Category: AI
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Anthropic Founder Interview: Multimodality, AI Assistants, And The Next 2 Years In AI
Dario Amodei, founder of Anthropic (the company behind Claude.ai, and essentially Amazon’s AI play) recently gave an interview. Obviously at his scale every interview contains some amount of PR-talk, but it’s nonetheless an interesting interview. Here are some key talking points from the conversation: What’s more, he mostly talks with enterprise customers in mind, but…
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What Led to the AI Boom? A Short Timeline
I was recently wondering (again) about how we got to where we are: This period of rapid change where AI is developing all these astonishing capabilities. I remember as little as 2 years ago playing around with AI writers (like Jarvis or Copy.AI) and being fundamentally underwhelmed. Then Dall-E happened, which was the first 🤯…
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What Is Singularity?
Super simple explanation: Imagine you’re teaching a robot how to be smarter. At first, you’re much smarter than the robot, so you can easily control it. But every day, the robot learns from you and becomes a little smarter. One day, the robot becomes so smart that it starts teaching itself and becomes even smarter,…
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Summarize YouTube Videos (Fast & Free) With Summarize.tech: Good & Bad Use Cases
Summarize.tech made big waves this year as a free YouTube video summarize tool driven by AI (ChatGPT). I wanted to know how good it is, and what to best use it. My takeaways:
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Dall-E 3 vs Midjourney 5.2 Comparison: Same Prompts, Different Images
OpenAI just announced they’ll soon roll out a new version of Dall-E. Apart from overall image output improvements, we’ll also be able to generate text, and have ChatGPT-style prompting features which will make it easier to generate to right outputs. I put the same prompts that they used for Dall-E 3 images and ran them…
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Midjourney Aspect Ratios
By default Midjourney images are square (aspect ratio: 1:1). But you can modify the aspect ratio with the –ar parameter. Let’s say you want a 16:9 image (like a YouTube video), then you’d just append this to your Midjourney prompt: Common aspect ratios:
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OpenAI Tokens
TIL that OpenAI charges for API usage of their language models in a unit called “tokens”. Depending on which of their models you use (GPT4, GPT3.5, etc) the price per token changes. Now there’s no direct translation of token into characters, but their tokenizer is a simple tool that can give you an idea how…
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What Is “Temperature” In AI?
This might be the best explanation of what “temperature” means in the context of AI: Here my main takeaways:
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AI Text to Voice Tools
I was looking for some good text-to-speech tools with naturally sounding voices for producing videos and audios. Here’s what I came up with. (This is still a work in progress and will frequently be updated.) ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is one of the best generative AI voice tools in terms of quality. (Check out their voice library).…
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AI enabled paralyzed woman to speak again
Ann Johnson, who was once a vibrant speaker, suffered a debilitating stroke at the age of 30, leaving her paralyzed and unable to speak. Scientists have now made a significant breakthrough in helping her and others regain their ability to communicate. Using implanted electrodes, they decoded Mrs. Johnson’s brain signals as she attempted to form…