AI Week in Review 23.04.22
Fakery is getting real.
AI Tech and Product Releases
Google announces Bard now helps you code, supporting code generation, debugging and code explanation. Supports over 20 programming languages like C++ and Python. The Export to Colab option is brilliant for quick experimentation and refinement.
Google says: “Bard is still an early experiment, and may sometimes provide inaccurate, misleading or false information while presenting it confidently.” This caveat relates to how Google has released products before they have been fully tested, which has alarmed some of their own employees working in AI Safety. End users are the testers; Google is moving fast(er) and some things will break. To be fair, other large AI models have the same issue.
Convict Pharma felon Martin Shkreli releases medical AI chatbot called 'Dr. Gupta’. I think I’ll wait for a second opinion; many more like this will crop up.
AI Research News
From NVidia research comes High-resolution Text-to-Video: “Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models” This takes the publicly available, state-of-the-art text-to-image LDM Stable Diffusion model into an efficient and expressive text-to-video model with resolution up to 1280 x 2048. The results are incredible.
AI in healthcare: Emerging AI Tool Improves Worklist Triage and CT Detection of Incidental Pulmonary Embolism. In English, AI gives better heart disease diagnoses.
AI Business News
An allegedly AI-generated song faking the voice of Drake and theWeeknd racks up millions of listens, and then the Fake Drake song was pulled from streaming after a legal protest. UMG warns that industry players need to choose "which side of history" they want to be on. Just speaking from the “AI changes everything” side of history, AI-generated art, images and music is here to stay. As I mentioned in my Postscript to Stability AI release StableLM, lawyers may have to work out the details to protect intellectual property rights.
Speaking of which, shots fired in war for intellectual property of AI training data. Elon Musk accuses OpenAI & Microsoft:
Samsung may replace Google search with Bing’s AI chatbot on its devices.
Google, feeling the heat of AI competition, has decided to merge DeepMind and Google Brain’s AI team into one focused AI team.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will serve as the CEO of Google DeepMind, where Pichai says he will “lead the development of our most capable and responsible general AI systems.”
One takeaway is that DeepMind’s great talents have been used on AI research but has not been a profit center, and now Google is calling on them to lead on AI products as well. With DeepMind’s talent and record, I would not count them out.
AI Opinions and Articles
Speaking of AI fakery getting real, this was reported on Rolling Stone, AI goes OnlyFans: Meet 'Claudia,' the 19-year-old selling nudes online that's actually an AI creation. Her AI-generated image leads our article, above.
On Reddit where this above lovely AI-gen pic was posted, some funny reactions:
“So pretty that I thought this was an AI image.”
“lmao, how can ppl not tell this is AI generated? … operation_hamster Because real girls on instagram don't look real anymore either.”
“I make a 6 figure salary would you go out with me?” … “Imagine dating stable diffusion” … “Well, at least it's stable.”
The era of ASI (Artificial Sexy Individual) girlfriends is coming soon. As a Redditor put it on another forum: “I thought as an unattractive male that I’d never have an Only Fans page but this is giving me some hope.”
A Look Back …
The Apple Macintosh is almost 40 years old. An Apple fan brought one to Apple CEO Tim Cook at a store opening in India.