The Daily Index — Wednesday, June 21, 2023 · TLDR Index

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Today’s Index

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OPENAI PLANS APP STORE FOR AI SOFTWARE, THE INFORMATION REPORTS

OpenAI plans to launch a marketplace for AI models built on top of its technology. Enterprise customers often tailor OpenAI's technology to their specific use cases. The marketplace would allow these customers to make their models available to other businesses. It will compete with other app stores, including one by Microsoft, and help OpenAI's technology reach more people.

reuters.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI PLANS AN APP STORE

OpenAI plans to launch a marketplace that will allow developers to sell their AI models built on top of its own AI technology.

archive.ph · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

HASHING

As a programmer, you use hash functions every day. They're used in databases to optimize queries, in data structures to make things faster, and in security to keep data safe. Almost every interaction you have with technology will involve hash functions in one way or another. This article is a visual guide to hash functions. It starts by looking at a simple hash function, then teaches how to test if a hash function is good or not, and finally looks at a real-world use for hash functions: the hash map.

samwho.dev · 16 min

TLDR Crypto

OPERATIONS

EDX Markets, a cryptocurrency exchange backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity Investments, and Charles Schwab, recently launched, quietly beginning to execute trades in the past few weeks. The platform aims to differentiate itself by operating as a noncustodial exchange, thus not directly handling customers' assets. Instead, it serves as a marketplace for firms to negotiate prices and settle trades independently. EDX intends to target brokers and institutional investors rather than individual ones. As of now, the exchange plans to list only four cryptocurrencies - BTC, ETH, LTC, and BCH, aiming to avoid potential issues with the SEC.

archive.ph · 3 min

TLDR Founders

WHY DUOLINGO HAS REPLACED TV ADS WITH TIKTOKS

An exploration into Duolingo’s new marketing strategy of making “unhinged” videos on TikTok, which has led to 6.7M followers on TikTok and 20.3M DAU.

archive.ph · 4 min

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RIVIAN IS THE NEXT AUTOMAKER TO ADOPT TESLA'S CHARGING PLUGS

The Combined Changing System (CCS) standard's connector and cable are big and unwieldy, unlike Tesla's more elegant alternative, the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Rivian will start building NACS ports into its vehicles in 2025. It will make adaptors available for its customers. Tesla charging sites will be added to Rivian's mobile and vehicle navigation apps.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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DEEPMIND'S CO-FOUNDER SUGGESTED TESTING AN AI CHATBOT'S ABILITY TO TURN $100,000 INTO $1 MILLION TO MEASURE HUMAN-LIKE INTELLIGENCE

Mustafa Suleyman, formerly head of applied AI at DeepMind and now CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, believes that the Turing test is an outdated method to test AI intelligence. The Turing test doesn't reveal information about what systems understand, whether they have established complex internal monologues, or if they engage in planning over abstract time horizons. Suleyman proposes a concept called artificial capable intelligence (ACI), where bots are able to complete short-term goals and tasks with little human input. Bots can achieve ACI by passing a modern Turing test that involves turning a $100,000 seed investment into $1 million. Suleyman believes that AI will be able to achieve that milestone in the next two years.

finance.yahoo.com · 4 min

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ROBOCAT: A SELF-IMPROVING ROBOTIC AGENT

RoboCat is a self-improving AI agent for robotics. It learns to perform tasks across different arms and then self-generates new training data to improve its technique. RoboCat can solve and adapt to multiple tasks across different robots. It learns much faster than other state-of-the-art models, picking up new tasks with as few as 100 demonstrations. A video demonstrating RoboCat's abilities is available in the article.

deepmind.com · 5 min

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HOW TO USE GITHUB COPILOT: PROMPTS, TIPS, AND USE CASES

This guide shares examples and best practices for communicating with GitHub Copilot. Generative AI coding tools are transforming the way developers work, but just like with any emerging tech, there is a learning curve. Learning how GitHub Copilot processes information can help developers adjust how they communicate with it.

github.blog · 12 min