Elon Musk's Grok AI 🤖 | AI generated fashion 👕 | Fortnite breaks record 🎮

AI 🤖 

Elon Musk launched Grok an AI model inspired by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, designed to provide witty answers and suggest questions. It stands out with real-time world knowledge through the 𝕏 platform and a willingness to tackle unconventional or spicy queries. In its early beta stage, Grok is expected to improve rapidly with user feedback over time, offering a unique and humorous approach to answering a wide range of questions.
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Revolve is breaking new ground by incorporating AI-generated fashion into its offerings, targeting Millennial and Gen Z consumers. In collaboration with AI Fashion Week. These AI models, trained on vast fashion datasets, produce diverse and stylish designs, appealing to various tastes. The move toward AI fashion signifies Revolve's commitment to innovation and potentially reshapes the industry by offering innovative, affordable, and personalized designs. However, challenges like bias and job displacement should be addressed. Revolve's pioneering step signifies the lasting impact of AI in fashion.
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Tech 🧑‍💻 

Generative AI is ushering in innovative approaches to mental health care, from robo-therapists to chatbots. This technology is addressing the disparity between mental health professionals and individuals in need of support. Additionally, AI-powered e-wearables represent a promising advancement in delivering mental health care services. These developments are poised to revolutionize the mental health field by enhancing accessibility and support for those seeking help, ultimately bridging the gap between demand and available resources in mental health care.
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Fortnite experienced its most significant day to date, as more than 44.7 million players joined the game, collectively amassing an impressive 102 million hours of gameplay.
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Business 💵 

Insight Australia has partnered with Microsoft to create EdChat, a pioneering AI chatbot for educational purposes in South Australia. Leveraging Azure OpenAI technology, EdChat offers a secure space for students to engage with artificial intelligence. After a successful eight-week trial involving 1500 students and 150 educators from eight schools, there are intentions to roll out EdChat on a broader scale throughout South Australia. This collaboration signifies a significant step in integrating AI into education and promoting the safe exploration of AI for students in the region.
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Elon Musk has raised concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI to eventually render jobs obsolete, stating that there may come a point where no employment is necessary. Musk, recently launched an AI startup called xAI and believes AI could become "the most disruptive force in history" and surpass human intelligence. When introducing the new AI product called Grok he acknowledged the ambiguity of when this job displacement might occur.
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Tools ⚒️ 

Artificin is a Midjourney Prompt Builder tool that allows users to generate custom text prompts for various creative projects. Users can customize text prompts by specifying aspects such as image links, aspect ratios, chaos levels, image weights, quality, seed numbers, repetitions, and more.

Samsung Food is an all-in-one app for recipe saving, meal planning, grocery shopping, and recipe sharing. It allows users to save recipes from any website to a digital recipe box, create and share their own recipe communities, and quickly turn recipes into smart shopping lists. The app also provides detailed nutrition info, calorie counts, and a health score for saved recipes.

Research 🧠 

FP8-LM Training LLM- finds that when training FP8 LLMs most variables, such as gradients and optimizer states, in LLM training, can employ low-precision data formats without compromising model accuracy and requiring no changes to hyper-parameter.
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MetNet-3 - a state-of-the-art neural weather model that extends both the lead time range and the variables that an observation-based model can predict well; learns from both dense and sparse data sensors and makes predictions up to 24 hours ahead for precipitation, wind, temperature, and dew point.
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Tip of the Day 💡

Python Tip: Leveraging 'zip' for Parallel Iteration

The zip function in Python allows you to iterate over multiple sequences (e.g., lists or tuples) in parallel. It combines elements from different iterables into tuples, making it useful for various scenarios:

How to use 'zip':

fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
colors = ['red', 'yellow', 'red']

for fruit, color in zip(fruits, colors):
    print(f"The {fruit} is {color}.")

When to use 'zip':

1. Parallel Iteration: Use zip when you need to iterate over multiple sequences simultaneously, like iterating over two or more lists in parallel. This is particularly helpful when the data in these sequences is related.

2. Merging Data: You can use zip to merge data from different sources into a single format for further processing. For example, combining names and corresponding email addresses.

3. Pairing Data: When you need to work with pairs of data, such as matching keys and values in dictionaries, zip can help pair them efficiently.

4. Transposing Data: If you have a list of lists (a matrix) and want to transpose it, zip can be used to achieve this easily.

Remember that the sequences you pass to zip should be of the same length; otherwise, the shortest sequence will determine the number of iterations.