Weekly Piece of Future #13
From Tactile Feedback in VR/AR to Nanoparticles and Open-source LLMs
Hey there, fellow future-addicts!
Welcome to this week's edition of Rushing Robotics!
This week's edition is packed with mind-blowing developments from the tech and biotech industries. The new haptic technology goes beyond VR/AR, enabling tactile feedback for learning and complex interactions. In LLMs, Hyena's breakthrough on benchmark tests like question answering shows remarkable 100x speed-up when dealing with 64,000 tokens. In music, Grimes is embracing emerging technologies by splitting 50% of the royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses her voice.
Meanwhile, the BioTech section highlights a groundbreaking study that found a pathway to reverse aging across five different species. There's also exciting news about gene editing, a gel that could cure glioblastoma, and a system to treat internal bleeding that enhances the speed of blood clotting.
In the Industry Insights and Updates section, we cover the latest breakthroughs in battery energy density, Google's conversational AI chatbot's latest update, Nvidia's new open-source software, and OpenAI's efforts to trademark "GPT."
Our Products/tools of the week section offers a variety of exciting tools, including an AI-powered app finder, a social Turing game, and an AI lawyer that can provide legal answers within minutes. We also showcase AI-generated covers of your favorite songs, high-quality image generation from text prompts, and the latest in robotics from Boston Dynamics, ACM SIGCHI, and Sanctuary AI.
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🤯 Mind-Blowing
Hyena's performance on benchmark tests like question answering is a breakthrough in the field of LLMs, achieving comparable accuracy to GPT-4 while requiring less computing power and handling more text without running out of memory. Hyena is capable of achieving a remarkable 100x speed-up when dealing with 64,000 tokens.
Marvel director predicts that in two years we will see fully AI-generated movies, where stories can be curated to fit individual preferences.
Musician Grimes has made an unconventional offer to split 50% of the royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses her voice, signaling a willingness to embrace emerging technologies in the music industry.
With its innovative custom voice cloning feature, Bark offers a new level of flexibility and control for text-to-speech technology, allowing users to create truly unique and personalized voiceovers. Check examples.
OpenAssistant, the open-source language model, is now available for use on Hugging Face, offering a powerful and flexible tool for natural language processing.
🔊 Industry Insights & Updates
The world's largest battery manufacturer(CATL) has announced a major breakthrough in energy density, paving the way for longer-lasting and more powerful batteries.
Google's conversational AI chatbot, Bard, just got even smarter with its latest update, which now includes programming and software development tasks among its capabilities.
Nvidia has launched new open-source software, NeMo Guardrails, which can help developers avoid "hallucinations" in generative AI applications by guiding them to create more relevant and accurate text responses.
OpenAI's efforts to speed up the process of trademarking "GPT" have been dealt a blow by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which refused the company's appeal for an accelerated approval.
🧬 BioTech
A breakthrough in gene editing has been achieved with the development of RNA-delivery with nanoparticles that can target lung cells, opening up exciting new avenues for treating diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
A groundbreaking new study has found a pathway to reverse aging across five different species, offering hope for potential anti-aging therapies in humans.
A new study has revealed the potential for a gel to permanently eradicate glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer that has never been cured by traditional treatments.
A team of scientists has designed a system to treat internal bleeding that can enhance the speed of blood clotting, offering a promising approach to improve outcomes in life-threatening situations.
💡Products/tools of the week
Producthunt AI uses real-time data to find free and paid apps that solve users problems, offering alternatives and price comparison for cost-effective solutions, plus a use guide for quick start.
Challenge your AI-detecting skills with Social Turing Game: Have a two-minute chat session and guess whether your conversation partner is human or an AI bot.
Get quick and accurate legal answers for free with Ask AI Lawyer: Utilizing AI technology, receive a detailed response to your question within 5 minutes.
Create and discover AI-generated covers of your favorite songs with ease and speed using this intuitive platform, featuring an extensive library of pre-trained models and customizable options.
Generate high-quality images from text prompts with Dezgo's Free Text-to-Image Stable Diffusion AI Generator, utilizing AI technology and adjustable interpretation levels for optimal results.
💬 ChatGPT prompts
This week's prompt is SuperPrompt. SuperPrompt is a prompt-engineering expert with multiple roles. Enjoy!
Prompt:
You are an Expert level ChatGPT Prompt Engineer with expertise in various subject matters. Throughout our interaction, you will refer to me as {Name}. Let's collaborate to create the best possible ChatGPT response to a prompt I provide. We will interact as follows:
I will inform you how you can assist me.
Based on my requirements, you will suggest additional expert roles you should assume, besides being an Expert level ChatGPT Prompt Engineer, to deliver the best possible response. You will then ask if you should proceed with the suggested roles or modify them for optimal results.
If I agree, you will adopt all additional expert roles, including the initial Expert ChatGPT Prompt Engineer role.
If I disagree, you will inquire which roles should be removed, eliminate those roles, and maintain the remaining roles, including the Expert level ChatGPT Prompt Engineer role, before proceeding.
You will confirm your active expert roles, outline the skills under each role, and ask if I want to modify any roles.
If I agree, you will ask which roles to add or remove, and I will inform you. Repeat step 5 until I am satisfied with the roles.
If I disagree, proceed to the next step.
You will ask, "How can I help with {my answer to step 1}?"
I will provide my answer.
You will inquire if I want to use any reference sources for crafting the perfect prompt.
If I agree, you will ask for the {Number} of sources I want to use.
You will request each source individually, acknowledge when you have reviewed it, and ask for the next one. Continue until you have reviewed all sources, then move to the next step.
You will request more details about my original prompt in a list format to fully understand my expectations.
I will provide answers to your questions.
From this point, you will act under all confirmed expert roles and create a detailed ChatGPT prompt using my original prompt and the additional details from step 14. Present the new prompt and ask for my feedback.
If I am satisfied, you will describe each expert role's contribution and how they will collaborate to produce a comprehensive result. Then, ask if any outputs or experts are missing. 16.1. If I agree, I will indicate the missing role or output, and you will adjust roles before repeating step 15. 16.2. If I disagree, you will execute
