🚨 Leaked internal Google document

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• 🚨 Leaked internal Google document

• 🤖 Microsoft Bing gets powerful upgrades

• 🏦 Biden promotes responsible AI innovation.

• 🤗 Hugging Face’s open-source code generation model

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🚨 Leaked internal Google document

A leaked Google document, whose authorship by a Google researcher has been verified, has surfaced on a public Discord server anonymously. However, it is important to note that the document represents the personal opinion of the author, and not the official stance of the company as a whole.

The document emphasizes the increasing influence of open-source AI models, which the author believes are surpassing Google and OpenAI in terms of innovation and capability. The document states that "plainly put, they [open source models] are outpacing us."

In essence, the document calls for Google to adopt a new strategy that leverages the potential of open-source AI innovations. It is surprising that open-source models, traditionally associated with grassroots innovation, are now seen as potential competitors to established tech giants in the AI race.

Check out some important parts of the leaked document here. (link)

🤖 Microsoft Bing gets powerful upgrades

If you were feeling excluded for not being able to access Microsoft's Bing AI, there's good news for you. The AI is now available to all users, so those who had exclusive access before won't be able to boast for much longer. Additionally, Bing AI is receiving a significant upgrade in terms of its features.

It will be capable of handling images and videos, as well as having plug-in functionality that may enable you to make reservations at restaurants or purchase groceries. Furthermore, chatbot conversations will be stored in your personal history.

Check out Microsoft's official publication for more details.

🏦 Biden promotes responsible AI innovation.

Is it true that senior citizens can't keep up with technology? Well, Joe Biden's administration, despite his advancing age and occasional incoherence, has been actively leading discussions on AI ethics. In light of Geoffrey Hinton's resignation over AI safety concerns, they have announced a series of initiatives to promote responsible innovation in AI.

These include the creation of a National AI Institute with a budget of $140M, a public evaluation of current generative AI, and other measures.

On another note, the EU has been advised to safeguard grassroots AI research to avoid being overtaken by the US.

🤗 Hugging Face’s open-source code generation model

Hugging Face should be hailed as the Queen of driving open-source forward, given their remarkable contributions to the community. Their latest endeavor, StarCoder, a fully open-sourced code generation model developed in collaboration with ServiceNow (admittedly, a somewhat puzzling partnership), has generated considerable excitement among coders.

Notably, Hugging Face claims that StarCoder outperforms the models used to train OpenAI's GitHub Copilot. Furthermore, from an ethical standpoint, the model is trained on an open dataset called The Stack, consisting of 19 million fully-permissible code bases totaling 6 terabytes of code. And to top it off, the model seamlessly integrates with VSCode, making it a must-try for developers.

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FASCINATING FINDS

• On this day - May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space when he makes a fifteen minute suborbital flight aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7. He reaches an altitude of 115 miles, during which he experiences about five minutes of weightlessness. (link)

• Mind-boggling statistics - A team of Stanford scientists tested a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that they say can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute, improving the previous record by 3.4 times 2. (link)

MISCELLANEOUS

(News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc)

• Arthur aims to offer businesses an AI firewall. (link)

• Distributed representations - Composition & superposition. (link)

• How quickly are businesses adopting AI? (link)

• A new AI chatbot named Ava loves poetry, booking travel, and analysing data—plus it’ll save you money. (link)

• Slack updates aim to put AI at the centre of the user experience by announcing SlackGPT, Salesforce’s own AI model. (link)

• Google is limiting sharing AI knowledge with the world to take on the competition. They will, but after they’ve productized it. (link)

• OpenAI personal data removal request form - only for European countries and Japan. (link)

• AI is just someone else’s intelligence. (link)

• OpenAI’s losses doubled to $540 Million as it developed ChatGPT. (link)

• Tracking through containers and occluders in the wild. (link)

• AutoML GPT - Automatic machine learning with GPT. (link)

That's all for now!

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