The Daily Index — Wednesday, May 31, 2023 · TLDR Index

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HACKING MY SMART TOOTHBRUSH

The Phillips Sonicare toothbrush contains an NFC tag that communicates with the toothbrush handle to remind users when it is time to buy a new one.

kuenzi.dev · 6 min

TLDR AI

CHATGPT-LIKE AI MODEL

South Korean internet giant Naver plans to provide foreign governments with tailored versions of its latest ChatGPT-like AI model, focusing on localization to address political and cultural needs. The company is also set to launch HyperClova X, an upgrade to enhance its domestic services.

archive.ph · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

BINANCE EXPLORES LETTING SOME TRADERS KEEP COLLATERAL AT A BANK

Binance is reportedly in talks to allow institutional clients to hold their trading collateral in banks rather than on the platform to mitigate counterparty risk. This move comes in the wake of concerns over custody and segregation of assets following the FTX collapse. Under this arrangement, bank deposits could serve as collateral for margin trading. Banks that are reported as being involved in the program include Swiss-based FlowBank and Liechtenstein-based Bank Frick. This proposal aims to provide clients protection from potential exchange failures and align with new Asian and European regulatory standards.

archive.ph · 3 min

TLDR Founders

A NEW GENERATION OF STARTUP FOUNDERS

15-year-old Eric Zhu broke into the venture capital world with his daring methods and intricate knowledge. He is now co-managing Bachmanity Capital and has raised $1m for his company Aviato.

archive.is · 5 min

TLDR AI

STATEMENT ON AI RISK

A statement from leading AI researchers imploring society to treat the risk of extinction from AI similarly to pandemic and nuclear war.

safe.ai · 1 min

TLDR AI

GENERATE IMAGES WITH A LANGUAGE MODEL

Multimodal training of more than one data type has been gaining popularity recently. Usually, the model architecture requires complicated and somewhat brittle solutions. Gill is a cool new project that interleaves text tokens with image tokens to allow for truly multimodal input and output. The reported results are compelling although there are still limitations.

jykoh.com · 7 min

TLDR AI

CONTROLVIDEO: EXTENDING CONTROLNET TO VIDEOS

ControlVideo is a new way to edit videos based on written instructions, making the video more faithful and consistent with the text while maintaining the original video's structure. It achieves this by combining advanced techniques. ControlVideo improves upon previous methods in terms of accuracy and realism. It offers a lot of flexibility in how much of the original video information to use.

arxiv.org · 18 min

TLDR AI

BOOSTING LANGUAGE MODEL PERFORMANCE WITH SELF-NOTE TAKING METHOD

Large language models sometimes have trouble remembering things and thinking through multiple steps. A new method lets these models take notes on their own, helping them remember better and solve more complex problems.

arxiv.org · 6 min

TLDR AI

GORILLA: ENHANCING THE POWER OF LLMS IN GENERATING API CALLS

Gorilla, a refined model based on Large Language Models (LLMs), significantly outperforms existing models like GPT-4 in writing API calls. It helps language models use tools more effectively. Combined with a document retriever, Gorilla adjusts well to updated documents, minimizes inaccurate creations, and maintains the reliability of outputs, as demonstrated using a new comprehensive dataset called APIBench.

shishirpatil.github.io · 3 min