Hey there, fellow biohackers, builders, and entrepreneurial wizards!

Welcome to this week's edition of FYFY. I'm Dom, your guide on this journey, where we'll delve into transforming purpose into reality and unlocking your potential. My mission is to empower 21,000 European thinker-doers by 2025 to leverage exponential technologies and impact a billion lives by the end of this decade.

If you're anything like me, sipping that home-brewed kombucha (just kidding, I’ll stay true to my coffee addiction 😄) while turning the gears of innovation, you're likely intrigued by the breakneck speed of AI advancements. It's like every time we blink, a new development emerges that has the potential to reshape our understanding of what's possible. So, let's delve into this week's AI news. Who knows, we might just stumble upon the next big thing to 10X our productivity and contribute to uplifting humanity. After all, that's why we're here, right?

This week's AI highlights include Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5.2 revolutionising gaming and filmmaking with its Machine Learning Deformer, ChatGPT Plus bringing web browsing capabilities and OpenAI is preparing to launch their first open-sourced language model, and Amazon's 'Burnham' project poised to enhance their Astro robot's intelligence while transforming the search experience.

Here are two examples. You can find 10 more videos, links and demos here:

These advancements showcase the vast potential applications of AI, from entertainment to accessibility, and underline the importance of collaboration between industry leaders and policymakers in shaping AI's trajectory.

Additionally, Apple has joined Samsung in restricting internal use of ChatGPT due to privacy concerns, even as OpenAI released its official ChatGPT app on the iOS Store for Apple iPhones. However, it is not yet available on the German app store. Regulation is an essential topic in this space, which I discussed a few weeks ago, alongside announcing our experiments with local Llama models.

So far, the smaller models I've tested, such as GPT4ALL, have performed well with simple tasks like identifying the capital of Germany:

Next, I plan to integrate our offline content to fine-tune the model to our knowledge base.

Why, you ask?

There's a possibility that Europeans may eventually be denied access to OpenAI's API or ChatGPT services. In that case, competing with US or Chinese services powered by generative AI models would require a backup plan – even if it's currently less capable.

Yours truly,

-- Dom

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