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Canva Brings AI Magic to Design Process
Plus Google Assistant gets a Bard upgrade
Nathaniel Whittemore
October 05, 2023
The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday October 5, 2023
Today on the First Five:
5. SoftBank’s Masa Warns Japan to Get On Board With AI
4. Perplexity Updates Open Source API
3. The AI Safety Debate Rages on X
2. Google Assistant Gets an AI Upgrade
1. Canva Brings AI Magic to Designers
5. Softbank’s Masa Warns Japan to Get On Board With AI
Ever since the success of the ARM IPO, Masayoshi Son and SoftBank have bene getting louder about their interest in the AI space. Son is in convos with Sam Altman and Jony Ive about AI hardware, and at an event this week implored his home country of Japan to adopt AI or risk getting left behind. He also predicts AGI within 10 years.
“Saying ‘Don’t use AI’ is like saying, don’t drive a car or use electricity.” SoftBank’s billionaire founder Masayoshi Son implores a Japanese audience to embrace AI in his first public appearance in months
— Bloomberg (@business)
5:43 AM • Oct 4, 2023
4. Perplexity Updates Open Source API
With new open source models appearing seemingly all the time (Mistral 7B anyone?) Perplexity has announced pplx-api, which they are calling a “one-stop shop for open-source LLMs.”
We're excited to announce the beta of pplx-api, our LLM API that provides the fastest way to access Mistral and LLaMa models for your projects. Blog:
Subscribe to our Pro plan to generate an API key and try it out for your projects! Support for custom… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas)
9:40 PM • Oct 4, 2023
3. The AI Safety Debate Rages on X
Speaking of open source AI, the topic continues to be at the core of many of the digital debates around AI safety. Meta’s Yann LeCun - a notable standout from many of his peers in terms of his lack of concern around extinction risk - has recently waded back into the fray.
I do acknowledge risks.
*BUT*
1. Yes, open research and open source are the best ways to understand and mitigate them.
2. AI is not something that just happens. *We* build it, *we* have agency in what it becomes. Hence *we* control the risks. It's not some sort of natural… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Yann LeCun (@ylecun)
6:28 AM • Oct 5, 2023
2. Google Assistant Gets an AI Upgrade
One of the most obvious and still most welcome trends among the big tech players is the integration of generative AI into their existing assistant-type experiences. Yesterday Google announced that its popular Assistant experience is getting a Bard upgrade.
Bard collaborates and does things with you; Assistant delegates and does things for you.
Excited for a step toward a more helpful personal assistant that does both: Assistant with Bard.
Coming soon to Android & iOS...
twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jack Krawczyk (@JackK)
3:08 PM • Oct 4, 2023
1. Canva Brings AI Magic to Designers
Some AI product announcements are hot fire because they expand our sense of what’s possible. Others are hot fire because we can instantly see how they’re going to make our lives easier. Canva’s Magic Studio update falls firmly into that second category.
Canva made Generative AI a lot more interesting by launching several new "Magic" AI features.
And it will make your life much easier.
Need a quick presentation? You only need a few minutes and a 1-sentence description.
Take a look at my 1st result:
@canva
— Heather Cooper (@HBCoop_)
1:56 AM • Oct 5, 2023
BONUS: LLMs have a sense of time?!
Do language models have an internal world model? A sense of time? At multiple spatiotemporal scales?
In a new paper with @tegmark we provide evidence that they do by finding a literal map of the world inside the activations of Llama-2!
— Wes Gurnee (@wesg52)
12:50 PM • Oct 4, 2023
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