A week in Generative AI: Happy Birthday ChatGPT
A week in Generative AI: Happy Birthday ChatGPT
News for the week ending 3rd December 2023
Happy Birthday ChatGPT - the last 12 months have been one hell of a ride, but the next 12 months I’m sure will be even crazier. New video capabilities, new materials discovered and lots of applications of generative AI in healthcare. And that’s just this week!
ChatGPT turns 1 year old!
Great article here from The Verge looking back at the last 12 months.
“…there are a lot of smart people and trillions of dollars betting that’s the beginning of the AI story, not the end. If they’re right, the day OpenAI launched its “research preview” of ChatGPT will be much more than a product launch for the ages. It’ll be the day the world changed, and we didn’t even see it coming.”
Pika Labs unveils Pika 1.0 AI video generator
Pika Labs has come out of nowhere with this unveiling, but they’ve already leapt ahead of most other video generators with this preview. They recently raised a Series A and have investment from some very notable backers. Definitely one to watch.
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
First (and only?) interview I’ve seen with Sam Altman post OpenAI snafu. Interestingly Mira Murati joined him as well, having been freshly re-instated as CTO. Not any new news in here really, but interesting read nonetheless.
Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
To put this in context, there have been 20,000 stable crystal structures discovered via human experimentation. DeepMind have just discovered 2,200,000 new crystal structures, including 380,000 that are stable. That’s 19x more stable crystal structures than humanity has ever found 🤯.
But it doesn’t stop there. The team hooked the AI up to a robotic arm and started synthesising these new materials in an autonomous laboratory. Over 17 days it created 41 new compounds from a target set of 58, which is a 70% success rate. So there are potentially 266,000 new materials that could now be made in an autonomous lab and tested for applications from superconductors to batteries.
Prior to this it took months, if not years to identify and synthesise new materials. This new approach is synthesising more than 2 new materials a day. AI is driving progress at speeds we’ve never been able to imagine, let alone see before.
Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They're All Pretty Stupid
It’s great to see a new benchmark built for testing general AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard etc. Despite the sensationalist headline, I think this research just gives the builders of these models something tougher to aim for, and I think we’ll see lots of progress against these tests in 2024.
AI Ethics News
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board
Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds
US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design'
Generative AI could revolutionize health care — but not if control is ceded to big tech
Long Reads
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson