The Daily Index — Thursday, June 15, 2023 · TLDR Index

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TLDR AI

EUROPEANS TAKE A MAJOR STEP TOWARD REGULATING AI

The European Parliament has passed a draft law for regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The law restricts the use of AI in certain high-risk areas, such as in the legal system. It would also require companies to disclose more information about the data they use to create AI systems.

archive.ph · 3 min

TLDR Web Dev

NATIVE JSON OUTPUT FROM GPT-4

The new GPT API features function calling, making it easier to connect with external tools and APIs. It can output JSON instead of just strings when making function calls. Function calling basically gives developers lower-level access to the large language model, making developing on top of the GPT API easier. This article goes through an example of using the API properly and the implications of this new feature.

yonom.substack.com · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

SOUTH KOREAN BITCOIN LENDING PLATFORM DELIO PAUSES WITHDRAWALS

Delio, a South Korean digital asset manager and lending platform, has temporarily halted customer withdrawals to protect user assets amid heightened market volatility and confusion following Haru Invest's recent suspension of crypto deposits and withdrawals. Delio has committed to regularly update its users about the situation and measures taken to safeguard their assets. Founded in 2018, Delio reportedly holds an estimated $1 billion in Bitcoin, $200 million in Ether and about $8.1 billion in altcoins.

cointelegraph.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

SYNTHESIA RAISES $90M SERIES C

Synthesia announced a $90M Series C funding round led by Accel. The funds will boost their mission to make video creation easy for everyone, driving their AI research and enhancing their collaborative video editing platform with better avatar technology, real-time collaboration, and enhanced sharing functionality.

synthesia.io · 4 min

TLDR AI

AMD REVEALS NEW AI CHIP TO CHALLENGE NVIDIA’S DOMINANCE

AMD announced its latest AI-dedicated GPU, the MI300X, set to ship later this year. The chip poses a robust challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market. This launch aligns with AMD's strategic focus on AI, a sector forecasted to grow from $30 billion to over $150 billion by 2027. Designed for large language models, the MI300X, with its superior memory capacity and support for ROCm software, could drive down costs of AI applications and tap into Nvidia's market share.

cnbc.com · 3 min

TLDR AI

IMPROVING ANOMALY DETECTION

Multivariate time series anomaly detection (MTAD) is important for many real-world applications like smart surveillance and risk management. In this study, the authors create a new system called Coupled Attention-based Neural Network (CAN) to better detect these anomalies. It uses a special network that can adapt to changing data, making it more accurate in different scenarios.

arxiv.org · 18 min

TLDR AI

SOVIT: A MORE EFFICIENT VISION TRANSFORMER

This research presents SoViT, a vision transformer that has been optimized for size and shape using advanced scaling methods, resulting in performance competitive with much larger models, but with less computation. Through tests across various tasks like image classification, captioning, visual question answering, and zero-shot transfer, SoViT demonstrates its effectiveness, indicating a new direction for optimizing, rather than simply scaling up vision models.

arxiv.org · 24 min

TLDR AI

A MORE EFFECTIVE RGB-D OBJECT DETECTOR

In this research, the authors created a better way to detect objects in combined color-depth (RGB-D) images using a new training method that requires less supervision and separates different kinds of data effectively.

arxiv.org · 18 min

TLDR AI

BIPARTISAN BILL DENIES SECTION 230 PROTECTION FOR AI

Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI, per a new bill introduced Wednesday that was shared exclusively with Axios.

axios.com · 2 min