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🥞 Today’s Stack
- New and must-have AI tools.
- AI Glossary Word of the Day.
- At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You.
- Llama Drama: Meta’s AI Powerhouse Crashes the Open-Source Party!
- The Full Stack News Flash.
💻 New and must-have AI tools
- DeftGPT – An awesome alternative for ChatGPT
- Designsense.ai – Elevating Interior Design with AI
- Bestfaceswap.ai – AI Face Swapper
- Pictory.ai – Easy Video Creation
- Aiapply.co – Automate Your Job Search With AI.
- Promptbase.com – AI Prompt Marketplace
📓 AI Glossary Word of the Day
Confused by AI lingo? You’re in the right place. The Full Stack AI Glossary is your roadmap through the dense forest of Artificial Intelligence terminology.
Turing Test :
Imagine if you hosted a masked ball where some guests were humans and others were robots, and your job was to figure out who’s who just by chatting with them. That’s essentially what the Turing Test is all about. It’s like a cosmic game of “Guess Who?” where one of the contestants might be made of silicon.
Read the full definition and breakdown here.
👀 At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You
Grab your baguettes and berets, because the Paris Olympics are serving up a fresh slice of controversy with a side of high-tech surveillance. Spoiler alert: It’s not your grandma’s CCTV anymore!
Picture this: Paris, the city of love, lights, and now… algorithmic eyeballs? That’s right, folks. While athletes are breaking records, AI is breaking new ground in the surveillance game.
Here’s the scoop:
- Paris is playing dress-up as Fort Knox, with barriers, cops, and enough security to make a spy movie jealous.
- The real showstopper? An AI system that’s binge-watching CCTV footage from 46 train and metro stations. Talk about a marathon viewer!
- This digital Sherlock Holmes is on the lookout for everything from rowdy crowds to lonely backpacks. It’s like “Where’s Waldo?” but way more intense.
- The tech wizards behind this say it’s all above board – no facial recognition, just good old-fashioned shape analysis. Your privacy is safe… or is it?
- Not everyone’s buying the “nothing to see here” act. Activist groups are raising red flags faster than a referee at a soccer match.
- The million-euro question: Will this AI stick around for a post-Olympic encore? Some folks are sweating more about this than the 100-meter dash.
- Welcome to the future, where there’s too much CCTV footage and not enough eyeballs. AI to the rescue… or the doghouse?
So, what do you think? Is this the gold medal of security or a privacy fumble? Either way, it’s clear that AI is flexing its muscles at the Olympics, and we’re all front-row spectators to this tech-tastic show!
🦙 Llama Drama: Meta’s AI Powerhouse Crashes the Open-Source Party!
Buckle up, because Meta just dropped an AI bomb that’s got the whole industry buzzing like a beehive on espresso!
🎉 Introducing Llama 3.1: The Open-Source AI Heavyweight Champ 🎉
Picture this: Meta’s new AI model swaggering into the ring, flexing its 405 billion parameters, and throwing shade at GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Oh snap!
Here’s the lowdown on this digital beast:
- It’s open-source, baby! Meta’s sharing the love (and the code) with everyone.
- Trained on 16,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. That’s more processing power than a caffeinated supercomputer!
- Zuckerberg’s betting big, predicting Meta AI will dethrone ChatGPT as the most-used assistant. Bold move, Zuck!
- Coming soon to a Meta app near you – WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, even your Quest headset!
- New party trick: “Imagine Me” feature lets you star in AI-generated pics. Selfie game: Leveled up!
- Multilingual charm: Now speaking French, German, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. Oui oui, amigos!
But wait, there’s more! Meta’s got the whole tech industry playing nice:
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Nvidia – they’re all jumping on the Llama bandwagon.
- It’s like a tech industry group hug, but with more silicon and algorithms.
- The million-dollar question: Is this the Linux moment for AI? Zuckerberg seems to think so!
Sure, there are still some head-scratchers:
- Training data? It’s a secret sauce, apparently.
- Full power usage? Limited. Even Meta’s gotta watch that electric bill!
Bottom line: Meta’s making big moves in the AI world, and they’re inviting everyone to the party. Will Llama 3.1 be the life of that party? Only time (and a whole lot of processing power) will tell!
🥞 The Full Stack News Flash
Meta oversight board tells company to clean up rules on AI-generated pornography – Meta’s Oversight Board on Thursday said the company’s rules were “not sufficiently clear” in barring sexually explicit AI-generated depictions of …
How AI is revolutionising weather forecasting | Artificial intelligence (AI) – The Guardian – AI tools look for patterns in data over years to forecast weather accurately and faster than traditional methods.
New AI-generated ad from financial services company Etoro to air during Paris Olympics – And like most AI-generated videos, it includes some scenes that look more like a Surrealist painting than actual footage.
AI Adoption Adds To Worker Burnout – 3 Ways To Cope – Research findings from Upwork and Workplace Intelligence show that just adopting AI tools is not an immediate path to productivity gains.
Biggest US tech sell-off for over a decade reflects impatience over AI profits – Alphabet shares fell 5% even though Google’s parent company delivered better-than-expected profits, because analysts feared that rising AI investments …
AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems – But current AI systems still struggle with solving general math problems because of limitations in reasoning skills and training data. Today, we …
Amazon racing to develop AI chips cheaper, faster than Nvidia’s, executives say – While the company’s AI chip efforts are nascent, Amazon’s workhorse chip Graviton that performs non-AI computing has been under development for nearly …
DeepMind hits milestone in solving maths problems — AI’s next grand challenge – Nature – The London-based machine-learning company announced on 25 July that its artificial intelligence (AI) systems had solved four of the six problems that …
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