The Daily Index — Tuesday, October 3, 2023 · TLDR Index

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HUMANE REVEALS FIRST AI DEVICE - THE AI PIN

Humane Inc unveiled the "Humane Ai Pin", a screenless wearable designed for AI integration, at Paris Fashion Week in collaboration with Coperni. The device offers AI-powered optical recognition, laser-projected displays, and prioritizes user privacy without requiring smartphone pairing.

hu.ma.ne · 2 min

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REWIND PENDANT

Rewind Pendant is a wearable that captures what you say and hear in the real world and then transcribes, encrypts, and stores it entirely locally on your phone.

rewind.ai · 2 min

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KOSMOS-2.5

The UniLM group at Microsoft has done some great work in the past few years around natural language. With the suite of Kosmos models, they’ve recently moved into images. This specific instantiation is for reading text-intensive documents from an image and generating the text or markdown for that document. It is similar to the recent Meta work for academic OCR.

arxiv.org · 25 min

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EFFICIENT VIDEO MODEL TRAINING

Training top-notch video models usually need huge resources, often beyond what academia can access. Researchers have found a way to train these models using just one machine with eight standard GPUs in a day.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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TEACHING IMAGE-RECOGNIZING MODEL THROUGH CONVERSATION

Researchers have developed a new way to improve vision-language models, which are models that understand both text and images, using just natural language prompts.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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OPEN-SOURCE EVALUATION SUITE FOR LARGE MODELS

OpenCompass is a free tool designed to test large models quickly and efficiently.

opencompass.org.cn · 3 min

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8 WAYS SAAS COMPANIES CAN USE AI TO GET AHEAD

This blog post features several AI SaaS use cases for various departments, highlighting ways the technology can be used to gain a competitive edge.

canny.io · 12 min

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AI, HARDWARE, AND VIRTUAL REALITY

AI, combined with hardware, is going to enable groundbreaking forms of virtual and augmented reality. Here’s a breakdown of the latest news in each of those domains.

stratechery.com · 11 min

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HOW MUCH CAN ARTISTS MAKE FROM GENERATIVE AI?

Despite some companies proposing "creators' funds," the specifics of how and how much artists will be paid remain unclear, with many details still under development or undisclosed.

techcrunch.com · 5 min