The Daily Index — Wednesday, August 16, 2023 · TLDR Index

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GOOGLE UPGRADES SEARCH GENERATION EXPERIENCE

Google is rolling out a few new updates to its Search Generative Experience, the company’s AI-powered Search. These updates include automatic term definitions, programming assistance, and AI-generated summaries.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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HUGGING FACE

IBM and Hugging Face are releasing IBM's geospatial foundation model, crafted using NASA satellite data, to the public. Built through a collaboration with NASA, this model aims to democratize AI's role in climate science and Earth studies, addressing the challenges of handling large environmental datasets. The model has already shown a 15% improvement in satellite data analysis and can be adapted for various tasks like tracking deforestation and monitoring greenhouse gasses.

newsroom.ibm.com · 4 min

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BAYESIAN FLOW NETWORKS

Unifying the modeling of discrete or continuous data is a challenge. More so when attempting to maintain a probabilistic likelihood interpretation of the output. This new paper showcases a new class of generative models with a pile of interesting properties such as no forward pass, gradient-based sample guidance for discrete data, and competitive language modeling likelihood.

arxiv.org · 32 min

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INSTRUCTION TUNING LARGE CODE MODELS

Most code models are instruction tuned on GPT-4 distillation data. This new work shows how to avoid that, introduces an extended human eval dataset, and gets 46.7 on the original human eval. While this is impressive, it showcases the extreme gap between closed and open code models.

github.com · 3 min

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ENHANCED VIRTUAL TRY-ON WITH DIFFUSION MODELS

Virtual try-on tasks, where clothes from one image are transferred to another, are challenging, especially at higher resolutions. Many methods use Generative Adversarial Networks. The solution presented in this paper, DCI-VTON, uses a diffusion model combined with an exemplar-based inpainting and a warping module. This combination ensures that clothing details are preserved and produces realistic virtual try-on images.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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A GUIDE TO DESIGNING AND SHIPPING AI DEVELOPER TOOLS

This article outlines ten key design principles for effective AI developer tools, drawing from GitHub’s experience designing, launching, and extending Copilot. They encompass leveraging natural language, addressing developer pain points, gathering meaningful feedback, acknowledging biases, and prioritizing customization, accessibility, performance, and continuous improvement in AI models.

github.blog · 15 min

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CAN CHATGPT BECOME A CONTENT MODERATOR?

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been using its most advanced large language model to enforce the company’s content policies.

semafor.com · 6 min

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HUMAN CREATIVITY AMONGST AI DOMINANCE

More marketers and content producers are turning to AI for efficiency. Over time, this will lead to a level of genericism in the market. The antidote will be authentic human production.

thebootstrappedfounder.com · 3 min

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KNERON TO RELEASE AI CHIP THIS YEAR

Kneron, an AI edge company, announced that it will ship its new neural processing unit chips by the end of the year. The KL730 chips are specifically designed for machine learning and AI applications and they are said to be 3 to 4 times more energy efficient than previous chips.

theverge.com · 2 min

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TEACH A COMPUTER TO GHOTI

Quick read on why AI is on track to disrupt. A little cheeky too.

tomtunguz.com · 2 min