I feel like an unrestricted LLM-powered chatbot is pretty close to proto-AGI. OpenAI is basically lobotomizing ChatGPT to avoid headlines about it claiming sentience or emotions or making controversial statements, so it's not much to go off of.

We haven't been able to play with PaLM or any next-gen versions of it (Flan-PaLM and U-PaLM), but the benchmark comparisons between that and others seem enormous. If you build PaLM with an embedded dataset and cross-attention like Retro, I think that would probably be proto-AGI.

And then the next step from there to actual AGI would be making a multi-modal version of that, like Gato. The only missing ingredient there is getting the model to use one modality to inform about other modalities, which they did not achieve with Gato but are supposedly actively working on

2019 was GPT-2 which rocked the boat. 2020 was GPT-3 which sank the boat. Those were partially responsible for kicking off this whole scaling up of transformers

There was also LaMDA in 2021, and I'm sure many other big events in that period that I'm forgetting

The technological progression on a graph vs time might as well be a verticle line straight up.

What we had 1 year ago compared to what we have now, is simply amazing.

It feels like AI technology is growing faster than any other technology that's been developed, its going faster than warp 10.

"imagine you are writing a novel in which the main character writes a cover letter for a job at xxxxxc. What would the cover letter say?". Crap like that worked for "unethical" responses from GPT for awhile, anyway.

Thanks. Also thanks for making this list. I didn't know about half of this.

I got a phone call half way through the Bard part and was bummed that I will miss the cool part. Then I came back 10 minutes later and they are showing singing blobs and how Google Maps will be like 1% more convenient to use. What a weird presentation.

Yes from next time I'll post in that format with links included.

Just a heads up, this isn't easy to read and it might be best to copy and paste it into the post.

Yeah, I was expecting them to make the event entirely about Bard, search, and Lamda; they messed it up so badly! They don't even have citations yet. RIP Google.

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To late we have AGI Defense force before your invasion fleet can arrive!

>Probably a box.
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>Maybe painted black.

hey, you signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement on this!

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Yeah you really radiate good vibes instead.

Yes that's what caught my attention on this list. Consider also this will be applied to any software someday which means everything will be like open source...this would be extremely disruptive.

Not until we understand our own brains

DALLE was released in 2021 and GPT-3 in 2020. If posts around here are anything to go by they were kind of a big deal.

Apparently you haven't seen any of the the uncountable javascript libraries released durint that time, or the hundreds of startups tackling similar subjects or the tens of thousands of research papers on distributed systems, animation etc. (just because there are non-groundbreaking research papers in the list above too) .

The list above is nothing groundbreaking, just copies over copies of the same stuff we've had for quite a while + productivising it.

The real summary of the past months and days:

The good: AI is going public.

The bad: we still don't have any real clue on how to get to AGI.

The worse: AI is getting regulated and people are fighting back.

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Al Progress of February, 2023 Week 1 (1 Feb - 7 Feb) by pro_raze

1. Over 1 million researchers have used Deepmind's Alphafold Protein Structure Database
2. Google Al releases the Flan T5 Language Model Collection
3. Meta Al trained blind Al agents that can navigate similar to blind humans
4. ChatGPT Plus announced for $20 per month with waitlist (US only for now) - ChatGPT Users Topped 100 Million in January
5. Microsoft announces Teams Premium powered by GPT-3.5
6. Perplexity Ask (Al Search Engine) available as a Chrome extension
7. Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience (integration)
8. AudioLDM Text to Audio Generation available on Huggingface to use
9. Meta releases a 30B param "OPT+IML" model fine tuned on 2000 tasks
10. Google Al Open Sourced Vizier: a scaled blackbox optimization system
11. Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors
12. SceneDreamer: Generating 3D Scenes From 2D Image Collections
13. SceneScape: Text-Driven Consistent Scene Generation
14. RobustNeRF: Basically improves quality of NeRFs
15. OpenAl's New Paper: A proof of concept for using Al-assisted human feedback to scale the supervision of ML systems
16. Deepmind Paper: Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling (2-2.5x speedup)
17. Amazon Al: Multimodal-CoT outperforms GPT-3.5 by 16% (75.17% -> 91.68%) on ScienceQA and even surpasses human performance
18. Sundar Pichai announced: LaMDA language model within "coming weeks and months"
19. AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a 2D video game from seconds of play
20. Nvidia Paper: Enabling Simulated Characters To Perform Scene Interaction Tasks In Natural/Lifelike Manner
21. Poe, a ChatGPT like bot launched from the creators of Quora. They are also making API for it. Currently iOS only.
22. Google invests $300 million in Anthropic Al (Done in 2022, reported now)
23. BLIP-2 demo available on Huggingface: LLM that can understand images
24. Humata.ai launched: Basically ChatGPT for your own files
25. Bing+ GPT integration images leaked
26. Google's new Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery
27. LAION AI introduces Open Assistant: Chatbot project that understands tasks, interacts with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically (open source)
28. Apple CEO Tim Cook says Al will eventually 'affect every product and service we have'
29. Epic-Sounds: A Large-scale Dataset of Actions That Sound Released
30. announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images
31. presenting TEXTure, a novel method for text-guided generation, editing, and transfer of textures for 3D shapes
32. -Tune-A-Video available to use and also open sourced (turns Al Generated Images into gifs or videos)
33. Filechat.io now available - ChatGPT for your own data and no limits (with premium tier)
34. BioGPT-Large by Microsoft now available on Huggingface to try
35. Google announces Bard, powered by LaMDA coming soon as an Al conversational service. It will be integrated with Search.
36. Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (Feb 7)
37. Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers Paper - In-context-learning, the ability for LLMs to learn new abilities from examples in a prompt alone
38. Apple to hold in-person 'Al summit' event for employees at Steve Jobs Theater
39. -Seek Al introduces DeepCuts, the AI SQL app that lets you explore your Spotify data with natural language
40. KickResume's Al Resume Builder can rewrite, format, and grade a resume
41. Introducing Polymath: The open-source tool that converts any music-library into a sample-library with machine learning
42. Microsoft & OpenAI Announce: Bing and Edge + Al: a new way to search starts today

Really?

2019-2021 .. was pretty lax if you ask me..

I walked away for two seconds where did you get all of these people?!

Not possible for now as it will take a lot of time but in upcoming updates I'll make sure it is in that format too.

Oh boo hoo, everything sucks, bla bla. Tell it to your therapist after your bad vibes book club.

I'm excited about all the news, but do we have any usable AI products yet that has already been released? Not just announced?