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🤖 Meta’s AI has a release date and...interesting features

🤖 Meta’s AI has a release date and...interesting features

PLUS: AI living its own life?

Jameson Zaballos
April 11, 2023

If you read only one story today, make it the first one.

It’s mind-blowing.

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🤯 An AI that lives its own life?

Source: Generative Agents

Researchers from Stanford and Google ran an experiment.

What happens if you let AIs run their own lives?

They created a game inspired by the SIMs, and gave the LLM three main components.

The memory stream, which records all the agent’s experiences
The reflection, which turns memories into data points
The planning, which combines the previous two components into action plans.

The researchers would then take over as the individual’s “inner voice” and give it commands.

“For instance, when told “You are going to run against Sam in the upcoming election” by a user as John’s inner voice, John decides to run in the election and shares his candidacy with his wife and son.”

Wild.

Where do we go from here?

Picture a video game every non-playable character is running on this system. Every single game would be different.

Want to think bigger?

This is the start of Westworld.

We’re not even scratching the surface.

👀 Meta has a release date for its generative AI

Are we?

Meta's ready for the big leagues. CTO Andrew Bosworth says it will have its own generative AI before the end of the year.

It will transform two key areas of their business: ads and the metaverse.

Yeah, they’re still not over the metaverse.

For ads, they’re picturing a generative AI that can create assets for your brand campaigns. Give it a few words and your company logo, and receiving beautiful ads in your company’s design language.

For the metaverse, I’ll let Bosworth explain:

"So previously," Bosworth said, "if I wanted to create a 3D world, I needed to learn a lot of computer graphics and programming. In the future, you might be able to just describe the world you want to create and have the large language model generate that world for you. And so it makes things like content creation much more accessible to more people."

It's simple. They need money from two areas: ads and the Metaverse.

AI might, at least, please the shareholders.

😬 AI takes another job!

Source: AP

We’ve got another newscaster who doesn’t actually exist.

Thanks to AI, of course. This time in Kuwait.

Fedha is the latest newscaster for the Kuwait News. She’s a nondescript woman. In this video, you can watch her talk - it’s not the most convincing performance.

She talks like those Elon Musk or Joe Rogan deepfakes.

Look. We’re at the point where this isn’t new.

But when people warn of AI taking jobs, well…this is what they’re talking about.

Here, it’s more additive than zero-sum. This newscaster is not taking the job of someone else.

In a call center? It could be a different story.

😎 AI tools, tips, links

MKBHD’s Bard vs ChatGPT. Learn more
AI-powered email marketing. Learn more
Use GPT-4 to create an iPhone app. Learn more
Demos from a GPT-4 hackathon. Learn more
Find out how many images you’ve created with Midjourney. Learn more

Would you buy Apple Socks?

Below is Steve Jobs announcing a new product, “WiFi-connected socks” in his eloquent voice. I’m sold.
The Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back” describes a technology that revives people from their digital footprint. Where we are today:
- LLMs prompted by past chat logs can do a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan)
4:20 PM • Apr 10, 2023

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