AI IS HERE AND IT PROBABLY WON'T KILL YOU....

Hello and welcome to the first ever Digital_Neuron newsletter. Here you will get a mix of everything that is happing in AI, history to get you caught up, and education on best practices and use cases.

Today We Have

1. Google merging business unites

2. Amazon using AI to tackle volume issues in movies

3. Elon gets in the AI game…again

4. Microsoft getting into chip making

Top News Of The Day

• Google is doing some merging

  • Google is consolidating its AI research divisions to form a new unit called Google DeepMind, which combines the DeepMind team and Google Brain team from Google Research. The aim is to work closely across Google's product areas and deliver AI research and products. A new scientific board will be created to oversee research progress and the unit's direction, led by Koray Kavukcuoglu, VP of research at DeepMind. Jeff Dean, Google Brain co-founder, will serve as the chief scientist for both Google Research and Google DeepMind.

    While DeepMind and Google Brain have mostly worked harmoniously together, there have been challenges regarding autonomy and financial aspects. Recently, DeepMind has gained more importance within Alphabet as the company competes with rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI in revenue-generating AI.

    Google is reportedly working on new AI projects like Gemini and Magi to stay competitive. Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasizes the importance of AI for the company's mission and believes that the formation of Google DeepMind will enable the bold, responsible development of general AI.

• Amazon aims AI at movies

  • Amazon has introduced a new tool called "Dialogue Boost" to enhance the dialogue in movies and TV shows on its Prime Video platform. This AI-based tool isolates dialogue in a scene, allowing users to raise the volume when necessary and making it clearer when background noise is high. Designed for people with hearing loss, it can also be used by anyone to personalize volume levels. Amazon is the first streaming platform to offer this technology, which is available on select Prime Video content, reflecting their commitment to creating an accessible streaming experience for all customers.

• Elon wants to create a truth seeking AI

  • Elon said the reason for building this is to have a 3rd option to Google/DeepMind and Microsoft/OpenAI. The goal of his AI would be to “do more good, than harm”. Elon also described the AI he’s going to build to be a “Maximum Truth Seeking AI, that tries to understand the nature of the universe…an AI That cares to understand the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe, hopefully”

• Microsoft making AI chips

  • Microsoft is secretly developing its own AI chips since 2019 to reduce reliance on Nvidia and cut costs. The project, codenamed Athena, aims to create chips for large language models like GPT-4. Nvidia's AI server chips, such as the A100, are in high demand, with OpenAI needing over 30,000 for ChatGPT commercialization. Microsoft's chips won't directly replace Nvidia's, but can significantly lower expenses as AI-powered features expand across Microsoft's products.

    Microsoft has also been working on ARM-based chips for servers and potential future devices. Tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Meta have also developed in-house AI chips, though many companies still depend on Nvidia for large language models.

Useful Tools To Try Out

• Give ChatGPT4 a test using Hugging Face

• Have AI Agents complete tasks for you using SamurAI

• Not feeling great? Ask Dr.GuPTa. Can’t be worse than WebMD ;)

• Supercharge your programming with Codeium

• Looking to make a style change try out ShopWithAI

• Let AI take notes, create to-do lists, summarize meetings, etc with Spoke

Reads That You Need

• An example of LLM prompting for programming

• Learn about autonomous agents

• AI is being used to fight ransomware.

• This is what happens when you give AI control of a satellite

• AI is being used in the health industry to help find cancer

Lets start creating “art” together.

• Send me your best visual prompt and I may run it through Midjourney, Dall-E 2, etc and post it here. For today you will have to settle for something I did a while back.

• The below was something like: last selfie taken on earth in a nuclear wasteland in the style of surrealism