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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• China’s tiny new GPTs 🤖

  The Beijing Academy of AI’s open-source models: small but capable.

• Google gets all up in your musical brain 🧠 

  Turning your thoughts into music, with a bit of fMRI sleuthing.

• MIT white-knights artists 🛡️ 

  New tech to protect artists from intellectual property theft.

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APPETIZER

China’s fun-sized GPTs 🤖

Smaller is better? Sometimes: yes. The Wu Dao 3.0 models are a set of the latest compact, open-source GPT’s created by the Beijing Academy of AI.

The Wu Dao 3.0 models include:

• AquilaChat Dialogue: a 7 billion parameter dense model. Outperforms similar-sized open-source models domestically and internationally.

• AquilaCode: designed for text-to-code generation.

• Wudao Vision series: focuses on issues in the computer vision field.

As the old saying goes, “For every job, there is a tool.”

With recent models pushing parameter counts into the trillions, these compact models are bucking the trend. What gives?

Smaller models are more cost-effective to produce, easier to commercialize, and require fewer computational resources. And with US chip sanctions against China, there’s been a shortage of AI chips.

Our take: there’s a natural “speed limit” on the size these models can get. At some point, it becomes impractical to keep increasing parameter size — and that’s the reaction we’re seeing here. Even Meta’s LLaMA2 clocks in at 70 billion parameters — and it’s quite capable, despite lying well below the 1T mark.

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MAIN COURSE

Google reads music — from your mind 🧠

Google and Osaka University researchers have recently published a study demonstrating a method that converts brain fMRI’s into music.

Their research might lead to intelligent music composition software that converts your thoughts into melodies.

You know how hard it is to get melodies down on paper or into your DAW, before they disappear? If you know, you know.

Here’s the method they used:

• A fMRI scanner monitored brain activity of five volunteers listening to 500 tracks in 10 musical styles.

• The Brain2Music AI model used brain data with Google's MusicLM to create similar songs.

• Music generated by the AI matched the genre, instrumentation, and mood of the original stimuli.

Shazam on ‘roids!

Check out the full findings here.

Our take: buckle up! We’re already starting to see AI-powered mind-reading products like these headphones. If the tech gets good enough, we won’t need an invasive procedure (a la Neuralink) to establish a brain-computer interface.

After all, you’re already effectively a cyborg — just limited by typing speed.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

MIT sticks up for artists 🛡️ 

Researchers from MIT have developed ‘PhotoGuard’, a new technique for preventing AI models from manipulating images.

Swiper, no swiping.

How it works:

• PhotoGuard uses tiny pixel changes called "perturbations" to disrupt AI image manipulation.

• The changes are invisible to the human eye but detectable by computers.

• PhotoGuard employs two attacks: "Encoder" and “Diffusion”, which confuses the malicious AI.

• The result: AI that attempts to use an immunized image produces a botched job. No more AI manipulation — fingers crossed 🤞 

Our take: impressive piece of kit, but we’ve been here before…

Virus vs antivirus.

How long can PhotoGuard hold the fort before the red team figures out how to work around perturbations?

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YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Pieces

Resurrecting extinct antibiotics — researchers used AI to find novel antibiotics based on common proteins between humans and Neanderthals.

Deepfakes and the 2024 US election — how real of a threat are deepfakes to the democratic process?

Riding the AI wave — how long will it last?

Startup News

Indian startup leverages AI to help the poor, through dataset creation — Karya already has huge clients such as MIT, Microsoft and Stanford.

Startup lands funding to use AI in K-12 curriculum - the Vietnamese-based VUIHOC aims to serve 1.1M students.

Bringing Hollywood cameras to your smartphone — Voia raises $3M in private investments to enable anyone to produce Hollywood-quality videos.

Research

AI machine detects lies — get your best poker face on. AI is coming to call you out on your BS!

AI traces emotional contagion — the new method could predict burnout and stress in social workers and psychologists.

AI detects disease from MRI scans — it could help doctors by catching signs that might otherwise slip through.

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