The hottest Generative AI Substack posts right now

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Quantum Computing and Generative AI: Prospects and Challenges

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Quantum Computing Generative AI
  1. Quantum computing offers faster and more efficient processing of large and complex data sets, benefiting generative AI by enabling tasks like sampling, optimization, and linear algebra in a fraction of the time required by classical computers.
  2. Challenges for quantum computing in generative AI include scalability issues, lack of interpretability, and integration difficulties with classical systems, limiting their full potential.
  3. General availability of quantum computing could bring both enhanced benefits (like advanced data creation and model improvement) and increased risks (such as misuse, security threats, and quantum arms races) in generative AI and across various domains.

Update #70: Apple Shutters Autonomous EV Project and Griffin + Hawk Compete with Transformers

The Gradient • 24 implied HN points • 12 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Autonomous Vehicles Generative AI Research Studies Software Engineering
  1. Apple terminated its Project Titan autonomous electric car project and shifted focus to generative AI, impacting hundreds of employees.
  2. Challenges faced by Project Titan included leadership changes, strategic shifts, and difficulties in developing self-driving technology.
  3. Research proposes RNN-based architectures Hawk and Griffin that compete with Transformers, offering more efficiency for language models.

How Generative AI will Transform the Virtual Reality Industry

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 20 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI VR Generative AI Virtual reality Artificial Intelligence
  1. Generative AI is a powerful technology for creating immersive and personalized VR experiences.
  2. Generative AI techniques like GANs, VAEs, and transformers can automate content creation, adaptation, and interaction in VR.
  3. Using generative AI in VR can lead to more diverse content, personalized experiences, and natural interaction, enhancing user engagement and satisfaction.
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New Week #130

New World Same Humans • 40 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI
  1. OpenAI unveiled Sora, a new text-to-video model that produces photorealistic videos and accurately simulates physical dynamics.
  2. The emergence of generative AI models like Sora raises concerns about intellectual property rights and the future of human creativity in fields like filmmaking.
  3. Advances in AI technology, such as Sora, are rapidly transforming the creative and social media landscapes, moving towards a visual-centric culture and raising profound questions about our understanding of reality.

Zuckerberg's Secret Weapon..

aidaily • 58 implied HN points • 22 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Smartphones AI music
  1. Mark Zuckerberg is focusing on building artificial general intelligence at Meta with substantial computing power.
  2. Samsung's Galaxy S24 series introduces AI features like generative image editing and Google search through photos.
  3. Discussion around the potential need for an AI tax due to job losses, cautioning against rushing into such decisions.

A State-of-the-Art Survey of Text-to-Speech Technology 2023

Dubverse Black • 157 implied HN points • 24 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Text-to-Speech Deep Learning
  1. The latest innovation in Generative AI focuses on Speech Models that can produce human-like voices, even in songs.
  2. Self-Supervised Learning is revolutionizing Text-to-Speech technology by allowing models to learn from unlabelled data for better quality outcomes.
  3. Text-to-Speech systems are structured in three main parts, utilizing models like TORTOISE and BARK to produce expressive and high-quality audio.

Frame Smart Glasses from Brilliant Labs Are a Vehicle for an Always-There AI Assistant

Synthedia • 39 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Generative AI AR Open Source
  1. Brilliant Labs' Frame Smart Glasses are designed to integrate generative AI, offering features missing in other smart glasses like AR functionality, visual recognition, and speech recognition.
  2. The competitive price point of $349 makes Frame Smart Glasses a strong contender in the market against other smart glasses like Snap Spectacles and Meta Ray-Bans.
  3. Smart glasses, unlike VR goggles, aim to augment the real world with digital services, leading to a potentially larger market and representing the next evolution in digital platforms.

Seeing isn't always believing: video edition

Conspirador Norteño • 33 implied HN points • 17 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Deepfakes
  1. The advancement of text-to-video generative AI like Sora raises concerns about deceptive video content, introducing the concept of the "liar's dividend."
  2. Despite impressive quality, AI-generated videos by Sora exhibit anomalies that reveal their synthetic origins, such as sudden appearance and disappearance of objects.
  3. While AI-generated videos can be photorealistic, they often contain telltale signs of synthetic generation, cautioning against an excessive distrust of all videos and emphasizing the long-standing history of manipulating video content.

Top Questions ahead of Eagle Alpha’s Next Level Alternative Data Conference

The Data Score • 39 implied HN points • 16 Jan 24
💼 Business Alternative Data Generative AI Asset management
  1. The future of the alternative data industry and how smart asset managers are preparing for it is a key theme in the upcoming conference.
  2. The use of generative AI in financial markets, its applications, constraints, and implications are important topics to be explored.
  3. Corporate data strategy including use cases, monetization challenges, and blockers will be a focal point of discussion at the conference.

On Khanmigo

ailogblog • 59 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
🚌 Education AI Generative AI
  1. Generative AI in education, like Khanmigo, holds potential but may not revolutionize learning as expected. The actual problems in education go beyond just delivery of content.
  2. Generative AI, unlike traditional technology, relies on unpredictability to provide engaging outputs, which can be both delightful and challenging for educational use.
  3. When using generative AI tools like Khanmigo for educational purposes, it's important to consider the limitations and guardrails needed, especially when exploring sensitive or controversial topics.

Week 82 - E10 - Future Trends: Gen AI and the Next Generation of Products

The Product Channel By Sid Saladi • 13 implied HN points • 10 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Product Management Generative AI Autonomous Agents
  1. Cognitive generative AI combines generative models with cognitive computing capabilities, revolutionizing industries like healthcare and creative design.
  2. Generative AI is poised to transform immersive experiences like VR and AR by generating realistic 3D environments in real-time.
  3. Autonomous generative AI agents can make decisions independently, adapting to dynamic environments and revolutionizing industries like customer service and supply chain management.

Last Week in AI #219: Google's new slate of generative AI products, Meta unveils generative ads, effects of US sanctions on Chineses AI firms, and more!

Last Week in AI • 255 implied HN points • 15 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI AI Policy
  1. Google introduced a new language model called PaLM 2 with enhanced multilingual and reasoning capabilities, powering over 25 Google products.
  2. Meta announced the AI Sandbox testing platform for generative AI-powered advertising tools to enhance ad creation and targeting.
  3. US sanctions on China have led Chinese AI firms to develop AI systems using less powerful semiconductors to train state-of-the-art models.

The Future As Imagined

Cybernetic Forests • 119 implied HN points • 10 Sep 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Generative AI Sci-fi
  1. Generative AI is built on data from the past, causing a reflection on how past values shape future predictions and societal structures.
  2. Science fiction has been a powerful ideological tool throughout history, influencing belief systems and social arrangements.
  3. Algorithmic Hauntology explores the relationship between past, present, and future through artistic interventions, resisting the reinforcement of harmful ideologies by AI systems.

The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!)

Cybernetic Forests • 139 implied HN points • 13 Aug 23
🎨 Art & Illustration AI Art Digital Art Generative AI
  1. The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!) focuses on critiquing and analyzing AI systems, highlighting issues like data rights, stereotypes in AI output, ecological harms, political risks, and the impact of red teaming.
  2. ARPG! highlights the importance of challenging the logic of AI systems to avoid exploiting stereotypes, artist data rights, and push back against automated cultural production.
  3. Research showcased the use of Gaussian Noise Diffusion Loop to create abstract art, challenge content moderation tools, and explore the dynamics of AI-generated imagery.

Week 78 - E6 - 🏰 Building a Moat for Your AI Startup 🏰

The Product Channel By Sid Saladi • 20 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Startups Product Management Data science Innovation AI Generative AI Product Management Data Training AI Startups
  1. Building a competitive moat in AI involves strategic navigation of the generative AI value chain to create unique advantages.
  2. For AI startups, it's crucial to focus on acquiring proprietary data, integrating AI into comprehensive workflows, and specializing models through incremental training techniques.
  3. Companies like Anthropic, Landing AI, and Stability AI showcase effective moat-building strategies in AI by emphasizing ethical development, democratizing technology, and niche specialization.

Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces

Maneesh’s Substack • 217 HN points • 30 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Interfaces Conversational AI Generative AI
  1. Generative AI models can produce high-quality content but are terrible interfaces due to unpredictable output based on input controls.
  2. Well-designed interfaces allow users to predict how input controls affect outputs, reducing the need for trial-and-error.
  3. Humans, despite being imperfect interfaces, are still better collaborators than AI due to shared semantics and repair mechanisms in conversations.

On the "Death of the Software Engineer by GenAI"

Laszlo’s Newsletter • 64 implied HN points • 13 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Software Engineering Generative AI Programming Natural Language Processing
  1. Software engineering has drastically improved over the years with advancements in tools and techniques like high-level abstractions and unit testing.
  2. Natural language is not suited for specifying programming instructions due to its imprecise nature, unlike the detailed specs required for coding.
  3. Generative models like ChatGPT can assist in programming tasks and improve efficiency, but they won't replace the need for human software engineers.

Leviathan wakes

Gradient Ascendant • 16 implied HN points • 21 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Forecasting Generative AI Models Artificial Intelligence
  1. The author quit their job to work on a new AI-related project motivated by the transformative potential of modern AI technology.
  2. Google's Gemini 1.5 model is a significant advancement in AI capabilities, able to handle an impressive 10 million tokens for input, marking a major leap forward in AI development.
  3. Despite its imperfections, Gemini 1.5 and other advanced AI models are drastically reducing limitations and opening up new possibilities for future technological innovations.

LLM agents and integration dead-ends

Democratizing Automation • 146 implied HN points • 12 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Integration ML Generative AI Language Models
  1. The biggest immediate roadblock in generative AI unlocking economic value is the barrier of enabling direct integration of language models
  2. Many are exploring the use of large language models (LLMs) for various business tasks through LLM agents, which are facing challenges of integration and broad scope
  3. The successful commercial viability of LLM agents depends on trust, reliability, management of failure modes, and understanding of feedback dynamics

It’s the First Budget Season of the AI Revolution

Second Rough Draft • 137 implied HN points • 13 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Journalism Budgeting Generative AI
  1. The generative AI revolution is considered the biggest turning point in technology since the Nineties with significant implications.
  2. Artificial Intelligence offers cost-saving opportunities but also presents hard choices in terms of reallocating resources.
  3. AI can enhance journalistic capabilities by creating new versions of stories at low costs and opening the door to new audiences.

AI & Experience Design Conference

AI and Experience Design • 19 implied HN points • 02 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Design Conference Generative AI Experience
  1. The AI & Experience Design Conference brought together creative minds from AI, art, design, and technology to explore the impact of Generative AI on designing meaningful experiences.
  2. The conference was a space for dynamic discussions, collaboration, and hands-on workshops on various topics like emotional design, AI in UI/UX, and assistive technologies for visually impaired users.
  3. The event highlighted the importance of AI in design, not just as a support tool, but as a collaborator in the creative process, reshaping the future of art and design in the digital era.

Week 75 - E3 - 🛠️ Prompt Engineering Basics and 50+ Free 🎁 Product Management Prompts 🚀

The Product Channel By Sid Saladi • 23 implied HN points • 21 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Product Management Prompt engineering Generative AI
  1. Prompt engineering is crafting effective natural language prompts to get desired outputs from AI.
  2. Prompt engineering is crucial for product managers to unlock AI potential in workflows and decision-making.
  3. Well-structured prompts include clear instructions, context, format, and tone, enhancing coherency and relevance.

What I learned after surveying 150 ChatGPT users

aiproinsights • 5 HN points • 26 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Programming Productivity
  1. 90% of participants in the study used ChatGPT, a popular Generative AI tool for tasks like coding, bug-finding, test case writing, and more.
  2. Programming was the top use case among participants, with developers utilizing ChatGPT to save time in writing code, finding bugs, creating test cases, and generating code documentation.
  3. Users reported an average time saving of 1 hour and 20 minutes per session using Generative AI tools, showcasing significant productivity gains in completing programming tasks.

🗞️ AI is a 'public problem'; 'Fauxmation'; and the surveillance AI pipeline.

Untangled with Charley Johnson • 19 implied HN points • 28 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Surveillance Ethics Generative AI
  1. Generative AI should be considered a public problem requiring collective consideration.
  2. Technology problems are not just about technology, but also about social, cultural, political, and economic factors.
  3. An important aspect of addressing AI issues is to collectively debate, account for, and manage them.

Maximizing Product Management Efficiency with ChatGPT and Generative AI

An Innovator's Sketchbook • 19 implied HN points • 28 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Product Management Generative AI Automation Data Analysis
  1. Leverage AI to boost personal productivity in product management through planning, execution, and user feedback analysis.
  2. Use large language models (LLMs) in product strategy for idea generation, evaluation, and decision-making.
  3. Optimize day-to-day efficiency by using AI to break down goals into manageable tasks and plan daily schedules.