A Soundtrack is coming to Oncology

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April 11, 2024

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A stealth startup just had its ChatGPT moment — for music.

The Internet is buzzing and waiting in line for Udio, an AI that creates a wide variety of amazing music from simple text prompts.

Enjoy this story and these other bites today:

  • Udio Had Their ChatGPT Moment

  • X-Ray Machines are Leveling Up

  • Google Cloud Enters the CPU Games

  • Can AI Have Infinite Memory?

  • Don’t Miss Stanford’s Annual Report on AI

Udio is a new app for music creation and sharing that generates incredible music in your favorite styles from a simple text prompt. Check it out!

Udio generates a song to teach nurses

Why it Matters

Soundtracks often require complex licensing arrangements, so we rarely see them in a business or medical context. That’s about to change. Get ready for a future where communication and learning are as fun as a catchy tune.

Google Cloud and Bayer announced a partnership where Google’s AI will assist radiologists in identifying anomalies.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announces Bayer deal

Why it Matters

Radiologists are facing a growing labor shortage with more that 1800 unfilled jobs in the USA today. As a result many radiologists are overworked and fighting burnout. AI is a power tool that boost their ability to read more scans, with less effort, and higher quality.

Google Cloud has released a more energy efficient chip that moves a lot of data processing to storage devices.

Why it Matters

Human intelligence is orders of magnitude more energy efficient than current AI. Chip makers and cloud providers are constantly looking to improve energy consumption, enabling AI to continue to grow. Google’s latest advance is a challenge to incumbents like Intel and AMD to produce more computing power with 30% less energy use.

Google Research just dropped a paper describing an “infinite context,” demonstrating AI with a context window of over 1M tokens.

Why it Matters

The “context” of an AI represents short term memory for solving problems, or learning from a few examples. With an infinite context, we can now include entire AI training sets in a single prompt, or massive health records, then ask questions of the AI for a quick response. Specialist AIs will soon be swapped out with a simple context switch, like an iPhone switching from one app to another.

The 2024 AI Index report, being published on April 15th, promises to be a must-read for industry leaders, policy makers and anyone interested in AI.

Why it Matters

Stanford HAI is ground zero for the AI revolution in Silicon Valley, a new department formed by Fei Fei Li who co-invented modern AI. The annual report promises to be a juicy deep dive into geopolitical issues, AGI debates, investing trends and AI breakthroughs. Sign up today to get your copy.