⚡️ OpenAI AGI Roadmap - Should We Be Worried?

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• 🦾 OpenAI AGI Roadmap - Should We Be Worried?

• 🦙Meta/Facebook Jumps Into the A.I. Race with LLaMA

• 🎶 Spotify’s A.I .Powered DJ Feature

• 🧠 What is ControlNET? 

• 🤓 Cool A.I. Tools and News 

• 🖼️  A.I. Generated Image of the Day

• ⚡️ A.I. Meme of the Day

OpenAI AGI Roadmap - Should We Be Worried?

OpenAI wrote a blog post late Friday afternoon about AGI while we all were getting ready for the weekend! AGI stands for "Artificial General Intelligence." It would be like a computer that could do anything a person can do, like solving problems, understanding language, and making decisions. We don't have this kind of technology yet, but a lot of companies, like OpenAI, are trying to make it! Quick summary below read the full blog post here.

OpenAI has made a plan called an AGI roadmap. This plan explains what they will do in the short and long term, and how they will make sure it's safe for everyone. OpenAI thinks that making super intelligence is important, but it could also be scary. They think it's important for everyone to work together to make it successful.

Meta Jumps Into the A.I. Race with LLaMA

If you've ever talked to ChatGPT, then you've used a large language model (LLM) called GPT-3 from OpenAI. It learned a lot by reading stuff on the Internet, like Wikipedia and online books. LLMs are important because they are needed for AI-powered chatbots. Graphic below shows the top 10 data sources for GPT-3.

Big companies, like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and China's Baidu, have access to LLMs. They got this technology by working on their own or by teaming up with other companies. To keep up with the competition Meta is jumping into the AI race with their own LLM called LLaMA. More details here.

Spotify’s A.I. DJ

Spotify has created an AI DJ that can understand what users like to listen to. The DJ can recommend new songs that match the user's taste. This results in a more personalized experience for the listener. To develop this technology, Spotify utilized two things:

First, Spotify's used existing technology to figure out what music the user prefers and recommend similar songs based on this information. Second, Spotify implemented OpenAI's generative AI technology to enhance the user experience. More details here.

What is ControlNET?

Most people who are interested in AI have heard of tools for text-to-image creation like DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and others. The quality of the generated images depends on the level of detail provided in the prompt. The more specific the prompt, the better the resulting image will be.

You've probably heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words". ControlNET is a tool that works based on this idea. By using an image as part of the prompt, the text-to-image output can closely match the user's instructions.

To see how this works, check out the "Scribble" implementation. It takes a user's rough sketch, such as a lightning bolt striking a tree in my test case, and creates an image based on that plus the prompt. It's pretty cool, right? You can try it out yourself on this website and test your scribbling plus prompt skills!

ControlNET has many other image-to-image + prompt implementation methods with names like Canny, Hough, HED, Scribble, Scribble Interactive, Fake Scribble, Pose, Segmentation, Depth, and Normal map. If you want to learn more about them, you can nerd out and read the research paper here.

Cool A.I. Tools and News

The world of AI and machine learning is moving incredibly fast, and it's tough to keep up with all the cool new developments! Here are some of the most exciting AI-powered tools and news.

100% A.I. Generated Image of the Day

Midjourney Prompt - Silver monkey resting after eating, golden hour, Tanzania, National Geographic, 8k, sharp focus, shot on telephoto lens --ar 2:1

A.I. Meme of the Day

Funny tweet about a fake OpenAI job posting below got me thinking. 🤔

Will AI become self-aware and conscious like humans?

What do you think? Let me know @DailyZaps

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Daily Zap Team