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Sit back, grab a coconut (or coffee), and check out some pretty mind-blowing advancements in AI.
Whatโs brewing in AI this week:
- OpenAIโs Sora breaks the internet
- Gemini 1.5 dwarfs ChatGPTโs context window
- GPTs: Editorโs choice and new arrivals in the GPT store
- The other top stories in AI this week
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Darioโs Picks:
I. OpenAI introduces Sora
OpenAI introduced Sora last Thursday โ a next generation text-to-video model which, by the look of it, vastly outperforms anything weโve seen so far.
An AI generated video says more than a thousand words:
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Sora has currently only been made available to early testers without a set release date to the public.
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Why it matters:
Sora understands and simulates the physical world in motion with unprecedented realism โ all from some simple text instructions. If it delivers what it says it does weโre officially at the point that, without a lot of scrutiny, you can no longer tell if a video has been AI generated or not.
Our perception of reality and โwhatโs realโ is going to be challenged. The opportunities for productive use and solving real-life problems is massive, as is the potential for abuse. The dynamics and costs in media production, with video now being as easy as typing on a keyboard, will change too.
Paraphrasing the philosopher Marshall McLuhan: technology is a means to extend our senses and โ as soon as weโve adopted it โ societal norms, values, practices, and structures are bound to change. Iโd say weโve just taken a groundbreaking leap as far as extending and enlarging the visual human imagination goes. But donโt take it from me. Take it from Will Smith eating spaghetti.
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II. Google launches Gemini Pro 1.5
Google has announced a new model (again): Gemini 1.5.
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The most notable thing is the massive context window of 10m tokens (GPT-4 has 128k). To get a glimpse of the opportunities it brings, I recommend Googleโs own demos:
- Reasoning across a 402-page audio transcript
- Multimodal prompting with a 44-minute silent video
- Problem-solving across 100,000 lines of code
Source: Google
Key features:
- Itโs Googleโs first Gemini 1.5 model, and the first model available for testing is Gemini Pro 1.5.
- Itโs mid-sized, but performs in benchmark tests at a similar level to the larger Ultra 1.0.
- Right now, the model has a 128k context window for most users โ same as GPT-4 Turbo. However, a limited group of developers have gotten access to the model with a massive context window of 10M tokens. This feature seems like it will be rolled out eventually, but first needs to be optimised in terms of latency and computational requirements to enhance the user experience (and, Iโm presuming, control Googleโs costs). ย
- Itโs based on a new Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture.
- Itโs multimodal โ understands images, video and audio. In other words, itโs not just big PDF files youโll be able to feed the model, but also lengthy audio transcripts, image databases, entire movies and more.
Why it matters: The context window jump is huge compared to all other existing models. According to Google, the performance persists at a very high level even as the context window increases. Judging by Googleโs demo videos, we could soon be able to feed AI all our data and get high-quality responses back.
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III. AI sound effects coming soon Eleven Lab
Eleven Labs, a leader in text-to-speech, is getting a notable feature soon: AI generated sound effects. Thatโs right, you will soon (no dates give yet) be able to simply describe a sound with a prompt and generate the audio for it. For their demo, the company cleverly chose to overlay AI generated sounds on some of OpenAIโs Sora clips.
Why it matters: Not as revolutionary compared to the other news above, but nevertheless a cool new feature that seems inevitable and pairs well with the advances in AI video. Our AI generated worlds will need sound, wonโt they?
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GPTs
Editorโs Choice
Weekly picks from me to you
Enterprise AI Use Case Advisor
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This GPT will help you develop AI use cases for your company.
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โ This GPT asks the right questions, and suggests tailored solution on how to best leverage AI in your organisation. Itโs made by one of the biggest influencers in the AI sphere, Allie K. Miller.
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A couple of useful SEO tools
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Search Intent Optimization Tool
๐ฌ900+ ย โ100
Enhances content relevance based on Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines, utilizing methodologies from recent academic research.
โ Reviews the relevance of your siteโs content based on Googleโs official guidelines. Tested it on a page on my site and found a good optimisation opportunity.
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Generates 25 SEO-focused blog titles.
โ Simple tool to create optimised titles for articles (or get ideas for new articles). Enter your target keyword and it gives you title suggestions categorised into lists, stories, opinions, questions and frameworks.
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New arrivals in the GPT store
New GPTs featured in OpenAIโs official GPT store in the last 7 days
- Diagrams โกPRO BUILDERโก ย Rank 7 in ย Programming
- Website Generator ย Rank 9 in ย Programming
- AI Humanizer Pro ย Rank 8 in ย Writing
- Physics Oracle ย Rank 7 in ย Education
- Math Solver ย Rank 12 in ย Education
- math ย Rank 7 in ย Lifestyle
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Bytes
- Groq (not to be confused by Elonโs Grok) is a new AI model with really fast response time. It uses LPU (language processing units) instead of GPU, unlocking faster speeds. Hereโs a demo by Matt Shumer. BTW, the naming similarity to Elon Muskโs chatbot is incredible. As if this space isnโt already confusing enough when it comes to names ๐ Groq was actually first though, founded in 2016.
- Fresh of the rumour mill: OpenAI is developing a Web Search product to challenge Google.
- Reddit signs AI content licensing deal ahead of its IPO.
- Deutsche Telekom showcased an AI phone at MWC 2024. The phone is launched in collaboration with Qualcomm and Brain.ai, and uses AI assistants to replace the apps.
- ChatGPTโs web traffic is down 11% since itโs peak in May last year.
- Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield to avoid misinformation in the upcoming elections. It redirects questions on politics and voting to โauthoritativeโ sources of voting information.
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