Personality traits in LLMs 💁, AI weights not "open source" 🚫, Google testing medical chatbot 🏥, Midjourney - F.R.I.E.N.D.S Desi makeover 🥻

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This week in AI:

• Did you know LLMs have personality traits?

• Why AI model weights are not “open source”

• Google’s medical chatbot has begun tests in hospitals

• F.R.I.E.N.D.S cast try on a Desi fit with help from Midjourney

As promised… no fluff, only stuff that (really) matters. And yes, that includes memes, duh!

AI Tweet of the Week

The One Where Midjourney Directed F.R.I.E.N.D.S

There’s more in the thread. Go ahead, open it.

AI Meme of the Week

Wage Against The Pay Gap!

AI Industry News of the Week

Google's Medical Chatbot Tested in Hospitals

Summary: Google’s Med-PaLM 2, trained on data from medical licensing exams, has begun trials on real patients at the world-famous Mayo Clinic hospital. Google isn’t the only new player though: Microsoft is building similar chat-tech that promises to transform healthcare.

💡 Why does this matter?

• Improved access: Health-tech solutions like Med-PaLM 2 could significantly improve health outcomes in rural/remote regions that have a shortage of doctors.

• Competition is good: Challenges other healthcare chatbot incumbents like Babylon Health, Ada Health, Your.MD, bringing collaboration opportunities.

• Raising eyebrows: Google quietly changed its privacy policy recently. It will now use public data to train “language models”, which raises concerns about the quality of medical chatbots.

AI Product of the Week

Docus - AI Health Assistant Before You Go To The Doctor

Summary: Docus is an AI-powered medical assistant that provides health-related information, recommendations, and support based on medical history, symptoms, and other relevant factors.

💡 Feature highlights:

• Doctor validation: Hosts 300+ doctors who will validate the chatbot’s recommendations.

• Privacy friendly: Only wants to know your problem, not your personally identifiable data.

• Conversation report: Generates reports with the discussed symptoms, medical history, and probable diagnoses for a consultation with a doctor.

AI Opinion Piece of the Week

AI Weights Are Not “Open Source”

Summary: Sid Sijbrandij says AI licensing is extremely complex. Unlike software licensing, AI has multiple components—the source code, weights, data, etc.—that should be licensed differently. This is a major challenge.

💡 Why does this matter?

• Not exactly open: AI weights aren't "open source" like code. Weights are training outputs and are not human-readable.

• Lack of clarity: Existing licensing terminology can confuse. "Non-commercial" licenses don't cover ethical concerns like harm, bias, or misuse caused by the weights.

• Misleading: Without new AI licensing standards, the industry may engage in "open washing" - appearing open while maintaining proprietary practices.