What is happening with AI this week?

What is happening with AI this week?

This week there have been several interesting developments in the world of AI:

🖊 Researchers at Stanford published a new paper showing how AI can be used to predict protein folding more accurately. This could have big implications for drug discovery and disease research.

🖊Google announced an update to its Translate service that now supports 24 new languages, including Quechua, Sanskrit, and Zulu. This expands Translate's reach to 133 languages in total.

🖊OpenAI released a new version of its image generation model DALL-E that produces higher fidelity and more realistic images based on natural language prompts. The waitlist to access DALL-E is still very long though.

🖊Amazon introduced a new service called AWS DeepComposer that uses AI to help novice musicians compose original songs. It shows how AI creativity tools are becoming more accessible.


Top 5 AI tools for the week

Here are 5 of the top new AI tools that were released or updated this week:

📮 Ludwig - An open source AI toolkit from Uber that makes it easy to train and deploy models without needing to code. This week saw improvements to Ludwig's computer vision capabilities.

📮RunwayML - A simple drag-and-drop interface for building AI models without coding that added support for image generation this week.

📮Replicate - An AI assistant for writing any kind of text. This week Replicate launched a free version with limited usage.

📮Descript Podcast Studio - A tool for editing audio and podcasts using AI to transcribe, edit, and process audio. New effects were added this week.

📮Unfiltered.AI - A web app that removes biased and toxic language from text using AI. Added support for Spanish language this week.


AI News For The Week

Here are some top AI news stories from this week:

📌 Apple acquired the AI startup Inductiv to enhance data and machine learning capabilities on its devices.

📌Softbank Robotics unveiled a robot named Leo designed to be an AI companion in hotels and other businesses.

📌Walmart is using AI cameras in its stores to help keep track of inventory and flag shelf issues to restock faster.

📌The UK announced a new national AI strategy with plans to invest £300 million into AI research and development.

📌Meta (Facebook) open sourced a new large language model called OPT-175B with 175 billion parameters, showing the scale of AI models today.