The Daily Index — Friday, September 22, 2023 · TLDR Index

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MUSK, GATES, AND ZUCKERBERG WALK INTO AN AI MEETING

Sounds like the start of a bad joke. Tech titans Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg met in Washington on Wednesday to talk about AI regulation. They were joined by founders from leading AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.

cbsnews.com · 1 min

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ARTIFACT CO-FOUNDER KEVIN SYSTROM DOESN’T BELIEVE IN AI DOOMERISM

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, now with startup Artifact, believes AI technologies will make people "super-powered" rather than causing harm. Contrasting views of AI's existential risks exist within the tech community. Artifact uses AI to improve news consumption by summarizing articles, countering clickbait, and personalizing feeds, with aims to surface quality content over mere popularity.

techcrunch.com · 6 min

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MAKE STABLE DIFFUSION BETTER BY SCALING THE UNET

You can substantially improve generation quality in Stable Diffusion without any additional training by cleverly shifting around weights and scaling residuals in the UNet. Code coming soon.

chenyangsi.top · 8 min

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MAKING SMARTER 'MINI' MODELS USING KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION

This study explores how to make 'student' networks (smaller models) learn better from 'teacher' networks (bigger models) in situations they've never seen before. It introduces a new method called Weight-Averaged Knowledge Distillation (WAKD) that does just as well as current techniques but is simpler to use.

arxiv.org · 8 min

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HOW WELL MODELS UNDERSTAND SOUND AND VISION TOGETHER?

This study introduces AV-SUPERB, a new benchmark that tests how well a trained model understands both sound and visual data across a variety of tasks.

arxiv.org · 7 min

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DREAMLLM: CREATE BOTH TEXT AND IMAGES TOGETHER

This report introduces DreamLLM, a groundbreaking tool that is good at understanding and making content that combines both words and pictures.

dreamllm.github.io · 3 min

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AI is looking to take on several dying markets and news is just another avenue. This article looks at how AI might be a path forward for news if generated/managed with AI. We’re already seeing this happen with smaller local TV affiliates with some success.

bigtechnology.com · 3 min

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THREE IN FOUR AMERICANS BELIEVE AI WILL REDUCE JOBS

Most Americans think artificial intelligence will negatively affect the U.S. job market, with 75% saying it will decrease the total number of jobs over the next 10 years.

news.gallup.com · 3 min

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AUTOMATIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CREATION

Generating knowledge graphs from unstructured text was a holy grail of natural language understanding - now you can do it with 50 lines of code and an LLM.

jxnl.github.io · 3 min