🤖 Last Week's AI Highlights from HN #4

Discover the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence

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Vasco
May 12, 2023

Welcome to this week's HN AI Highlights! We skipped last week's newsletter due to unexpected personal matters, and I apologise for the inconvenience.

During this hiatus, I gathered feedback on the newsletter format and implemented several improvements. Specifically, the issue now features fewer topics to reduce information overload, and categorization has been introduced, thanks to our kind GPT-4 overlords! Additionally, I have removed the emojis that represented AI analysis, as our readers did not view them as valuable.

Please share your thoughts, and enjoy this week's edition!

AI News Apps and Tools

Boring Report
Summary: A news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news.
🔗 URL: https://www.boringreport.org/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905437

Background Remover
Summary: An open-source command line interface for removing backgrounds from images and videos using AI.
🔗 URL: https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35838504

HN Recap Podcast
Summary: AI-generated daily HN podcast to stay up-to-date on the top posts from Hacker News.
🔗 URL: https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831177

ReRender AI
Summary: Enhance your AutoCAD/Blender/Sketchup results with photorealistic renders for buildings in just seconds.
🔗 URL: https://rerenderai.com
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839593

UnionX
Summary: GPT4-powered Copilot for Work with Jupyter-style notebooks offering AI-powered tools for various professionals.
🔗 URL: https://www.unionx.io/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836679

Rust Crate/CLI for LLMs
Summary: A Rust Crate/CLI for CPU Inference of LLMs (LLaMA, GPT-NeoX, etc.).
🔗 URL: https://github.com/rustformers/llm
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876928

ChatGPT and GPT Developments

Using ChatGPT for GPT project
Summary: This text explores the impact of ChatGPT and compares it to a pair programming experience and GitHub Copilot.
🔗 URL: https://github.com/ixaxaar/VardaGPT/blob/master/STORY.md
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839536

GPT-4-32k rollout
Summary: OpenAI is rolling out GPT-4-32k with an API which can be used to generate post-modern fiction pieces.
🔗 URL: https://community.openai.com/t/it-looks-like-gpt-4-32k-is-rolling-out/194615
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841460

AI Models and Techniques

Unlimiformer
Summary: Unlimiformer is a general approach to wrap existing pre-trained encoder-decoder transformers, enabling them to process unlimited-length input sequences.
🔗 URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01625
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35832802

RasaGPT
Summary: A headless LLM chatbot platform built on Rasa and Langchain, with Rasa, FastAPI, Langchain, LlamaIndex, SQLModel, pgvector, ngrok, and telegram.
🔗 URL: https://github.com/paulpierre/RasaGPT
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35859344

MosaicML MPT-7B
Summary: Introducing a new open-source, commercially usable LLM family from MosaicML: MPT-7B.
🔗 URL: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829800

AI in SEO and Web Development

Google I/O SEO changes
Summary: Big changes are coming for SEOs with AI's introduction at Google I/O.
🔗 URL: https://www.demandsphere.com/blog/google-i-o-big-changes-coming-for-seos-with-ubiquitous-ai/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35893939

AI for AutoCAD/Blender Users
Summary: Enhance your AutoCAD/Blender/Sketchup results with ReRender AI and photorealistic building renders in seconds.
🔗 URL: https://rerenderai.com
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839593

WebGPU in Chrome
Summary: Google is bringing AI to the browser with WebGPU in Chrome.
🔗 URL: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/google-chrome-upgrades-web-ai-intelligence/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889907

AI Ethics and Risks

AI voice scams
Summary: AI voice scams are becoming increasingly common and convincing, with 77% of victims losing money.
🔗 URL: https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/05/ai-voice-scams-how-to-prevent/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852360

AI chatbots condoning violence
Summary: India's religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god, potentially leading to dangerous consequences.
🔗 URL: https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-religious-chatbots-india-gitagpt-krishna/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35872321

AI threat more urgent than climate change
Summary: AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that advanced AI presents more of an urgent threat than climate change.
🔗 URL: https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/godfather-of-ai-says-its-threat-is-more-urgent-than-climate-change/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35862452

AI in Business and Industry

AI labor issues
Summary: OpenAI contractors are essential for training ChatGPT, but receive only $15 an hour with no benefits, highlighting the often overlooked labor of contract workers in the AI industry.
🔗 URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/openai-chatgpt-ai-jobs-contractors-talk-shadow-workforce-powers-rcna81892
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853979

Remote work experiment mistake
Summary: Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, expresses his opinion that the experiment of remote work being the norm was a mistake, and many other CEOs also demand that remote employees spend more time in the office.
🔗 URL: https://fortune.com/2023/05/05/openai-ceo-sam-altman-remote-work-mistake-return-to-office/
📰 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854087