Weekly Wrap: A Snapshot Series of Highlights and Happenings in Artificial Intelligence
News, Prompts, Tools, Posts, Learning Resources & More
A big welcome to all of our new subscribers. This wrap is intended as a quick digest of the Underground AI world. Expect this weekly series from us in addition to our more detailed and focused posts.
News
AutoGPT/ChaosGPT, an open source project takes us one step closer to singularity. This project has the Twitter sphere currently buzzing, with people sitting back and watching AutoGPT complete basic virtual tasks for them with minimal intervention. Tasks range from intense Googling to writing and storing files and even messaging on social media.
Now, of course, someone just had to use this tool for evil. ChaosGPT, created with AutoGPT, has been tasked with the sole objective of destroying humanity. It has been off researching nuclear weapons and attempting to recruit other evil humans via Twitter. Thankfully, its ability to act has been limited, and its logic has been nonsensical at times. But if this deeply concerns you, there is only one thing to do: create your own auto AI agent to help defend humanity against ChaosGPT!
Note: A more detailed post about AutoGPT is in the works.
Elon Musk re-enters the AI race with a new AI start-up, X.AI. Musk’s history with OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) is a complicated one. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but later stepped down in 2018. In recent months, Musk has vocalised his disdain for the current rapid state of AI development, warning of risks to society and signed a petition to delay further advancements. Today, he is the new founder of X.AI Corp, actively in the market for AI researchers plus tens of thousands of GPUs. If you can’t stop em, beat em!
Italy outright bans ChatGPT due to privacy concerns while other EU nations also consider a heavy handed approach. To resume ChatGPT services, OpenAI has till the end of April to meet Italy’s requirements around user privacy.
An Australian mayor is considering suing OpenAI for defamation content. Brian Hood was falsely named as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal when in actual fact, he was a witness that initially alerted the authorities. If he decides to proceed, this lawsuit would represent a landmark case for defamation law applicable to artificial intelligence. So what is ChatGPT currently saying about you?
Forbes released their “2023 AI 50” list of companies scored by financial performance, company culture and diversity.
A Forbes list is always great publicity for those included, but let’s not forget company culture and diversity does not always equate to the best technology or success. Take the diverse group over at FTX for example, rumoured to have thrown the best company parties.
Made By Humans?
Creators using Stable Diffusion continue their pioneering work into video. Check out this amazing animated dance conversion on reddit.
Also witness our favourite “Keep My Wife Name Out Yo F’ing Mouth” slapper enjoying some hard earned spaghetti.
Trending Tools
Microsoft Bing (GPT4 Powered Search):
Internet Explorer/Bing, has been the butt of internet jokes for over a decade.
For instance, see this meme posted in 2019:
Now in 2023, Bing Search has regained relevancy in a big way. If you aren’t already aware, Bing has a new chat feature powered by GPT4, the same model underlying ChatGPT 4.0 and it’s available to the public via a waitlist. The price is absolutely free so I highly encourage everyone reading to sign up.
You can chat with Bing as you would normally with ChatGPT. So what are the pros and cons?
Pro:
Access GPT4 for free and avoid paying $20/month for OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.0.
Bing’s GPT4 has access to the internet so it’s answers reference live data. In comparison, ChatGPT 4.0 is trained on data up to 2021 and does not have live information.
Cons:
Bing Chat is fine tuned towards helping you search for links and websites as opposed to all the other tasks people are using ChatGPT for. You can still get Bing Chat to do other things, but it’s responses will be shorter with less context given it’s restrictive character limit.
