The Daily Index — Friday, July 21, 2023 · TLDR Index

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GOOGLE REPORTEDLY PITCHING NEW AI TOOL TO NEWSROOMS

Google is testing Genesis, an AI tool designed to help journalists by generating news articles. Despite these innovations, concerns remain over misinformation and bias if such tools are not accurately supervised.

cnet.com · 2 min

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DEEPMIND’S LATEST RESEARCH

Google DeepMind researchers are presenting more than 80 new papers at ICML this year, including demos on AlphaFold, advances in fusion science, and new models, like PaLM-E for robotics and Phenaki for generating video from text.

deepmind.com · 2 min

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MATRIX MULTIPLICATION ONLY USING ADDITION

Much of modern AI relies on large matrix multiplications. When implemented in hardware, this means there are expensive multiply components on the chips. If we could use cheap additions instead, we could fit more transistors on the chip and potentially run with much less power. This is very early research, but the algorithm presented suggests we can use just additions for large matrix multiplications.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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IMPROVING FINANCIAL QUERIES WITH OPENBB AND LLAMAINDEX

Instead of using a vector store to index directly over the data, you can use metadata and an existing query language to dramatically improve the quality of retrieved data.

openbb.co · 4 min

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RUST OR MOJO FOR THE FUTURE OF AI

This blog walks through the reimplementation of a thousand lines of C++ in an opencv function to a few lines of Mojo. They discuss the trade offs and speed ups. Mojo still doesn't have a local release, but it is expected to come soon.

mojodojo.dev · 8 min

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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF GENERATIVE AI

A nice, high-level discussion around the key components, emerging trends, and industry players working in generative AI. There’s lots of information here around foundation models, compute, frameworks, orchestration, fine-tuning, synthetic data, and more!

shriftman.substack.com · 34 min

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OPENAI LAUNCHES CUSTOMIZED INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHATGPT

OpenAI just launched custom instructions for ChatGPT users, so they don’t have to write the same instruction prompts to the chatbot every time they interact with it.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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GITHUB’S COPILOT CHAT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC BETA

GitHub has announced that its new Copilot Chat feature — a ChatGPT-like experience designed to help developers with coding — is now available as a limited public beta for enterprise companies and organizations.

theverge.com · 1 min