Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT
Leaked OpenAI Foundry Product Brief
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Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT
Snapchat is introducing a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, it’s a bet that AI chatbots will increasingly become a part of everyday life for more people.
Named “My AI,” Snapchat’s bot will be pinned to the app’s chat tab above conversations with friends. While initially only available for $3.99 a month Snapchat Plus subscribers, the goal is to eventually make the bot available to all of Snapchat’s 750 million monthly users, Spiegel tells The Verge. Read the full story
Leaked OpenAI Foundry Product Brief
Aside: this pricing also suggests the possibility of an undisclosed algorithmic advance
Attention mechanism inference costs rise with the square of the context window. Yet, we see a 4X jump in context – which would suggest a 16X increase in cost – with just a 2X jump in price🤔
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7:13 PM • Feb 27, 2023
Why the Future of Machine Learning is Open Source with Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
The bank thought it was talking to me; the AI-generated voice certainly sounded the same.
On Wednesday, I phoned my bank’s automated service line. To start, the bank asked me to say in my own words why I was calling. Rather than speak out loud, I clicked a file on my nearby laptop to play a sound clip: “check my balance,” my voice said. But this wasn't actually my voice. It was a synthetic clone I had made using readily available artificial intelligence technology. Read the full story
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10:19 PM • Feb 23, 2023
Qualcomm demos the fastest local AI image generation with Stable Diffusion on mobile
Qualcomm is showing off its AI chops on mobile, demonstrating what it claims is the fastest-ever deployment of AI image generator Stable Diffusion on a smartphone.
In a demo video, Qualcomm shows version 1.5 of Stable Diffusion generating a 512 x 512 pixel image in under 15 seconds. Although Qualcomm doesn’t say what the phone is, it does say it’s powered by its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset (which launched last November and has an AI-centric Hexagon processor). The company’s engineers also did all sorts of custom optimizations on the software side to get Stable Diffusion running optimally. Read the full story.
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4:38 AM • Feb 24, 2023
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue on The Future of Open vs Closed Source in AI
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