AI Chronicles — 26th February 2024
Another big week in AI and we start things off with this great chat from the folks at Generative AI Insights on the new OpenAI Sora model
And here’s a bit more behind whats behind Sora, and it’s all about GWMs general World Models
Ray Sun breaks down how Sora works here in this 5 minute clip
Move over Sora, Yann Lecun thinks it’s all a dead end and has a better model for the world to look at
https://the-decoder.com/metas-chief-ai-researcher-says-openais-world-simulator-sora-is-a-dead-end/
There’s more on Sora and just AI in general when it comes to the negative sentiment about AI https://youtu.be/uYbywLAUHV4?si=Kn_1WbXMwmjhZ49q
Sam Altman mentioning the things that keep him up at night here…and it’s all about alignment as opposed to killer robots https://fortune.com/2024/02/13/sam-altman-openai-ai-subtle-societal-misalignments-killer-robots/
ChatGPT got a competitor in Groq (not Elons one) https://cointelegraph.com/news/groq-ai-model-viral-rivals-chat-gpt
More on what Groq is (and the purpose built AI chip behind it) https://gizmodo.com/meet-groq-ai-chip-leaves-elon-musk-s-grok-in-the-dust-1851271871
Great article here from Vincent Koc on upcoming trends in the world of AI — what do you think?
What a time to be alive with Andrej Karpathy putting out this education piece on how the OpenAI tokenizer work
Great video here on the importance of Gemini 1.5
Google AI got a bit too woke and had to be taken down after it forcibly generated inconsistent characters when asked by users — you can get into the issue here https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/google-gemini-ai-image-generator/index.html
Matt Wolfe goes through his interesting things in the world of AI too
We’ll leave you with this interesting bit of research on jobs as shown on Upwork with an increase in most jobs after ChatGPT came out but a decrease across 3 main types being customer service, translation work and writing with the latter declining 33%
Mark Monfort
Editor, Data Science & AI Association of Australia (DSAI)
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