🤖 Last Week's AI Highlights from HN #7

Discover the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence

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Vasco
June 23, 2023

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

Firstly, please accept my deepest apologies for the absence of the regular newsletters over the last two weeks due to unforeseen personal circumstances. We understand how much you all value these updates and are grateful for your understanding during this time.

Recommitting to tge promise of delivering insightful content, I’m back to share my curated list of resources. Initially designed as the bookmark manager for my personal knowledge, I found the information to be too good to keep to myself. So, to benefit all AI enthusiasts, I have turned it into our newsletter's staple.

I am confident that these ground-breaking resources from the AI world will continue igniting your interest, steering your learning journey in intriguing directions. Enjoy browsing through the resources we found compelling, and thank you for being a part of HN AI Highlights.

Let's dive back into the fascinating world of AI... 🙂

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Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
🤔Humans are not ready for the implications of living in an AI-saturated world, with the potential for increased disinformation, deepfakes, and identity threat. Research into the mental effects of AI is only just beginning, and experts point to potential issues such as increased reliance on and distraction by technology, inability to learn without AI, and a "post-truth world" of blurred lines between fake and real.

People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI
🤔 A new study has found that a significant proportion of people who are paid to train AI models are outsourcing their work to AI, which could introduce further errors into already error-prone models. The study suggests that the tech industry needs to investigate which tasks are most prone to automation and work on ways to prevent this.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36432279

AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years
🤯 AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, reversing the locus of control from the computer to the user. Jakob Nielsen explains how ChatGPT and other AI systems are paving the way to this new model of interaction, providing the first new model in over 60 years.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36394569

ChatGPT: Fear Litany
🤔 A conversation between a user and a chatbot discussing reciting the Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbert's Dune. The chatbot encountered persistent technical difficulties in providing the full quote, so it attempted to break it down into smaller sections for the user.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230620052350/https://chat.openai.com/share/312e82f0-cc5e-47f3-b368-b2c0c0f4ad3f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36400053

Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks
🤩 Introducing Voicebox: Meta AI researchers have developed a breakthrough in generative AI for speech which can generalize to speech-generation tasks it was not specifically trained to accomplish with state-of-the-art performance. This model, Voicebox, can synthesize speech across six languages and perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and diverse sample generation. Outperforming the current state of the art in English, Voicebox is an exciting development in speech generation.
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393262

Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI
🔥 Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google and OpenAI, potentially shifting the AI landscape and benefiting Meta with code contributions from developers.
https://www.artisana.ai/articles/metas-plan-to-offer-free-commercial-ai-models-puts-pressure-on-google-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36360452

AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/16/crowd_workers_bots_ai_training/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356547

Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion XL 0.9
🎉Stability AI celebrates the launch of SDXL 0.9, a major leap forward in AI image generation.
https://stability.ai/blog/sdxl-09-stable-diffusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435559

Over 100k ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web
🚨 OpenAI responded to the discovery of over 100,000 ChatGPT user account credentials on the dark web, stressing the need for strong passwords and verified software installations.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/over-100000-chatgpt-account-credentials-made-available-on-the-dark-web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36419001

AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models
🤗 Get started with LastMile AI by walking through the key features and cloning the Getting Started Workbook.
https://lastmileai.dev/workbooks/clj2y933l000mr0avd2ck42s9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36419793

Show HN: Autolabel, a Python library to label and enrich text data with LLMs
🤖 Label, clean and enrich text datasets with LLMs.
https://github.com/refuel-ai/autolabel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409201

Show HN: Python package for interfacing with ChatGPT with minimized complexity
🤖 Python package for easily interfacing with chat apps, with robust features and minimal code complexity.
https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393782

ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys 🤣 AI Platforms ChatGPT and Google Bard share generic Windows 11/10 Pro Keys, allowing users to install and upgrade OS systems without spending money.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-generates-windows-11-pro-keys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36385032

AI has poisoned its own well
😔 AI has poisoned its own well with the premature release of their generative AI models, resulting in the threat of model collapse and limiting the quality of their products.
https://tracydurnell.com/2023/06/18/ai-has-poisoned-its-own-well/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36388680

Show HN: Image Upscaler AI
🤩Discover a powerful AI tool to upscale your images with ImageUpscalerAI.com, with no conversion limit, edit unlimited images, no restricted functions, faster & higher quality images and commercial usage license for 1 or 10 people.
https://imageupscalerai.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418648

Aeon: A unified framework for machine learning with time series to continue.
https://github.com/aeon-toolkit/aeon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36432369

Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
🤖 Researchers warn of the dangers of an AI feedback loop as AI trains on AI-generated content.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368848

Research papers on ML in Compilers
🤖 Finding research papers, tools and datasets related to using machine learning for compilers and systems optimisation.
https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417908

GPT-4 Can Use Tools Now–That’s a Big Deal
🤩 GPT-4 can now use tools to help it with queries, allowing it to become more powerful and replace open-source libraries doing the same thing.
https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-can-use-tools-now-that-s-a-big-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36362987

Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns (2021)
🤔 Deep Learning has become increasingly popular in recent years, and this article explores its diminishing returns and the costs of improvement becoming unsustainable.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-computational-cost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361906

Show HN: Launching Struct – Knowledge-Rich, AI-Powered Chat Platform
🤯 Launching Struct Chat Platform: Reinventing Chat by Manish R Jain to challenge the current status quo of real-time communication turning it into accessible and lasting knowledge.
https://www.struct.ai/blog/launching-struct-chat-platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36432743

Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how
🤔 As Congress rushes to regulate AI, tech executives take advantage of the opportunity to influence policy by teaching lawmakers how to understand the technology.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/17/congress-regulating-ai-schumer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36375992

Neural networks need data to learn, even if it’s fake
🤔 Researchers are increasingly turning to synthetic data to supplement or replace real data for training AI systems, as it can be expensive, private or in short supply.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/neural-networks-need-data-to-learn-even-if-its-fake-20230616/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367491

Build your own copilot using open source LLMs
🤔 Learn how to build a Copilot using open source LLM with the help of AutoGPTQ and HuggingFace libraries.
`https://medium.com/@anchen.li/build-your-own-copliot-using-open-source-llm-ff9da556cb09
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36404431

Open LLAMA 13B released, trained on 1T tokens
🤩 An Open Reproduction of LLaMA Weights Release, License and Usage, and more.
https://huggingface.co/openlm-research/open_llama_13b_easylm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393357

Are ChatGPT and Other Similar Systems the Modern Lernaean Hydras of AI?DagsHub (What is DagsHub?)
🤔 Investigating the implications of AI systems taking open source code without permission from developers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09267
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370232

Dropbox Dash, AI-powered universal search, and Dropbox AI
😃 Introducing Dropbox Dash and Dropbox AI, AI-powered tools to help you save time and do your best work.
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-powered-tools
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418651

Why is ChatGPT becoming more stupid?
🤔 A community is questioning why ChatGPT is becoming less intelligent as it produces fake news and is barely usable without the need to fact-check everything.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14b6br9/why_is_chatgpt_becoming_more_stupid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36381975

OpenAI regulatory pushing government to ban illegal advanced matrix operations [pdf]
https://downloads.regulations.gov/NTIA-2023-0005-1245/attachment_1.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368191

AI Is a Lot of Work
😐A 30-year-old I’ll call Joe works as an annotator in Kenya, training AI via tedious, repetitive labeling tasks for a low wage. He also runs a boot camp where half the recruits drop out due to the boredom. AI companies like Scale AI offer the data, but its origins remain secret.
https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36426496

ChatGPT-like AI to respond to emergency calls in Portugal
🤔 Portugal is testing a ChatGPT-based AI to take emergency calls, with possible rollout by 2025.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-take-emergency-calls-portugal-2025-report-2023-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418845

Tzap: Supercharged GitHub Copilot – Includes your whole code repository
🚀 Summary of GitHub repository tzapio/tzap which provides Automate any workflow, Host and manage packages, Find and fix vulnerabilities, Instant dev environments, Write better code with AI, Manage code changes, Plan and track work, and Collaborate outside of code.
https://github.com/tzapio/tzap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377918

The Pentagon’s Ambitious AI Plans Look Less and Less Like ChatGPT
🤔 Pentagon's AI plans reveal why military leaders need trustworthy tools for structured data, insights, and trust.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/06/pentagons-ambitious-ai-plans-look-less-and-less-chatgpt/387711/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36414059

Show HN: Giskard – Testing framework dedicated to LLMs and Tabular ML models
https://github.com/Giskard-AI/giskard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356822

OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports
😮 OpenAI plans to launch an AI software app store to compete with its customers and partners 🤖.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-plans-app-store-ai-software-information-2023-06-20/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413664

You.com Launches YouPro – AI Chatbot with GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion XL
🤔You.Com Launches Subscription Service For Cutting-Edge Generative AI Search Chatbot To Offer Access To AI Tools & Innovative Future Features With Priority Uptime.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2023/06/21/youcom-launches-subscription-service-for-cutting-edge-generative-ai-search-chatbot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421257

Show HN: Smolex – A code retrieval ChatGPT Plugin for Python
🚀 Experimental code retrieval ChatGPT Plugin for developers.
https://github.com/loladotdev/smolex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36401719

Thanks and see you next week!