The Daily Index — Thursday, May 18, 2023 · TLDR Index

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Today’s Index

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AMERICANS HAVE NEVER BEEN SO UNWILLING TO RELOCATE FOR A NEW JOB

The share of job seekers who relocated for employment fell to its lowest level on record in the first quarter of 2023. A post-pandemic surge in remote and hybrid positions has made it possible for more workers to stay where they're living. Higher interest rates have made relocating more expensive. Diminishing job security has made the cost of relocating seem less of a safe investment.

archive.ph · 2 min

TLDR AI

ZAPIER AI OPEN LETTER

Zapier is focusing on developing AI-powered automation tools to allow everyone to create and customize software applications. By integrating with AI tools such as OpenAI, Leap, and Vowel, Zapier aims to streamline operations and provide tailored software solutions. The company has launched features like the Zapier ChatGPT plugin and the Natural Language Actions API. Additionally, it announced two new AI beta features: creating a Zap using plain English and allowing users to customize workflows without writing any code.

zapier.com · 9 min

TLDR Web Dev

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO PERFORMANCE BUDGETS

A performance budget is a threshold you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This article will teach you how to keep up your website's performance from how to select the most relevant metrics for performance, such as TTFB (time to first byte), start render time, and LCP (longest contentful paint), to getting buy-in from stakeholders and continuously monitoring the appropriate metrics.

speedcurve.com · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

THE PROMISE OF CRYPTO HAS NOT LIVED UP TO ITS INITIAL EXCITEMENT

This article from The Economist points to the deflated crypto market as “proof” that the technology hasn’t lived up to its hype. However, it points out some of the bright spots in the space, such as optimism in regions like Dubai and other regions where inflation is high or cross-border payments are difficult.

archive.ph · 6 min

TLDR

THE RETURN TO THE OFFICE HAS STALLED

Office usage rates have barely budged since the start of this year as most companies have settled into a hybrid work strategy.

archive.ph · 6 min

TLDR AI

DARKBERT: UNVEILING THE DARK WEB WITH A SPECIALIZED AI

DarkBERT is a new AI that's been trained specifically on the unique language used in the Dark Web, which is different from what you'd find on the regular internet. By comparing it to other AIs and looking at various use cases, we've found that DarkBERT is better at understanding and working with Dark Web text, making it a useful tool for future research in this area.

arxiv.org · 18 min

TLDR AI

SYMBOL TUNING: ENHANCING AI LEARNING WITH SYMBOLIC LABELS

Symbol tuning is a new way to train AIs, where we replace normal language labels (like "positive" or "negative") with random symbols (like "foo" or "bar"), forcing the AI to learn from the connections between inputs and labels. This method improves the AI's performance on new tasks, helps it understand instructions better, and makes it more skilled at logical reasoning tasks, with significant improvements seen across different benchmarks.

arxiv.org · 21 min

TLDR AI

BOUNDLESS DAS: UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERIES OF LARGE AI MODELS

Boundless DAS is a new method we've developed to better understand how large AI models, like Alpaca, work on the inside, by looking for understandable patterns in their behavior. We've found that Alpaca solves a simple number problem by using two understandable variables in a consistent way, no matter what the inputs or instructions are, which is an important step towards understanding how these complex AI models really work.

arxiv.org · 14 min

TLDR AI

AN INFLUENCERS AI CLONE WILL BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND FOR $1/MIN

Caryn Marjorie, a social media influencer, launched CarynAI, an AI chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology developed by OpenAI that replicates her voice, mannerisms and personality. For $1 a minute, fans can chat with CarynAI in an “immersive AI experience” that feels almost like speaking to Marjorie herself.

archive.ph · 4 min