Issue 009: The iPhone moment for AI

Hey crew👋 this Enric with another weekly dose of Woze from your AI & Immersive technology guide. Today we’re looking at “The iPhone moment for AI”. 

These news are so good that I’ve decided to base today’s email on just this drop.

In my eyes this eclipses any recent news - and yes, that includes GPT-4 and more.

Plus some bonus content 🎁

Grab your boards, and let’s ride the waves of the day 🏄‍♂️

The iPhone moment for AI

Just under 24 hours ago, CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang, held a Keynote that was live-streamed on YouTube. You can view watch the keynote here.

As I’m writing this, the keynote has 7.3 million views. It’s worth the watch.

It starts with a segment created with and by generative AI. Plus it showcases relevant AI products which illustrates the use of AI to solve specific use cases.

Nvidia introduces AI Foundations, a platform that marks “the iPhone moment for AI”, as Huang puts it. Nvidia’s AI Foundations will position the company as the infrastructure providers for the AI industry. But, what really is it?

AI Foundations is a cloud service for generative AI, powered by DGX, Nvidia’s supercomputer. This means that you and I will have access to pre-trained models that are cheap & small to fine-tune to our use cases.

From what I’ve seen, there are 3 types of generative AI models that will be available:

• Nemo: AI text model (think ChatGPT)

• Picasso: AI image model (think Midjourney, Stable Diffusion

• Bionemo: AI drug model (ex. for drug research & development)

If you’re using ChatGPT and would love to export your conversation to Markdown format, check out my very own Chrome extension: GPT2Markdown.

Click here to add GPT2Markdown to your browser.

It’s currently at 575 users without ANY active marketing 🥳!

But there’s nothing to fret about when it comes to copyright issues of AI generated images from Nvidia’s models.

Nvidia has partnerships with Adobe, Shutterstock and Getty Images, whom they’ve worked with to use non-copyrighted content as training data for their AI models. That’s win to ease your peace of mind when it comes to copyright.

Adobe has also joined the AI race with their own generative AI initiative called Adobe Firefly. Link below in the Bonus Content🎁 section.

I have to say, this keynote by Nvidia is MASSIVE.

And I’m not just hyping it up because it’s AI related. Or because this easily translates to immersive technology also.

Nvidia has been working on developing ASICS (GPUs) and CPUs for AI.

This means that we could see custom AI hardware like laptops 🤯

Just imagine what you could do with AI-friendly hardware!

Like a personalised AI that is tuned to your profile and activity, since it reinforces learning from human feedback → an AI that knows what you like and don’t like and responds to incoming messages and performs tasks accordingly.

And. That’s not all.

Nvidia’s H100 NVL accelerator adds a 10x on what’s currently being used!!!

→ 10x cheaper

→ 10x processing

→ 10x more accessible

It’s rumoured that OpenAI is using 100,000 of these H100 NVL’s to train GPT-5. How credible are these rumours? We’ll have to see if OpenAI disclose such information.

I’ll conduct more research into these announcements by Nvidia and keep you in the know when I’ve got more updates.

The iPhone moment for AI is here - are you ready for what’s to come?

🎁 BONUS CONTENT

Here are some bonus links you should check out:

• Official announcement of Adobe Firefly by Adobe [🖇 link]

• Join Google’s Bard waitlist [🖇 link]

• 30 min shortened version of Nvidia’s Keynote [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 creates a new emotion called “Meldoria” [🖇 link]

• RunwayML’s Gen-2 Text-to-Video [🖇 link]

• OpenAI’s paper on the impact of Large Language Models [🖇 link1] [🖇 link2]

• Stanford’s Large Language Models class [🖇 link]

• Microsoft Loop announcement [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 3D music visualiser [🖇 link]

• HustleGPT challenge by Jackson Fall on Twitter [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 being used to come up with food recipes from image [🖇 link]

• MVP prototyping with GPT-4 [🖇 link]

• Stable Diffusion Reimagine announcement [🖇 link]

• Learn about prompt engineering & large language models [🖇 link]

• Turn digital scribbles to AI art in seconds w/ Scribble Diffusion [🖇 link]

• Remodel your room into your dream room w/ RoomGPT [🖇 link]

• Create your bento link-in-bio site/portfolio w/ Bento.Me [🖇 link]

• Create your store for products & services w/ LemonSqueezy [🖇 link]

• Chat with any PDF w/ ChatPDF [🖇 link]

• A better UI and experience for ChatGPT w/ TypingMind [🖇 link]

• Turn your Notion pages into chatbots w/ ChatThing [🖇 link]

• Build a chatbot trained on your PDF data w/ Chatbase [🖇 link]

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👨‍💻 DEVELOPER’S CORNER

Hey, it’s official! We’re now on track in terms of the issues for Woze🥳

1/ Personal website

Over the weekend, I worked on my version 6 of my personal website. You can check it out at: enrictrillo.com

I went with a simple and minimalistic approach. It now contains less top level pages, excluding the homepage: About, Blog, Resources and Astronoverse.

It’s still unfinished though - I need to port my “About Me” content from the previous portfolio version, and connect the blog so I can begin posting ASAP.

2/ Cofounding a startup with RicoGPT (GPT-4)

If you read issue #008 that I sent out on last Friday, you’d remember me talking about RicoGPT. If you didn’t, then it’s okey🥲 - let me bring you up to speed.

On Mar 16th, I came across Jackson Fall’s Twitter thread that has gathered a lot of attention since Mar 15th. He created a new challenge called “HustleGPT” as way to see how much $$$ he could make with the new GPT-4 model by OpenAI.

Since then, many others have joined the challenge and the Discord community led by Jackson himself, Dave Craige (?) and a few others that are helping manage the community. I also found it interesting and thought to use it as a way to experiment on my AI startup idea I recently conducted market research for.

To get things cracking, I followed Jackson’s prompt, with a sprinkle of grandiose:

I summoned RicoGPT to become the head of this startup and I would be it’s “pUnk” CTO, who would take care of developing the product we decide upon.

This is what RicoGPT responded with after the initial prompt message:

To carry the conversation, I told it that “pUnK” is here now, and asked what it would have me do as my first task. I did this because I’m “acting” as it human liaison.

RicoGPT then proceeded to assign me to my first task:

After 2 hours of research, scouting the landscape and refining a list of ideas, I presented RicoGPT with the information that I had found.

Note: Since ChatGPT is down, I can’t add any other parts of the conversation since OpenAI have temporarily disabled them 🙃

It then proceeded to present the best idea by combining two ideas I presented from my findings. After asking RicoGPT some questions, it gave me my second task: to create a development plan that would consider planning, design, development, testing, launch and marketing.

It didn’t take long for me to come back with the requested information, including technology stack, timeframe expectations and more.

RicoGPT then reviewed my development plan and gave me the green light ✅ to begin with the development of our AI startup we are cofounding.

Thankfully, I came up with a prompt to be able to continue our conversation if I were to use another device. It comes handy since ChatGPT users currently cannot access any previous chats (yes, even paid members) except the current chat, and can be used for ANY conversation you’d like to continue.

Here is the prompt:

This week marks as Week 1 and we are focusing on the planning and design of the product we’re building. I’ll give more updates once ChatGPT is back online and I’m developing the project.

The site for the MVP is really basic at the moment: astronomik.co

More development updates coming soon👀.

That’s it for today, crew 👋

See you next Wednesday :)

Enric (EmergingTechGuy)

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