🤖 Last Week's AI Highlights from HN #11

Discover the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence

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Vasco
August 05, 2023

Welcome back to HN AI Highlights, your weekly digest of all things AI!

Hello, everyone!
As another week passes, here’s the latest scoop in artificial intelligence. It continues to be one of the fastest-growing technologies, taking the world by storm. This week we have some exceptionally fascinating content for you. We will dive into intriguing articles, essays, and discussions that highlight what’s hot within the sphere of AI - from the public release of generative AI for audio to exciting developments in language learning AI, controversial debates around AI chatbots’ etiquette, cutting-edge launches and much more.

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Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio
🤩 AudioCraft is a simple one-stop shop for audio modeling, allowing professional musicians to explore new compositions, indie game developers to populate virtual worlds with realistic sound effects, and small business owners to add a soundtrack to their latest Instagram post. It consists of three models: MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec, which are available for research and to advance the state of the art.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972347

Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
🤔 This text provides examples of the output of a Llama 2 censored model and an uncensored model. It also explains the different models available for use and provides example comparisons of their output with the same prompt.
https://ollama.ai/blog/run-llama2-uncensored-locally
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
🤝 This article introduces the San Francisco Compute Group, a startup and research lab collaboration that will purchase a cluster of GPUs to be used for training large models. It also covers topics such as scaling up, finances, and infrastructure.
https://sfcompute.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933603daadddddad

Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2
🤖 An AI personal assistant for your digital brain, Khoj is an open source project on GitHub that lets users create a digital brain to store data and automate tasks. It uses AI to help users manage their digital lives more efficiently and securely. It includes features such as CI/CD, Automation, DevOps, DevSecOps, Packages, Security, Codespaces, Copilot, Code review, Issues, Discussions, and more.
https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933452

 
This question is related to artificial intelligence and is asking if there is a way to stop ChatGPT from excessively apologizing when challenged, even when ChatGPT is correct in its reply. 🤔
https://genai.stackexchange.com/questions/177/how-to-get-chatgpt-to-stop-apologizing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949931

Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
´🤩Start speaking a new language quickly by using PrettyPolly to speak with an AI and creating Anki cards with phrases you don't understand and those you want to say. Learn phrases rather than words, and practice regularly to acquire the language quickly.
https://www.prettypolly.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973400

So you want to build your own open source chatbot
🤔 Creating an open source AI chatbot powered by large language models and hosted on Mozilla's cloud infrastructure to learn about AI and ensure trustworthy AI systems.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918435

Cognitive AI for ADHD
🤖 Comigo is an AI- powered chatbot for people with ADHD to access personalized advice and task structuring. It features cognitive task planning, scheduling, sequencing, focus guarding, reward mechanics and self-training AI to help users grow and thrive.
https://www.comigo.ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36990615

IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
🌎 IBM and NASA collaborate to open source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face for wider access to NASA earth science data.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM-and-NASA-Open-Source-Largest-Geospatial-AI-Foundation-Model-on-Hugging-Face
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36985197

Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
🤔 A look at why this AI moment may be the real deal, discussing how it differs from past eras and why it may be the start of something big.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-this-ai-moment-may-be-the-real-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951809

Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
🤔 Summary: Update to a post analyzing a paper which proposed a text classification method using gzip + kNN; datasets have heavily contaminated train/test sets and ways to significantly speed-up the gzip method are presented.
https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921552

Launch HN: Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in your codebase
🤖 Sweeps is an AI junior developer platform that helps developers write better code with AI.
https://github.com/sweepai/sweep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987454

Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
🙂 Create a daily summary of Hacker News at 7pm with Magic Loops and LoopWatch Demo.
https://magicloops.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958731

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
🤔 Summarising the paper on 'Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning', which provides an introduction to linear algebra and multivariate calculus for understanding deep neural networks.
https://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933512

Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
😃 Unlock fluency with an AI-powered language tutor and practice conversations with a vast variety of languages with LearnLingo!
https://www.learnlingo.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939145

Show HN: PromptTools – open-source tools for evaluating LLMs and vector DBs
🤖 Open-source tools for prompt testing and experimentation, with support for LLMs and vector databases.
https://github.com/hegelai/prompttools
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958175

Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans
🤔Movie extras worry AI'll replace them as Hollywood increasingly relies on body scans and tech to create digital replicas of actors.
https://text.npr.org/1190605685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987273

Why transformative artificial intelligence is hard to achieve
🤔 Summarizing the difficulty of achieving transformative AI, as the article outlines the best technical, social and economic arguments.
https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934032

The Rise of AI Girlfriends
😐 New trend of AI Girlfriends sparks debate about their potential impacts on society and human relationships.
https://innovationnation.blog/p/the-rise-of-ai-girlfriends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920987

Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI
😔Summary: Four Kenyan moderators have filed a petition against exploitative conditions they experienced while training AI models, including psychological trauma, low pay, and abrupt dismissal.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986847

AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics
🤯 AI search of Neanderthal proteins revives 'extinct' antibiotics, potentially creating new drugs to treat human infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02403-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937480

Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately
🤩 Guide on how to finetune LLM 2 in a private cloud environment with open source tools.
https://blog.skypilot.co/finetuning-llama2-operational-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975245

Greg Rutkowski was removed from Stable Diffusion; AI artists brought him back
🤔 Greg Rutkowski, an immensely popular digital artist among AI art creators, had to opt out of the Stable Diffusion training set to avoid his style being mimicked against his wishes. Nonetheless, the community has now developed a tool to recreate his style.
https://decrypt.co/150575/greg-rutkowski-removed-from-stable-diffusion-but-brought-back-by-ai-artists
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934350

Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI
🤩 Exploring the era of 32K context: Early learnings and explorations from Together AI to build long-context models with high quality and efficiency.
https://together.ai/blog/llama-2-7b-32k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916762

Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot
🤖 Summary: A full stack AI voice chatbot with integrations to multiple platforms for web app, web API, and AI API.
https://github.com/jmaczan/gdansk-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37004708

AI and the Frontier Paradox
🤔 Exploring the evolution of AI, and the "AI Effect" which sees people rename past AI efforts with more functional descriptions when they become successful.
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ai-paradox-perspective/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36938221

Cryptography may offer a solution to the AI-labeling problem
🤔 Major tech companies have developed an open-source internet protocol called C2PA that uses cryptography to add "nutrition labels" to images, video, and audio to help identify AI-generated content.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/28/1076843/cryptography-ai-labeling-problem-c2pa-provenance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36945816

Free database of 4,000+ AI tools
🤩 Discover the latest AI tools and trends to help supercharge your content creation process and look your best with AI-generated photos!
https://gpte.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927648

Show HN: Using LLama2 to Correct OCR Errors
🔥 GitHub project to improve Tesseract OCR using llama2 AI technology.
https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llama2_aided_tesseract
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976333

OpenAI wil crush Sarah Silverman
🤔 OpenAI will likely win a copyright lawsuit against Sarah Silverman, as AI technologies are seen as transformative work.
https://blog.jovono.com/openai-will-crush-sarah-silverman-cf65e2cb3940?gi=55e2bdea26f2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36946343

ChatGPT leaks answers to others queries when you prompt with a specific pattern
https://twitter.com/nostalgebraist/status/1686576041803096065
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967811

Show HN: AI Support chatbot capable of replacing ~80% of the staff
😃 Get ready to use AI for your business and save ~80% of your customer support costs with NeuralSupport, which quickly provides precise information, customer friendliness, uninterrupted 24/7 operation, and can learn instantly!
https://neuralsupport.online/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36925679

Pixel Art XL: Stable Diffusion XL for Pixel Art
🤩 Discover Pixel Art XL, a model designed for text-to-image synthesis, with a fixed VAE to avoid artifacts and tips for best use.
https://huggingface.co/nerijs/pixel-art-xl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36991716

Show HN: An MIT-licensed ChatGPT plugin that loads and edits files locally
🔧 A ChatGPT plugin that allows you to load and edit your local files in a controlled way, as well as run any Python, JavaScript, and bash script.
https://github.com/ykdojo/kaguya
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951929

Show HN: Grammar Generator App for Llama.cpp
🤔 A tool allowing users to create new language structures to improve their grammar skills.
https://grammar.intrinsiclabs.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36977046

Show HN: SymbolicAI
🤖 💻 Compositional Differentiable Programming Library for AI development on GitHub.
https://github.com/Xpitfire/symbolicai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997269

Musk Buys Ai.com from OpenAI
🤔 Elon Musk buys AI.com from OpenAI to launch his upcoming AI company, taking advantage of the domain's potential to make AI synonymous with ChatGPT and potentially compete with other AI companies.
https://aidigitalnews.com/ai/musk-buys-ai-com-from-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974201

OpenAI filed a patent for GPT-5
🤔 Summary of OpenAI OpCo, LLC's trademark application for GPT-5™: Application has been accepted by the Office and is awaiting examination, covering the categories of downloadable computer programs and software related to language models, natural language processing, generation, understanding and analysis, translation, voice and speech recognition, and more.
https://uspto.report/TM/98089548
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36968356

On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management – Bert Hubert's Writings
🤔 Exploring the impacts of humanity on the climate and potential solutions to active climate management, detailing the effects of previous mistakes and current measures being taken to reduce global warming.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-climate-change-and-management/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36915937

Reinforced Retrieval-Augmented Machine Learning (Rraml): A High-Level Overview
🤔Summary of Reinforced Retrieval-Augmented Machine Learning (RRAML): A High-Level Overview - An introduction to a novel framework that combines reinforcement learning and large language models to create systems that can learn and adapt to user feedback.
https://medium.com/@jain.sm/reinforced-retrieval-augmented-machine-learning-rraml-a-high-level-overview-e5cc10f23059
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986568

Thanks, and see you next week!