Generative AI has taken the world by storm. The FTC has published guidance for developers and deployers to help ensure that the technology complies with applicable law and operates responsibly.

This guidance should be factored into the "ethics and compliance by design" governance framework that extends throughout the product lifecycle.

Chip giants Nvidia, TSMC, ASML, Synopsys will work together on next generation chip manufacturing as making transistors tinier runs into the limits of physics, media report, noting TSMC's 2nm plant, Fab 20 in Hsinchu, will begin risk production in 2024.

The race has publicly begun:

- GPT still blows everyone else out of the water wrt coding abilities, with Claude coming a close second.
- Bard can't do coding yet (according to their FAQ)
- LLaMa / Alpaca, etc. is having a huge community-driven moment.

GPT-5 is probably being worked upon, while everyone still needs to catch up to GPT-3 level of programming ability and GPT-4 level of non-programming output.

Whether OpenAI remains the leader depends on how quickly others can catch up (if at all).

One of the most interesting advantages OpenAI has is their unwavering focus as an organization -- as opposed to the short-term promotion-driven culture at Google (eg. their Messaging story).

In Blockdata’s research, 40 of the top 200 companies made announcements regarding their blockchain initiatives in 2022.

Most of these companies are in the financial sector (19 companies), followed by consumer and retail and energy and utilities (6 companies each). Of the companies profiled, 30% were domiciled in the US (12 companies), followed by Japan (6 companies), and then by Germany and Spain (4 companies each), and 60% of these companies were in the production stage, 22.5% in the development stage, and 12.5% in the pilot phase.
We will take a look at announcements about blockchain and crypto and conduct a sector-wide analysis of these 40 companies.

Opera just announced GPT-based AI prompts in browser.

You can now interact with ChatGPT from anywhere to:

- Shorten or explain articles.
- Generate tweets, and content.
- Find relevant info based on text.

They also added ChatSonic which gives users capability to create AI-generated images.

We think Opera is already working on their own AI browser engine. Could be big.

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

Reports on their investigation of an early version of GPT-4, when it was still in active development by OpenAI.

DRPC developers say Ethereum remains dependent on a few major centralized RPC players, which undermines the blockchain's sustainability and security.

Canva announces a suite of new AI tools.

This follows just after Adobe Firefly yesterday. What's with the timing!?

Here's what's new for Canva's 125 million users:

First, Canva already had basic AI features:

- Text to Image
- Magic Write, an AI copywriting assistant

Nasdaq eyes crypto custody launch by end of second quarter — link

A recently developed machine learning model has given scientists a new schema for predicting the scent of individual molecules: metabolism.

Sequoia Capital's newest market map! The AI revolution is the most consequential computational trend in decades.

Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) + Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) + Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI) + Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist of OpenAI)

Can LLMs like GPT learn from their mistakes and self-reflect just like humans?

The answer is yes and the method resulted in 33-35% accuracy improvement on HotPotQA!

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Google introduced a multilingual dataset for parsing realistic task-oriented dialogues, which includes about half a million realistic conversations in six languages, many of which exhibit common phenomena like disfluencies, user revisions and code-mixing.

The CFA Institute just published a primer on cryptoassets for investment professionals. It's nice and concise and covers the following:

- The Basics - How Crypto Works and Why It Matters
- Understanding the Crypto Landscape
- Crypto as an Investment Opportunity
- Crypto in a Portfolio Setting
- Key Considerations and Risks for Investors

⚡️ Alibaba announced it will split into six main businesses. In time, each will be able to pursue fundraising and IPOs.

Alibaba becomes six Little Babas

The real revolution in AI is still to come - former Meta-AI engineering manager and VP of AI/ML at Cruise Hussein Mehanna

If you think GPT-4 and similar systems approach human-level intelligence, ask yourself why any teenager can learn to drive a car in about 20 hours of practice and yet we still don't have Level-5 self-driving cars. This is despite having enormous amounts of training data from expert drivers and vehicles equipped with sensors with superhuman capabilities.

Game changer. You can now run GPT locally on your macbook with GPT4All, a new 7B LLM based on LLaMa.

It's completely open source: demo, data and code to train an assistant-style large language model with ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa.

Independent implementation of LLaMA that is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

With a rush to adopt generative AI, use of open-source models is booming.

As some of the biggest companies use models from online repositories, security researchers say they need to be cautious because some may contain dangerous security flaws, bias or not work as promised.

Of course, OpenAI's ChatGPT also had a recent security bug.

Welcome to the new security challenges in the age of more rapid AI adoption. One company, Robust Intelligence, is unveiling a tool to scan models for security, effectiveness and bias.

Finally an open-source version of DeepMind's Flamingo

A framework for training and evaluating Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) capable of processing images and text.

This model is trained with StabilityAI support and compute. Comes with all sorts of goodies, like a multi-model dataset, which is needed for the future.

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