Apple's China exodus 📱, OpenAI ChatGPT's capabilities 🤖, PyTorch 2.0 launches 👨‍💻

Daily Update 2022-12-05

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The Day The AGI Was Born (6 minute read)

ChatGPT is a huge leap from GPT3. It can explain scientific and technical concepts in different styles and help with brainstorming. The model has a long-term memory of up to 8,192 tokens and can take input and generate output about twice as long as GPT3. ChatGPT is chat-focused, so users can talk back to it, modify what it generates, or have it continue existing conversations without prompt engineering. The model meets some definitions of artificial general intelligence.

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China (14 minute read)

Apple plans to move its production outside of China. It is looking at assembling its products in India and Vietnam. Apple's suppliers have been told to plan more actively for production in other parts of Asia. There have been violent protests at the Foxconn factory in China, where iPhones and other Apple products are made. The protests have disrupted production, causing Apple to reconsider its reliance on the plant.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer (18 minute read)

Physicists from the California Institute of Technology claim to have created a wormhole using a quantum computer. The wormhole emerged like a hologram out of quantum bits of information. The physicists could manipulate the qubits and send information through the wormhole. The experiment is evidence for the holographic principle, which says that space-time and gravity emerge from quantum effects.

What’s next for lab-grown human embryos? (13 minute read)

The International Society for Stem Cell Research has relaxed its 14-day rule on culturing human embryos in the lab. Scientists still have to abide by local laws, and many countries have laws restricting stem cell research. Culturing embryos for more than 14 days could lead to a better understanding of the causes of pregnancy loss and congenital birth defects. Around 14 to 22 days is when the body's main pattern emerges. This stage holds clues on how cells differentiate into tissues and organs, which could boost regenerative medicine.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Accelerating Hugging Face and TIMM models with PyTorch 2.0 (6 minute read)

PyTorch 2.0 is now available. It offers the same user experience while fundamentally changing how PyTorch operates at a compiler level. PyTorch 2.0 provides better performance and support for Dynamic Shapes and Distributed. This article contains an in-depth overview of the new update.

InvokeAI (GitHub Repo)

InvokeAI is a Stable Diffusion toolkit. It features a web interface and an easy-to-use command-line interface. InvokeAI runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux machines with as little as 4GB of GPU RAM.

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Miscellaneous

Kids Don’t Want Cash Anymore–They Want ‘Robux’ (11 minute read)

Many kids are learning to spend money in Roblox, a free-to-play 3D online world where people create and engage in all sorts of virtual activities. Roblox features a virtual currency, Robux, that makes it easy for parents to limit how much is spent on the game. The company's revenue grew sixfold over the past three years to $1.9 billion last year, almost all from the sale of Robux. Brands are increasingly focusing on the platform to advertise to kids.

Endless Media (16 minute read)

AI is getting better and better at creating media. It can now create essays, poems, images, and videos. This could result in an age of endless media where AI creates infinite content. Endless media created by AI could impact creative work by humans and shared cultural experiences. AI could change our relationship to art, information and meaning.

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Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT (3 minute read)

ChatGPT can understand and emulate terminal commands.

go-coffeeshop (GitHub Repo)

go-coffeeshop is a coffee shop application with event-driven microservices.

Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis (4 minute read)

Microbes living in the intestines could be causing rheumatoid arthritis.

Introducing Mona Sans and Hubot Sans (5 minute read)

Mona Sans and Hubot Sans are the variable open-source fonts used across GitHub.com.

FCC lets Starlink start deploying Gen2 satellites as Gen1 speeds keep falling (7 minute read)

SpaceX has approval to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites to provide more capacity on its network.

ChatGPT for Google (GitHub Repo)

ChatGPT for Google is a Chrome extension that shows ChatGPT response in Google search results.

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Apple's China exodus 📱, OpenAI ChatGPT's capabilities 🤖, PyTorch 2.0 launches 👨‍💻

Daily Update 2022-12-05

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