The Daily Index — Tuesday, September 5, 2023 · TLDR Index

HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

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IDEOGRAM LAUNCHES AI IMAGE GENERATOR WITH IMPRESSIVE TYPOGRAPHY

New AI startup Ideogram, backed by former Google Brain researchers, debuts with $16.5M in seed funding from a16z and Index Ventures. Ideogram sets itself apart with its reliable text generation within images, a common challenge for many AI image generators. The platform offers diverse style presets, with "typography" drawing notable attention.

venturebeat.com · 3 min

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OPENAI’S MOONSHOT: SOLVING THE AI ALIGNMENT PROBLEM

An interview with Jan Leike, OpenAI’s head of alignment research.

spectrum.ieee.org · 9 min

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TINY LLAMA 1.1B PARAMETERS

The Tiny Llama project aims to train a 1.1B parameter Llama2 model for 3T tokens. According to scaling laws, this is a dramatic overtraining for compute optimality, but it brings significant gains for deployment optimality.

github.com · 6 min

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SMARTER WAY TO LEARN MULTIPLE THINGS ONE AFTER ANOTHER

This paper proposes a system that helps models learn new tasks without forgetting the old ones.

arxiv.org · 12 min

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HOW COMBINING CAMERA AND SENSOR DATA CAPTURES MOTION WAY BETTER

This project suggests a new way to capture human motion in real time by combining regular camera images and special sensors called IMUs.

shaohua-pan.github.io · 3 min

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LLM NOW PROVIDES TOOLS FOR WORKING WITH EMBEDDINGS

A breakdown of how to use the LLM CLI tool to make working with embeddings easier.

simonwillison.net · 13 min

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HOW AI COULD HELP US TALK TO ANIMALS

AI is doing things people once thought impossible, even possibly enabling communication with animals.

snexplores.org · 8 min

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TRANSLATIONS

G/O Media has shuttered Gizmodo en Español, opting to use AI for article translations rather than its previous team. The switch hasn't been seamless, with some articles mixing Spanish and English. G/O Media had earlier faced criticism for unknowingly publishing AI-written articles with errors on Gizmodo.

theverge.com · 3 min