An Actually Big Week in AI: AutoGen, The A-Phone, …

2023/9/30

An Actually Big Week in AI: AutoGen, The A-Phone, Mistral 7B, GPT-Fathom and Meta Hunts CharacterAI

From dramatic new use cases for GPT Vision, Meta bringing language models to billions of people, Autogen as the new AutoGPT, to what I’m calling the Altman Phone, this is a huge time in AI. I’ll also cover Mistral’s 7B model, the new CIA-bot, Orca potentially replacing OpenAI models at Microsoft, and yesterday’s fascinating GPT-Fathom paper.

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Timestamps:
0:35 – GPT Vision Use Cases
1:32 – Meta AI to 4 Billion People?
3:00 – CIA-Bot
3:48 – The Altman Phone
4:47 – AutoGen
8:26 – Mistral 7B
9:58 – Orca @ MSFT
11:20 – GPT-Fathom

GPT 4V Agent: https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1707480439793840402
GPT Vision UI: https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1706823089487491469
Meta Models ft. Mr Beast: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-assistants-characters-and-creative-tools/
Character.AI Valuation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/character-ai-in-early-talks-for-funding-at-more-than-5-billion-valuation
AutoGen: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/autogen-enabling-next-generation-large-language-model-applications/
Altman Tweet Timelines: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1705752292484624863
The Altman phone, The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23893939/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-iphone-of-artificial-intelligence-device
CIA Bot: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/cia-builds-its-own-artificial-intelligence-tool-in-rivalry-with-china?leadSource=reddit_wall
LLMs for Censorship: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oqvsR2LmHWamyKDcj/large-language-models-will-be-great-for-censorship
PRISM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Mistral 7B: https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/
Perplexity Labs: https://labs.perplexity.ai/
Orca at Microsoft: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-is-trying-to-lessen-its-addiction-to-openai-as-ai-costs-soar?utm_source=ti_app&rc=sy0ihq
My Orca Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt_UNg7Mchg&t=842s
My Phi-1 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S68y6huEpU&t=88s
GPT-Fathom: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16583.pdf