📣 Meta Debuts TTS AI

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• 📣 Meta Debuts TTS AI

• 🤖 China's Leader Cheers AI

• 🥷 Filipino Whiz Kids Snare Thief via AI

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📣 Meta Debuts TTS AI

Meta is hurtling ahead in AI innovation with the unveiling of Voicebox, a cutting-edge, multipurpose generative speech model.

Here’s the scoop:

• Multi-lingual Mastery: Voicebox can produce speech in six different languages.

• Adaptive Abilities: Surprisingly, it's able to carry out tasks it was never specifically trained for.

• Comprehensive Features: It boasts noise elimination, content modification, style transmutation, and much more.

• Multifaceted Synthesis: The model supports both text-to-speech creation and cross-lingual style blending.

• Turbocharged Performance: Voicebox operates at a staggering 20 times the speed of existing models and eclipses single-purpose models via in-context learning (yes, a whopping 20x).

In a departure from Meta’s typical openness in AI progression, they have opted to keep the model and code under wraps due to concerns over the potential for harmful exploitation.

Get ready for prank calls on steroids. Take this as your daily nudge to remind your close ones that AI now has the ability to mimic anyone’s voice.

🤖 China's Leader Cheers AI

Recently, a conversation took place between the President of China, Xi Jinping, and Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, addressing the global implications of artificial intelligence (AI).

In the midst of the ongoing strains between the US and China, President Xi conveyed an open-arm stance, inviting American companies to introduce AI technologies in China. He accentuated the importance of leveraging AI for economic advancement but also did not shy away from shedding light on the potential risks involved.

The significance of this dialogue cannot be understated. It signals the potential extension of American AI expertise into the Chinese market, notwithstanding the prevailing discord between the two nations. The choices made in this context have the potential to sculpt the future contours of the worldwide technology sector.

🥷 Filipino Whiz Kids Snare Thief via AI

Shifting gears to a more uplifting narrative, an inspiring tale of artificial intelligence serving justice is sweeping across the Philippines and winning hearts.

At an event not too long ago, a pair of young talents took to the stage to grace the audience with a song. However, during their performance, their bag was swiped by an unscrupulous individual. Fortunately, the keen eyes of the venue’s security camera managed to record the incident.

Even though the recorded footage was far from crisp, the resilient youngsters refused to lose hope and took to social media to share the clip. In a heartening turn of events, kind-hearted netizens wielding AI technology swooped in to save the day. They employed AI to enhance the clarity of the culprit’s image and promptly shared it in the comments.

The tale concludes on a triumphant note as the bag was recovered. One mobile phone continues to elude, but the incident remains a sterling testament to how AI technology can be harnessed for the greater good of society.

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FASCINATING FINDS

• On this day - June 18, 1979, In use at the time by over 200,000 computers with the Z80 and 8080 processors, Microsoft BASIC is introduced for the 8086 16-bit microprocessor. By being one of the first to offer a version of the BASIC programming language for a 16-bit processor and making it compatible with their 8-bit versions of BASIC, Microsoft helped move forward 16-bit computing. But perhaps more importantly, by developing for the 8086 processor, they soon formed a relationship with Seattle Computer Products, one of the first companies building computers with an 8086 processor.

  As fate would have it, in 1980 Seattle Computer Products was forced to develop an operating system for their computers because a version of the very popular CP/M operating system was delayed for the 8086. It was this 8086 operating system, which SCP called QDOS (for Quick and Dirty Operating System), that Microsoft soon bought the rights for and licensed to IBM for their new PC. And Microsoft thus began their transformation from a simple software development company in the early history of personal computing to one of the most dominant technology companies in history.

MISCELLANEOUS

(News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc)

• Localrf – Nerf from casual shaky videos. (link)

• Can we harness generative AI for social good? (link)

• TII has now released Falcon LLM – 40B model. (link)

• It’s not just hype, corporate America is making huge bets on AI transforming their businesses. (link)

• The Guardian will now use generative AI. (link)

• GPT-4 outperforms humans in pitch deck effectiveness. (link)

• GPT4 can’t ace MIT. (link)

• Media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe. (link)

• GPT-4 apparently can't recite the litany against fear from Dune. (link)

• Can ChatGPT diagnose this car? (link)

• Demystifying GPT self-repair for code generation. (link)

• The low-background steel of AI. (link)

🛠️ COOL TOOLS

(Product launches, updates and demos)

• ReLLM - Exact structure output from any language model completion. (link)

• Project Atlas Agents – The first no-code autonomous agents management platform. (link)

• Sketch2Render - Transform your house sketches into beautiful 3D house renders in seconds. (link)

• Minerva AI – Chrome extension to simplify job hunt, optimise LinkedIn use. (link)

• AI turns video lessons into interactive social games in seconds. (link)

• Faraday Dev – Run open-source LLMs on your computer. (link)

• Hugging Face space on QR code AI art generator. (link)

• Fix my code with AI – Make experiences accessible & usable with compliant code. (link)

• Cohesive AI voices – Human-like voices for every content. (link)

That's all for now!

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡