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

📈Trend OpenAI Unveils GPT-4 Turbo

👩‍🔬Research Tool Detects AI-Generated Text in Science Journals

💵Investment IBM Launches $500M Enterprise AI Venture Fund

💁Tips & Tricks How to Create Expressive Abstracts

👻AI Fun vTeam Weekly Memes

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So let the journey begin 🚀🚀🚀

And 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: 134 - Folks are talking more about AI

• Investment: 50 - Money’s still flowing into AI

• Research: 127 - Lots of new AI stuff being studied

Catch our AI beat every week! 

TREND📈

Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok: A ChatGPT Competitor Powered by X Data

Elon Musk's xAI introduces Grok, a ChatGPT rival with a sense of humor and real-time access to X data. Trained on one of the largest text datasets, Grok aims to provide up-to-date information and answer "spicy" questions. Image and voice generation features are planned, and limited access is available via a waitlist, posing a challenge to OpenAI's dominance in the AI chatbot space amidst competition from Meta and Google.

Read the full article here 📖

OpenAI Unveils GPT-4 Turbo

Exciting News! GPT-4 is now more affordable, faster, and can handle prompts as lengthy as entire books. But that's not all! Check these updates for developers:

• Introducing the new Assistants API for Code Interpreter and Retrieval.

• GPT-4 Turbo has an updated knowledge cutoff to April 2023.

• Say hello to the new GPT-4 Turbo Vision API.

• Get ready for the brand-new Dall-E 3 API.

• Explore the new text-to-speech API, offering 6 preset voices for unbelievably realistic speech.

• Stay tuned for the upcoming Whisper V3 model.

• Reduced rate limits, making development more cost-effective.

Get ready for a wave of amazing AI tools! 🚀

Read the full article here 📖

Check this topic on Reddit: So what should coders use now?

Meta to Mandate Disclosure of AI-Generated Content by Political Advertisers

Meta will require advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to disclose AI-generated or altered content in political, electoral, or social issue ads, starting next year.

The policy applies to content that shows real people doing or saying things they haven't done or said, or depicts realistic-looking fake events or people. Inconsequential edits like cropping or color correction are exempt. Meta will flag digitally altered content and log it in its ads database. This move comes as lawmakers and regulators consider rules around AI-generated content in political advertising ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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OpenAI Attributes Ongoing ChatGPT Outage to DDoS Attack

ChatGPT experienced periodic outages attributed to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack following the launch of new features. OpenAI initially attributed the issues to high demand but later revealed the DDoS attack's impact on ChatGPT and its API. The attack's source is yet to be disclosed. Another AI chatbot, Claude by Anthropic, also faced issues, but it's unclear if the incidents are related.

RESEARCH 👩‍🔬

AI Tool Elicits Enthusiasm Among Scientists for Grading Severity of Rare Cancer

AI is proving to be a game-changer in cancer diagnosis. Researchers at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research found that AI is nearly twice as accurate as traditional lab analysis in grading the aggressiveness of retroperitoneal sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. AI's potential for early cancer detection and personalized treatment excites scientists, offering hope for better outcomes and faster diagnosis for patients.

Read the full article here 📖

Detection Tool Identifies AI-Generated Text in Scientific Journals

Researchers at the University of Kansas have developed an AI text detector that can identify AI-generated content in scientific essays with nearly 100% accuracy, particularly focusing on chemistry-related reports. Unlike general AI detectors, this specialized tool achieved high accuracy, making it valuable for academic publishers aiming to combat AI-generated submissions infiltrating scientific journals. The detector can help maintain the integrity of academic publishing by preventing the spread of AI-generated content that may include false information.

Read the full article here 📖

INVESTMENT 💵

🤑 IBM launches $500M enterprise AI venture fund, backed by hugging face investment.

👾 Replit CEO Shares Vision for Artificial Developer Intelligence, Secures $20M Investment.

🤖 University of Florida Launches $150 Million Technology Center with Assistance from Nvidia Cofounder Chris Malachowsk.

TIPS & TRICKS 💁

How to Create Expressive Abstracts

Use /imagine command and type this prompt:

 An abstract expressionist painting using bold brush strokes, dripping paint, and vibrant colors, reflecting the inner emotions and turmoil, inspired by the works of Jackson 
Pollock

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AI FUN 👻

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