Last Week in AI

#134 - Text-to-Speech, Gartner Hype Cycle, AI2 OLMo, AlphaStar Unplugged, China Regulations, AI Porn Marketplace

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Aug 26, 2023

Discover the exciting advancements in AI, from ElevenLabs' multilingual speech model to Google’s life advice assistant. Explore the implications of the Gartner hype cycle and the competitive race for AI supremacy in China. Learn about NCSoft's AI tools transforming game development and the challenges facing startups amid fluctuating funding trends. Dive into the innovative AI2olmo project and examine ethics surrounding AI regulations, particularly in content creation and deepfake technology. This discussion covers the thrilling intersection of tech and morality.

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Multilingual Model Development

ElevenLabs' new multilingual model addresses the challenge of limited data for rarer languages.
It leverages knowledge from more common languages to improve its performance on less common ones.

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Remini's Viral Success

The Remini app went viral on TikTok for creating professional headshots from selfies.
This highlights the potential of combining AI tools for unexpected automation.

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AI in Game Development

Existing AI art generators struggle to create usable assets for game development.
They excel at concept art, but not production-ready assets.

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Jan Moran

Mage

Matt Wagner

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Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Louise Snyder is a prominent author and journalist, but there is no widely recognized book titled 'Trust: How the Great Recession Changed the American Dream' associated with her. Her notable works include 'No Visible Bruises' and 'Fugitive Denim', which focus on social justice and human rights issues.

Firefly

Piers Anthony

Firefly is a horror novel by Piers Anthony, set in a Florida estate where a mysterious creature lures its victims through pheromones, leaving them drained of their flesh. The story explores themes of love, sex, and the human condition, intertwined with a terrifying monster. The novel delves into complex characters and their past experiences, often using allegorical storytelling.

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Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845

The third volume of Andrew Jackson's biography

Robert V. Remini

This book is part of Remini's comprehensive three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1984. It explores Jackson's presidency from 1833 to 1845, detailing his policies and their effects on American democracy.

Obelix and Co.

Asterix #23

Albert Uderzo

René Goscinny

Dans cet album, Jules César envoie Caius Preposterus pour corrompre les Gaulois en leur enseignant les principes du grand commerce. Le commerce de menhirs d'Obélix prospère grâce à une campagne publicitaire intensive, mais la richesse apporte-t-elle le bonheur ? Et que se passera-t-il lorsque le marché des menhirs s'effondrera ?

The Flamingo

Guojing

Guojing's 'The Flamingo' is a poignant and imaginative graphic novel that explores themes of loss and new beginnings. It was inspired by her personal experiences during the pandemic, including the death of her grandmother and the birth of her first child.

Associated Press Sets AI Guidelines for Journalists

Associated Press Sets AI Guidelines for Journalists

Navigating the Future of Journalism with AI

Amanda Barrett

This hypothetical book would explore the Associated Press's guidelines for journalists on the use of artificial intelligence in news reporting. It would cover topics such as avoiding misinformation, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining ethical standards in AI-assisted journalism.

Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies

Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies

Michael Stephen Saxon

Xinyi Wang

Deepak Nathani

William Yang Wang

Liangming Pan

Wenda Xu

This paper provides a detailed overview of various techniques used to correct large language models, including training-time, generation-time, and post-hoc correction methods. It discusses the use of automated feedback from the models themselves or external sources to improve model performance and reduce human intervention.

Attention Is All You Need

The Game-Changing Paper That Transformed NLP

Niki Parmar

Ashish Vaswani

Llion Jones

Lukasz Kaiser

Aidan N. Gomez

Jakob Uszkoreit

Noam Shazeer

Illia Polosukhin

The paper 'Attention Is All You Need' introduced the Transformer architecture, which relies solely on self-attention mechanisms, eliminating the need for recurrent neural networks. This innovation has significantly improved performance in tasks like machine translation and language modeling, and its impact extends beyond natural language processing.