🔨 AI Powered Tools 🔨 

A run down of the latest SaaS products and services which leverage AI to help you take back some time.

• Poly.ai - Conversational platform designed to enhance customer experience by enabling natural dialogue, consistently excellent interactions at scale

• Scale - Scale Data Engine leverages your enterprise data, and with Scale GenAI Platform, safely unlocks the value of AI

• ShortX - Generative short viral video generator. Quickly turn your idea into captivating viral content for YouTube, Instagram and other social platoforms

• Perplexity AI - Get answers to your questions directly while showing all sources that were used to find it, this is the future of search!!

📰 News 📰 

Enhancing ChatGPT with Memory: A Leap Towards Personalization

OpenAI introduces a "memory" feature to ChatGPT, aiming for a more personalized interaction by remembering user preferences and conversation details. Users can directly inform ChatGPT about specifics to remember, like coding preferences or personal details, or let the bot gradually learn from interactions. This advancement promises to make ChatGPT feel smarter and more tailored to individual needs, spanning across various GPT applications. Despite its potential, the feature raises privacy concerns, prompting OpenAI to implement controls for managing and deleting memory data. Currently in testing, this feature represents a significant step towards more intuitive AI interactions.

Read More At: The Verge

The Future of AI PCs: Beyond the Hype

The tech industry is abuzz with the prospect of AI PCs, a trend powered by significant market players and optimistic forecasts despite current software support lagging behind. Gartner predicts that AI PCs, defined by their dedicated AI hardware like NPUs and TPUs, will make up 22% of all personal computer sales by 2024. This push towards AI integration aims to optimize on-device tasks without external dependencies, promising a shift towards more autonomous computing experiences. Companies like Lenovo are at the forefront, exploring AI operating systems to leverage this technology, even as specifics on application remain vague. The intrigue around AI PCs is part of a broader narrative of generative AI's potential, from text and image generation to enhancing productivity and privacy on personal devices. However, the rush towards AI incorporation reflects a chase for innovation and market differentiation in a sector witnessing its first growth after a prolonged slump. This movement suggests a burgeoning consumer interest in AI's capabilities, positioning AI PCs as a significant, forthcoming pivot in personal computing​.

Read More at: The Register, TechRadar

Google's €25M AI Initiative: Bridging Europe's Digital Skills Gap

Google's AI Opportunity Initiative, backed by a €25 million fund, aims to elevate Europe's workforce by offering AI training and skills development. Targeting vulnerable communities, the initiative encompasses training for both foundational and advanced AI concepts, startup support through Google for Startups Growth Academies, and expanding course availability in 18 languages. This effort marks a significant step towards closing the digital skills divide and fostering inclusive economic growth across Europe​​​​.

Sources: Google Blog, The Next Web

Meta Tests Trending Topics on Threads for Enhanced Discoverability

Meta's Threads platform is testing a trending topics feature in the US, aimed at improving discoverability by showcasing popular discussions. This AI-driven feature will highlight current topics, including political ones, in search and For You feeds, balancing user engagement with community guidelines. The initiative marks a significant step towards enhancing user experience by facilitating easier access to relevant content and discussions. Meta plans to extend this feature globally after the initial rollout.

Sources: The Verge, Engadget

🧠 Research 🧠 

Aya: Pioneering Multilingual AI Accessibility

This research introduces Aya, a generative language model finely tuned to understand and generate text in 101 languages, over half of which are low-resource. Aya surpasses previous models in both the breadth of language understanding and task performance, significantly expanding access to AI in languages traditionally underserved. The model leverages a novel instruction fine-tuning approach, extensive multilingual datasets, and innovative evaluation metrics, addressing linguistic inequality in AI. Future directions include further enhancing Aya's performance and exploring its application in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.

For more details, check the full paper on ArXiv.

Fiddler: Optimizing MoE Models for Local Inference

The paper introduces Fiddler, a novel inference engine designed to enhance the efficiency of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models in resource-constrained environments. By orchestrating CPU-GPU resources, Fiddler minimizes data transfers between these components, significantly reducing latency for MoE model inference. This method allows running large MoE models, like the uncompressed Mixtral-8x7B model, on consumer-grade GPUs by leveraging CPU computational resources. The evaluation demonstrates Fiddler's superiority over existing methods, achieving a substantial speedup in inference latency. The research paves the way for deploying advanced MoE models locally, expanding their accessibility and application.

For the detailed paper, visit ArXiv

🗞️ Other News Rollup 🗞️ 

AI's Impact on Society - AI creates fake IDs, deciphers ancient scrolls, and causes accidents. Deepfake scams are increasing.

Forcing Unwanted AI Features on Developers - Forcing AI features disrupts workflow, sparks concerns over readiness, and clashes with corporate policies.

Military AI protest debate - Protesters urge OpenAI to stop AGI and military AI development, fearing job loss and societal changes.

AI Meeting Summaries with Otter.ai - Otter's Meeting GenAI provides AI chatbot and summaries for corporate meetings, enhancing productivity. Free for users.

AI in Banking - Cambio's AI bots negotiate debt, boost credit scores, and assist banks with sales calls using innovative technology.

Zendesk AI-Powered QA Acquisition - Zendesk acquires Estonian startup Klaus for AI-powered quality assurance tools, enhancing customer engagement and support.

Revolutionizing Digital Art with AI - Stable Diffusion models leverage Intel's GPU for lifelike images, blurring the line between imagination and reality. This innovative blend of AI and creativity opens new artistic possibilities, allowing creators to visualize their concepts like never before

LLM Prompting Techniques- Explore Emotional Persuasion, Chain-of-Thought, and Step-Back-Prompting to enhance Large Language Models efficiency.

🎶 Prompts 🎶 

Prompts used to generate some of this issues images. Unless otherwise stated all images are using Dall-E and ChatGPT Plus.

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