Sam Altman Sets His Sights on Chip Empire

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Good morning, and Happy Monday! This is the latest edition of /Imagine, your go-to source for the freshest news and developments in AI. Let’s dive in…

High Level: Sam Altman’s Audacious Chip Quest 🚀

The Bytes:

✣ AI’s Chip Demand: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is spearheading an ambitious project to raise billions of dollars for a global semiconductor network.

✣ Global Investors: Altman is in talks with Abu Dhabi-based G42 and Tokyo-based SoftBank Group, to fund this endeavor.

✣ Strategic Move in Chip War: The success of Altman’s project could tilt the balance between the US and China as they compete for chip dominance.

✣ Potential Impact: If realized, this network of chip factories could ensure a steady supply of semiconductors, which are critical for AI development and a plethora of other industries.

Why You Should Care: As AI continues to permeate every aspect of our lives, this could help build the infrastructure required for the impending AI revolution. It could have huge geo-political implications as well. I’m rooting for Sam.

High Level: WHO’s New AI Ethics and Governance Guidance 🌐

The Bytes:

✣ Over 40 Recommendations: The guidance provides over 40 recommendations for governments, companies, and healthcare providers. It aims to ensure that LLMs are used appropriately to ensure global health and positive outcomes.

✣ Applications and Risks: LLMs can handle diverse data inputs and outputs, aiding in diagnosis, patient care, administrative tasks, medical education, and research. However, they also pose risks of producing false or biased information, which could harm decision-making in healthcare.

Why You Should Care: As AI becomes more integrated into healthcare, WHO's 98-page guidance if followed mitigates risks and ensures equity, but take it all with a grain of salt. We’re certainly building this plane while we are flying it. If nothing else this should be another signal that governments and international organizations are concerned about the trajectory of AI and actively pursuing ways to attain a positive outcome through regulation or otherwise.

High Level: Apple Vision Pro Drops! 😎

The Bytes:

✣ Revolutionary Design: Apple’s Vision Pro, released last Friday, is a wearable computer that projects output directly into your eyes with high-resolution displays. That’s right we’ve put the TV on our nose.

✣ Spatial Computing: Although Apple doesn’t specifically mention its use, it is reasonable to infer that the Vision Pro’s intuitive inference control system heavily leverages AI to interpret eye movements, hand gestures, and the environment allowing for a futuristic Ready Player One experience.

✣ Specs: The device boasts 4K resolution for each eye, packing a total of 23 million pixels into the displays. It’s priced at $3,499 with 256GB of storage. Sheesh!

✣ AI’s Role: The potential for AI applications is vast, from immersive gaming to professional creative work.

Why It Matters: The Vision Pro is not just a piece of hardware; it’s a step toward an entirely new way of interacting with computers. The possibilities with this device are incredible to think about. Did you snag a pair, are you going to, or is it just way too pricey?

I liked this tweet from Robert Scoble on the subject. He’s an excellent person to follow by the way, if you aren’t already.

High Level: Apple’s Autoregressive Image Model Drop 🍎

The Bytes:

✣ Innovative AI Approach: Apple has introduced AIM on Hugging Face (Autoregressive Image Models), a collection of vision models. These models are designed to analyze and generate images in a way that mimics the sequential nature of language processing in Large Language Models (LLMs).

✣ Scalable Model Capacity: AIM models can be scaled to billions of parameters, allowing them to effectively leverage large collections of uncurated image data.

Why It Matters: The potential applications are vast. It opens up possibilities for more sophisticated image-based AI applications, from advanced photo editing to creating entirely new images based on textual descriptions. It’s also just nice to see Apple continue to dip its feet in the AI pool.

/Imagination of The Day: Let’s end the day on a creative note. Here is how you can create some new Peaky Blinders characters with Midjourney.

Prompt Share: a commercial portrait photo of a 1920s man smoking a cigarette, smoke wrapped around his face, high fashion, peaky blinders style attire, high-end lighting, tilt shift, shot on a Hasselblad camera --ar 30:40 --style raw --stylize 750 --v 6

I then upscaled the image with Magnific AI. Take what is useful from this prompt, discard the rest, and make it your own. The Hasselblad camera token really seemed to increase the quality of the output here.

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