The Daily Index — Friday, September 1, 2023 · TLDR Index

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BAIDU LAUNCHES ERNIE CHATBOT

Chinese tech giant Baidu officially launched its Ernie chatbot after the government approved its application.

theverge.com · 1 min

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GOOGLE LAUNCHES TPU V5 AND H100 ENABLED VMS

Google is one of the few large organizations with hardware that can take on Nvidia. It has been challenging to use in the past with somewhat poor PyTorch support. Now, with even faster chips, and better software support - it seems like a compelling offering from the search giant.

cloud.google.com · 6 min

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EVALUATING THE FAIRNESS OF COMPUTER VISION MODELS

In its continued push to be an open source contributor for AI, Meta released their amazing DINO v2 model under a more permissive license that allows the community to build on top of it. In addition, they released a data set that helps determine and benchmark bias in various computer vision models.

ai.meta.com · 6 min

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PREDICT VIDEO CONTENT BY SEPARATING MOTION AND APPEARANCE

Predicting video content is tricky because the system must guess object movements and keep them looking consistent. This new system, MMVP, separately handles motion and appearance using special "motion matrices" that focus just on movement. This method is not only more accurate but also more efficient and compact than current top systems.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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ENHANCING IMAGE GENERATION WITH TEXTURAL MODULATION

Producing diverse images from just a few examples is challenging. TexMod uses unique techniques to blend in details from various images and makes sure the created images have a logical layout.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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DO MOST PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SLOW DOWN AI?

Despite what you may see in the media, there are a number of issues with the polls and surveys saying that a majority of people want to slow down AI development.

learningfromexamples.substack.com · 6 min

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OPENAI BASE MODELS ARE NOT SYCOPHANTIC

Inverse scaling problems are things that get worse as model size increases. Sycophancy is when a model tends to agree with a human regardless of the truth. Anthropic released great work recently that showed larger models are more sycophantic. However, recent experiments show that OpenAI models don’t suffer from this same problem.

lesswrong.com · 5 min

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HIGH-SPEED AI DRONE BEATS WORLD CHAMPION RACERS

A team of researchers from the University of Zürich and Intel announced the development of an autonomous drone system named Swift that can beat human champions in first-person view (FPV) drone racing.

arstechnica.com · 3 min