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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 02/09/2024

February 18, 2024

Agents/Copilots

I had Dalle 3 take the two first tweets below, and make an image to serve as this week’s category cover… no edits. Just took what OpenAI gave me.

“Per The Information, OpenAI is reportedly building two types of AI agents. The first is a device agent that can take over a user’s device to perform tasks requiring text/clicks. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. 2024 is the year of AI Agents. https://t.co/IwdoBrwbAs” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755789402117112219

“Next is a web agent, which can collect data online and book services autonomously. Eg., autogenerating expense reports, transferring data between docs, booking travel. High-functioning agents will blast us into a new era of work — and OpenAI is once again leading the charge. https://t.co/cbqQaFCmpy” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755789433800990829

“Excited to share the Agent Trainer and Agent Studio – coming soon to the @HyperWriteAI⁩ platform. Teaching Agents to work the way you like is difficult. So we built a simple way for your Assistant to shadow you and learn. Just show it a task once, and the AI can repeat it. https://t.co/43B98uvrzz” / X – https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1755419895485902966

OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-ai-battleground-to-software-that-operates-devices-automates-tasks

“Hugging Face just dropped Chat Assistants, the open-source version of OpenAI GPTs. Here’s what stands out: 1. It’s completely free to use & share (compared to needing a $20 subscription) 2. You can select from any open-source LLMs to run your Assistant on. Choose from Mixtral,…” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/17538242897182271052

“Introducing Hugging Chat Assistant! 🤵 Build your own personal Assistant in Hugging Face Chat in 2 clicks! Similar to @OpenAI GPTs, you can now create custom versions of @huggingface Chat! 🤯 An Assistant is defined by 🏷️ Name, Avatar, and Description 🧠 Any available open… https://t.co/9XaReKgg9m” / X – https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1753429249363452274

“My afternoon – A foggy day in Seattle, hanging out with insanely talented AI people at a hackathon to build an open source Rabbit R1 alternative. The project is called 01, and the group is now on the third week of the mission. Git repo: https://t.co/uIsZp6Rgyn https://t.co/nB4RQHCU7S”

My afternoon – A foggy day in Seattle, hanging out with insanely talented AI people at a hackathon to build an open source Rabbit R1 alternative.

The project is called 01, and the group is now on the third week of the mission.

Git repo: https://t.co/uIsZp6Rgyn pic.twitter.com/nB4RQHCU7S
— Thomas H. Chapin IV (@tomchapin) February 4, 2024

“It is amazing how big the technology giants went on building voice assistants that never quite worked. We don’t know Apple, but Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa & has/had 10,000 people working on it. They are so clearly a dead-end to be replaced by LLMs quite soon. https://t.co/QdhWdrD6dm” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1755986744259014854

“Introducing LlamaBot 🔥🚀 An open-source Discord bot that listens to your conversations, remembers them and answers your questions across a discord server, created using @llama_index (inspired by @seldo ‘s LlamaBot for Slack) Stack used: LlamaIndex, Gemini Pro, @qdrant_engine https://t.co/Tc5dbu8hcT”

Introducing LlamaBot 🔥🚀

An open-source Discord bot that listens to your conversations, remembers them and answers your questions across a discord server, created using @llama_index (inspired by @seldo 's LlamaBot for Slack)

Stack used: LlamaIndex, Gemini Pro, @qdrant_engine pic.twitter.com/Tc5dbu8hcT
— Rohan (@clusteredbytes) February 4, 2024

Reclaim AI | Smart Scheduling App for Teams – https://reclaim.ai/  

Apple

New Siri: This AI Paper from Apple Proposes Acoustic Model Fusion to Drastically Cut Word Error Rates in Speech Recognition Systems

https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/02/05/this-ai-paper-from-apple-proposes-acoustic-model-fusion-to-drastically-cut-word-error-rates-in-speech-recognition-systems

“Just found out about Logitech’s new AI ‘Smart Actions’. It makes using repetitive ChatGPT prompts as easy as a click of a button and saves SO much time. Here’s everything you need to know and how to set it up:” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1755970571467157654

“Multi-agent LLM interactions improve reasoning BUT costly + no final single model! 🚨Our structured distillation method MAGDi: – Distills multi-teacher graphs➡️small LM – Boosts student acc ~10% – 9x efficiency https://t.co/BhfboSel37 @cyjustinchen @EliasEskin @mohitban47 🧵 https://t.co/am6IS2jj6Y” / X – https://twitter.com/swarnaNLP/status/1754556833258471613

Matrices – The AI spreadsheet that fills itself – https://matrices.app/

Free Chat Interface for OpenAI Assistants | OpenWidget – https://openwidget.com/widgets/chat-interface-for-open-ai-assistants

“6. Arc Search Arc’s new Default Browser app for iOS that browses the internet for you, and delivers curated results. Link: https://t.co/pMan8EvV9m https://t.co/aN89hQoDo6” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1754180883265810630
Arc is building an AI agent that browses on your behalf | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/arc-is-building-an-ai-agent-that-browses-on-your-behalf/

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AI News #19: Week Ending 02/02/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 18 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.