Welcome (back) to AI Minds, a newsletter about the brainy and sometimes zany world of AI, brought to you by the Deepgram editorial team.

In this edition:

• 🎦 Does Marc Andreessen’s “AI Will Save the World” Article Hold Up?

• 🛑 The biggest hurdle to Building AI Agents

• 🎹 AI Fine-Tuning Resources You Absolutely Need

• 🎷 AI’s role in Creative Expression, Storytelling, and Music

• 📸 Mora: The Biggest Competitor to OpenAI’s Sora

• 🐦 Twitter: Andrew Ng and Marc Andreesen on AI Governance

• ❓ Stanford Professor Explains the 2 Biggest LLM Mistakes

• 📲 Trending, New AI Apps for You!

• 🎤 New Episode of the AI Minds Podcast with CEO and Co-Founder Siddharth Sinha

• 🤖 Bonus content: AGI is a fantasy, Mixture of Experts, and more!

• 📝 Free Transcription Forever! Best Speech-to-Text AI Tool

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🎥 Marc Andreessen’s AI Manifesto - Does it hold up one year later?

It’s been almost exactly one year since Marc Andreessen wrote this article, which argues that AI will not kill us all and will instead save the world. The video above, published three days after the original 7000-word article, elaborates on his arguments, especially in regards to preventing China’s AI dominance. Do his words still hold up? What do you think?

🏇 The Biggest Hurdle to Building AI Agents & The Best AI Fine-Tuning Resources

The Biggest Hurdle to Building AI Agents - What’s the hardest obstacle to overcome in the seemingly endless pursuit of building a real-life JARVIS or HAL-9000? Is it a hardware limitation? Network constraints? Model space/time complexity? Well, there’s one word that sums all of these issues up. Find out what that word is in this article!

Fine-Tuning Your AI: Resources You Need - What are the best datasets for fine-tuning AI? What are the worst? How should you be measuring fine-tuning progress? In this article, we show you a series of resources you can use to build the most powerful AI possible. Check it out!

🧑‍🔬 AI’s Role in Creative Expression and Sora’s Biggest Competitor

Harmonizing the voices of AI: Exploring generative music models, voice cloning, and voice transfer for creative expression - This paper delves into the mechanics and impact of generative music models, followed by an examination of voice cloning technologies and their ethical implications. It then explores the application of voice transfer in music creation and its extension to other forms of storytelling and podcasting.

Mora: Enabling Generalist Video Generation via A Multi-Agent Framework - In response to the lack of competition to OpenAI’s Sora, this paper proposes a new multi-agent framework Mora. This new model can utilize multiple visual agents and successfully mimic Sora's video generation capabilities in various tasks, from text-to-video generation, to video-to-video editing, to simulating digital worlds.

🐝 Ng & Andreessen on Government, and Stanford Professor on LLM Mistakes

📲 New AI Apps For You!

Clueso helps SaaS companies create stunning product videos and docs in minutes. Clueso AI converts ordinary screen recordings into studio-quality videos and step-by-step documentation with screenshots/GIFs in minutes.

Tavrn leverages state-of-the-art AI technology to automate and streamline tasks that traditionally require manual effort and extensive time. For ad agencies, it acts as a comprehensive project management bot, reviewing timelines, communicating with team members, and ensuring seamless progress towards task completion.

🎙️ AI Minds Podcast! 

In this episode of AIMinds, Demetrios is joined by the CEO of Dresma Inc. and Co-founder of DoMyShoot, Siddharth Sinha. 

DoMyShoot is a platform intended to solve the challenges of Amazon sellers in optimizing their product content. Siddharth shares his evolution as a tech enthusiast and the customer-centric philosophy that makes reliable, robust and cost-effective solutions paramount.

 🤖 Additional Bits and Bytes

Here’s some bonus content for anyone who was nice enough to scroll this far! Check out these odds-and-ends of the AI world:

• Is AGI Just a Fantasy? The video above features Nick Frosst, the co-founder of Cohere discussing whether AGI is legitimately possible and the future of LLMs in general.

• Mixture of Experts: How an Ensemble of AI Models Decide As One - Perhaps the most underrated advancement in the world of AI, mixture of experts was originally proposed in 1991, but didn’t reach its full potential until today

• Data Poisoning - What is data poisoning, and how can you tell whether it's already occurred in your personal datasets? Find out here.

• The 4 Best AI Coding CoPilots (besides Github’s) - Sure Github Copilot is good, but perhaps the world is ready for an upgrade. Check out this article to see how Copilot may soon be outshined.

📝 Free Transcription Forever! New Speech-to-Text AI Tool

Check out the LinkedIn post below to see what CMO Marcel Santilli has in store for you! If you want or need free transcription, check out the video attached to the post to see what Deepgram has to offer.