Tooling

This Cool Tools Recomendo features a YouTube video on the history of blue lasers, a PDF guide to camera terms, and a website that displays real-time images of Earth. via Cool Tools

Chatbot Arena is an open platform that uses crowdsourced human feedback to evaluate and rank large language models through pairwise comparisons. via Hugging Face

Google Search is getting refined to combat spam and low-quality content, including AI content and sites exploiting domain authority. via The Verge

The SDXL Lightning demo app is currently unavailable, but you can explore the repository and tutorial while it's on a short break.

via SDXL Lightning - by fal.ai

A new paper reviews Sora, a text-to-video AI model, covering its background, applications, challenges, and future directions.

Grow your own fresh mushrooms at home with GUS, a tabletop planter. via Colossal.

This in-depth analysis by Tim Dettmers examines the best GPUs for deep learning in 2023, covering topics like GPU functionality, important specs, and recommendations for different needs. via Tim Dettmers

A data scientist experimented with using incentives and penalties in ChatGPT prompts to see how they impacted output quality, but found no conclusive results. via minimaxir.com.

This issue of Recomendo recommends resources about space exploration, finding cheap hard drives, searching the old internet, and more.

via Recomendo.

Tyler Cowen discusses the potential commercial impact of Sora, a new AI video generation tool, on industries like entertainment and advertising. via Marginal Revolution.

A new NBER working paper suggests that analysis of manager's comments during conference calls using ChatGPT can predict future capital expenditure. The authors suggest that using ChatGPT in this way could forecast other policies such as dividends and employment.

via Marginal Revolution