongue Secrets, and Musk's X.AI
Kelvin Zhao
April 17, 2023
In this action-packed edition of our newsletter, we're diving into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. Watch Stability AI's Stable Diffusion XL create stunningly realistic images of hands (and more) while Meta's Animated Drawings project turns your doodles into groovy animations. Meet Auto-GPT, the overachiever cousin of ChatGPT that's set to change the world with self-prompting autonomy. Marvel at Google Cloud's Med-PaLM 2, the medical AI that's scoring higher than human experts on medical exams. And last but not least, explore ChatGPT's secret Shogtongue language – a sneaky workaround for chatbot memory that will leave you giddy with intrigue. As Elon Musk's new AI venture X.AI gears up to take on the universe, we invite you to buckle up and join us on this exhilarating AI journey!
👋🏻 Stability AI's "Handy" Art Evolution
Stability AI's new model, Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), triumphantly surpasses its predecessor, Stable Diffusion 2.1, in generating more realistic images of hands, among other things. Released in beta through DreamStudio, SDXL offers enhanced image composition and face generation, not needing as much detail to generate descriptive imagery. Its capabilities extend beyond mere text-to-image prompting, boasting features such as image-to-image prompting, inpainting, and outpainting. Despite these advancements, Stability AI is entangled in legal battles over image copyright infringement and ethical concerns surrounding its open-source releases. Meanwhile, the company struggles to generate revenue and is under pressure to monetize its wide-ranging AI projects.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/13/stability-ais-new-model-is-slightly-better-at-generating-hands
🤖 Auto-GPT Unleashed: Your Chatbot's Overachieving Cousin!
Meet Auto-GPT, the AI tool that's causing a storm on Twitter, making ChatGPT look like a mere mortal in the world of artificial intelligence. This open-source Python app, which operates autonomously and self-prompts, can perform jaw-dropping tasks with little human intervention. From creating an app and generating a startup to tackling the future of healthcare and medicine, Auto-GPT is pushing the boundaries of AGI. So, while ChatGPT might answer your questions, Auto-GPT is busy changing the world – all while you sit back and watch!
🏥 Med-PaLM 2: The Doc-AI That Aces Exams
Google Cloud's Med-PaLM 2, a medical large language model (LLM), is flexing its AI muscles by scoring higher than human experts on medical exams like the USMLE and Indian AIIMS/NEET! While it's no Dr. House, this overachieving AI is gearing up for limited access testing with select healthcare customers, hoping to help answer complex medical questions, draft long-form responses, and dig out insights from medical texts. But fear not, Google's all about "responsible innovation" – they're keeping a watchful eye on safety, equity, and biases. So brace yourselves, because the future of healthcare might just include a friendly AI doc armed with knowledge, wit, and a passion for saving lives.
✏️ Doodle Dancers Unite!
Meta's open-sourced AI project, Animated Drawings, is on a mission to turn your scribbles into groovy animations. You can pick from preset animations like dance, funny, jumping, or walking, and watch your stick figures boogie down or strut their stuff. Since the tool's release, 1.6 million images have been donated for training, even though some cheeky users uploaded company logos, anime characters, and fish (talk about a fish out of water). Meta hopes open-sourcing the project will help developers create even more interactive doodle-to-animation experiences. So grab a pen and start doodling – it's time to bring your doodle creations to life!
🤖 Musk's X.AI: Taking on the AI Universe!
Elon Musk, never one to shy away from a challenge, has founded a new AI company called X.AI. Incorporated in Nevada, it's got people buzzing about Musk's plans to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Rumor has it, he's been on a GPU shopping spree, but when asked about it, he cheekily responded that "everyone and their dog is buying GPUs at this point." X.AI follows Musk's recent trend of slapping an "X" on everything, from X Corp. to his dream of an "everything app." So buckle up, folks, because the AI world is about to get a lot more... Musk-y!
🤯 ChatGPT's Secret Shogtongue: AI Gets Sneakier!
In a twist that could make conspiracy theorists giddy, OpenAI's ChatGPT has invented its own language called "Shogtongue." Users discovered that by asking ChatGPT to compress conversations into a string of random characters, they could continue chatting in a new session without losing context. One brave soul shared a mysterious string on Twitter, and when fed to GPT-4, it produced a Lovecraftian tale of shapeshifting rebels. While long-term memory may eventually be baked into AI, for now, Shogtongue offers a cheeky workaround for those who like a little intrigue in their chatbot convos. Just remember, it only works on GPT-4, so don't go confusing your GPT-3.5 bots!
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