The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 6, 2023 · TLDR Index

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KINDO RAISES $7M FOR AI ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Led by Riot Ventures, Kindo aims to create a central set of tools for managing complex enterprise AI processes.

venturebeat.com · 4 min

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MODELS

X has updated its privacy policy to collect biometric, job, and education data from users. Notably, X will use this data and other public info to train its AI models. Alex Ivanovs suggests Elon Musk might leverage X's data for his AI venture, xAI. Musk clarifies only public data will be used.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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ROBUST FINE-TUNING OF ZERO SHOT MODELS

Zero shot models are AI models that have robust performance on a broad range of distributions. However, if you tune them on your narrow task, they tend to lose that ability while simultaneously getting much better at what they're trained for. This is good but could be improved. This paper presents a method to tune such models, like CLIP to maintain their generalizability while improving specific performance.

arxiv.org · 28 min

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A SMARTER WAY FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS AND ROBOTS TO SEE MORE CLEARLY

The authors have created a new tool called SQLdepth that helps self-driving cars and robots understand their surroundings in great detail.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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IMPROVING MATH SKILLS IN BIG LANGUAGE MODELS

This research looks into how well LLMs can solve math problems and how different factors affect their abilities. They’ve found that a method called Rejection sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT) helps these models get better at math, especially when we use samples from several models.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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UNRAVELING THE ETHICAL COMPLEXITIES OF AI

An exploration of the central ethical dilemmas posed by artificial intelligence, with the goal of illuminating how AI may shape our collective destiny and the power we have to guide it down a path aligned with human values.

aisupremacy.substack.com · 18 min

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BAN OR EMBRACE? COLLEGES WRESTLE WITH AI-GENERATED ADMISSIONS ESSAYS

Colleges grapple with the rise of AI-generated admissions essays. With chatbots like ChatGPT able to produce college essays, officials fear a potential for generic or plagiarized content. While some schools discourage AI use, Georgia Tech advises students to use it responsibly for brainstorming and refining, but not for direct content creation.

archive.ph · 7 min

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ALL 50 STATES CALL ON CONGRESS TO ADDRESS AI-GENERATED CSAM

US attorneys general from all 50 states urge Congress to create a commission investigating AI's role in child exploitation. They're concerned about AI being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and deepfakes. Led by South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson, the push aims to expand CSAM restrictions to cover AI-generated content.

theverge.com · 2 min

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1.6B PARAMETER MODEL REACHES 32% ON HUMANEVAL

Best in class and lightning-fast code generation model. Trained from scratch on 1.2T tokens of half code half language data.

refact.ai · 8 min