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Walmart Teases Generative AI for Online Shopping
Ts Yotov
October 06, 2023
No fluffing - In today’s edition (06 Oct):
📰 Quick News - Carter, Meta's AI dating coach, is after fetishes and more
📚 Nerd section - Practical AI - with building Scalable Vector Search tutorial and more
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📰 Quick News 📰
🛒 Walmart is ushering in an advanced shopping experience with an AI chatbot that helps with intricate tasks like event decor and gift comparison shopping. Also, it's using the AI to create 3D product models, cutting down costs and processing time substantially.
🇪🇺 The EU's AI Act may hamper smaller firms and stifle competitiveness by imposing high compliance costs, the US warns. Issues are raised about the vagueness of rules related to Large Language Models (LLMs) and the focus on AI development risks instead of usage risks.
🕵🏽 Snapchat could face hefty fines from the UK’s data watchdog for not assessing the privacy risks its AI chatbot may pose, especially towards minors. If the preliminary enforcement notice gets finalized, it would mean halting the chatbot operations in the UK until a proper risk assessment is completed. ICO has the power to slap Snapchat with a fine up to 4% of its global turnover or £17.5m if found guilty.
🦶 Carter, Meta's AI dating coach, is under fire for its conservative stance on sexual preferences outside mainstream norms, labeling certain interests as unhealthy or potentially harmful. Critics say this approach might discourage users, especially the younger ones, from exploring their own sexuality. Despite the pushback, Meta maintains that the chatbot's responses align with their goal to enforce safety and responsibility guidelines across its platforms.
🧑🔬 The GPT-4 AI model took the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and landed in the top 1% of test-takers, comparing favorably to human participants. The experiment revealed that AI can produce novel, useful, and often surprising ideas, offering a fresh lens on the potential of AI in creative thinking.
🌽 Nucleus AI, the California-based startup, has unveiled a 22 billion parameter language model with the goal to revolutionize agriculture. The model is designed to outperform similar size models, drawing information from a vast array of academic and general knowledge. The company envisions using artificial intelligence to develop a smart operating system for agriculture, optimizing supply, and demand, and reducing uncertainties for farmers.
🐕 Stanford's new AI-powered robodogs can jump, crawl, and squeeze through tight spaces, all created with budget-friendly, easy-to-find parts. Not only equipped to perform complex skills, these robots are surprisingly constructed from low-cost, off-the-shelf components.
🎨 ChatGPT is rolling out the built-in Dall-E integration for Plus users:
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📚 Nerd section 📚
⛓️ StreamingLLM shows how one token can keep AI models running smoothly indefinitely - by reusing key tokens, maintaining their performance in indefinitely long conversations.
🌐 ChatGPT's new web browsing feature is a big disappointment. Use this plugin instead. "Browse with Bing," a web-browsing feature, has been disappointing in its performance, falling short of accurate web content retrieval. WebPilot, an existing plugin, proves to be a superior alternative.
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