Weekly Magic AI - OverflowAI, Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0, and Worldcoin cryptocurrency
Top AI news of the week and Magic AI book of the week
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Top AI news of the week
🤖 StackOverflow announces OverflowAI
StackOverflow’s traffic has been declining for several years, and the release of ChatGPT has exacerbated this. To counter this trend, StackOverflow has announced OverflowAI. OverflowAI is not a tool but a collection of different generative AI initiatives. They want to replace their search functionality with a generative AI-powered one. You can ask a question, and the AI generates a summary of existing answers.
In the answers, the sources are indicated so that the authors get the credit and users can trace the results at any time. The aim is to create a conversational, human-centered search. Another interesting feature is a Visual Studio Code extension to ask questions from your IDE. You select a code snippet, ask a question and get an answer directly. The alpha for OverflowAI starts in August.
More information:
- Announcing OverflowAI - StackOverflow Blog
🏙️ Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0
SDXL 1.0 is a text-to-image AI from Stability AI. Unlike most other image AIs like Dall-E or Midjourney, SDXL 1.0 is open source. The new AI model should offer improved color representation. In addition, the new SDXL model is supposed to cope better, especially with previously difficult representations. Examples are Hands or text. The developers promise great progress in the area of “fine-tuning”. However, this is still in beta version, according to the announcement.
More information:
- ANNOUNCING SDXL 1.0 - Stability AI
🌍 OpenAI CEO launches cryptocurrency Worldcoin
Open AI CEO Sam Altman has launched Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency that aims to create a global identity and financial network with a unique digital identity (World ID) for individuals. If you would like a World ID, you must sign up for a personal iris scan. The project aims to differentiate humans from AI, and potentially lead to an AI-funded universal basic income. However, data protectionists warn consumers not to have their biometric data, such as fingerprints or iris scans, collected and deposited with non-governmental institutions.
More information:
- Introducing Worldcoin - Worldcoin website
Magic AI book of the week
The book “Dive into Deep Learning” is an insider tip for all deep-learning enthusiasts. The book is being developed as open source and is available in many languages. Leading experts in the field of Deep Learning continuously improve the book.
The authors explain the theoretical basics of Deep Learning in combination with practical examples. Each section contains an executable Jupyter Notebook. You can adapt the code and directly gain practical experience. This interactive learning experience motivates you to dive deeper and deeper into the subject matter. And the best, the book is free of charge.
We use this book regularly to read up on concepts. This book is very detailed and contains the experiences of a wide range of experts. Check out the book if you don’t know it yet.
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- Tinz Twins
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