Does AI Takeover CES 2024? Explore Big Reveals
Plus: Mixtral beats GPT-3.5 and Llama 2, Figure’s coffee-making humanoid bot.
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🌟 AI's Big Reveals at CES 2024
🚀Mixtral of Experts beats GPT-3.5 and Llama 2
🤖 Figure’s humanoid bot is now proficient in coffee-making
💡 Knowledge Nugget: How to write a great ChatGPT prompt by
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AI's Big Reveals at CES 2024
The CES 2024's first day has big announcements from companies, including Nvidia, LG, and Samsung.
Samsung’s AI-enabled visual display products and digital appliances will introduce novel home experiences. Samsung announced Ballie. The robotic companion follows commands, makes calls, and projects onto the floor, wall, and ceiling.
LG announced their AI Smart Home Agents. They will act as a personified interface for your LG ThinQ smart home products. Plus, it revealed its new Alpha 11 AI processor. The chip uses “precise pixel-level image analysis to effectively sharpen objects and backgrounds that may appear blurry.” And using AI to enhance/upscale TV quality.
Nvidia unveils its GeForce RTX, including the GeForce RTX 40 Super series of desktop graphics cards and a new wave of AI-ready laptops. Read more here.
AMD debuted its new Ryzen 8000G processors for the desktop, with a big focus on their AI capabilities.
Volkswagen plans to integrate an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs equipped with its IDA voice assistant. The chatbot, developed by OpenAI and Cerence, will read researched content out loud to drivers. It will be rolled out in Europe starting in the Q2 and available in Volkswagen's line of EVs and other models.
BMW focuses on interior technology, including gaming, video streaming, AR, and AI features. The company's operating system will feature AR and AI to enhance car and driver communication. BMW is bringing more streaming video content and gaming options to its vehicles, allowing customers to use real video game controllers.
Why does this matter?
For end users, it will provide:
More personalized and intuitive interactions with devices and vehicles
AI assistants that are conversational, helpful, and can perform useful tasks
Enhanced entertainment through gaming, AR, and upscaled video
For competitors, it enhances the risk of falling behind early movers like BMW, VW, and Samsung.
Mixtral of Experts beats GPT-3.5 and Llama 2
Mixtral of Experts is a language model that uses a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) architecture. Each layer has 8 feedforward blocks (experts), and a router network selects two experts to process each token. This allows each token to access 47B parameters but only uses 13B active parameters during inference.
Mixtral outperforms other models like Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 in various benchmarks, especially in mathematics, code generation, and multilingual tasks. A fine-tuned version of Mixtral called Mixtral 8x7B - Instruct performs better than other models on human benchmarks. Both models are released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Why does this matter?
Mixtral pushes forward language model capabilities and sparse model techniques. Its open-source release allows wider access and application of these advanced AI systems. This will allow access to a more capable AI system for various tasks and the potential for better mathematical reasoning, code generation, and multilingual applications.
Figure’s humanoid bot is now proficient in coffee-making
The Figure 01 humanoid robot, developed by California-based company Figure, has successfully learned to make coffee using a coffee machine in just 10 hours. The robot is controlled entirely by neural networks and has also mastered dynamic walking over the course of a year.
In May 2023, Figure closed $70 million in Series A funding, which will be used to develop the Figure 01 humanoid further, expand its AI data pipeline for autonomous operations, and work toward commercialization.
Why does this matter?
Figure 01's abilities move closer to having robots safely assist in homes, offices, and factories. But at the same time, it raises questions about automation's impact on jobs and privacy. We need ethical frameworks as robot capabilities grow.
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Knowledge Nugget: How to write a great ChatGPT prompt
This article by
discusses how to write a great ChatGPT prompt to maximize its potential. It emphasizes the importance of providing a persona for the chatbot, defining a specific goal, personalizing responses based on user input, setting constraints to avoid unwanted messages, specifying formatting requirements, using prompt optimizations for logic and problem-solving tasks, and providing relevant context.
The article provides examples and tips for each component of a great prompt. By following these guidelines, users can enhance their interactions with ChatGPT and achieve better results.
Why does this matter?
This guide allows tapping into ChatGPT's full capabilities and getting more personalized, useful responses. Enables solving logic/reasoning tasks that are otherwise challenging for ChatGPT.
What Else Is Happening❗
🛡️ Cybersecurity company McAfee has launched Project Mockingbird
It detects AI-generated audio used in scams; This tech aims to combat the increasing use of advanced AI models by cyber criminals to create convincing scams, such as voice cloning, to impersonate family members and ask for money. (Link)
📜 OpenAI has responded to The New York Times copyright infringement lawsuit
Stating that they disagree with the claims and see it as an opportunity to clarify their business practices. OpenAI actively collaborates with news organizations and industry groups to address concerns and create mutually beneficial opportunities. They also counter the NYT's claim that they are making billions of dollars using the publication's data, stating that any single data source is insignificant for the model's learning. (Link)
👗 Amazon is using AI to help customers find clothes that fit in online shopping
The company uses LLMs, Gen AI, and ML to power 04 AI features. These features include personalized size recommendations, a "Fit Insights" tool for sellers, AI-powered highlights from fit reviews left by other customers, and reimagined size charts. The AI technology analyzes customer reviews, extracts information about fit, and provides personalized recommendations to improve the online shopping experience. (Link)
🏥 Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras Systems to develop AI for healthcare
The clinic will use Cerebras' computing chips and systems to analyze decades of anonymized medical records and data. The AI models can read and write text, summarize medical records, analyze images for patterns, and analyze genome data. However, AI systems will not make medical decisions, as doctors will still make them. (Link)
💡 Microsoft and Siemens join forces to promote AI adoption across industries
They unveiled the Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI assistant aimed at enhancing collaboration and productivity. The technology is expected to streamline complex automation processes, reduce code generation time, and provide maintenance instructions and simulation tools. (Link)
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