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Google's new speech AI
PLUS: AI spots fake profile pictures
Michael Parrish & Dan Bogachek
June 27, 2023
TOGETHER WITH
Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.
Here’s what’s on the menu today:
Google’s new AI 🔊
AudioPaLM — a new hybrid LLM for speech recognition and generation.
Harvard’s new AI 👨🎓
Harvard incorporates their new CS50 bot into its computer science course.
AI sleuths out fake profiles 🕵️
LinkedIn and UC Berkeley developed a method to detect AI-generated images.
APPETIZER
Google’s snazzy speech AI
Google introduced AudioPaLM, a speech recognition and generation LLM.
It’s a combination of Google’s PaLM-2 and its generative audio model AudioLM, which generates and processes speech.
AudioPaLM preserves the speaker’s unique intonation and vocal characteristics during translation. It’s even able to do zero-shot speech-to-text translation for languages it wasn’t specifically trained on.
Our take: Hello multilingual voice assistants, automated transcriptions services, and more.
BUZZWORD OF THE DAY
GitHub Copilot
An AI programmer that automatically completes code as you write it. It lives right in your IDE (integrated development environment).
It can autocomplete code you’ve already started writing, or generate suggestions and code based on your input.
Developed by GitHub and OpenAI, it works in Visual Studio Code, Neovim, JetBrains, and other popular IDEs.
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MAIN COURSE
The world’s most popular computer science course — now with AI 🎓
Giving one-on-one guidance to a class of over 800 people? A tall order. But with an AI teaching assistant for every student? Now we’re cooking with gas.
The bot offers guidance based on students’ unique learning styles. It’s based on GPT-3.5 & 4 — but course staff are ironing out the exact formula.
The interesting part. It doesn’t spit out answers — it leads students to find them on their own.
They’re naming it CS50, not Harvey or some other pet name? Idk, missed opportunity.
“AI programs like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are “currently too helpful,“ Malan wrote. In CS50, the AI technology will be “similar in spirit“ but will be “leading students toward an answer rather than handing it to them,“ he added.
Our take: Some universities are banning AI and others are embracing it. But it feels fitting for one of the world’s most well-known computer science courses to incorporate their very own AI. A great example of how AI can augment teachers in the classroom for the benefit of the student.
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
AI detects fake LinkedIn profiles 🕵️
LinkedIn and UC Berkeley developed a method to detect AI-generated profile pictures. Their researchers’ technique accurately identifies AI profile pictures with 99.6% accuracy.
An image structure error comparison from averages of fake (left) vs real (right) images
The method uses a combination of subtle visual cues and inconsistencies present in AI images. The team sampled a total of almost 150,000 images, with 100,000 from LinkedIn.
Our take: As AI increases in sophistication, tools like this are essential for the integrity of digital platforms. But it’s inevitable generative AI devs will reverse engineer these novel detection methods to create even more realistic images. The generative AI detection arms race continues.
MEMES FOR DESSERT
YOUR DAILY MUNCH
Think Pieces
Marc Andreessen claims we’re in a “freeze-frame” moment with AI, calling it an opportune time for young people to become “hyper-productive.”
National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new AI working group — an effort to address issues with content-generated AI.
Startup News
Microsoft upgrades DeepSpeed, cutting training by 4x.
Google DeepMind’s CEO claims its next algorithm will be better than ChatGPT. What the new algorithm is and how it will compete with ChatGPT.
Research
EmbedChain — a new way to create chatbots quickly and efficiently.
AI learning types based on different stimuli — a paper covering AI learning considerations for the future.
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CustomGPT.ai — create plug-ins for ChatGPT from scratch without coding knowledge.
Akkio.ai — data-centric predictive AI. Study analytics, manipulate data, and create data visualizations via chat.
TWEET OF THE DAY
AI-generated art of an old Elon Musk living out his golden years on Mars.
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