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Good morning, folks!
Here’s a quick recap of the latest in AI for your Friday morning.
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📰 News
TikTok’s new chatbot 🌮
Everyone’s getting an AI chatbot, including TikTok. Called ‘Tako’, the bot will be located on the left side of the screen, and you can ask it questions about anything. With nearly 40% of young people using TikTok for search instead of Google, this is definitely a smart move by ByteDance to further that lead.
You can read a detailed summary from Reuters, here.
OpenAI’s upcoming plans 👀
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently gave an interview where he shared some insight on their plans in the near-future. Here’s a summary:
Faster and cheaper GPT-4 is on its way.
1 million (!) token context windows. In other words, ChatGPT outputs for, say, a full essay will be possible. For reference, GPT-4 currently has 8,192 tokens.
Multimodality; not just text, but images can be uploaded into ChatGPT.
They are ‘heavily’ GPU limited, which has led to some delays and speed issues recently, but they’re working on it.
DragGANs - Photoshop Competitor?
Researchers from MIT, Google, UPenn, and Max Planck just released DragGANs, a simple tool that can “deform an image with precise control over where pixels go” using generative adversarial networks (GANs).
The code for DragGANs will be released sometime this month.
You can check out a more detailed breakdown here.
🛠️ Tool Highlights
Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Don’t want to pay for ChatGPT Plus? No worries! Perplexity is free, has access to the internet, and is available on mobile (with voice search). I also just learned that there is a Chrome extension for Perplexity, which should make it even more convenient to use!
🎨 AI Image of the Day
The Great Wall Ball of China
Generated with Midjourney.
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