Bots Rule 75% Internet 💀 OpenAI $51million investment 🤑 Meta Skeptic of AI 🔭

AI 🤖 

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, marked the 10th anniversary of its Fundamental AI Research team at a media event in San Francisco. Meta's chief scientist, Yann LeCun, suggested that society is more likely to achieve "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI in the coming years rather than human-level AI. Unlike other tech giants like Google and Microsoft, Meta is not heavily investing in quantum computing.
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Amazon introduces Titan Image Generator at AWS re:Invent 2023, part of its generative AI models. The tool enables image creation or customization based on text descriptions, offering features like seamless background swapping. Trained on diverse datasets, it includes toxicity and bias mitigations, but details on dataset sources and permissions are undisclosed. The Titan Image Generator joins a range of similar tools from tech giants and startups.
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Tech 🧑‍💻 

Arkose Labs reports that 73% of internet traffic from January to September 2023 is due to malicious bots. Activities include account takeover, scraping, fake accounts, and a notable 2,141% surge in SMS toll fraud in Q3. Intelligent bot attacks increased 291% from Q1 to Q2, using advanced techniques like machine learning. Brazil, India, Russia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are identified as key locations for fraudulent operations. The rise in bad bot attacks raises concerns about defense mechanisms, especially with cybercriminals integrating efficient AI.
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A novel AI laser capable of detecting heartbeats through the throat is poised to replace traditional stethoscopes. Scientists believe this new invention, suitable for home use, has the potential to revolutionize health monitoring.
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Business 💵 

Rain AI to receive funding from OpenAI. Recently, OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously made a personal investment in Rain.
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CoreWeave, a leading AI-focused cloud computing startup, has closed a minority stake sale, led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. Other investors include Investment Management Corp. of Ontario, Jane Street, JPMorgan Asset Management, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Goanna Capital, and Zoom Ventures. The deal values CoreWeave at $7 billion. The company, based in Roseland, New Jersey, has experienced significant growth, securing a $2.3 billion debt financing facility earlier this year. CoreWeave, with Nvidia as an investor, focuses on providing differentiated AI infrastructure and is expanding its data centers based on Nvidia's graphics chips. Morgan Stanley advised on the stake sale.
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Tools ⚒️ 

Alta is an AI app builder that helps users quickly launch AI chatbots, websites, and mobile apps without coding. It features real-time insights, dynamic tables to store data, personalized branding and fonts, and an AI-generated web canvas with drag and drop components. It also integrates with Google Docs, Excel, Airtable, and CSV files, as well as popular tools like Github, Webex, Figma, Spotify, Framer, and Slack. Alta also allows users to take payments and create automated marketing workflows.

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Research 🧠 

MART introduces a method to enhance the safety of large language models (LLMs) using multi-round automatic red-teaming. It integrates automatic adversarial prompt writing and safe response generation, enhancing the scalability and safety of LLMs. After four rounds of MART, the violation rate of an LLM with limited safety alignment decreases by up to 84.7%, demonstrating performance comparable to LLMs with extensive adversarial prompt writing.
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JARVIS-1 - an open-world agent that can perceive multimodal input
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Tip of the day 💡 

Python Tip: defaultdict for Default Values in Dictionaries

The defaultdict class in the collections module is ideal for handling missing keys gracefully in dictionaries. Here's an example:

from collections import defaultdict

my_dict = defaultdict(int)
my_dict['apple'] += 1
print(my_dict['apple'])  

# Output: 1

When to use defaultdict:

• Use defaultdict when you want to provide default values for missing keys in a dictionary.

• It simplifies code, especially when you need to increment values associated with specific keys.