Links for 2023-03-07
Build your own AI Voice assistant with ChatGPT API, Whisper and Gradio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyd90Xb_4p8
Checking out some of the latest open source A.I. image and video editing neural network models on HuggingFace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHS3K4T0gAI
Thread: Stable Diffusion Toolkit — The Essentials https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1632033123469873158.html
Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/universal-speech-model-usm-state-of-art.html
The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. — A company called Synthesia has a talking head white guy and Asian lady that can be made to read (in very monotone at the moment) just about whatever you want. Then you can use that footage for whatever usage. The company says it blocks misinformation, political uses, etc, but it has been seen in use by not only the CCP but also several other countries for rapid production and mass dissemination of propaganda and 'fake news'. [The New York Times] https://archive.is/iT3eZ
Inside the mind of a superhuman Go model: How does Leela Zero read ladders? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FF8i6SLfKb4g7C4EL/inside-the-mind-of-a-superhuman-go-model-how-does-leela-zero-2
“I dream of building AI that can do research🤖🔬 We are still far from this, but in our most recent paper, we formalize the D5 task: tell GPT-3 your research goal and provide two large text datasets. It may discover patterns you didn’t notice!” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1631109680859865089.html
“The fascinating creatures in phylum Cycliophora were discovered only quite recently in 1995. They're quite odd and very tiny, living primarily upon the setae of lobsters. They have an incredibly interesting life cycle, so let's check it out!” https://youtu.be/g5iHwEVtsq8
How this company plans to use Earth’s heat to cool the planet [Washington Post] https://archive.is/Ar1ct
China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to ‘suppress’ Elon Musk’s Starlink, researchers say https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3211438/china-aims-launch-nearly-13000-satellites-suppress-elon-musks-starlink-researchers-say
Rare black hole 1 billion times the mass of the sun could upend our understanding of galaxy formation https://www.livescience.com/rare-black-hole-one-billion-times-the-mass-of-the-sun-could-upend-our-understanding-of-galaxy-formation
Update on the New York Times Word Frequency Chart https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/02/update-on-the-new-york-times-word-frequency-chart.html
“Moreover, based on the Worobey et al. “centroid hypothesis” that early cases must cluster around the outbreak source, the original Wuhan CDC location is actually a great candidate, as it sits right at the epicenter of the Jan-Feb 2020 Covid cases self-reported on Weibo” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1632539697347018752.html
Summary of lab-origin hypothesis https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1630764809586130948.html
We’ve Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong [The New York Times] https://archive.is/dE7vg