🤖 Last Week's AI Highlights from HN #1

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Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers

💡 Phind, an AI-powered search engine for developers, provides instant, detailed answers to technical questions with relevant code snippets, ensuring up-to-date and comprehensive information from multiple sources.
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The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

🤔 The accidental leak of Llama sparked a wave of impressive open-source alternatives to ChatGPT, including Alpaca, Vicuna, Koala, ChatLLama, FreedomGPT, ColossalChat and more. OpenAI also released a blog post explaining their safety principles for foundation models.
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We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics

🤔 This article discusses how Large Language Models (ChatGPT, Bing Chat) cannot be trusted to provide factual information and how this is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. It emphasizes the need to prioritize helping people understand this rather than debating the most precise terminology to describe it.
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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

🤩 Anthropic, an AI research startup founded in 2020 by former OpenAI researchers, plans to raise up to $5 billion in the next two years to build a powerful "frontier model" 10 times more capable than today's models and compete with OpenAI. The model will be used to build virtual assistants, automate parts of the economy, and more. The company has already raised $1.3 billion and has 15 partners using its "Claude" chatbot.
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Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language

 🤩 A father describes his son's invented language and the journey to teach ChatGPT the language with the help of YouTube channels and the Polish alphabet. The language has a unique sentence structure, and the challenge of learning it lies in its unfamiliarity to speakers of Indo-European languages.
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A Baby GPT

🧠 The post discusses a simplified language model, which helps researchers understand how these models process information and make predictions. Researchers can gain valuable insights into how more complex language models function and make decisions by studying a smaller, easier-to-analyse model.
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Also trending in the last week

Ethics and Impact on society

🤯 Experienced freelance writer loses major client to AI, like ChatGPT, due to cost efficiency, highlighting the potential threat of AI even to skilled writers in the industry.
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😨 AI clones teen girl's voice to demand $1M ransom in kidnapping scam.
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Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces
😱 Joe Rogan is warning of the growing risks of AI after an AI-generated version of his podcast surfaced, featuring a (fake) guest discussing Elon Musk.
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Tools and Applications

Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages
🔥 Interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice using this GitHub repository.
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Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
🤩 Livebook Launch Week has begun, and Day 2 focuses on the new Machine Learning capabilities in Elixir and Livebook.
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DeepSpeed Chat: Easy, fast and affordable RLHF training of ChatGPT-like models
😃 DeepSpeed Chat is an easy, fast and affordable way to train chatbot-like models using RLHF.
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Show HN: Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI
🤩 Discover your next favorite book effortlessly with the help of AI! Simply choose your 3 favorite books and let AI suggest personalized recommendations tailored to your reading preferences.
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Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant
🤖 Harness the power of ChatGPT inside the GDB or LLDB debugger! 🤖
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EditAnything: Segment Anything + ControlNet + BLIP2 + Stable Diffusion
🤖️ A repository to edit anything in images powered by segment-anything, ControlNet, StableDiffusion, etc.
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Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots
🤖 Create bots with different personalities and objectives, manage them and chat with them in Marvin's TUI.
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Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
🤩 Discover the AI-powered OASIS app to create & share perfect writing with zero effort!
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Research and Discussion

Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
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GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours
🤔 A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Yale, and UC Berkeley discovered that OpenAI's GPT-4 outperformed the most skilled crowdworkers they had hired to label their dataset, saving them over $500,000 and 20,000 hours of labor.
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Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
😕 Summary: GPT-3 has caused a surge in interest in Large Language Models and has a cost based on the concept of tokens, which varies across different languages, resulting in an up to 15.77x difference in cost.
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A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI
😀 Petition to create a CERN-like research center for Open Source large-scale AI research and its safety. 🤝
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The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under
🤔 Summary: Stability AI, a startup which created the popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is at risk of going under due to burning through cash at an alarming rate and competition with rival Midjourney.
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Segment Anything Model and the hard problems of computer vision
🤔 Exploring the implications of the Segment Anything Model, Computer Vision for developers, and the hard problems of AI with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow.
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AI powered realtime fluid simulations are here
🤩 AI-powered fluid simulations with realistic, interactive smoke in a game were made possible by taking a test dive with an upcoming tool, Zibra Smoke & Fire, and using SDFs for fast colliders.
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OpenAI API keys leaking through app binaries
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GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities
🤔 Tracking the progress and development of GPT-4 by generating a unicorn image daily to observe changes in the model over time.
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Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with the ML community
🤖 JARVIS is a system that connects low-level machine learning (LLM) with the ML community. 🤖
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Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
🤔 A look into the AI chatbots' ability to generate false information and why it's a big problem - the "confabulation" problem.
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Humans in Humans Out: GPT Converging Toward Common Sense in Both Success/Failure
🤔 Investigating the effects of GPT on common sense in both successful and unsuccessful cases.
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What GPT-4 Does Is Less Like “Figuring Out” and More Like “Already Knowing”
🤔 An overview of GPT-4 and its capabilities, with an analysis of how it's strengths and weaknesses can be used to predict what the future of AI holds.
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