Welcome to another captivating edition of AI Insights, where we unravel the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence. This week's stories are a testament to the incredible potential of AI. Scientists have utilized AI to discover a powerful new antibiotic, offering hope in the battle against dangerous superbugs. We also explore a thought-provoking event that sheds light on the potential risks of generative AI and emphasizes the need for regulation. In addition, we uncover an intriguing innovation—a lensless "camera" that leverages AI to capture and generate images based on your location. Furthermore, we delve into a surprising announcement by the Japanese government regarding copyrights on data used in AI training, demonstrating their dedication to AI advancement. Lastly, we discuss the projected growth of the generative AI market and its implications for the future.

This edition includes:

1. News From the Industry

2. Recent Advancements

3. Essential Tools

NEWS

• Scientists have used AI to discover a powerful new antibiotic that can combat a dangerous strain of superbug.

• The use of an AI-generated image has triggered a market crash, resulting in a loss of $500B and highlighting the potential dangers of generative AI. This event underscores the need for AI regulation.

• New "camera" has no lens, simply detects your location and generates an AI picture of it.

  

• The Japanese government has made a surprising announcement that it will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training, signalling its commitment to AI development.

• Driven by AI pioneers such as ChatGPT, the generative AI market is expected to grow from $67 billion to an unprecedented $1.3 trillion per year by 2032, Bloomberg Estimates.

  

• A lawyer’s use of ChatGPT for a court filing has backfired due to the AI’s tendency to fabricate information.

• According to research, while a majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, only a small percentage have actually used it. Younger adults tend to find it more useful.

• TIME’s latest cover warns of the potential negative impacts of AI due to its rapid advancements, which have raised concerns among experts.

  

• Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake PC processor, set to release later this year, is designed to accelerate AI tasks on laptops and compete with Apple’s M series processors.

KEY AI DEVELOPEMENTS

Voyager: A Minecraft agent that uses GPT-4 autonomously learns by exploring and acquiring skills. It achieves remarkable proficiency through an automatic curriculum, a skill library, and an iterative prompting mechanism

Humans in 4D: Uses transformers to reconstruct and track humans in 4D from videos, achieving superior results in tracking and action recognition

SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds

Break-A-Scene: Uses masks and textual embeddings to extract multiple concepts from a single image, allowing for fine control over generated scenes.

OPENAI mathematical reasoning can be improved by training a model using process supervision, which rewards each correct step of reasoning and enhances mathematical problem-solving performance.

SwiftSage: Combines behavior cloning and LLMs to excel in complex interactive tasks, integrating fast and intuitive thinking with deliberate thought processes

Reconstructing the Mind’s Eye: Uses an fMRI-to-image approach that retrieves and reconstructs viewed images from brain activity using contrastive learning and diffusion priors

PaLI-X: A multilingual vision and language model that surpasses existing benchmarks and capabilities in complex counting and multilingual object detection.

TOOLS

Zipchat- AI Chatbot powered by GPT-4 for e-commerce businesses that resolve 50% of your support questions.

Be My Eyes: Virtual volunteer tool powered by GPT-4, connects blind and low-vision people with volunteers through live video for accessing visual information.

tl;dv- Transcribe, summarize, and mark key moments in your meetings in 20+ languages

Rask AI- Translates your video and keeps your voice Speak in 60+ languages

Perplexity- The ChatGPT competitor’s Android app is here

InterviewMe AI- Practice interviewing with an AI

NewsNotFound is an AI-powered news website that delivers unbiased and neutral news articles through automation, eliminating human bias.

1v1 for Slack- ChatGPT-powered, 1-on-1 meeting assistant for Slack

HeyGen: AI-powered text-to-video generation for business featuring customizable avatars, lip-syncing with 300+ voices in 40+ languages.

Zbrain- Build ChatGPT apps with private data in minutes

TaxGPT- Automated tax filing using AI

YT Summary- YouTube video AI summaries

That's a wrap for this week!