The Daily Index — Friday, June 30, 2023 · TLDR Index

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REP. TED LIEU PUSHES BACK ON CHATGPT RESTRICTIONS

Rep. Ted Lieu has criticized new House guidelines restricting AI tool ChatGPT's use to research only, advocating for each office's autonomy to use it as they see fit. These advisory guidelines arrive as lawmakers focus on formulating AI regulation.

fedscoop.com · 4 min

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IT’S NOT A COMPUTER, IT’S A COMPANION!

a16z lays out the future of computing and the paradigm shift from a tool to a companion. The article walks through a bunch of potential interesting angles for what’s next with AI.

a16z.com · 10 min

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DO SMALL MODELS MEMORIZE MORE AND REASON LESS?

This delightful article discusses two novel concepts: integration and coverage. These refer to two axes of capabilities in language models - generalization and memorization. The idea posed is that both are useful for tasks and it is hard to tell which is being used for those tasks. Additionally, small models might be good on benchmarks because of increased coverage at the expense of true integration.

moultano.wordpress.com · 12 min

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A STAGE REVIEW OF INSTRUCTION TUNING

Instruction tuning is good at getting models to do what we want. People misunderstand the importance of FLAN because it gives short responses and humans typically prefer long responses. This article also shows other models and when you should consider using them.

yaofu.notion.site · 14 min

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CHATLAW: LEGAL LANGUAGE MODELS

This study introduces ChatLaw, a new open-source language model designed specifically for the Chinese legal language, aiming to assist the digital transformation of the field.

arxiv.org · 12 min

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LENS (LANGUAGE MODELS ENHANCED TO SEE)

Can we get models to take images as output without retraining them? Amazingly, if you use small, image-specific modules, you can provide context to a fully frozen language model that allows it to answer questions about images. Paper, code, and demo is included.

contextual.ai · 8 min

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SPEED X AI

The rise of generative AI demands startups to increase their pace of innovation. This piece suggests a mindset shift, including detaching ego from product, seeing operations as experiments, and overcoming self-sabotage, to fully capitalize on the opportunities AI presents.

nfx.com · 7 min

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IMPROVING LEGAL WORKFLOWS IN THE BROWSER

Casemark’s chrome extension allows legal professionals to summarize and create documents, perform legal research, and improve general workflow management all in the browser. They are working now to build LLMs that run in secure environments.

casemark.ai · 4 min

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MICROSOFT BRINGS AI SHOPPING TOOLS TO BING AND EDGE

Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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STABILITY AI SECURES $25M CONVERTIBLE NOTE

Stability AI, the artificial intelligence startup that has been struggling to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation, has secured a $25M convertible note from investors.

archive.ph · 1 min