iPhone photo. a steampunk robot librarian stands proudly at the center of the Rose Main Reading Room in the New York Public Library. Majestic feeing of grandeur. –ar 16:9 –style raw

“Introducing a series of updates to the Assistants API 🧵 With the new file search tool, you can quickly integrate knowledge retrieval, now allowing up to 10,000 files per assistant. It works with our new vector store objects for automated file parsing, chunking, and embedding.  https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1780640119890047475

“Claude 3 was the best model in the world for a grand total of 17 seconds. Right after it happened, OpenAI updated GPT-4 and put it back on top. As a reminder, models can’t cheat to get higher scores on this leaderboard. The score represents which answers people like better.  https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1779185295541575710 

“Majorly Improved GPT-4 Findings Here is the summary of the findings so far – better at coding than other GPT4 models – lazier than other GPT4 models, needs more nudging, – more recent knowledge cut-off is one of the reasons it’s bubbling on top of llmsys human eval leaderboard…” / X – https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1779186163464708314 

“Introducing OpenAI Japan, our first office in Asia, along with a new GPT-4 custom model specifically optimized for 日本語 (the Japanese language).  https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1779754674242892014

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning – https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-meta-new-ai-models-capable-reasoning

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/when-ai-images-were-mind-blowing-early-users-recall-the-first-days-of-dall-e-2/ 

“OpenAI claims that the newest version of GPT-4 Turbo is “majorly improved” from the previous version. We found that it performs noticeably better on @idavidrein et al.’s GPQA benchmark, though still short of Claude 3 Opus.  https://twitter.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1778463039932584205

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AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive 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.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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