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🌯 Wrap for the week

A close look at all the main headlines in AI

“I have no equity in OpenAI”, said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI

Well, that is one interesting takeaway I got from the senate hearing this week. But there are more important ones we should go through 👇️ 

So, AI was the talk of the town at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, IBM's Christina Montgomery, and NYU professor Gary Marcus got chatty about Pandora's newest gift to humanity, generative AI:

1. 🤖 Deepfakes set the tone: Senator Richard Blumenthal fully embraced the tech by opening the hearing with a deepfake of his voice generated by ChatGPT. Proof of AI's impressive, and potentially scary, capabilities.

2. 🏢 Job displacement: Altman played the optimistic oracle, foreseeing AI replacing jobs but also creating new ones. Yet, the critical question of who bears the responsibility to prepare the workforce for AI-related skills remained an unresolved cliffhanger.

3. 👮 AI regulation is a go: Altman and Montgomery took an unexpected turn, advocating for AI regulation. This could hint at a new era of tech governance, maybe even a federal AI agency akin to the FDA.

4. 🗳️ Misinformation epidemic: The spectre of 2016 and 2020 election misinformation haunted the hearing, with concerns over AI's potential to spread inaccurate information on a large scale.

On the topic of regulation, I can sense this could be interpreted in many ways, mainly the following two sides in my opinion though:

• Altman and Montgomery are speaking because they have seen the potential of generative AI. They truly want to see some regulation that could stop it from going to the dark side.

• This suggestion is just companies with great advancement in the generative AI direction forcing their competitors to progress further

See the following comment from Professor Gary Marcus (just the first 16 seconds of the video), I am leaning more towards the first side. What do you think?

P.S. People are saying the guy behind Sam Altman looks a lot like Elon Musk 🤣 

Let’s buckle up! This AI journey is just getting started, and it seems like we're in for quite a ride!

News credit:
6 takeaways from the OpenAI senate hearing from Mashable

ChatGPT has officially landed Apple’s app store in the US

Why don’t they include Australia in the first release 😭 

Anyway, OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT into the palms of your hands, launching an iOS app, with an Android version in the pipeline.

The free-to-use ChatGPT app comes with voice input supported by OpenAI’s Whisper model. The app is initially available in the US, with plans to expand globally in the coming weeks.

We all know ChatGPT has attracted a massive user base, with unconfirmed estimates pointing towards 100 million users by January this year.

With such a massive name out there, no wonder you would start to see some apps popping up and claiming to be “the app” to help you use ChatGPT on your phone. So I am glad that OpenAI is taking the step forward and wiping out all those fakes.

So, if you've been yearning for AI-powered chats on the go and you are in the land of the USA, your wish has just been granted. But remember, with great power comes great...privacy concerns 😉 

News credit:
OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS from The Verge

Other top AI headlines for the week

Stability AI Releases StableStudio, the Open-Source Future of DreamStudio from Stability AI

People from Stability AI just keep on going.

They have recently released the StableLM, StableVicuna, Deepfloyd IF, and Stable Animation SDK in the last month. And now a full studio for image creation. I am really curious about what they would bring next. Maybe music or video?

Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online Store from Bloomberg

Amazon is also not slowing down its plan to integrate generative AI into its offerings. Last week we heard about the plan with Alexa and now the overall online store. I guess this could also be inspired by what is shown in Google I/O. Search with generative AI is going to pop up in many more places.

Apple reportedly limits internal use of AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot from TechCrunch

Well, I guess being accepted to Apple’s app store doesn’t guarantee your app can be used by their employees. Although, I do understand the concern from the accessing proprietary company data’s perspective.

Also, it is interesting to point out that Apple seems to be working on their own generative AI models too. How should we name this thingy then? iAI? 🤣 

🎬️ Guess that movie

Adding a bit of fun to your weekend reading, let’s guess the famous movie from the 10-emoji description created by ChatGPT:

🔫⏰⏳🔄🕵️‍♂️✈️🏢💥🚢⌛

If it is a bit hard to figure out, you can find the answer with some explanation from ChatGPT at the end of this newsletter.

🧰 Toolbox

Check out this week’s tools and resources that give you more superpowers with prompt crafting!

1. 🔧 StableStudio
Open-source image creation studio, what is not to love?

2. 🔧 Zoo
If you have not picked up your favourite open-source image creation model yet, Zoo comes to the rescue. It allows you to test the prompt with multiple models so that you can which model works best for your case and whether the taste of the model aligns with yours.

Here is my trial with the tool with the prompt

a monkey riding a horse on the beach

So far, I think stable diffusion 2.1 and Deepfloyd IF are both pretty good. Not so sure what DALL-E is doing though, why the horse is riding horse. 🤣 

3. 📰 How to Write Better ChatGPT Prompts, According to AI Engineer
It is good to hear advice from people actually writing prompts daily. It is also nice to hear what a person working in such a role is like. Curious to know if more AI engineers or prompt engineers would show up on the job boards.

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🖼️ Image of the week

Have been seeing a lot of weird yoga images generated lately and this one takes the crown in my opinion. Simple yet profound.

I guess Midjourney needs to learn some human anatomy first 🤣 

🎬️ Guess that movie - answer

The answer is "Tenent" 🥳 

Did you guess that right? Here is ChatGPT’s explanation:

This summary captures the main elements of the story: guns and action (🔫), time (⏰), time manipulation (⏳), inversion or reversing (🔄), a spy (🕵️‍♂️), a plane (✈️), a building (🏢), an explosion (💥), a cargo ship (🚢), and an hourglass indicating the theme of time (⌛).