Last week, I attended the Imagination in Action event at the MIT campus in Boston. It was a great experience. One interesting sentiment I heard was their vision to make Boston an AI hub comparable to San Francisco. A speaker pointed out that Facebook was founded just 2 miles from Read more…
This video is a fun way to visualize the difference between a CPU and GPU. Don’t let the 𝐆 in GPU (𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 Processing Unit) fool you. GPUs were originally built for video and graphics processing, but they have ended up being the processor of choice for generative AI and remain Read more…
Here’s a simple life hack I use almost daily that helps me guide my future self. When I step away from the computer, or I change tasks, or I get pulled into a meeting, and I haven’t completed what I’m currently working on, I leave a note in my todo Read more…
For anyone working with Zapier and custom GPTs, check out Reid Robinson’s video (and the extended video in the comments). Previously, Zapier was already leading the way with a Zapier solution for custom actions. However, it was limited to just a single action. With this (in preview), you can integrate Read more…
Generative AI is a natural part of many of our daily tools, and there’s so much power at our fingertips; in the most applicable places. In this video, I walk through three of those: 1. ChatGPT within Excel2. Claude 3 within Google Sheets3. Mistral-7b (and others) within Snowflake (database) Many Read more…
I’ve been waiting for fresh research on how politeness impacts our LLM prompts, and here it is! Some say being polite doesn’t matter. However, when you see reports that offering to tip the LLM model gets you different results (https://lnkd.in/eHM8RmKk), it lets me realize that there must be some value Read more…
It keeps getting more impressive. This audio2video can take a still portrait of a person, an unrelated audio source, and make it come alive. It’s still an academic research project called Emote Portrait Alive (EMO), but it shows yet another leap in AI progress. There’s more here: https://lnkd.in/gEXvFJga https://lnkd.in/g6r2SHCj
This is next level! OpenAI dropped a surprise announcement of Sona, a new AI model to create text-to-video. It uses awareness of real-world physics to generate hyper-realistic videos. This goes way beyond anything we’ve seen to date. Take a minute and at least skim through the videos.“𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 Read more…
This is scary. $25M swindled by a deep fake video conference call, completely fooling the staff member into thinking that his team was instructing him to make 15 money transfers totaling HK$200 million. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/25-million-swindled-as-deep-fake-cfo-tricks-finance-worker
Create a custom GPT that creates events on your Google Calendar! I created a video walkthrough to show how to build this and how easy it is. This is my first time in a few years creating a YouTube video, so I’m just getting back into the swing of things, Read more…