Thread by @aakashg0

The last 45 days have been the biggest ever in AI.

All of this happened:

GPT-4
Auto-GPT
Midjourney v5
Runway #Gen2
Viral Drake Songs
ChatGPT in Robots

Here are the key takeaways from a crazy month and a half in AI 🧵

March 14: GPT-4

We were already collectively losing our minds over GPT-3.5. Then, GPT-4 dropped 🤯

@skirano created pong the very same day.

March 15: Midjourney v5

After having our minds blown by GPT-4's code and text, the very next day @midjourney v5 dropped.

The photorealism was unreal from the get-go. @DotCSV created the iconic sad Darth Vader drinking a Coke.

@juliewdesign_ showed us its full power a few days later.

March 20: Runway Gen2

After having our minds blown by text and image, video was next.

@runwayml released the next generation of its excellent text-to-video model.

@ChristianF369 showed us just how powerful the tool can be.

March 30: AutoGPT

We thought there wasn’t going to be another modality to wow us until AutoGPT dropped.

It uses GPT to write itself tasks.

And days later @SigGravitas added code execution.

Autonomous AI became a reality.

April 4: Heart on My Sleeve Released

After text, code, image, and video, what was left? Audio!

We completed the circle on all forms of creative media when TikTok user ghostwriter977 spawned the viral song of the year.

And then he did it again with a Bad Bunny x Rihanna drop.

The music labels have been reporting videos 24 hours a day to take them down.

April 17: DINOv2

We didn't just see advancements in generative AI. We also saw advancements in computer vision.

Meta released mind-blowing transformers to identify moving objects.

April 20: WebGPT

19-year-old genius @willdepue released a way to run chatGPT natively in your browser.

@SullyOmarr explained how this tech opens up the door for a massive play by Apple.

https://twitter.com/SullyOmarr/status/1651275484573966336

April 25: GPT Robots

Just when we thought the innovation had to slow down, Boston Dynamics put ChatGPT into their robot dog Spot.

Compelling AI in our homes looks closer than ever.

Bonus: #NeRFs took off

Although not released in the last month and a half, #NeRFs powered by @LumaLabsAI did take off.

Artists like @karenxcheng showed us just how powerful the tech is.

I thought we just needed to take a step back in and look at it all.

We are in a Cambrian explosion of AI advancement.

Language
Imagery
Music
Video
Code

Everything's moving at exponential speed - and accelerating.

What a time to be alive.

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