The AI Canvas Newsletter #7
AI Horizons: Spot the chat-powered robotic guide, insights from OpenAI's Chief Scientist, and the latest AI trends.
This Week in AI: Innovations, Reports, and Features
🤖 Boston Dynamics' Chat-Powered Spot: A groundbreaking fusion of AI and robotics, transforming Spot into an interactive tour guide using Chat GPT and other AI models.
🌟 OpenAI's Chief Scientist: A dive into the monumental impact of AI, exploring the hope, hype, and the potential coexistence of humans and advanced AI.
đź“° Trending in AI: Stay updated on the latest posts, trends, and breaking news within the realm of AI.
Boston Dynamics’ Spot as a Chat-Powered Tour Guide
Boston Dynamics' blog explores the integration of advanced AI models in robotics, demonstrated through a chat-powered tour guide using Spot. Led by Matt Klingensmith, the team utilized large Foundation Models like Chat GPT to give Spot conversational abilities, environmental recognition, and interactive capabilities. This project showcases the synergy between AI and robotics, paving the way for more intuitive human-robot interactions.
The video makes for a fun watch and you can read the accompanying blog post here.
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on AI's Monumental Impact: Hope, Hype, and Human-Machine Coexistence
In a conversation with Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, the profound influence of AI and its trajectory into a world-altering force are explored. Sutskever emphasises the shift from scepticism to excitement, largely due to OpenAI's ChatGPT, and delves into the complex concept of artificial superintelligence. He also unveils his new mission: ensuring that AI doesn't go rogue and highlights the potential of humans merging with machines as they strive to coexist with advanced AI.
Read more here.
Technical Reads & Projects
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI – MIT Technology Review
“The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.”
Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 – Simon Wilson
“Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. Here are some notes, including a peek under the hood and some notes on the leaked system prompt.”
The Wait Equation and AI Investment – Javed Nissar
“The wait equation is an idea that comes from science fiction writer Robert L. Forward and expanded on further by Andrew Kennedy. The basic idea is that the wait equation evaluates whether it's more advantageous to launch an interstellar mission immediately, with existing technology, or to delay until advancements enable faster travel, potentially turning centuries-long journeys into mere decades.”
Query Transformations – Laingchain
“Naive RAG typically splits documents into chunks, embeds them, and retrieves chunks with high semantic similarity to a user question. But, this present a few problems: (1) document chunks may contain irrelevant content that degrades retrieval, (2) user questions may be poorly worded for retrieval, and (3) structured queries may need to be generated from the user question (e.g., for querying a vectorstore with metadata filtering or a SQL db).”
The Ultimate Guide for Using ChatGPT at Work – Hubspot
“Discover the key to unlocking unparalleled productivity with this ultimate guide to revolutionizing your workflow. Plus, 100 prompt ideas to help you unleash the power of generative AI.
AI Trends
An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like?
“Emerging generalist models could overcome some limitations of first-generation machine-learning tools for clinical use.”
Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines
“The executive order builds on non-binding agreements the White House made with AI companies.
Quick News
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI announce Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and over $10 million for a new AI Safety Fund
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The AI Canvas - Generative AI in the Classroom: The Future of Learning with Francisco Recalde
In this enlightening episode of the AI Canvas podcast, host David Foster sits down with Francisco Recalde, Head of the Department of Languages at Dixon's Unity Academy, to explore the transformative effects of AI on education. They discuss AI’s potential in teaching and learning, the fear of AI replacing teachers, and the role of AI as a guide for students.
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