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XGen, a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length from SalesForce

MLOps Newsletter • 78 implied HN points • 05 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI/ML Weather Climate Models Libraries
  1. ClimaX is a deep learning model designed for weather and climate tasks like forecasting temperature and predicting extreme weather events.
  2. XGen is a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length, achieving state-of-the-art results in tasks like MMLU, QA, and HumanEval.
  3. GPT-4 API from OpenAI provides easy access to a powerful language model capable of generating text, translating languages, and answering questions.

GPT-4 invalidates the Turing test

Gray Mirror • 110 implied HN points • 13 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Computing Intelligence Models Algorithms
  1. Large language models like GPT-4 are not AI, but they are powerful tools that connect patterns and rely on intuition.
  2. The Turing test is not a valid test for AGI, as machines like LLMs can invalidate it by excelling in certain tasks while lacking in others.
  3. Understanding the difference between general and special intelligence is key to not overestimating the capabilities of tools like GPT-4.
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Where is Midjourney for video? Text to video is coming (but not here yet)

Mythical AI • 98 implied HN points • 24 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Video Tools Research Papers Models
  1. Creating videos from text prompts is challenging because it involves understanding and replicating movement besides images.
  2. Existing text to image systems are amazing but doing text to video requires additional capabilities.
  3. While there are research papers and tools for text to video, there's no high-quality solution yet, but advancements are expected in the future.

ChatGPT vs Google's Bard: A Side-by-Side Comparison and Why It Matters | Join Me for an AI Happy Hour in SF!

The A.I. Analyst by Ben Parr • 98 implied HN points • 23 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Comparison Programming Generative AI Models
  1. Google's Bard falls short compared to Open AI's ChatGPT in various tasks like essay writing and problem-solving.
  2. Open AI's ChatGPT outperformed Google's Bard in a side-by-side comparison in tasks like math problem-solving and coding.
  3. The quality of AI technology, like ChatGPT, influences public opinion about tech giants and their future.

Gaia Network: a practical, incremental pathway to Open Agency Architecture

Engineering Ideas • 19 implied HN points • 20 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Networks Economics Design Models
  1. Gaia Network offers a practical solution for Open Agency Architecture, leveraging proven software and economic mechanisms.
  2. Gaia Network functions as an evolving repository of causal models for improving decision-making and coordination.
  3. The design of Gaia Network promotes ease of adoption, real-world impact, and collaborative development to meet the goals of Open Agency Architecture.

Can We Prevent LLMs From Hallucinating?

Brett DiDonato • 3 HN points • 21 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Models Context
  1. Preventing LLMs like ChatGPT from hallucinating entirely is a challenge, but technological advancements are helping reduce hallucination rates.
  2. Techniques such as using better models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), larger context windows, and improved grounding can significantly reduce model hallucinations.
  3. Hallucinations in large language models are caused by the autoregressive nature of the models and the lack of logical grounding, but advancements in model quality and techniques are making complex AI applications more feasible.

Should You Use AI to Diagnose Patients: Foresight and ChatGPT

AI for Healthcare • 78 implied HN points • 20 Mar 23
🏥 Health & Wellness AI Diagnosis Healthcare Models Patient Care
  1. Using AI for diagnosing patients is not recommended yet due to lack of real-world healthcare testing.
  2. Foresight and ChatGPT are two AI models explored for patient diagnosis, with Foresight showing slightly superior relevancy performance.
  3. AI models like Foresight can be valuable in healthcare for decision support, patient monitoring, digital twins, education, and matching patients to clinical trials.

🥊 The Google vs OpenAI boxing match continues

Year 2049 • 6 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Models Video Research
  1. OpenAI and Google are continuously surprising with new AI advancements like Gemini 1.5 Pro and Sora.
  2. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro features a 1 million token context window and uses innovative architecture for improved performance.
  3. OpenAI's Sora introduces text-to-video capabilities with impressive video generation but still faces challenges in certain scenarios.

Open Agency model can solve the AI regulation dilemma

Engineering Ideas • 19 implied HN points • 08 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Regulation Models Antitrust Surveillance
  1. Concerns about AI regulation revolve around AI monopolization and concentration of power.
  2. The Open Agency model proposes approved specialized AI services and glue AIs to prevent concentration of power.
  3. This model aims to address core concerns of anti-AI regulation individuals regarding power concentration and freedom of political and ethical views.

How the field of "AI" got like this

Apperceptive (moved to buttondown) • 20 implied HN points • 02 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Computer Science Deep Learning Models
  1. The field of AI can be hostile to individuals who are not white men, which hinders progress and innovation.
  2. The history of AI showcases past failures and the subsequent shift towards more practical, engineering-focused approaches like machine learning.
  3. Success in the AI field is heavily reliant on performance advancements on known benchmarks, emphasizing practical engineering solutions.

#38

The Nibble • 12 implied HN points • 17 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Models Language Robotics Programming
  1. Interesting developments in Indian Language Models and AI projects
  2. OpenAI bans TikTok for using GPT to train their own AI model
  3. New advancements like Stable Zero123 for 3D Object views and Tesla's Optimus Gen 2 humanoid prototype

The Most Generated Barn in America

Cybernetic Forests • 79 implied HN points • 08 Jan 23
🕹 Technology AI Ontology Images Data Models
  1. Different names proposed before settling on 'photograph' offer unique perspectives on how people made sense of images.
  2. AI images are not photographs, as they use light differently and inscribe ontologies onto noise using data and categories.
  3. Ontolography, a proposed term for AI-generated images, emphasizes the domain-specific knowledge influencing their production and underlines how they are shaped by the category assignments and labels given to them.

Intelligence in the World

New World Same Humans • 15 implied HN points • 12 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Data Energy Infrastructure Models
  1. Intelligence is becoming infrastructural, like a new form of energy, powering the world in the Exponential Age.
  2. In the Exponential Age, intelligence is becoming superabundant, available everywhere, like never before in history.
  3. Intelligence in the new world is seen as a new form of energy that does useful work in the digital-physical field, driving a variety of technologies.

#34

The Nibble • 12 implied HN points • 19 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Models Apps Messaging Fonts
  1. OpenAI is working on GPT-5 and aims for AGI - artificial general intelligence.
  2. Google introduces new multimodal model Mirasol, surpassing their 80B Flamingo model.
  3. Apple plans to support RCS messages from Android phones next year.

Understanding Google's GPT-Killer- The Revolutionary Pathways Architecture [Storytime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 39 implied HN points • 19 Feb 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Models Training
  1. Google's Bard is designed to be more versatile than ChatGPT, with a unique model architecture called Pathways.
  2. Google's approach includes training a single model for multiple tasks, working with different modalities like images and text, and using sparse activation to specialize network parts.
  3. The Pathways architecture sets Google apart by enabling their AI models to handle a wide range of tasks, making them cost-effective and versatile.

The Context Window Dillema

Davis Treybig • 19 implied HN points • 24 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Research Models Attention Architecture Innovation
  1. The driving factor limiting context window size is the quadratic scaling of self-attention in transformers.
  2. New research explores alternative mechanisms like Hyena Operators, State Space Models, and hierarchical attention to improve context window efficiency.
  3. Emphasis is placed on the importance of context curation and retrieval systems over simply increasing context window size for effective LLM performance.

#35

The Nibble • 7 implied HN points • 26 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Chips Models
  1. Facebook expressed involved in their AI chips business.
  2. OpenAI released ChatGPT with voice available for all free users.
  3. Bill Gates suggests AI advancement may lead to a 3-day work week.

Ground-truth-in-the-loop

Yuxi’s Substack • 19 implied HN points • 18 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Data Systems Models
  1. Ground-truth-in-the-loop is crucial for designing and evaluating systems, especially in AI and machine learning.
  2. For AI systems, having trustworthy training data, evaluation feedback, and a reliable world model is essential.
  3. Researchers should inform non-experts about limitations and potential issues when building systems without ground-truth.

Update #47: AI Index Report Highlights and Text-to-3D

The Gradient • 20 implied HN points • 11 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Research Models Publications Generative models
  1. The AI Index Report highlights industry leading in AI research over academia, new models reaching performance saturation, and a rise in AI misuse.
  2. Publication trends show an increase in journal articles over conference papers, industry surpassing academia in impactful research, and increased industry hiring over academia.
  3. Advancements in text-to-3D models leverage text-to-2D models, showing progress in generating 3D data from text descriptions.

This Week in LLM Land

Prompt Engineering • 19 implied HN points • 28 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Models Open Source Engineering Research
  1. ChatGPT conversations are now shareable to prevent screenshot sharing and misinformation.
  2. Tree-of-thoughts prompting is a new approach where LLM is prompted with multiple initial steps and evaluates each one.
  3. A new highly performant open-source model called Guanaco outperforms previous models and was fine-tuned using a new approach named QLoRA.