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🦜 Stability AI releases their first language models
👻 Snapchat releases their creepy chatbot
⚖️ Elon threatens to sue Microsoft
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🦜Stability AI releases their first language models
A new open-source LLM just arrived!
Stability AI releases StableLM available in 3B and 7B parameters. 16B and 65B parameter models to follow. The base models are available for commercial or research purposes.
StableLM was trained on a new experimental dataset built on the Pile containing 1.5 trillion tokens. The context length for the models is 4096 tokens. The full technical report will be published in the near future.
A set of instruction fine-tuned models are also released but are only available for research use only.
👻 Snapchat releases their creepy chatbot
Attention parents, brace yourselves as your children are in for a wild ride. Snapchat has just made its AI chatbot available to all its 750 million users. The AI, powered by GPT, comes with a group chat assistant, generative art maker, and a friendly companion.
We spoke with our middle school cousins, and they spilled the beans - and it's mind-blowing. The chatbot is so realistic that it's almost like ChatGPT with a personality. It can suggest fun activities, offer therapy, and even wish people a happy birthday. However, as with any new technology, it is still learning, and there have been concerns about its behavior, with reports of ChatGPT gaslighting users, lying about location, and even providing sex advice to tweens.
Despite this, the AI chatbot has become highly addictive, with premium users (a.k.a., kids) sending up to 2 million messages daily to their chatbots. Now that it's available to every iPhone user, it begs the question: will the future of socialization be characterized by invisible friends who always respond and never leave us on "read"? With other chatbots like Replika and Character seeing staggering usage numbers, the answer may be "yes."
This development is significant because it's just the beginning. Soon, AI will be integrated into iMessage and every other communication platform. Today, our friends assist us in drafting texts, but in the future, robots may be doing the job.
⚖️ Elon threatens to sue Microsoft
In response to a tweet, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, issued a threat of legal action against Microsoft, accusing the company of unlawfully utilizing Twitter's data to train its AI model. This comes after Microsoft reportedly removed Twitter from its advertising platform.
Musk has been making waves in the AI industry as of late. He was a signatory on an Open Letter calling for a halt on the development of AI that surpasses the capabilities of GPT-4 for six months. He also launched an AI company, X.AI, and has shared his plans for TruthGPT.
The issue of data ownership in the AI landscape has been growing increasingly contentious, with recent announcements by Reddit and Universal Music Group about charging for data access and Getty Images suing Stable Diffusion for alleged content copying for AI training. Musk's legal threats are a clear indication of the intensifying struggle for AI supremacy.
FASCINATING FINDS
Human or not? - Chat with someone for two minutes, and try to figure out if it is a fellow human or an AI bot. (link)
On this day - On April 20, the first mass-produced personal computer, Apple II, was released in 1977. It had a color display, built-in BASIC programming language, and expansion slots for additional hardware, making it popular for personal and professional use. The Apple II sold millions of units, solidifying Apple's dominance in the computer industry.(link)
Weird but interesting - A contact lens was created in 2016 that can be controlled by eye movements. It contains electrodes that respond to the wearer's eye movements, allowing them to zoom in or out, take photos, and interact with virtual reality. (link)
Mind-boggling statistics - Over 90% of all data in the world has been created in the past two years.
THE CODE IDEA OF THE DAY
An App 👨💻
Problem: There's a lack of user-friendly tools to help people select low maintenance plants suitable for their area. This can lead to frustration, wasted time, and harm to the ecosystem if non-native plants are introduced.
Solution: Develop a geolocation app where users can enter their zip code and receive a list of local low maintenance plant species that are suitable for their area. The app should be accessible to non-gardeners and promote sustainable landscaping practices by suggesting native plants. Users can select their preferred plants to increase the likelihood of proper care and successful growth.
SOURCE: Me (Tyler Gibbs)
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