💠Bard Integrated with Google, OpenAI announces DALLE-3👀

Hello vTeamers, and welcome to our AI fast-paced ride. Secure your seat belts as we explore:

📈Trend Bard Integrated with Google Apps&Services

👩‍🔬Research ML Models Achieve Reliability with Limited Data

💵Investment KYP.ai has raised $18.7 million

💁Tips & Tricks How to combine two images together using Midjourney

👻AI Fun vTeam Weekly Memes

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So let the journey begin 🚀🚀🚀

First, check out the vTeam AI Insight Index 👽️ 

The vTeam AI Insight Index is our nifty tool to give you a heads-up on what’s popping in the AI scene. We’ve got three key markers to track the buzz:

• Research: using arxiv.org, where the fresh AI papers drop, we see how much new AI chatter there is

• Trend: with Google Trends, we gauge how hot AI is right now

• Investment: at Crunchbase, we’re tracking the money flow and buzz in AI

This week’s numbers:

• Trend: 131 - Folks are talking more about AI

• Investment: 87 - Money’s still flowing into AI

• Research: 143 - Lots of new AI stuff being studied

Catch our AI beat every week! 

TREND📈

Bard now offers integration with your Google apps and services

vTeam: Bard Extensions, a new feature for interacting with Bard, integrates with Google apps and services, allowing users to access information seamlessly across various tools like Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, and YouTube.

Main highlights: 

• Users can effortlessly plan trips, job applications, and more while maintaining data privacy. Workspace extensions ensure user content from Gmail, Docs, and Drive remains confidential, and users have full control over their privacy settings.

• Bard now provides a "Google it" feature in English responses, letting users fact-check answers with web content. Users can click on highlighted phrases in Bard's responses to find supporting or contradictory web information. Sharing Bard conversations through public links allows for continued discussions and questions.

• Available in 40 languages, including the ability to upload images with Lens, receive Search images in responses, and edit Bard's replies.

Read the full article here 📖

OpenAI announces DALLE-3

vTeam: DALL·E 3 takes text-to-image understanding to new heights, effortlessly transforming your ideas into incredibly precise images. Say goodbye to the hassle of prompt engineering as DALL·E 3 ensures your text translates into visuals with remarkable accuracy.

What to expect: With its ability to generate highly detailed and accurate visuals from text, it raises questions about the future of traditional image creation, posing challenges and opportunities for artists in this evolving landscape.

RESEARCH 👩‍🔬

Neuralink Starts Recruiting for Human Thought-Reading Trials

Neuralink, led by Elon Musk, is set to begin human trials for brain chip implants after FDA approval. The "PRIME Study" aims to evaluate the safety and functionality of the technology, which uses tiny brain-embedded electrodes to control computers through thought. While it offers hope for paralyzed individuals, ethical concerns and regulatory hurdles persist.

Read the full article here 📖

Summary of ChatGPT Research and Future Perspectives on Large Language Models

Recent NLP advances have birthed powerful models like ChatGPT, with applications spanning education, healthcare, human-machine interaction, and more. RLHF fine-tuning empowers versatility.

GPT-4 introduces multi-modal capabilities. A study analyzed 194 arXiv papers, revealing growing interest in various fields, emphasizing potential beyond NLP.

Read the full study here 📖

ML Models Achieve Reliability with Limited Data

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Cornell University have discovered that machine learning models can produce accurate results for partial differential equations with limited training data. Their findings could lead to more efficient machine learning models for applications like engineering and climate modeling.

INVESTMENT 💵

• KYP.ai has raised $18.7 million from prominent European deep-tech venture capitalists. Their flagship software, "Productivity 360°," is a secure web app management tool designed to streamline and automate diverse business processes.

• Betterleap, a startup with $13 million in seed funding, launches to revolutionize recruitment. It boasts the world's largest candidate database and employs AI to help recruiters discover ideal candidates efficiently.

• Austin-based cybersecurity startup HiddenLayer secures $50 million in Series A funding led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, to fortify defenses for enterprise AI models. The company, born out of a cyberattack, helps protect AI models used by Fortune 100 firms across various sectors using its "MLSec" Platform.

TIPS & TRICKS 💁

How to combine two images together using Midjourney

Use ‘/blend’ and download the image-1 and image-2 (or 4 more) for creating a new unique image.

The result is:

ALSO:

👽️ Instagram is testing post recommendations from Threads.

👻 The Canva graphic design plugin has been added to ChatGPT.

🤖 Google has released a new image generator. Just go through Google, click on the '+' button, and enter any query. This is an indispensable tool for creating logos, emblems, and your own style.

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AI FUN 👻

That was a fun ride, see y'all at the next stop 🙂