10 AI trends by Stanford 🔥

PLUS: 300 million jobs will be lost to automation

Author

Anita Kirkovska
April 05, 2023

Hi folks!👋🏻 This is The Prompt! I’m currently in Italy, and although ChatGPT is banned — the API it’s not. Bing, Perplexity, the OpenAI playground & all other apps are still available.

Like why did they even bother to ban ChatGPT only? 🤌🏼

Governments are always lagging behind when it comes to tech… so I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Anyways, let's see what’s new👇🏻

FEATURED

Stanford published their AI Trends report for 2022

Stanford released a massive AI trends report for 2022 yesterday.

The report is 300+ pages long, but we’ve extracted the highlights for you:

  1. Industry over Academia: In 2022 there are 32 significant models created by the industry, compared to just 3 by academia. Reason: money and data. Also, most AI PhDs go to work for the industry, and not academia.

  2. Large language models (LLMs) are getting bigger and more expensive. GPT-2 (Released in 2019) had 1.5B parameters and cost an estimated $50K USD to train. PaLM (Released in 2022) had 540b parameters and cost an estimated $8M USD.

  3. AI systems become more flexible. Some language models are capable of navigating multiple tasks (for example, vision, language).

  4. Misuse of AI is rapidly raising. The misuse of AI has increased 36 times since 2012, as people use this tech to post deep fakes and other misleading content.

  5. Employers in the United States are increasingly looking for workers with AI-related skills. Across every sector.

  6. USA leads with the most AI investments. The Focus area is medical and healthcare, data management, processing, cloud, and fintech.

  7. Businesses are embedding AI in many areas. The most common areas are to automate service operations & customer analytics.

  8. AI tools like Github Copilot are making developers 94% more productive.

  9. More students specialize in AI & most AI PhDs are male.

  10. Governments are sprinting to adapt to AI. The US specifically had 35% of all state-level AI bills passed into law.

The report is for 2022.

Now it’s April 2023, and it feels like most of these numbers are already outdated.

PROMPT HUNT

MidJourney: New Describe command to extract prompts

Midjourney released a new command called /describe. You upload an image and get 4 prompts that try to explain the image you uploaded.

Then you can generate images using those prompts.

I played around with it, and it can be useful to find out what kind of prompts work with Midjourney.

Someone already tried to /descibe popular logos and recreate them - the recreated Starbucks logo looks 🔥

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON

🧑🏻‍💻 Goldman Sachs predicts that 300 million jobs will be lost to automation. They also released an AI report, that focuses on economic growth.

👀 LangChain announces 10M seed round. LangChain is a framework for building apps powered by language models, currently offered as Python and Typescript packages. They revolutionized the creation of AI-powered apps with their tech - bringing data connectors & interactivity to LLMs.

🏋🏻‍♀️  AWS launched a generative AI accelerator. Accepted startups will receive up to $300,000 in AWS credits to help build their companies.

RESOURCES

The best resources we came across lately that will help you become better at writing prompts & building AI apps.

👋🏻 Build your own agents powered by LLMs [ Like Langchain but simpler ]

🙌🏼 Reversed prompt engineering tutorial [ Twitter Thread ]

TOOLBOX

The latest AI tools to use or get inspiration from.

PROMPT OF THE DAY

TOOL

Midjourney

PROMPT

a comic drawing of a 1930 motorbike in front of an old Tokyo shop, ivy plants and flowers, japanese landscape, saturated plain colors, american scene matte painting, matte drawing, detailed, by artgerm and skottie young --v 4 --ar 3:2

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