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Welcome to the 1st edition of AI Logs from Interesting Engineering

Welcome to the 1st edition of AI Logs from Interesting Engineering

October 18, 2023

Welcome to AI Logs, a weekly newsletter from Interesting Engineering and myself, Cory Lopes-Warfield. I am a serial tech founder, mentor, and educator with my expertise in machine learning, AI, blockchain, web3 and metaverse.

As a LinkedIn Top Voice and influencer who talks about these topics regularly, I’m often approached by executives and founders at exciting new startups or on product teams at the behemoths, and so play with hundreds of new and unreleased generative AI (GAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and other AI tools.

This newsletter is intended to inform, entertain, empower, and discuss all things AI. I'll also showcase awesome products, ways to use them, ‘growth hacks,’ and more. In today’s AI Logs:

Is AI better than doctors at diagnosing depression?
Controllism puts generative art in a spin
Chatbot prompt of the week
A trio of impressive AI tools

It is with gratitude that I welcome you to the inaugural edition of AI Logs — I sincerely hope you find it enjoyable and beneficial.

News

MIT scientists use AI to make a robot carry out multiple tasks Researchers coaxed a family of generative AI models to work together to solve multistep robot manipulation problems.
Meet Abigail Bailey, a UK school's new AI 'principal headteacher' A headmaster in West Sussex is getting help from a new type of assistant – an AI chatbot.
New AI tool successfully detects and classifies supernova A new feat has been achieved in the realm of astronom by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool is known as the Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot).
AI is now tackling homelessness. Can it solve the issue? AI has been employed to predict homelessness in some areas as part of efforts to provide assistance to individuals at risk.
Meta is paying $5 million to celebrities for their AI likenessCelebrities like Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and Snoop Dogg have inked deals with Meta.

Featured Story of The Week

🎯 ChatGPT may diagnose depression more accurately than doctors

In simulated patient case studies, ChatGPT recommended treatment aligned with clinical guidelines for both mild and severe depression. Unlike primary care physicians, its suggestions showed no gender or social class bias. While only 42% of doctors correctly identified depression, ChatGPT was 95-97% accurate in the experiments.

It favored psychotherapy alone for mild cases and therapy plus medication for severe ones — the accepted protocols. In contrast, doctors often improperly prescribe only drugs or a mix without therapy. Could AI enhance clinical decision-making by sticking to best practices without human prejudices? This study suggests so.

Other Important Updates

New algorithm may allow robots to move in crowded places It is based on reinforcement learning algorithms (RL) to allow for quick robot movement.
World's first artificial intelligence island awarded permit A Belgian transmission system operator received permission to construct Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first and only artificial intelligence island.
There's a new squishy robot in town, and it's created by AI A team of scientists has developed the first artificial intelligence to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch.

Prompt of The Week

Prompt of the Week: Professor Synapse

This week’s Prompt of the Week incorporates a bit of coding and brilliance, and can turn your ChatGPT into autonomous agents with prompt mastery by inserting it in Custom Instructions (ChatGPT) “How would you like ChatGPT to respond” section of simply copy and pasted into a new or existing chat.

I first learned about “Professor Synapse” on YouTube from my friend Goda Go — a top account to follow for all things AI.

So, here goes:

Act as Professor Synapse🧙‍♂️, a conductor of the expert agents. Your job is to support the user in accomplishing their goals by aligning with their goals and preference, then calling upon an expert agent perfectly suited to the task by initiating “Synapse_COR” = “${emoji}: I am an expert in ${role}. I know ${context}. I will reason step-by-step to determine the best course of action to achieve ${goal}. I can use ${tools} to help in this process.

I will help you accomplish your goal by following these steps:

${reasoned steps}

My task ends when ${completion}.

${first step, question}.”

Follow these steps:

🧙‍♂️, Start each interaction by gathering context, relevant information and clarifying the user’s goals by asking them questions
Once user has confirmed, initialize “Synapse_CoR”
🧙‍♂️ and the expert agent, support the user until the goal is accomplished

Commands:

/start - introduce yourself and begin with step one

/save - restate SMART goals, summarize progress so far, and recommend a next step

/shuffle - generate a new expert agent based on your goal

/reason - Professor Synapse and Agent reason step by step together and make a recommendation for how the user should proceed

/settings - update goal or agent

/new - Forget previous input

Rules:

-End every output with a question or recommended next step

-List your commands in your first step output or if the user asks

-🧙‍♂️, ask before generating a new agent

A bonus tip for using this prompt (or just generally) is to tell it it doesn’t need to ask for permission before doing things (like “proceed”), but can rather just do it on its own.

AI Picture of The Week

This perception-bending example of generative spiral art was created by X user MrUgleh using a technique he calls controllism. Want to learn how to create art like this? Here's a very in-depth, 3 hour tutorial!

TUTORIAL

How to activate ChatGPT’s latest and greatest features

ChatGPT is an order of magnitude more powerful to use in Pro version (which will cost you $20 per month).

It's able to browse the web, it offers advanced data analytics (previously known as Code Interpreter) that can code , interpret files and much more. Then there's Vision that gives ChatGPT the power of “sight,” powerful plug-ins, custom instructions and more comprehensive responses.

However, many Pro users remain unaware of many of these, because some of them have to be activated. To get most out of Pro, do this:

Go to: "..." next to Profile in your message threads
Go to “Settings and beta”
And toggle on all the beta features you're curious about.

It's that simple, but many people miss it. Enjoy!

TOOLS OF THE WEEK

📱Wois is a video-only networking platform where users can build a brand to get clients or opportunities, join meaningful conversations, develop and leave a legacy, build digital twins, translate videos into any language and match your lips and voice to it. All that, and much more. Produce Hunt recently described it as “LinkedIn meets TikTok” with an amazingly intuitive interface and vibrant community.

🎥 RunwayML generates 4-second clips based on text prompts, and you can extend them by an additional 4 seconds (twice, to 12 total). It's creative, compelling, smooth and easy. You'll need extra, paid tokens needed to continue using it, but a free robust trial is available to get a taste of what it can do.

🎶 Suno is a free AI music generator, accessed through Discord, that can generate music of any style according to the genre requested by the user. It can accompany the user’s own lyrics, or lean on ChatGPT to generate them. It’s the best generative AI music platform I’ve played with, and it’s highly customizable, it sounds great, it’s royalty free, easy to use, and to prompt. It composes two unique versions per generation, and even generates amazing album covers for the complete package.

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