AI Roundup 12/01 -> 12/08/2022

Last week's most interesting AI news in <2 minutes

Special edition of AI Tidbits featuring top ChatGPT demos below ✨

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Weekly roundup

1. DeepMind introduces DeepNash - a new AI model that outperforms humans in a strategic war game called Stratego by employing deception technics (Nature)

2. A group of researchers from Germany introduces M-VADER - an image generation diffusion model using combinations of images and text (Paper)

3. Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon release ClueWeb22 - a 10B web documents dataset to improve the training of NLP and Information Retrieval models (Paper)

4. DeepMind introduces a language model that takes diverse human opinions such as in morals and politics and suggests consensus statements (Paper)

5. Disney researchers present a new neural network that can change the visual age of actors in movies and TV shows (Ars Technica)

6. OpenAI releases a new large Whisper model trained with more epochs and regularization (Github repo)

7. Microsoft Azure publishes UDOP - a novel Vision-Text-Layout Transformer achieving STOA performance on 9 Document AI tasks (Paper)

8. Apple doubles down on Stable Diffusion by releasing optimizations allowing app developers to use its proprietary ML framework to generate images (Apple ML)

9. Google researchers introduce Interactive Language: an imitation learning framework with the goal of producing robots controlled by natural language )(Google AI)

   

10. Researchers from Stanford propose RA-CM3 - a text-to-image and image-to-text method outperforming prior SOTA models while reducing training costs by 30% (Twitter)

✨ Featured ChatGPT demos

1. ChatGPT as a coding companion

2. ChatGPT as a personal trainer and nutritionist

3. Automated Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) for use cases such as searching for an apartment on Redfin

4. An artist trains a chatbot using past notes and diaries to talk to her inner child

5. ChatGPT as a virtual machine + running ChatGPT inside ChatGPT

6. Using ChatGPT across websites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and more

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Last week’s AI Tidbits