Robots Teaching Robots, Run LLMs Locally via Opera, and Write a Novel with AI
A few links, apps, and news around the internet.
Morning y’all!
We made it to Friday and all of us still have our health, meaningful work to do (even if you’re retired), and years ahead of us to do great things.
I’ve been thinking a lot about our mortality this week because one of my teammates had a death in the family; he came in the next day looking terrible and I suggested he go home and take the rest of the day (and week) off. But, the details of it were horrible enough to make me think about it for the last few days and I’ve been counting my blessings in light of it all.
Take time this week to spend it with loved ones; give lots of hugs and tell folks that you care about that you love them. As simple as it sounds it’s really all that truly matters — even more than AI. Have a good weekend friends.
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
I’m not a fan of Zoom so I often will use Google Meet, when I can. Bluedot quickly generates follow-up emails from your meetings via a free extension. The trial of 5 meetings proved that it could be very useful if this is part of your workflow.
Researchers have developed a network where AI can effectively teach each other tasks using natural language processing using a model called S-Bert. Robots teaching other robots (to take over the world)? That’s either dystopian or utopian depending on how you want to frame it.
Opera browser now lets you use LLMs locally on your own computer and they’ve got over 150 models to choose from. Each one will take about 2GB of space so it’s not a terrible resource hog.
GPT-Author uses a handful of AI tools to help you write an entire book with just a few clicks! A fun experiment to run perhaps:
This project utilizes a chain of GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, and Anthropic API calls to generate an original fantasy novel. Users can provide an initial prompt and enter how many chapters they'd like it to be, and the AI then generates an entire novel, outputting an EPUB file compatible with e-book readers.
I haven’t written a book and may never do it but if I were I’d probably start with something like this to get me going.
IKI AI is a knowledge organization and search tool where you can create your own library of resources for use. It looks like Perplexity, to be honest, but I’m impressed with the implementation so far.
A very pretty Notion-style email builder with AI-powered autocompletion and design tools. I was immediately impressed with the template examples and could see this becoming very popular. It’s called Potion.
The US House of Representatives has banned the use of Copilot:
The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services," the House's Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor said.
I get the increased security risks, for sure.
Keywords is a unified devops platform to build AI apps. That’s it.
Shepherd is an education AI tool to help you learn and boost academic performance. You can use it to take notes, create learning assessments, study planning, and even use an AI tutor.
And that’s it. Have a great weekend folks!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer