The A.I Megathread (LLM , GPT , Development)
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#Meta unveils the latest version of Meta AI, now supercharged with the state-of-the-art #LLaMA3 AI model and fully open-sourced.
This upgrade positions Meta AI as potentially the smartest freely accessible AI assistant. Now integrated into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger search, plus a new website Meta AI for easy access.
New features include real-time photo animation and creation playback videos. #AI #MetaAI #Innovation
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#Meta unveils the latest version of Meta AI, now supercharged with the state-of-the-art #LLaMA3 AI model and fully open-sourced.
This upgrade positions Meta AI as potentially the smartest freely accessible AI assistant. Now integrated into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger search, plus a new website Meta AI for easy access.
New features include real-time photo animation and creation playback videos. #AI #MetaAI #Innovation
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OpenAI Sora Video Generation Model will be coming to Adobe Premiere Pro later this year
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OpenAI Sora Video Generation Model will be coming to Adobe Premiere Pro later this year
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Microsoft's new AI tool is a deepfake nightmare machine
VASA-1 can create videos from a single image.
Microsoft's new AI tool is a deepfake nightmare machine
By Daniel Johnpublished yesterday
VASA-1 can create videos from a single image.
(Image credit: Microsoft)
It almost seems quaint to remember when all AI could do was generate images from a text prompt. Over the last couple of years generative AI has become more and more powerful, making the jump from photos to videos with the advent of tools like Sora. And now Microsoft has introduced a powerful tool that might be the most impressive (and terrifying) we've seen yet.
VASA-1 is an AI image-to-video model that can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. Videos feature synchronised facial and lip movements, as well as "a large spectrum of facial nuances and natural head motions that contribute to the perception of authenticity and liveliness."
On its research website, Microsoft explains how the tech works. "The core innovations include a holistic facial dynamics and head movement generation model that works in a face latent space, and the development of such an expressive and disentangled face latent space using videos. Through extensive experiments including evaluation on a set of new metrics, we show that our method significantly outperforms previous methods along various dimensions comprehensively. Our method not only delivers high video quality with realistic facial and head dynamics but also supports the online generation of 512x512 videos at up to 40 FPS with negligible starting latency. It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviours."
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In other words, it's capable of creating deepfake videos based on a single image. It's notable that Microsoft insists the tool is a "research demonstration and there's no product or API release plan." Seemingly in an attempt to allay fears, the company is suggesting that VASA-1 won't be making its way into users' hands any time soon.
From Sora AI to Will Smith eating spaghetti, we've seen all manner of weird and wonderful (but mostly weird) AI generated video content, and it's only going to get more realistic. Just look how much generative AI has improved in one year.
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US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
An autonomously controlled aircraft faced off against a human pilot in a test last year.
By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.Apr 18, 2024, 10:04 AM EDT
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Image: DARPA
The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year.
DARPA began experimenting with AI applications in December 2022 as part of its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. It worked to develop an AI system capable of autonomously flying a fighter jet, while also adhering to the Air Force’s safety protocols.
After carrying out dogfighting simulations using the AI pilot, DARPA put its work to the test by installing the AI system inside its experimental X-62A aircraft. That allowed it to get the AI-controlled craft into the air at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, where it says it carried out its first successful dogfight test against a human in September 2023.
Human pilots were on board the X-62A with controls to disable the AI system, but DARPA says the pilots didn’t need to use the safety switch “at any point.” The X-62A went against an F-16 controlled solely by a human pilot, where both aircraft demonstrated “high-aspect nose-to-nose engagements” and got as close as 2,000 feet at 1,200 miles per hour. DARPA doesn’t say which aircraft won the dogfight, however.
“Dogfighting was the problem to solve so we could start testing autonomous artificial intelligence systems in the air,” Bill Gray, the chief test pilot at the Air Force’s Test Pilot School, said in a statement. “Every lesson we’re learning applies to every task you could give to an autonomous system.”
The agency has conducted a total of 21 test flights so far and says the tests will continue through 2024. Rapid advancements in AI have given rise to concerns over how the military might use the systems. The Wall Street Journal reported last year that the Pentagon is looking to develop AI systems for defense and to enhance its fleet of drones.
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Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI is now “the most intelligent AI assistant” that’s available for free.
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Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
Meta’s AI assistant is being put everywhere across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meanwhile, the company’s next major AI model, Llama 3, has arrived.
By Alex Heath, a deputy editor and author of the Command Linenewsletter. He has over a decade of experience covering the tech industry.Apr 18, 2024, 11:59 AM EDT
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Mark Zuckerberg announcing Meta’s AI assistant at Connect 2023. Image: Meta
ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined to win it.
To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last September, is now being integrated into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going to start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed. You can still chat with it in the messaging inboxes of Meta’s apps. And for the first time, it’s now accessible via a standalone website at Meta.ai.
For Meta’s assistant to have any hope of being a real ChatGPT competitor, the underlying model has to be just as good, if not better. That’s why Meta is also announcing Llama 3, the next major version of its foundational open-source model. Meta says that Llama 3 outperforms competing models of its class on key benchmarks and that it’s better across the board at tasks like coding. Two smaller Llama 3 models are being released today, both in the Meta AI assistant and to outside developers, while a much larger, multimodal version is arriving in the coming months.
The goal is for Meta AI to be “the most intelligent AI assistant that people can freely use across the world,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells me. “With Llama 3, we basically feel like we’re there.”
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In the US and a handful of other countries, you’re going to start seeing Meta AI in more places, including Instagram’s search bar. Image: Meta
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How Google results look in Meta AI. Meta
The Meta AI assistant is the only chatbot I know of that now integrates real-time search results from both Bing and Google — Meta decides when either search engine is used to answer a prompt. Its image generation has also been upgraded to create animations (essentially GIFs), and high-res images now generate on the fly as you type. Meanwhile, a Perplexity-inspired panel of prompt suggestions when you first open a chat window is meant to “demystify what a general-purpose chatbot can do,” says Meta’s head of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle.
While it has only been available in the US to date, Meta AI is now being rolled out in English to Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, with more countries and languages coming. It’s a far cry from Zuckerberg’s pitch of a truly global AI assistant, but this wider release gets Meta AI closer to eventually reaching the company’s more than 3 billion daily users.
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Meta AI’s image generation can now render images in real time as you type. Meta
There’s a comparison to be made here to Stories and Reels, two era-defining social media formats that were both pioneered by upstarts — Snapchat and TikTok, respectively — and then tacked onto Meta’s apps in a way that made them even more ubiquitous.
“I expect it to be quite a major product”
Some would call this shameless copying. But it’s clear that Zuckerberg sees Meta’s vast scale, coupled with its ability to quickly adapt to new trends, as its competitive edge. And he’s following that same playbook with Meta AI by putting it everywhere and investing aggressively in foundational models.
“I don’t think that today many people really think about Meta AI when they think about the main AI assistants that people use,” he admits. “But I think that this is the moment where we’re really going to start introducing it to a lot of people, and I expect it to be quite a major product.”
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The new web app for Meta AI. Image: Meta
Today Meta is introducing two open-source Llama 3 models for outside developers to freely use. There’s an 8-billion parameter model and a 70-billion parameter one, both of which will be accessible on all the major cloud providers. (At a very high level, parameters dictate the complexity of a model and its capacity to learn from its training data.)
Llama 3 is a good example of how quickly these AI models are scaling. The biggest version of Llama 2, released last year, had 70 billion parameters, whereas the coming large version of Llama 3 will have over 400 billion, Zuckerberg says. Llama 2 trained on 2 trillion tokens (essentially the words, or units of basic meaning, that compose a model), while the big version of Llama 3 has over 15 trillion tokens. (OpenAI has yet to publicly confirm the number of parameters or tokens in GPT-4.)
A key focus for Llama 3 was meaningfully decreasing its false refusals, or the number of times a model says it can’t answer a prompt that is actually harmless. An example Zuckerberg offers is asking it to make a “killer margarita.” Another is one I gave him during an interview last year, when the earliest version of Meta AI wouldn’t tell me how to break up with someone.
Meta has yet to make the final call on whether to open source the 400-billion-parameter version of Llama 3 since it’s still being trained. Zuckerberg downplays the possibility of it not being open source for safety reasons.
“I don’t think that anything at the level that what we or others in the field are working on in the next year is really in the ballpark of those type of risks,” he says. “So I believe that we will be able to open source it.”
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Before the most advanced version of Llama 3 comes out, Zuckerberg says to expect more iterative updates to the smaller models, like longer context windows and more multimodality. He’s coy on exactly how that multimodality will work, though it sounds like generating video akin to OpenAI’s Sora isn’t in the cards yet. Meta wants its assistant to become more personalized, and that could mean eventually being able to generate images in your own likeness.
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Here, it’s worth noting that there isn’t yet a consensus on how to properly evaluate the performance of these models in a truly standardized way. Image: Meta
Meta gets hand-wavy when I ask for specifics on the data used for training Llama 3. The total training dataset is seven times larger than Llama 2’s, with four times more code. No Meta user data was used, despite Zuckerberg recently boasting that it’s a larger corpus than the entirety of Common Crawl. Otherwise, Llama 3 uses a mix of “public” internet data and synthetic AI-generated data. Yes, AI is being used to build AI.
The pace of change with AI models is moving so fast that, even if Meta is reasserting itself atop the open-source leaderboard with Llama 3 for now, who knows what tomorrow brings. OpenAI is rumored to be readying GPT-5, which could leapfrog the rest of the industry again. When I ask Zuckerberg about this, he says Meta is already thinking about Llama 4 and 5. To him, it’s a marathon and not a sprint.
“At this point, our goal is not to compete with the open source models,” he says. “It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world.”
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my llama3 8B instruct just decided to end convo with me like a customer support agent
and then my GPU got stuck for like 20 seconds after I said "no i dont want to chat with u", tf did llama3 try to do to my pc
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a lot of models don't know what models they are. I tried it on mixtral, mistral large, and Gemma7b
and that includes llama-3 8B instruct, and it would say they are another model too
is there a reason why this is the case?
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my llama3 8B instruct just decided to end convo with me like a customer support agent
and then my GPU got stuck for like 20 seconds after I said "no i dont want to chat with u", tf did llama3 try to do to my pc
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a lot of models don't know what models they are. I tried it on mixtral, mistral large, and Gemma7b
and that includes llama-3 8B instruct, and it would say they are another model too
is there a reason why this is the case?
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Microsoft's new AI tool is a deepfake nightmare machine
VASA-1 can create videos from a single image.www.creativebloq.com
Microsoft's new AI tool is a deepfake nightmare machine
By Daniel John
published yesterday
VASA-1 can create videos from a single image.
(Image credit: Microsoft)
It almost seems quaint to remember when all AI could do was generate images from a text prompt. Over the last couple of years generative AI has become more and more powerful, making the jump from photos to videos with the advent of tools like Sora. And now Microsoft has introduced a powerful tool that might be the most impressive (and terrifying) we've seen yet.
VASA-1 is an AI image-to-video model that can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. Videos feature synchronised facial and lip movements, as well as "a large spectrum of facial nuances and natural head motions that contribute to the perception of authenticity and liveliness."
On its research website, Microsoft explains how the tech works. "The core innovations include a holistic facial dynamics and head movement generation model that works in a face latent space, and the development of such an expressive and disentangled face latent space using videos. Through extensive experiments including evaluation on a set of new metrics, we show that our method significantly outperforms previous methods along various dimensions comprehensively. Our method not only delivers high video quality with realistic facial and head dynamics but also supports the online generation of 512x512 videos at up to 40 FPS with negligible starting latency. It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars that emulate human conversational behaviours."
See more
In other words, it's capable of creating deepfake videos based on a single image. It's notable that Microsoft insists the tool is a "research demonstration and there's no product or API release plan." Seemingly in an attempt to allay fears, the company is suggesting that VASA-1 won't be making its way into users' hands any time soon.
From Sora AI to Will Smith eating spaghetti, we've seen all manner of weird and wonderful (but mostly weird) AI generated video content, and it's only going to get more realistic. Just look how much generative AI has improved in one year.
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Chat with your SQL Database using Llama 3
Chat with your SQL database using llama3 using Vanna.ai
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On 18th April Meta released their open-source Large Language Model called Llama 3. This post is about how using Ollama and Vanna.ai you can build a SQL chat-bot powered by Llama 3.
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