The Daily Index — Monday, September 4, 2023 · TLDR Index

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BIOTECH STARTUP

Ex-Meta researchers founded EvolutionaryScale, raising $40M and valued at $200M to fast-track AI-driven protein structure predictions. With claims of outpacing Google's AlphaFold in speed, the startup eyes breakthroughs in medicine and biotech.

archive.ph · 6 min

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GENERAL PURPOSE AUDIO EFFECT REMOVAL

Audio deep learning has seen a revival recently. By using a classifier followed by effect-specific modules, a general system can be built to gradually remove effects such as reverb or delay from already mixed audio.

arxiv.org · 25 min

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MULTIVIEW DIFFUSION BASED 3D GENERATION

Another exciting result in the recent string of 3D generation methods. This time the resulting meshes are globally consistent and semantically coherent. There is also room to make this technique much faster.

arxiv.org · 29 min

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HEAD-TO-HEAD RLHF VS RLAIF

The first public work on scaling between these two efforts found that they yield essentially identical final model performance with humans preferring them ~70% of the time over baselines.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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CRAFTING GENERATIVE AI PLUGINS WITH WASM

WASM, or web assembly, is a compiler target built into modern browsers. It runs almost as fast as native code and has seen a flurry of interest. This post walks through how to build a plugin system for generative apps using WASM.

dylibso.com · 12 min

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WE ANALYZED MILLIONS OF CHATGPT USER SESSIONS

This article discusses data around OpenAI and ChatGPT traffic. OpenAI traffic has declined around 29% since May. Around 29% of ChatGPT prompts are related to programming, while education accounted for around 10% of all use cases. Other use cases include writing assistance, content creation, and creative ideation. Charts showing data on how people use ChatGPT are available.

sparktoro.com · 11 min

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X WILL USE PUBLIC DATA TO TRAIN AI MODELS

X plans to use the information it collects and other publicly available information to help train its machine learning and AI models.

techcrunch.com · 1 min