Generative AI Weekly - July 18th, 2024
GPT-4o mini, education startups, creative tools, and advances in agents.
This week:
- A fantastic deck on "Building and Creativity in the Age of AI." I am currently demoing a few of the services mentioned:
- Unicorn Studio for web-based motion and interactivity
- Butter for video editing
- MagicBrief for well.. briefing.
- SpreadsheetLLM - Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models.
- "Can AI Solve Science" by Stephen Wolfram. "It’s a general feature of machine learning—and AI—techniques that they can be very useful if an approximate (“80%”) answer is good enough." I still very much recommend his book "What is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does it Work."
- GPT-4o mini 30x cheaper than gpt-4o
- The Five Stages of AI Grief. “For AI Doomers, to entertain hope is for dupes.”
- Cloudflare blocks AI bots, scrapers and crawlers.
- Andrej Karpathy launched Eureka Labs - "a new kind of school that is AI native." Their first product: "LLM101n: Let's build a Storyteller"
- exo: "Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices"
- Simon Willison's keynote for PyCon US.
- Goldman Sachs report - "Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit?" (commentary here)
- Claude Dev "can handle complex software development tasks step-by-step."
- And for a very cool paper this week: Machine learning used to identify shifts in culture.