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🤖 Why Amazon’s AI code generator is 100% free

PLUS: An AI-generated photo wins awards

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Jameson Zaballos
April 15, 2023

Amazon woke up this week, didn’t they.

Two huge new product announcements. So proud!

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🤓 Databricks open-sources ChatGPT

Databricks is sick and tired of ChatGPT. So, they made their own.

This week, they introduced Dolly 2.0, a text-generating AI model like ChatGPT.

Open-source text-generating AI models are nothing new. In fact, I saw one at a bar just the other day.

What’s different is the dataset they used. Many open-source models still train on output from GPT - which OpenAI is not cool with.

To get around this, Databricks used data from 15,000 of its employees. Consensually.

Why are they putting so much effort into this project? Philanthropy?

Hardly. They want developers to build on their own data science platform.

If it gets more people building in AI, fine. But always be cautious of intention behind open-source projects.

👀 AWS has an AI code generator, and it’s free

Amazon sacrificed the work-life balance of another 100 employees to bring you a new AI code generator.

Best part?

It’s completely free, unlike Github’s.

If this sounds a lot like Github Copilot, we wouldn’t fault you for thinking that. It's…well, just like Github’s AI code generator.

Use CodeWhisperer to generate code with the click of a button. CodeWhisperer learns from your coding style and offers autocomplete suggestions.

When a code block appears, it will show what code it sourced the solution from.

So as you'd guess, copyright issues have been a big deal for these tools. What is stealing code vs using its implementation?

Amazon is trying to reduce that in two ways. First, the code it used to train CodeWhisperer was open source or from its own employees.

It’s cool those employees get a profit-share of the $0 in revenue this service brings.

They’ve also got a feature that scans your code for security vulnerabilities.

And, yes. You can use this anywhere, but Amazon would prefer it if you used it to build on AWS.

Now, go try it out, and build with Bezos on your shoulder.

😬 An AI-generated photo wins Sony’s annual photography contest

Yikes.

One of the winners for Sony’s 2023 world photography competition revealed their photo…well, wasn’t a photo.

At least, no one took it. It was AI-generated.

The image is “a haunting black-and-white portrait of two women from different generations, reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.”

Sounds just like a Midjourney prompt.

The author, Boris Eldagsen, appears to have done so to prove a point. He even rejected the prize. Here’s a few parts from his speech:

Thank you for selecting my image and making this a historic moment, as it is the first AI generated image to win in a prestigous international PHOTOGRAPHY competition.

How many of you knew or suspected that it was AI generated? Something about this doesn’t feel right, does it?

AI images and photography should not compete with eachother in an award like this. They are different entities. AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award.

…

Having been a photographer for 30 years before I turned to AI, I understand the pros and cons of this debate and will be happy to join the conversation.

…

Many thanks

Boris

So, a bit of a prank.

But it won. And they didn’t know.

So…how will they prevent this in the future?

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The first image of a black hole gets an AI makeover

Source: Petapixel

Lol. Lmao.

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