AI-Generated Drake and The Weekend Song Goes Viral, but Quickly Gets Taken Down
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Skip ahead to the “Celebrating Creativity” section to listen to the AI-Generated song by Ghostwriter997, Drake and The Weekend. It’s a banger!
News
Major community sites, Twitter, Reddit, and Stack Overflow begin push to charge AI models for learning on their data.
With AI company valuations now in the multi-billions and growing, it’s no surprise the other tech giants want a slice of the pie. AI models are dependant on large data sources and thus far, a significant portion of this data has been acquired via low cost APIs or web scraping. These existing community sites like Twitter are now looking to put a hefty price tag for use of their APIs and I would also expect a beefing up of their anti-web scraping defences.
A recent post by Stack Overflow CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, explained that "allowing AI models to train on the data developers have created over the years, but not sharing the data and learnings from those models with the public in return, would lead to a tragedy of the commons." It provides some context behind their decision to charge developers and AI companies like OpenAI, given that most of them have their own pay-to-access models and are not open-source.
I personally hope that Stack Overflow can maintain low-cost access to genuinely open-source alternatives, in order to align with their goal of preventing a tragedy of the commons and at a bare minimum, avoid hypocrisy.
KPMG enhances their auditing software with AI
KPMG US, UK, Canada and Australia have begun augmenting their audits with AI, already seeing successful results in identifying high-risk transactions.
With conventional auditing methods, transactions could only be audited to a limited extent, given the process was often laborious and resource-intensive. However, AI advancements have made it possible to audit 100% of the transactions with immense speed and less labour requirements.
Clear Link CEO increases employee quotas by 30-50x due to fears of AI use
Clear Link CEO, James Clarke is a fan un-favourite across the “anti-work” and “anti-corporate” online communities. In a recent leaked video addressing his employees, he is seen reprimanding the efficiency gains with AI without any growth in output, especially from his remote employees.
While I understand the immense need for businesses to remain competitive, I can’t help but chuckle when tactless corporate messages are leaked to the public.
Here’s one of my old corporate favourites: “No good deed goes unpunished!”
Elon Musk’s TruthGPT to compete with ChatGPT
Last week we reported Musk had incorporated his own AI company.
This week, in an interview with Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Musk mentions “I’m going to start something which you call TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe. And I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.”
Well, lets just hope we are all as interesting as we think we are…
Celebrating Creativity
“Heart On My Sleeve” - Ghostwriter997, AI Drake and The Weekend
Released just a few days ago, it racked over 10 million views before quickly being removed from the major streaming platforms. This controversial track was generated by Ghostwriter997, entirely with AI mimicking the voices of Drake and The Weekend. You can be certain that the legal teams behind these artists and record labels are already up in arms. Listen to the track below, If you’re already into the genre then you’re in for a treat!
Trending Tools
Auto-GPT
Last week I spoke about Auto-GPT that had a lot of people excited and hyped up. So I spent some time playing around with it so you don’t have to right now. Here are my findings.
What it CAN do:
Understand and conversate just like ChatGPT.
Provide recommendations and answers powered by the same models behind ChatGPT (gpt3.5 and gpt4 options available)
Act like an “agent” defined with specific goals and tasks to achieve. You can think of this as a work colleague or employee programmed with a specific persona.
Acting as an “agent,” it has the ability to search google and scrape data to achieve it’s goal. It will collect it’s findings and store them in it’s local memory or Pinecone database. You will see your agent open up a new chrome browser when it has commenced its scraping process.
It can read and write to files on your PC. This means it can automatically summarise it’s findings into a word doc or text file, or even read existing files or reports you give it for its analysis.
It can connect to certain social media platforms like Twitter or Linkedin to read and respond to comments, basically like a hired social media account manager but not without manual intervention along the way. ChaosGPT was an example of this on Twitter but it’s account @chaos_gpt has now been taken down. Elon Musk probably didn’t like what it was trying to do.
It can be set to fully-automatic, where Auto-GPT will go off on it’s own forever to achieve it’s defined task. You could theoretically go to sleep while it works throughout the night but I would highly advise against this. It might burn through your API budget, especially if it gets stuck in a loop and do weird things to your PC.
What it CAN’T do:
It can’t read data from every website it tries to scrape as it’s scraping method can be unreliable. This may cause it to get stuck in a search loop as it cannot find enough reliable data.
I can’t access data from the web that isn’t already publicly available or accessible by alternatives like Bing Chat.
It can’t produce any complicated report formats or files as just straight text files is its preference.
It can’t read existing files from your PC reliably as it often gets stuck on understanding it’s own file structure.
It can’t read/write/understand any non standardised or simple files. Anything other than a 2D table in excel will be too complicated.
It can’t automatically build applications or websites for you.
Where does it sit versus other available tools?
I have found that it’s still more effective to use a combination of ChatGPT for non-live queries and Bing Chat for live internet queries to achieve my tasks. It is then just a matter of copy and pasting information into the chat for prompting, and then applying it’s answers for whatever my task is.
That’s not to say that Auto-GPT is just to be forgotten, it will only get better as the developers advance it’s technology and work out its kinks. Also expect alternative auto technology to already be in the works.
How to install and use?
If you would like to try Auto-GPT yourself you can install it referencing any of the guides below.
Note: You don’t need a high-grade PC as the heavy processes are run on OpenAI’s server.
You also don’t need a Pinecone account if you’re just starting out as local memory is sufficient enough.
Just be mindful of your API usage on OpenAI so you use more than your budget. Each action you tell Auto-GPT to take will cost around a couple of cents worth of API usage.
Installation References:
Troubleshooting Common Installation Issues:
Make sure you already have the regular Chrome Browser installed. Most people will already be using Chrome, if not the download it here.
Make sure to have a paid OpenAI account with access to GPT4 for best results. This means paying at least $20 USD for a minimum of 1 month.
You will also need to have git installed into your system path variable. If your python has not automatically done this, you will need to set this up manually. Install git here.
Make sure your “.env” file has file type ENV FILE
You can achieve this by saving the initial file as type “All files”