The Daily Index — Tuesday, June 13, 2023 · TLDR Index

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LLAMAINDEX RAISES $8.5M SEED ROUND

LlamaIndex, an innovative platform aiming to connect LLMs and private data, has secured $8.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Greylock. The company’s solution aims to make it easier for developers to leverage the reasoning capabilities of LLMs over their own data. The funding is set to expand LlamaIndex’s open-source data framework and tackle data-related challenges for enterprises at scale.

medium.com · 8 min

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CAN FOUNDATION MODELS LABEL DATA LIKE HUMANS?

The recent hype in language models has led to statements like "our model is preferred to ChatGPT N% of the time". This statement usually hides the fact that GPT4 was the model doing the preferring. Wrapped up in that is all sorts of questions about calibration, reliability, and the plain fact that GPT4 prefers models that output more tokens per response. This blog dives into these details and the Open LLM leaderboard.

huggingface.co · 18 min

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DECODING BIASES IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Understanding how AI language models react to slight changes in their inputs is vital for ensuring fairness and usefulness, but it's not an easy task. A new method called Contrastive Input Decoding (CID) has been introduced to shed light on these subtle differences by generating text that reflects the unique characteristics of two slightly different inputs, thus making the AI's responses more understandable and manageable.

arxiv.org · 12 min

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RL4F: IMPROVING AI PERFORMANCE WITH COLLABORATIVE FEEDBACK

RL4F is a new method that uses a smaller, critique-generating AI to help a much larger AI like GPT-3 fix its mistakes, much like how humans improve from feedback. By studying different tasks like planning, summarizing, and alphabetizing, researchers found that this approach improved the big AI's performance by about 5% on average.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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IDEA

Trying to shape AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea. Instead, we should focus on creating institutions that ensure that everyone can thrive in an automated economy.

noahpinion.blog · 8 min

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IMPLICIT CODE EXECUTION MAKES BARD SMARTER

Two cool new features are launching in Bard soon. The first is the ability to export responses into Google sheets and the second enables code to be run in the background to improve the reliability and accuracy of outputs. Bard will be able to detect if a question requires math, logic, or code reasoning and execute code in the backend to get answers.

blog.google · 5 min

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SALESFORCE TOUTS AI STRATEGY

Salesforce is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment in AI startups as the company banks on the emerging technology to help resuscitate sales growth.

archive.ph · 2 min