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Packed inside we have
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils prototype humanoid Optimus robot
- Meta and Google AI systems that generate videos from text
- and AudioLM: a Language Modeling Approach to Audio Generation
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Marcel Hedman
Key Recent Developments
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils prototype humanoid Optimus robot
Generative AI: A Creative New World
akosner
What: A comprehensive overview of the generative AI landscape at the application layer. Beyond the most well known text and image generation applications, we are seeing the emergence of code, speech and 3D image generation.
Facebook Research - Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
Victor Dey
What: Meta AI have released a model which turns text into short form videos, building upon recent successes by many models to generate images from text prompts. Th opportunities this unlocks for content creation is astounding. Google wasted no time in responding and have released their own text to video model. Generative AI is moving at a rapid pace, will safeguarding be able to keep up?
AudioLM: a Language Modeling Approach to Audio Generation
What: Google AI have released a model that can generate realistic and consistent audio given a few seconds of either speech or piano playing. This represents a significant milestone given the complexity of generating both realistic audio alongside audio that is stylistically consistent with initial audio inputs.
The team also trained a classifier that can detect between synthetic audio vs real audio which is a great demonstration of responsible AI.
AI Ethics
🚀 The Biden Administration Proposes ‘A.I. Bill of Rights’
🚀 US regulators call the Stable Diffusion Model by Stability AI unsafe
🚀 Bruce Willis denies selling the rights to his face despite appearing in deepfake Russian commercial
🚀 EU: New liability rules on products and AI to protect consumers and foster innovation
🚀 Leading lawmakers pitch extending scope of AI rulebook to the metaverse
Other interesting reads
🚀 DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
🚀 DeepMind advances AI safety with new Sparrow chatbot
Cool companies found this week
Climate
Everest Labs - An AI-Enabled Operating System for Recycling. They have recently raised $12m to continue their journey of using AI to detect waste from recycling.
...and Finally
Russian firm Deepcake used an authorized deepfake of the Bruce Willis in the commercial for telecoms company Megafon. The company uses an artificial neural network to impose Willis' image onto the face of a Russian actor pic.twitter.com/7bizoLsk2S
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 22, 2021
Despite the company claiming above that they have authorisation to create a deepfake, Bruce Willis has now claimed that this authorisation was never provided.
AI/ML must knows
Foundation Models - any model trained on broad data at scale that can be fine-tuned to a wide range of downstream tasks. Examples include BERT and GPT-3. (See also Transfer Learning)
Few shot learning - Supervised learning using only a small dataset to master the task.
Transfer Learning - Reusing parts or all of a model designed for one task on a new task with the aim of reducing training time and improving performance.
Generative adversarial network - Generative models that create new data instances that resemble your training data. They can be used to generate fake images.
Deep Learning - Deep learning is a form of machine learning based on artificial neural networks.
Best,
Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc
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