👨Apple promises incredible AI advancements, World’s most energy-efficient AI chip, and an AI robot ruling the forests

In 23 issues, I’ve kept it at least 95% positive (only negativity being having to speak truth to power, to a certain maniac and routinely calling for all AI-generated content to be minted on an immutable, trustless blockchain using smart contracts; AI is already ‘token-based’ and we need to have a chain of custody knowing who generated what where, with what prompts, etc.), but there’s a fake AI company spending heavily on paid advertising I am highly compelled to call out. Their model is false advertising and a sneaky way of getting people to pay $20 upfront by claiming to be or ‘have Sora’. Based on the sheer volume of paid ads I see across platforms by them, they’re tricking a LOT of people. This company is called Monet AI App, or Monet, and they do NOT have Sora, nor even generate good videos. Free and amazing sites like Pika, or Runway etc are still the best widely-available tools for text-to-video, with Viggle and others showing up with real promise. DON’T BE FOOLED, Sora isn’t available publicly yet, and Monet is a SCAM.

That being said, OpenAI recently released some “First Impressions” of Sora used by real world creators in a closed beta, and the results are pretty remarkable, including a short film called “Air Head” by Shy Kid in Canada. To see that with several more, and to learn about the teams behind them, check out my recent LinkedIn post here. OpenAI’s Sora is based on a Large World Model, first proposed by Runway ML, and Google’s Geenie and others are all showing huge potential (see last week’s issue for more on these).

I’ve also recently been talking a lot about Groq (not Grok) and their new innovative chips, LPUs (language processing units) and their Inference Engine, which is orders of magnitudes faster and more powerful compute specifically for AI than ever seen before, “light years ahead” of GPUs. But that said, since last issue, NVIDIA (who last week I mentioned their “Groot” AI model for robots, in a play to become an ecosystem and player in the AI space, not just the biggest chip producer globally enabling and powering AI) released their new GPU chip at their GTC conference last week, which they assert will be “game changers” for AI, as they’re the fastest and most capable GPUs ever made, and indeed a huge step up for both NVIDIA and the GPU chip world — we will just need to see what Groq and their new innovations’ real implications and capabilities are.

So here we are, with OpenAI pitching Hollywood on using Sora, Microsoft launching Microsoft AI and poaching 2/3s of the co-founding executive team at Inflection AI (makers of Pi, which they’re not deprecating), xAI open sourcing Grok (which as an AI is awful yet, but as a precedent for the industry could potentially be momentous), and AI models being trained specifically for robots. The posturing of the two biggest players and rivals in the space, Google and Microsoft, as well as titans such as Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon and others beginning to show off some cool initiatives in the AI world indicate, at least to me, that we’re about to see an exponential leap in AI.

And since you’re reading AI Logs at this very moment, I know that you’re one of the ones doing what it takes to stay at the forefront of this paradigm shift, remaining ahead of the curve, helping keep it safe and ethical, and leveraging it for the greater good. So for that, and for being a reader in general, I and we thank you from the bottom of our real, human hearts. As I say regularly on LinkedIn, TOGETHER WE RISE.

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NEWS

• 📱 Apple’s WWDC 2024 promises ‘Absolutely Incredible’ AI advancements

  We expect to see AI integrated into native Apple apps.
  

• 🖥️ Brain-on-chip: China develops ‘world’s most energy-efficient AI chip’

  The chip, with further enhancements, could be used to develop sophisticated brain-computer interfacing.
  

• 💻 Denmark to get new NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputer thanks to Ozempic

  The new supercomputer should be operational by as early as the end of 2024.

MUST READ

Undeterred by kicks, stick-pounding, AI robot triumphs forest terrain

LimX Dyamics, a Chinese general-purpose robot company, has released a video showcasing its biped robot P1’s impressive locomotion abilities.

The visuals show the robot displaying skills to negotiate challenging environments while venturing into Tanglang Mountain in Shenzhen. P1 also shows its ability to respond efficiently when a human orchestrates a simulation of an attack.

According to the company, the robot uses reinforcement learning to respond to external cues like moving objects or bumps on a path.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

A great way to use AI to upskill and truly set yourself up for sustained success is to have it act as a teacher, professor of mentor. The way I do this is to follow the following (examples to follow):

You are an expert in [something I want to learn] and teach [ideal level of depth] level classes as a [professor/teacher/mentor] and are known to be exceptional at teaching this to [my role as it pertains to this specific teaching]. You will teach me [the thing] in [desired timeframe], delivering hyper-focused, chronological, ascending, logical lessons that I can go through, learn from, process and understand every [time frame]. My goal is to learn [the thing] in [a timeframe] with you as my teacher. I will ask you questions as needed, you will refrain from yapping or editorializing, and when I’m finished with each lesson, I will simply reply “proceed” and you will proceed with the next lesson. Do you understand and are you fully excited to help me learn [the thing] in [the timeframe]?

Example:

You are an expert coder awesome at Python and teach accelerated beginners level classes at a prestigious university and are known to be exceptional at teaching non-technical co-founders like myself to code in Python within one month’s time. You will teach me Python in one month, delivering hyper-focused, hands-on, actionable lessons that build off one another every day for a month. My goal is to learn Python in a month with you as my teacher. I will ask you questions as needed, you will refrain from yapping or editorializing, and when I’m finished with each lesson, I will simply reply “proceed” and you will proceed with the next lesson. Do you understand and are you fully excited to help me learn Python in this one month timeframe?

This is a great way to learn new languages, programming languages, about specific histories, math, science or really just about anything. Also, whenever your AI says it will do a bunch of work and get back to you in a few hours or days etc., it’s lying (wrong), but prompting “proceed” will usually get it to provide the responses you were hoping for.

AI PICTURE OF THE WEEK

TUTORIAL

(Note: this is oversimplified and would need to be custom tailored to your specific idea or use case and may require additional tools and/or work, but this is a tutorial I love to give and have found Cohere Coral, featured above, to be great at this).

Create an app using AI; for this tutorial I find Cohere AI to be a great option:

Ask the AI if it is excited to be your technical co-founder for an app idea you have. Tell it your level of expertise (basic HTML, some JavaScript, full-stack, no-code dev like Bubble, even not technical at all (aka can’t code - don’t worry, it’s not a problem) just so it knows how to best help you. Tell it you will expect it to write and test code and tell you how to deploy it, then tell it your idea, being as specific as possible without disclosing potentially proprietary information you wouldn’t put in a pitch deck or social media post.

At this point it will tell you that it’s excited to get started, and tell you questions it will need answered to proceed, etc. At any time you can ask it to temporarily shift personas to do market research, to ideate on a business plan/model etc., but ultimately you’ll want it to return to its persona as a technical co-founder who can program in your desired language — most likely Python and/or JSON, depending on the type of tech you’re wanting to build.

Now ask it to start writing code samples, and to expound upon them as needed. You can always ask it how to deploy it, implement, ask it to test it, and more.

This is all over simplified, but hopefully you get the gist and can leverage an awesome AI tool like Cohere (Gemini and ChatGPT are also good for this) to help create an app and/or startup. It can help with legal, corporate formation, strategy, go-to-market, and much more too (just never forget to have or assume new relevant personas, or use a super prompt like Professor Synapse which I’ve shared here several times prior).

📝 01 Light Most have heard of Rabbit and their R1 (I’ve featured it here before) as a handheld device that used Large Action Model to effectively power a blank screen with AI results a user would have needed to access on their phone, we’re also all familiar with the Humane AI pin. Well, there’s a new AI device on the block called 01 Light which sets out to be the ‘Linux of AI devices’ with their Open Interpreter. Their small handheld device can sync to your computer and do virtually anything on it for you even if you’re halfway around the world, releasing an open source language model for computer control and a mobile app as well as their aforementioned handheld device, 01 Light.

🤖 Devika is an ‘Agentic AI Software Engineer’, and an alternative to Devin. It is open source, available on GitHub. This powerful tool can code, PM, test, and is at least on the same level as Devin, a new tool which has said be be close to “active reasoning”. If you’re a coder or technical at all, I highly recommend checking out this tool, and even if you’re not, it’s worth learning how to work with it and playing around. The days of needing to know how to program to be able to create amazing, innovative and disruptive software are definitely numbered.

📱 Viggle is currently available on Discord (where Suno, Pika and other amazing tools started, often at the time of being featured here in AI Logs Tools of the Week), and is an amazing free-to-use text-to-image and text-to-video generator that focused on people (humans) and characters as well as realistic movement (think Sora). There are many t2i/t2v AIs out there, but there focuses and strengths are unique and make this a top recommendation to play with, although using it in discord is a bit of a learning curves a

🗂️ Cohere Coral /Cohere isn’t necessarily new, but I haven’t featured it here yet, and it’s a great AI chatbot that’s getting better and better — if you haven’t played with it yet I highly recommend it. Their RAG (retrieval augmented generation) toolkit helps users build conversational AIs to “give your technology language”, and their chatbot is the best I’ve found for doing in-depth research online and delivering accurate, thorough results with citations. There’s a lot this suite of solutions can do, my top recommendation is to spend some time playing with it and getting to know it.