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Can LLMs earn $1M freelancing?

HackerPulse Dispatch • 5 implied HN points • 21 Feb 25
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Software Development Multimodal models Freelancing
  1. AI models are being tested to see if they can earn a million dollars through freelancing. But it turns out many of them struggle with real-world tasks.
  2. A new video model can create high-quality videos from text descriptions. It uses advanced techniques to improve video quality and generation.
  3. Small AI models can perform better when they are trained on easier tasks instead of trying to learn from more complex ones.

Import AI 361: GPT-4 hacking; theory of minds in LLMs; and scaling MoEs + RL

Import AI • 359 implied HN points • 19 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Research Cybersecurity Multimodal models Language Models
  1. Researchers have discovered how to scale up Reinforcement Learning (RL) using Mixture-of-Experts models, potentially allowing RL agents to learn more complex behaviors.
  2. Recent research shows that advanced language models like GPT-4 are capable of autonomous hacking, raising concerns about cybersecurity threats posed by AI.
  3. Adapting off-the-shelf AI models for different tasks, even with limited computational resources, is becoming easier, indicating a proliferation of AI capabilities for various applications.

Import AI 358: The US Government’s biggest AI training run; hacking LLMs by hacking GPUs; chickens versus transformers

Import AI • 319 implied HN points • 29 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Cybersecurity Multimodal models Generative models
  1. Hackers can exploit GPU vulnerabilities to read data from LLM sessions, highlighting security risks in AI infrastructures.
  2. AI will enhance cyberattacks and empower malicious actors, posing a significant threat to cybersecurity by increasing efficiency and sophistication of attacks.
  3. The US government conducted a substantial AI training run but lags behind private industry, showcasing the need for advancements in supercomputing capabilities for large-scale AI models.

Agentic AI: Creating An AI Agent Which Can Navigate The Internet

Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots • 19 implied HN points • 17 Jul 24
🕹 Technology AI Web Development Machine Learning Multimodal models Automation
  1. WebVoyager is an AI agent that can browse the web by analyzing screenshots and deciding what to do next. It works like a human browsing the internet, using both visual and text information.
  2. The agent interacts with webpages by performing actions like clicking, scrolling, and typing. This allows it to complete tasks on websites without needing help from humans.
  3. WebVoyager's ability to handle complex web navigation shows the potential of AI agents to perform useful tasks autonomously. It learns to navigate better by using real-world websites rather than just simplified models.

Multimodal LM roundup: Unified IO 2, inputs and outputs, Gemini, LLaVA-RLHF, and RLHF questions

Democratizing Automation • 126 implied HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Multimodal models Datasets
  1. Multi-modal models are advancing to complement information processing capabilities by incorporating diverse inputs and outputs.
  2. Unified IO 2 introduces a novel autoregressive multimodal model capable of generating and understanding images, text, audio, and action through shared semantic space processing.
  3. LLaVA-RLHF explores new factually augmented RLHF techniques and datasets to bridge misalignment between different modalities and enhance multimodal models.
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Meta's V-JEPA vision models, OpenAI's Sora video model, Gemini 1.5 Pro with 1 million tokens context, Reka Flash, Largest text-to-speech AI model and more

AI Brews • 32 implied HN points • 16 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Language Models Multimodal models Text-to-Speech
  1. OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model capable of creating detailed videos up to 60 seconds long with vibrant emotions.
  2. Meta AI unveiled V-JEPA, a method for teaching machines to understand the physical world by watching videos, using self-supervised learning for feature prediction.
  3. Google announced Gemini 1.5 Pro with a context window of up to 1 million tokens, allowing for advanced understanding and reasoning tasks across different modalities like video.

Meet the AI researcher that is unamused with certain uses for AI.

superartificial • 19 implied HN points • 15 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Research Multimodal models Chatbot
  1. AI researcher Meredith Broussard warns about harmful applications of AI, emphasizing the importance of considering social factors.
  2. OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will allow turning text into video, with caution advised by CEO Sam Altman.
  3. ChatGPT has reached over 100 million users, partnering with Microsoft and facing criticism from Elon Musk.

Mixture of Experts LLM shows real promise in healthcare; the future of AI is multimodal and multilingual; why AI is having a 1995 moment; a closer look at diffusion transformers;

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Multimodal models Generative models
  1. Generative AI models like BiMediX, PALO, and GLaMM are advancing healthcare, language models, and image understanding in multilingual settings.
  2. Innovative models like MobilLlama aim to make AI more accessible by running on affordable hardware and being optimized for mobile devices.
  3. AI applications in various industries, such as journalism, construction, and e-commerce, are enhancing safety, optimizing workflows, and transforming user experiences.