AI Product Review ✍ | Queryless Search ❔| Video Maker 🎞️

AI 🤖 

Google's queryless search, exemplified by Google Discover, marked a transformative shift in AI-powered search. It harnessed user data and behaviors to provide curated content without the need for explicit queries. This innovation foreshadowed more advanced 'queryless' search, where AI algorithms preemptively anticipated user needs using personal data and real-time information. This approach reshaped the interaction between users and search engines, moving beyond traditional search methods and offering content tailored to individual interests and contextual factors. Full Story

AI lets you craft a captivating video showcasing your preferred vacation, pastime, or special occasion. By searching for the elements you wish to include, Google Photos will automatically select the finest clips and photos from your collection, incorporate music, and synchronize the visuals with the music to seamlessly blend it all into a single, engaging video. Full Story

Business 💵 

Reviewed, a Gannett-owned website, faced controversy when articles with questionable authorship and potential A.I. involvement were published. While Reviewed staff suspected A.I. involvement, Gannett claimed the articles were written by third-party freelancers. A.I. detection programs suggested non-human authorship. This sparked debates about AI in journalism, transparency, and editorial standards. This incident highlights the need for clear AI disclosure and ethical considerations in content creation.  Full Story

Google to follow the course on Amazon investing heavily in OpenAI competitor Anthropic. They have pledged to invest $2 billion, According to some reports the latest investment is separate from Google's $550 million investment in Anthropic earlier this year. Full Story

Tools ⚒️ 

LongLLaMA is a large language model designed for handling extensive text contexts, capable of processing up to 256,000 tokens. It's based on OpenLLaMA and fine-tuned using the Focused Transformer (FoT) method. GitHub

ChatDev is a virtual software company that utilizes intelligent agents, including roles like CEO, CPO, CTO, programmer, tester, and designer. These agents collaborate to revolutionize the digital world through programming. ChatDev offers a customizable framework based on large language models (LLMs) for collective intelligence exploration. This can answer all your colleague’s questions. GitHub

Research 🧠 

GPT-4V(ision), a Large Multimodal Model, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It assesses its performance in scene text, handwritten text, mathematical expression, table structure recognition, and information extraction. GPT-4V excels in recognizing Latin content but struggles in multilingual and complex tasks. The study emphasizes the need for specialized OCR models and discusses strategies to maximize the use of general LMMs like GPT-4V in OCR tasks. This research serves as a valuable reference for future OCR research with LMMs, offering insights into their strengths and limitations. Full Story

Tip of the day 💡 

Python: Using f-strings for String Formatting 

You can use f-strings (formatted string literals) to make string formatting more concise and readable. String formatting is supported on Python 3.6+

Example:

name = "Alice"
age = 30
formatted_string = f"My name is {name} and I am {age} years old."
print(formatted_string)

Output:
My name is Alice and I am 30 years old.