The Daily Index — Monday, June 12, 2023 · TLDR Index

ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

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BREAKTHROUGH IN DENSE PIXEL WISE TRACKING, EVEN WITH OCCLUSIONS

In 2015, there was a breakthrough in representing continuous values with a 6D number. This work rhymes in that they propose representing videos as a 3D volume. By matching between that representation and pixel space, they can perform quite long term tracking of arbitrary pixels in a video.

omnimotion.github.io · 4 min

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LLMS ARE GOOD AT PLAYING YOU

An exploration into the eerie human-like features of LLMs and how they hold promise for some fields and trouble for others.

lcamtuf.substack.com · 5 min

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CONGRESS TO CONSIDER TWO NEW AI BILLS

U.S. senators introduced two separate bipartisan artificial intelligence bills on Thursday amid growing interest in addressing issues surrounding the technology. One would require the U.S. government to be transparent when using AI to interact with people and the other would establish an office to determine if the United States is remaining competitive in the latest technologies.

archive.ph · 2 min

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CHATGPT ONLY KNOWS 25 JOKES

Two German researchers, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released a paper that examines the ability of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 to understand and generate humor. They discovered that ChatGPT's knowledge of jokes is fairly limited: During a test run, 90 percent of 1,008 generations were the same 25 jokes.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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HEY, ALEXA, WHAT SHOULD STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT AI?

Tech giants, universities, and nonprofits are working to provide lessons on artificial intelligence to students in schools. There is currently no national consensus on what should be taught about the technology. Current curriculums cover a range of topics, from the basics of AI to how to program Alexa.

archive.ph · 8 min