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OpenAI Sora, Claude 3, Exploring Second Brains + ways you can Automate AI on your own laptop!

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🧠 Synthminds.AI Weekly: Igniting Minds, Forging AI Progress

Join us in a weekly exploration of artificial intelligence's vast and evolving landscapes. This week we dig into:
OpenAI's Sora and its potential, Claude 3's release, building a 2nd brain + techniques to Automate AI on your own laptop.

💡 Synthminds in Action: This Week's Highlights

Goda unveils the astonishing capabilities of OpenAI's Sora, and shares her glimpse into the future of video generation and simulation. Could we soon modify real environments with AI in real-time?

Professor Synapse (YouTube): Building a Second Brain 

Joseph continues with a wonderful series about how to use Obsidian to build a second brain. This week he and Uros experiment with the Cannoli plugin. Want to improve your productivity? Watch & implement this!

Synthminds.AI: Voices in AI: Liv Boeree

Joseph and Eldad discuss the contributions and controversies that AI leaders present to the field of Artificial Intelligence. This week they look at two of Meta's key people

🌍 AI in Focus: The Stories from the Week we believe are most important for you to know

We’re proud to have Sjoerd as an active member in our community and he’s been sharing some brilliant ways to use AI to automate workflows, notetaking and using Local LLM’s and open source no-code tools

The Verge reports - Microsoft says Russian Hackers stole source code

Though it’s not reported AI source code was stolen, what could this mean for OpenAI and other companies needing to keep watch over?

Claude 3 came out and is causing a big stir. But does everyone like it?

Here’s two source showing you some of what is being said. TechCrunch seems disappointed, AI Explained shares in this 17min video where he sees Claude doing better than GPT4 and Gemini 1.5

AdTech Explained shares a nice overview of GenAI and Google and Meta’s tools. Advertising and AdTech are definitely going to be impacted by this. But are we going to see poorer or better ads?

Groq’s LPU chip breaks AI performance records to rival GPU-led industry

Got an extra spare $19,948? If AI is all about compute power and the chips behind them this is an interesting one to know.

📘 AI Word of the Week: Cross Validation

Simplifying Complex terms so everyone - beginner to advance - can better understand AI,ML concepts and terminology

Cross Validation - Evaluating model performance by splitting data into training and validation sets. In cross validation, a dataset is split into subsets to independently train on some subsets and validate on the held-out subsets. It provides a robust measure of model performance.


Getting more Advanced: A common approach is k-fold cross-validation, splitting data into k equal partitions. The model trains on k-1 folds and validates on the held-out fold, repeating across all folds. The performance measure (e.g. accuracy) is averaged. By using all data for both training and validation, cross-validation reduces variability vs. a single train/test split.


Context/Relevance: This is a form of model evaluation, and 5 or 10-fold cross-validation is commonly used. It reduces the high variance of validation results across different partitions of the data.

Please get in touch to see more of the AI Glossary that we’re compiling. There’s 117 terms and growing. Share what you want to see added to the list

🚀 #52weeksofAI

~Wes's AI Odyssey: Text to Image Generation~

Mashing up genres or themes to create something brand new

We return to a prior week’s exploration that Wes did where he combined Midjourney, Pinterest, Adobe and Leonardo.ai. We got a few people in Discord asking a few questions about the tactics used. They touch on a few skills Goda and Wes are teaching on Uplimit: AI Image Creation for Everyone. The course starts in 3 weeks and you can save 10% with code SAVE10.

Join Wes each week in his creative journey and get inspired to experiment with these cutting-edge techniques yourself.

🎓 Research and Discoveries: Actionable Insights

The top article this week from the latest research and practical applications of AI shared within our community. From theoretical breakthroughs to hands-on applications, this is the one thing to be sure to read about the evolving landscape of AI technology.

Purpose: Provide an extensive overview of generative AI models, with a focus on diffusion models, and their fundamental mechanisms, diverse applications, and the hurdles they face. The paper seeks to consolidate current research findings and advancements to offer a clear understanding of the state-of-the-art in generative AI within the realm of vision & images. It aims to untangle the complex mechanisms these models use, and show off their wide-ranging uses.

Key Findings: Diffusion models have emerged as a top choice for crafting high-quality images and other media, outperforming rivals in image synthesis. These models are versatile, aiding in tasks from crafting images from text to refining image quality and spotting anomalies, showcasing their adaptability and potential to revolutionize creative tasks and data expansion.However, they're not without their issues—stability, scalability, and making their workings understandable remain significant challenges

Discussion: Exploring GenAI reveals a field ripe with potential, and yet facing many hurdles. The paper invites reflection on the technical advancements and also the ethical considerations surrounding these models. Even with AI's ability to generate lifelike images or solve complex tasks, we're also prompted to think about the implications of its use. The future leans towards a closer collaboration between humans and AI, bridging creativity and digital innovation. That’s sparking serious debate in our Discord community and many other places.

Implementation: Clearly text-to-image is being used in a lot of Marketing materials that AI is helping to create. A prompt like "Create an image of a serene, modern home office, with sunlight streaming through large windows, highlighting a sleek, wooden desk with a high-tech, minimalist setup" can transform words into a precise visual, slashing time and resources typically poured into graphic design. No specific example prompts were listed in the document; but this crafted prompt embodies the article's essence on employing sophisticated AI knowledge for practical use.

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