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Hello, AI Enthusiasts!

Welcome to FavTutor’s AI Recap! We’ve gathered all the latest and important AI developments from the past week in one place, just for you.

In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

  • Hi Students, Get Ready for AI-Powered Textbooks

  • Apple Intelligence’s Secret Prompts on macOS Revealed

  • Google launches Gemma 2 2B, a small and flexible model

  • This New AI Model can listen while speaking

  • Nvidia scraping Millions of Videos Per Day for Training AI

AI
📚️ Hi Students, Get Ready for AI-Powered Textbooks

The South Korean Government has decided that starting in March 2025, AI textbooks will be introduced for many subjects. AI-powered textbooks are dynamic educational tools that use machine learning algorithms to provide personalized learning experiences.

Insights for you:

  • AI textbooks will be introduced in South Korea as soon as 2025.

  • The programme has received mixed reception from teachers and parents.

  • Big companies like LG and Samsung are already working on AI hardware for such a massive change.

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Apple
🔑 Apple Intelligence’s Secret Prompts on macOS Revealed

When some of the users dug deep into the Apple Intelligence model on Sequoia, they found that AI features were being implemented by just passing some prompts to the LLM. These backend prompts read: “Do not hallucinate. Do not make up factual information.”

Insights for you:

  • Apple Intelligence features are currently in developer betas stage for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.

  • A Reddit User shared some backend prompts including: “Do not hallucinate”.

  • Apple Intelligence is going to be released to the public in the upcoming iOS 18 update.

Google
⚡️ Google launches Gemma 2 2B, a small and flexible model

We saw a lot of LLMs launched this year and now, Google has joined the party! They launched its latest addition, Gemma 2 2B. Despite being small in size, the model is very efficient.

Insights for you:

  • Google unveiled a lightweight Gemma 2 2 B model under the Gemma 2 series.

  • Google has also launched GemmaScope to help researchers and developers gain access to how Gemma 2 has been built.

  • On the Chatbot Arena Elo Score, Gemma 2 has outperformed all the other open models like Mixtral, GPT 3.5, Llama 2 and Gemma 1.1.

AI
👂️ This New AI Model can listen while speaking

AI researchers have developed a new AI model called LSLM (Listening-While-Speaking Language Model. What makes it special is that it can listen and speak simultaneously; advancing real-time, interactive speech-based AI conversations.

Insights for you:

  • The new model LSLM enables full-duplex modelling, great for interactive speech-language models.

  • LSLM employs a token-based decoder-only TTS for speech generation and a streaming self-supervised learning (SSL) encoder for real-time audio input.

  • It demonstrated how AI models are becoming good at understanding noise and sensitivity to diverse instructions in experiments.

NVIDIA
🤯 Nvidia scraping Millions of Videos Per Day for Training AI

According to 404Media Report, Nvidia is downloading videos on YouTube and several other sources to train its AI Models. The report also said that employees who raised concerns were told that the practice had the green light from the "highest levels of the company."

Insights for you:

  • Nvidia used open-source tools to scrap YouTube videos that included movies and TV shows from streaming platforms.

  • This will be a massive violation of copyright infringement if it’s true.

  • However, The Tech Giant claims its practices are "in full compliance with the letter and spirit of copyright law."