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Daily Update 2022-12-13

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The 5 Best Uses (So Far) for ChatGPT's AI Chatbot (5 minute read)

There are several ways ChatGPT can make life easier. The AI can be used to help people lower bills, create diet and workout plans, help with meal planning and grocery shopping, create stories, and prepare for interviews. ChatGPT still isn't perfect, as it isn't able to separate fact from fiction. Its potential for inaccuracy has caused it to be temporarily banned from StackOverflow.

Twitter Blue Relaunches With Blue and Gold Check Marks, Higher iOS Prices (3 minute read)

Twitter Blue has been relaunched. An undisclosed vetting process has been implemented in order to prevent impersonations on the site. Twitter Blue will cost $8 a month for users that sign up through the web or $11 a month for users who sign up through iOS. Users with the subscription will receive a blue checkmark and be able to edit tweets, upload 1080p videos, and access reader mode. Gold checkmarks have started appearing for business accounts.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

A new class of antidepressant works in 2 hours (4 minute read)

Scientists have discovered an antidepressant compound that works differently from current drugs and takes effect in as little as two hours. The compound targets the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRS), the brain's primary source of serotonin, decreasing the amount of serotonin in the DRS and increasing it in other regions. When tested on mice, the compound increased serotonin transporter activity and serotonin levels within two hours. The scientists are now pushing for human trials to see if the compound also alleviates depression in humans.

A nano-thin layer of gold could prevent fogged-up glasses (2 minute read)

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a gold nanocoating that prevents glasses from fogging up. The 10nm thick nanocoating heats glasses up to 46F by absorbing infrared radiation. It consists of gold sandwiched between layers of titanium oxide, which amplifies the heating effect and protects the gold against wear. The design prevents radiation from reaching the other side, so it won't overheat in warm weather. The coating is made using common manufacturing techniques, so companies may not have to revamp their production lines to make it.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

LangChain (GitHub Repo)

LangChain is a library that assists with the development of applications that combine large language models with other sources of computation or knowledge. It is designed to help with LLM and prompts, chaining LLMs, agents, and memory. Several open and closed source demos of applications built with LangChain are available in the full documentation.

bricks (GitHub Repo)

Bricks is a library of natural language processing modules that can be used in any project. It contains code that can be copied and pasted from an online platform. There are three categories of modules: classifiers, extractors, and generators. The modules can help with sentence complexity estimations, sentiment analysis, and more.

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Miscellaneous

Chrome delays plan to limit ad blockers, new timeline coming in March (4 minute read)

Google has delayed the mandatory switch to Manifest V3. There won't be a new timeline for a V2 shutdown until March. The delay is due to some challenges developers have had with migrating their extensions. Manifest V3 features more restrictions on filtering extensions that block ads. Some browsers, like Brave and Vivaldi, have pledged to keep Manifest V2 even after Google turns it off. Firefox will transition to Manifest V3 along with Google, but it will re-add the API that filtering add-ons rely on.

How does GPT Obtain its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models to their Sources (30 minute read)

This article dissects ChatGPT's abilities and traces them back to their sources. It aims to give a comprehensive roadmap on how the GPT-3.5 model family evolved to their current forms. ChatGPT's multi-faceted abilities went significantly beyond many NLP researchers' expectations based on their impressions of GPT-3. Understanding how the model gained its abilities may help the open-source community reproduce GPT-3.5.

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SpaceX Tender Offer Is Said to Value Company at $140 Billion (2 minute read)

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Google CEO dodges anxious staffers’ layoff questions (3 minute read)

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ChatGPT use cases 💬, Twitter launches multicolor checkmarks 🐦, chaining language AIs 👨‍💻

Daily Update 2022-12-13

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