The Memo - 26/Sep/2023
GPT-4V, ChatGPT with voice, CulturaX dataset, and much more!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 26/Sep/2023
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The winner of the The Who Moved My Cheese? AI Awards! for September 2023 is Amazon Kindle, banning publication of more than a certain number of books per author because of generative AI.
In the Toys to play with section, we look at new prompting guides, a massive DALL-E comparison database, the exciting first piece of hardware to combine ChatGPT + ElevenLabs, and more.
The BIG Stuff
Absurd rumors of OpenAI achieving AGI already (Sep/2023)
Look, I can’t in good faith follow these rumors all the way through and comment on them. Because they are just that, rumors. However, if you have the time, take a good read of some of the commentary swirling through San Fransisco (and the rest of the world) right now.
1: Via Lesswrong (above).
Amazon will invest $4 billion in Anthropic (25/Sep/2023)
Switching from Google to Amazon, with a similar investment structure to OpenAI/Microsoft.
Enterprises across many industries are already building with Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, is using a custom, fine-tuned Claude 2 model to deliver conversational search, insightful summarization, and intelligent legal drafting capabilities via the company’s new Lexis+ AI solution. Premier asset management firm Bridgewater Associates is developing an investment analyst assistant powered by Claude 2 to generate elaborate charts, compute financial indicators, and create summaries of the results. Lonely Planet, a renowned travel publisher, reduced its itinerary generation costs by almost 80 percent after deploying Claude 2; synthesizing its decades of travel content to deliver cohesive, highly accurate travel recommendations.
Read the announce: https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropic-amazon
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (25/Sep/2023)
The new voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech. We collaborated with professional voice actors to create each of the voices. We also use Whisper, our open-source speech recognition system, to transcribe your spoken words into text.
Read more: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak
OpenAI GPT-4V (25/Sep/2023)
The vision component of GPT-4 is finally being readied for release. They’ve spent more than a year breaking its kneecaps so it’s less useful. But hey, at least it won’t tell us how to make napalm…