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Depressing Monday, Caffeinators 🫠 

It may be a Monday, making it hard to roll out of bed.

But we got the perfect remedy: 3 EXCITING AI news and 1 handy GPT tip to start your day 😁☀️ 

Today’s Starting Sips:

• LLM’s big innovation in small packages 🎁 

• Taking a breather to ensure responsible AI 🌱

• Elon wants all AI’s to stop hallucinating 🧢

• Fueling GPT with future knowledge 🔮

AI Metamorphosis: Monoliths to Minis 🦋 

Big LLM, Curtain Call 🔚

Although the parameter count of GPT-4 remains undisclosed, it is speculated to have breached into the trillions 😵 

This may be a dizzying number, but last week at MIT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested that the reign of enormous Large Language Models (LLM) is nearing its end.

Altman revealed that OpenAI is witnessing a decrease in performance as they continue to expand the size of their model's parameters.

Goodbye Goliaths, Hello Hybrids 🌐

Instead of today’s gigantic, all-encompassing AI models, Altman foresees an era of AI systems designed for specific tasks, working in tandem to form hybrid solutions.

Smaller, more focused AI models are theorized to lead to increased efficiency and resource conservation. It will still be able to work together to accomplish tasks outside of their specialty.

But if we stop increasing the parameter counts… how will GPT continue becoming faster and smarter?

Reinforcement Learning - Human Feedback 🔁

OpenAI is currently exploring public reinforcement learning — a "hot and cold" style of approach that rewards good decisions and penalizes bad ones.

We can see it with the thumbs up/down icon in GPT.

As we bid farewell to the age of monolithic AI models, we anticipate a flexible, responsive, and more eco-friendly AI landscape. Be ready to embrace a future where technology is personalized, precise, and packed with potential!

Elon Musk: Guardian of Tomorrow or Corporate Chess Master? ♖

Weeks ago, Elon and several other tech industry executives called for a 6 month pause of training AI systems.

The exact incentive for this call to action is unknown, but the referenced futureoflife.org cites concerns with the speed of AI advancement without further safeguards.

If AI were to outpace humanity with the current safeguards, we could face devastating consequences.

The call to halt AI development is a sobering reminder of AI's potential dangers. Intriguingly, Altman confirmed last week that OpenAI is not developing GPT-5. Could Elon's influence be impacting OpenAI's plans?

Elon Joins the AI Thunderdome ⚡️ 

Following his call for a halt in AI experimentation, Musk conveniently revealed that he's been working on his own AI model: TruthGPT.

Some speculate that Musk and others may have ulterior motives and pushed the pause to allow their own AI to catch up…

Quite interesting, don't you think? 🤔 Is Elon protecting humanity or just trying to make more money? Share your thoughts in the comments ⬇️ 

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Elon's TruthGPT, a Truth-Seeking AI 🕵️‍♂️

Regardless of intentions, Elon Musk envisions his TruthGPT to be an AI dedicated to truth-seeking. Aiming to uncover facts, this innovative AI concept challenges the current limits of existing AI technology.

Tackling the Misinformation Epidemic 🌐

In today's era of widespread misinformation, TruthGPT could serve as a reliable countermeasure, assisting people in discerning fact from fiction and providing accurate information for better decision-making (like in the image below 😂)

AI Truth and Trust 🚀

TruthGPT aligns with Sam Altman's vision, as a smaller subset of a monolithic model, designed specifically for fact-checking that serves almost like a chatting encyclopedia.

We can envision it as an essential guardrail for every AI tools, working diligently to protect humans from the perils of misinformation.

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Tip of the day

GPT’s information is limited to September 2021. It does not have the most accurate and up-to-date information.

To solve this problem, you can use this Chrome extension: WebChatGPT. It feeds in the top web search to GPT so it can add that information to the process.

Before the extension:

After the extension:

To-Go Cup 🥤

• Size does matter in future AI Models, and small is supreme 🥇 

• Elon and others call for halt in AI development to protect humanity, but some think they are just trying to buy time for their AI to catch up 🤔 

• TruthGPT: Elon’s solution for protecting against disinformation 💯 

• Connect GPT to up-to-date information with WebChatGPT 🌍️ 

Until next time,

Your friendly barista and ☕️ GPTw