AI at the 2024 Olympics: Personalized Narratives with Al Michaels' Voice
AI at the 2024 Olympics: Personalized Narratives with Al Michaels' Voice
MORE in AI: ChatGPT's new Mac desktop app; Google's unique personality chatbots; ESM3's evolutionary insights; Team Claude's new features; Intel's AI platform for the Paris 2024 Olympics, and more...
Welcome to the 26th edition of the PixelBin Newsletter. Every Monday, we send you one article to help you stay informed about the latest AI developments in Business, Product, and Design.
In Today’s Newsletter
🔥 AI Enters the 2024 Olympics
🌟 Latest Enhancements in Gemini Models
🎨 Figma AI's Groundbreaking Features
🚀 Spot and Correct AI Mistakes with CriticGPT
🔥 AI in Fast Lane
AI Enters the 2024 Olympics
ChatGPT launches desktop app for Mac, now available to all users. Read More
Google introduces new suite of chatbots, each with unique personalities of celebs. Read More
ESM3 language model reveals 500 million years of evolutionary secrets. Read More
Team Claude unveils 'Projects' feature and sleek redesign for better collaboration. Read More
Intel announces advanced AI platform for Paris 2024 Olympics. Read More
OpenAI acquires pioneering screen-sharing startup to expand capabilities. Read More
🌟 Product Innovation through AI
Latest Enhancements in Gemini Models
Developers now have access to the 2 million context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro, code execution capabilities in the Gemini API, and the addition of Gemma 2 in Google AI Studio. These enhancements aim to boost the capabilities and flexibility of the Gemini models, empowering developers to create more sophisticated and efficient AI-driven applications.
Key Features
Long Context and Context Caching:
Access to a 2 million token context window in Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Context caching in the Gemini API to reduce costs for repetitive tasks.
Code Execution:
Enabled for both Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash.
Generates and runs Python code to solve math and data reasoning problems dynamically.
Gemma 2 in Google AI Studio:
Available for developers to experiment with in Google AI Studio.
Gemini 1.5 Flash in Production:
Optimized for speed and affordability.
Used by Envision, Plural, Zapier, and Dot for various innovative applications.
Tuning available to all developers by mid-July via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.
Why Does It Matter?
These new features and improvements enhance the capabilities and usability of the Gemini models for developers. The expanded context window and context caching reduce costs and improve efficiency for complex tasks. Code execution capabilities address historical challenges with math and data reasoning, enabling more accurate and reliable outputs.
Making Gemma 2 available in Google AI Studio promotes experimentation and accessibility, fostering innovation. The advancements in Gemini 1.5 Flash, particularly in speed and affordability, open new possibilities for real-time applications and cost-effective solutions. These updates ensure that developers have powerful, flexible tools to build next-generation AI applications.
🎨 Design Meets AI
Figma AI's Groundbreaking Features
Figma has unveiled groundbreaking AI features at Config 2024 to streamline design workflows. These include instant design creation, visual and asset search using images, automated layer naming, rapid prototype development, and advanced text rewriting and image generation capabilities. Currently in beta, these tools are accessible via a waitlist and will transition to a paid model post-beta.
Key Features
Design Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Figma's design capabilities, offering Auto Layout, shared Libraries, and advanced design tools for a cohesive workflow.
Interactive Elements: Includes live polls, alignment scales, and embedded prototypes to enhance audience engagement and collaboration.
AI-Powered Writing Tools: Refines and optimizes presentation content, including text rewriting, language translation, and text shortening.
Co-Presenting Capabilities: Facilitates multiple team members to co-present, allowing smooth transitions and collaborative presentations.
Presentation Templates and Theming: Offers customizable presentation templates and theming options for brand consistency.
Why Does It Matter
Figma Slides integrates powerful design tools directly into presentations, simplifying workflows and maintaining visual consistency. Designers can seamlessly use existing assets and layouts, saving time and enhancing creativity. This tool enriches audience interaction with features like live polls and embedded prototypes, transforming static presentations into dynamic experiences.
AI-powered writing tools automate tasks such as text refinement and translation, making it easier to adapt messages for diverse audiences. By facilitating smooth transitions between speakers and enabling collaborative presenting, Figma Slides promotes teamwork and ensures effective communication of ideas.
🚀 Innovations in AI
Spot and Correct AI Mistakes with CriticGPT
Researchers have developed CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4, designed to identify errors in ChatGPT responses. This tool aids human trainers in spotting mistakes during Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). CriticGPT has demonstrated significant potential in improving the accuracy and efficiency of AI training processes. Read More…
Key Features
Bug Finding Research:
CriticGPT is trained to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output.
Users with CriticGPT assistance outperformed those without it 60% of the time.
Integration of CriticGPT-like models into the RLHF labeling pipeline is underway to provide explicit AI assistance to trainers.
Enhanced Critique Capability:
CriticGPT helps trainers create more comprehensive critiques with fewer hallucinated bugs.
The Human+CriticGPT team’s critiques are preferred over unassisted critiques more than 60% of the time.
CriticGPT was trained to identify mistakes and provide feedback, improving its accuracy in spotting bugs.
Advanced Training Methods:
CriticGPT was trained using RLHF with inputs containing manually inserted mistakes.
It produces fewer nitpicks and hallucinates problems less often.
Additional test-time search procedures allow for balanced precision-recall trade-offs in critiques.
Why Does It Matter?
CriticGPT addresses fundamental challenges in AI training, particularly as models become more accurate and their mistakes more subtle. By providing trainers with AI-assisted critiques, CriticGPT enhances the quality of feedback and improves the overall training process.
This advancement is crucial for aligning increasingly complex AI systems and ensuring they produce reliable and accurate outputs. The integration of CriticGPT into the RLHF pipeline represents a significant step forward in AI development, offering better tools for evaluating and refining advanced AI systems.
⚙️ Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity
Smart Plugins for Quick Workflows by PixelBin
Erase.bg Plugins
Erase.bg is a powerful plugin that streamlines the background removal process for images in Figma, Photoshop, and ChatGPT. This tool leverages advanced AI technology to eliminate backgrounds quickly and efficiently, enhancing your creative workflow.
How users can use this plugin:
For Figma: Open the Erase.bg plugin, enter your API key, and start removing backgrounds.
For Photoshop: Open Erase.bg, enter your API token, and apply background removal to your layers.
For ChatGPT: Activate Erase.bg with your API token and follow the steps to remove image backgrounds via URL.
Upscale.media Plugins
Upscale.media enhances image resolution using advanced AI. Its plugin is available for Figma, Photoshop, and ChatGPT, making it essential for high-quality visuals.
How users can use this plugin:
For Figma: Open the plugin, enter your API key, and start upscaling images.
For Photoshop: Open the plugin, enter your API token, and apply upscaling to your layers.
For ChatGPT: Activate Upscale.media with your API token and upscale images via URL.