🤖 Last Week's AI Highlights from HN #14

Discover the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence

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Vasco
September 01, 2023

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

Greetings, all!

These are this week’s highlights:

ChatGPT Enterprise
🤩 Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise - OpenAI's latest offering of enterprise-grade security & privacy, higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows, advanced data analysis capabilities, customization options and more for teams to be more creative & productive.
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-enterprise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297304

Teaching with AI
🤖 Empowering teachers to use AI to accelerate learning and equip students with critical thinking skills.
https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37340314

AI Crap
🤔 This article discusses AI's current and potential implications, suggesting that the lasting changes will include a reduced labour force, convincing spam and phishing, and increased propaganda. It also states that technology is nowhere near world-ending power but is maintained by people in the industry for their interests.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37305260

High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
🤯 This article discusses an AI-trained drone that has beaten world-champion drone racers in a physical sport. The AI system, called Swift, was trained in a simulated environment and could be used for environmental monitoring or disaster response applications.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Drone-race.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37323834

Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video
🤩 CoTracker is a flexible and powerful architecture for joint tracking of multiple points in videos using attention layers, which is shown to be more efficient and accurate than state-of-the-art methods.
https://co-tracker.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314073

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/30/2023-18624/artificial-intelligence-and-copyright
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37344993

Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’
🤑 Money is pouring into AI, but some question whether it's real or a 'Grift Shift'.
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2c4fad0w6irk838pca3gg/portfolio/money-is-pouring-into-ai-skeptics-say-its-a-grift-shift
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332974

Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase
🤩 A free AI-assisted coding assistant, Cody, that autocompletes, provides code explanations, writes unit tests, and more - all to save time and focus on shipping software.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/cody
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277722

OpenAI predicted to generate over $1B
🤑 OpenAI is predicted to generate an impressive $1 billion in revenue next year, far exceeding initial projections.
https://the-decoder.com/openai-shatters-revenue-expectations-predicted-to-generate-over-1-billion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324503

Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
🤔 Summarizing the article: Mo Pourreza demonstrates how to fine-tune GPT-3.5-Turbo for Natural Language to SQL, using the Spider dataset from Yale University as a benchmark.
https://medium.com/dataherald/fine-tuning-gpt-3-5-turbo-for-natural-language-to-sql-4445c1d37f7c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341670

MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI
🤔 Google is attempting to prevent a third instance of creating groundbreaking AI technology and having competitors run off with the spoils by investing in MapReduce, TensorFlow, and Vertex AI.
https://www.supervised.news/p/mapreduce-tensorflow-bard-also-hello
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312385

Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available
🤔 Duet AI for Google Workspace is now generally available, providing AI as a collaborator to reduce the burden of work and enhance meetings with studio look, studio lighting, studio sound, dynamic tiles, face detection, and automatic translations.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai-in-workspace-now-available
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306530

Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs
🤔 Summary of a blog post about new LLM Foundation Models released by Sebastian Raschka, PhD, discussing the Llama 2 base & chat models, GPT-4 model, finetuning API and open-source AI alternatives.
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ahead-of-ai-11-new-foundation-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321032

Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
🤔 Empowering story of discovering the joy of coding by removing digital noise.
https://ntietz.com/blog/changing-my-relationship-with-github-copilot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303357

Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
🤔 Experimenting with Llama 2, GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo for summaries found that Llama-2-70b is almost as strong at factuality as gpt-4, and better than gpt-3.5-turbo, but 30x cheaper.
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-accurate-as-gpt-4-for-summaries-and-is-30x-cheaper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37305383

Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?
🤔Analyzing a note-taking app, this article examines how productivity platforms promise to make working life easier yet have not been successful in helping thinking - and how AI may be able to change that.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262265

Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps
💻 Open source observability and analytics for LLM applications.
https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310070

Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education [video]
😌A discussion of how AI could improve education by Sal Khan on TED YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283191

ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May
🤔 Analyzing ChatGPT user sessions revealed that visits have decreased 29% since May, and programming assistance makes up 30% of user activity.
https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-millions-of-chatgpt-user-sessions-visits-are-down-29-since-may-programming-assistance-is-30-of-use/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328422

Show HN: Query your database using plain English, fully on-premises
🤔 A simple to use AI-powered insights tool with data privacy & report generation capabilities that can be run on-premises or securely shared on the same network.
https://www.vizly.fyi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315667

IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
🤔IBM unveils a new analog AI chip that is more energy efficient than leading GPUs, potentially disrupting Nvidia's dominance.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-beware-ibm-has-a-new-analog-ai-chip-that-could-give-the-h100-a-run-for-its-money
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281851

Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages
🤔Attempting to explain why Coalton is a language and why it might be necessary for lispers without a background in ML-like languages.
https://gist.github.com/digikar99/b76964faf17b3a86739c001dc1b14a39
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270252

US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright
🤔 US Copyright Office opens public comment period to discuss AI and copyright issues, including how AI models should use copyrighted data, whether AI generated material can be copyrighted, and how copyright liability would work with AI.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23851126/us-copyright-office-ai-public-comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321951

Show HN: TRS-GPT – ChatGPT client/server for the TRS-80
🤩 Reconnecting with a childhood dream, a middle aged man restores and updates a TRS-80 Model III computer from 1981 and utilizes ChatGPT to achieve Artificial General Intelligence.
https://druid77.github.io/trs-gpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37276026

AlloyDB AI: Generative AI applications with PostgreSQL
🤔Building gen AI apps with Google Cloud PostgreSQL databases made easier with AlloyDB AI.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/helping-developers-build-gen-ai-apps-with-google-cloud-databases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312502

Degraded performance on ChatGPT
😐 OpenAI's ChatGPT service experienced degraded performance and has now been resolved after a series of updates and fixes.
https://status.openai.com/incidents/c9fzdr2cxnbq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37337177

Show HN: Open Interpreter – CodeLlama in your terminal, executing code
😃 The Open Interpreter Project is a new way to use computers that allows LLMs to run code on your computer to complete tasks, available on Github.
https://openinterpreter.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315866

Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated
🤔The Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and generative AI] is Greatly Exaggerated - Look at the Data suggests that user adoption and revenue generation is fast, despite skeptics' claims of its impending failure.
https://synthedia.substack.com/p/the-imminent-death-of-chatgpt-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263231

Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data Core (What is Core?)
🤔Summary: A paper discussing Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data, which allows feature interactions to be captured through representation learning and provides explanations for model predictions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08945
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269376

“AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”
https://twitter.com/sharyph_/status/1675021148310913025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324705

USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage
🤦‍♀️ USA Today owner has paused its AI articles after bot generated inaccurate and robotic sports coverage.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/usa-today-owner-ai-articles-sports
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37316103

‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All over Amazon
😱 Summary: AI-generated mushroom foraging books on Amazon could potentially lead to life-threatening mistakes as they lack the expertise of human authors.
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mushroom-foraging-books-amazon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37309563

Direct speech reconstruction from sensorimotor activity and deep learning models
🤔Summary: Deep learning models are being used to reconstruct direct speech from sensorimotor brain activity.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ace8be
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37309575

Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
😃Meta’s Open Source Llama 2 AI model is now available for free, potentially intensifying the generative AI boom by making it easier for developers to build powerful new systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-upsets-the-ai-horse-race/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37298994

How we got Stable Diffusion XL inference to under 2 seconds
😃Summary: Learn how to reduce the time of SDXL inference from 8-10 seconds to 1.92 seconds with various tweaks such as reducing steps from 50 to 20 and using torch.compile to optimize the model and more.
https://www.baseten.co/blog/sdxl-inference-in-under-2-seconds-the-ultimate-guide-to-stable-diffusion-optimization#
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343158

Cheapest Llama2 chatbot solution costs only $4/mon
🤖Summary: Syme Chat is a baby but powerful ChatGPT based on Llama2-7B, with a friendly WebUI, operating on Linux/Unix, and with features such as no 3rd-party conversation leakage and cheap Llama2-7B CPU running.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-gzehsbllm3q3o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341332

Meta just released its answer to GitHub Copilot, and it’s free
🤩 Meta releases a new free LLM model for code completion and generation, competing with ChatGPT and Copilot X.
https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-just-released-its-answer-to-github-copilot-and-its-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37280783

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
🤯 Summary: Astonishingly, Recurrent Neural Networks can generate text character by character, leaving us to wonder how is that even possible?
http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291235

Disney, the New York Times and CNN Blocking Access to ChatGPT
🤬 Major media companies are blocking access to A.I. technology in a cold war-style battle.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/media/media-companies-blocking-chatgpt-reliable-sources/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306235

OpenAI disputes authors’ claims that every ChatGPT response is a derivative work
🤔OpenAI disputes authors’ claims that every ChatGPT response is a derivative work, arguing that copyright law is intended to protect the expression of ideas and not the underlying idea or facts.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/openai-disputes-authors-claims-that-every-chatgpt-response-is-a-derivative-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326288

Show HN: Become fluent in a language by practicing with an AI Tutor
😃 Get AI-powered language support with Tutor Lily!
https://tutorlily.com/home
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37336032

Thanks, and see you next week!