Inflection AI's Pi chatbot is now available in English around the globe. It is more personal than other AIs and can converse colloquially without forgetting its role as a respectful, helpful bot. Pi can help people organize their schedules, prep for meetings, and learn new skills. Inflection's CEO's previous company, DeepMind has formed much of the industry's research since it was acquired by Google in 2014.
Microsoft is planning to offer a privacy-focused version of ChatGPT to organizations concerned about data leaks and regulatory compliance. The product would run ChatGPT on dedicated servers and keep sensitive data from being used to train language models. It could cost as much as 10 times what customers currently pay to use ChatGPT. OpenAI is also planning a similar product. Microsoft's deal allows it to resell OpenAI's products, leading to both companies competing for some of the same users.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Life Biosciences have developed a gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primate models of NAION, a condition caused by decreased blood flow to the optic nerve that results in sudden, significant, and usually permanent loss of vision in the eye. The treatment made the primate models' eye cells young again. It reprograms cells back to a time after they became specialized adult cells, but before age led to any unwanted epigenetic changes. Similar techniques have been used to extend the lives of old mice and restore sight in mouse models of glaucoma.
Rocket Lab recently announced a new venture that will see its Electron rocket being used as a testbed for hypersonic technologies. Electron will use essentially the same first and second stages, but it will have a modified kick stage that will allow it to deploy payloads with a mass of up to 600 kg into hypersonic trajectories five times greater than the speed of sound. Rocket Lab is able to offer this service due to its demonstrated ability to launch and build Electron rockets at a relatively high cadence. The company has as many as 15 launches planned for this year.
Getting language models to output structured JSON is hard. Jsonformer is a wrapper around HuggingFace models that fills in fixed tokens during generation and only delegates the generation of content tokens to the language model. It ensures that generated JSON is always syntactically correct and conforms to the specified schema. Jsonformer currently only supports a subset of JSON Schema - number, boolean, string, array, and object.
Tempo enables developers to build and consume low-latency, cross platform, and fully typesafe APIs. It features full static type safety and autocompletion, cross platform code generation, zero dependencies, and a tiny footprint. Tempo aims to ensure compatibility with popular serverless backends.
Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer of deep learning, recently left his role at Google to focus on concerns he has about AI and to focus on more philosophical work. He wants to raise public awareness of the serious risks that may accompany the technology. Leaving Google will allow him to speak freely without self-censorship. This article discusses Hinton's career, the development of large language models, how Hinton thinks it could all go wrong, and Hinton's plan to work with leaders in the technology industry to mitigate the risks that AI poses.
This article compares GPT's chat interface with static learning resources like webpages or textbooks. GPT makes learning interactive. It provides answers tailored to the specific questions of the user. As users formulate the questions they ask, they are forced to reflect on what they're actually trying to learn, reinforcing their memory of what they're learning. Its progressive disclosure of information avoids overwhelming users with unnecessary information or complexity. It also uses fewer browser tabs and there are no ads or content marketing.
Bluesky isn't capitalizing on the outsized demand for its app despite the excitement surrounding it climbing in recent weeks, so people are selling their invites for as much as $400 on eBay.