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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:

• ChatGPT’s ‘Custom Instructions’ are now free 🤑

  OpenAI launches Custom Instructions to ChatGPT free users.

• Stanford’s Smallville goes open-source 🌎

  A simulation with 25 AI agents, now open-source.

• The White House’s AI hackathon 🏛️

  Millions in prizes await the winners of the “AI Cyber Challenge“.

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APPETIZER

ChatGPT’s new free feature 🤑

OpenAI extends Custom Instructions to ChatGPT free users. Until now, it was only available for Plus/Beta users.

* crowd cheering *

EU & UK users don’t have access yet.

* crowd cheering diminishes *

Detes:

1/ Custom Instructions allow users to set preferences for outputs.

2/ Users don’t have to rewrite instruction prompts with each interaction.

3/ It’s available on both iOS and Android.

Our take: we covered Custom Instructions in-depth when it first launched. It’s useful in GPT-4, but expansion into 3.5 means an even greater reach for automation junkies.

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MAIN COURSE

Smallville goes open-source 🌎

Smallville went open-source on Wednesday. It’s a simulation of 25 AI agents that live together in a digital world.

Nervous, Sims?

Water-cooler facts:

1/ Smallville is a collaboration between Stanford University, DeepMind, and Google Research.

2/ It features 25 AI agents that live together, unknowingly, in a simulation.

Like us?

3/ Each character has its own backstory and personality.

4/ They work, socialize, gossip, befriend each other, and even fall in love.

Oh, my fan-cooled heart.

Peek the source code on GitHub here.

Our take: Autonomous AI is in, both for businesses and consumers. Last week, we covered AI agents’ business utility.

Smallville nods to the future of gaming and potential real-world applications. We also discussed AI-powered NPC’s in popular games. As NPC’s gain more substance, our virtual worlds will become more immersive and less… well, virtual.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

White House’s AI hacking contest 🏛️

The White House announced plans to launch the “AI Cyber Challenge.“ It’s a competition to create AI systems to find and fix software vulnerabilities.

The contest is a collaboration with DARPA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Defcon, and OpenSSF.

The assignment:

1/ $20 million in prizes.

2/ DARPA allocated $7 million.

3/ Finalists will compete at DEF CON 2025.

Our take: in July, The White House brokered a voluntary “AI safety“ agreement between the top firms. That was nice and all, but seems like a much more effective approach purely from an incentive design approach.

The reward for pushing AI safety forwards in this competition? Cold, hard cash.

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YOUR DAILY MUNCH

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GPUs: NVIDIA vs AMD. How to make AMD’s GPUs more competitive for LLMs.

Startup News

Amazon removes “garbage books“ written by AI. AI-written books have flooded Amazon, falsely attributed to real authors.

Vimeo launches “one-take video creation.” It’s a suite of AI-powered video creation tools.

Google and American Airlines use AI to reduce contrails by 54%. This could be a low-effort, high-impact way to reduce air travel’s climate impact.

Research

The Smallville research paper. A deep dive into the simulation created by Stanford University, DeepMind, and Google.

3D motion magnification — University of Maryland, Google Research and independent researchers introduce this method to magnify subtle motions captured by cameras in motion.

Google DeepMind’s AlphaStar Unplugged — It’s an offline reinforcement learning benchmark that uses the game Starcraft II.

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