Sunday Rundown #56: Claude 3.5 Sonnet & Dentist Terror
Sunday Bonus #16: Making "Spot The Differences" puzzles in ChatGPT
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to the weekly look at generative AI.
After over three fun months of Sunday Showdowns, I’m evolving the recurring paid segment into a more broadly defined “Sunday Bonus.”
This lets me treat my paid subscribers to different types of goodies like guides, custom GPTs, downloadables, and more.
AI news and AI fail remain free as always.
Let’s get to it.
🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
👩💻 AI releases
New stuff you can try right now:
Anthropic released an upgrade of its midrange model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which now is the the current best LLM, outperforming Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o on most benchmarks. And it’s free to use!
Brave Browser’s built-in AI assistant Leo now incorporates live search results in its answers.
Eleven Labs launched a video-to-sound-effects demo site that automatically generates sound effects for any uploaded video.
Perplexity now displays certain queries like weather, time, and currency conversions as visual cards instead of text.
🔬 AI research
Cool stuff you might get to try one day:
Runway teased its upcoming Gen-3 Alpha video model, which shows major leaps in fidelity, consistency, and motion.
Google DeepMind showcased its video-to-audio (V2A) research, which can add realistic sounds, music, and even dialogue that matches a video scene.
Roblox is working on 4D generative AI tools that let creators make new interactive assets with consistent physics.
📖 AI resources
Helpful stuff that teaches you about AI:
“AI Won't Be AGI, Until It Can At Least Do This” [VIDEO] - a deep dive into the current limitations of LLMs and research to make them better by AI Explained.
“The Goldilocks Zone: AI is Oil, not God” - a curious take on the current trajectory of AI by
.“She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures” [VIDEO] - Dan Shipper’s chat with Clair Vo who built ChatPRD on her own.
🔀 AI random
Other notable AI stories of the week:
Sam Altman is considering to turn OpenAI into a for-profit business.
After leaving OpenAI in May, Ilya Sutskever is starting a new company called Safe Superintelligence Inc. with the sole goal of developing, uh, safe superintelligence.
NVIDIA is releasing a family of open models called Nemotron-4 340B, which let developers generate high-quality synthetic data to train LLMs on.
🤦♂️ 10. AI fail of the week
Before settling on this version, ChatGPT had a full-on medieval torture moment:
Sunday poll
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💰 Sunday Bonus #16: How to make a “Spot The Differences” puzzle with ChatGPT
Who doesn’t like a good “Spot The Differences” puzzle?
“People over the age of five,” you say?
Nonsense!
Then why would a respectable organization like All-Star Puzzles make them for adults?
In any case, if your kids (or you) enjoy finding differences between two pictures, there’s a pretty easy way to make those on your own.
All you need is a ChatGPT Plus account with DALL-E 3 access and image editing features.
Here’s how: