#12. Autocomplete Newsletter. Meta's new LLM has tools, Customize chatGPT, Gen AI Conference ❤️ Gen AI, NASA's AI designs parts.
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OpenAI to let users customize ChatGPT.
OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, on Thursday said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customize as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence.
“This will mean allowing system outputs that other people (ourselves included) may strongly disagree with,” it said in a blog post, offering customization as a way forward. Still, there will “always be some bounds on system behavior.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-backed-openai-let-users-customize-chatgpt-2023-02-17/
Meta develops an AI language bot that can use external software tools.
Language models like ChatGPT have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, but they still struggle with some basic tasks, such as arithmetic and fact-checking. Last Thursday, researchers from Meta revealed Toolformer, an AI language model that can teach itself to use external tools such as search engines, calculators, and calendars without sacrificing its core language modeling abilities.
It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference
HE, chief executive of Jasper, said he didn’t think many people would attend his generative AI conference. It was all planned sort of last-minute, and the event was somehow scheduled for Valentine’s Day. Surely people would rather be with their loved ones than in a conference hall along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, even if the views of the bay just out the windows were jaw-slackening.
But Jasper’s “GenAI” event sold out. More than 1,200 people registered for the event, and by the time the lanyard crowd moseyed over from the coffee bar to the stage this past Tuesday, it was standing room only. The walls were soaked in pink and purple lighting, Jasper’s colors as subtle as a New Jersey wedding banquet.
https://www.wired.com/story/jasper-generative-ai-conference-2023/
NASA is taking generative AI to space
The organization just unveiled a series of spacecraft and mission hardware designed with the same kind of artificial intelligence that creates images, text, and music out of human prompts. Called Evolved Structures, these specialized parts are being implemented in equipment, including astrophysics balloon observatories, Earth-atmosphere scanners, planetary instruments, and space telescopes.
The components look as if they were extracted from an extraterrestrial ship secretly stored in an Area 51 hangar—appropriate given the engineer who started the project says he got the inspiration from watching sci-fi shows. “It happened during the pandemic. I had a lot of extra time, and I was watching shows like The Expanse,” says Ryan McClelland, a research engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “They have these huge structures in space, and it got me thinking . . . we are not gonna get there the way we are doing things now.”