The Daily Index — Friday, November 17, 2023 · TLDR Index

HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

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META ANNOUNCES VIDEO EDITING AND CREATION MODELS

Oftentimes when you generate an output image with a generative model, it isn’t quite what you were looking for. However, editing that image with the same model is extremely challenging. Meta had a key insight that treating all generations as instructions allows editing capabilities to emerge. This, coupled with the new simplicity of the model architecture, is quite a nice step forward.

ai.meta.com · 6 min

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MICROSOFT LAUNCHES A DEEPFAKE CREATOR

Microsoft launched Azure AI Speech text-to-speech avatar at the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event, allowing users to create photorealistic avatars that can speak scripted text in various languages using text-to-speech technology.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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SENTENCE ALIGNMENT FOR LARGE DOCUMENTS

SentAlign is a new tool for aligning sentences in large parallel documents, capable of handling thousands to tens of thousands of sentences efficiently.

arxiv.org · 11 min

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IMPROVING VIDEO QUESTION ANSWERING WITH A NEW METHOD

Researchers found that Large Language Models sometimes make errors in Video Question Answering (VideoQA) by depending too much on the language and ignoring the actual video content. To solve this, researchers introduced a new approach called Flipped-VQA, which makes these models better understand the relationship between videos, questions, and answers, leading to more accurate results.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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A DATASET TO UNDERSTAND STUDENT BEHAVIOR

Researchers have expanded the SCB-ST-Dataset4, which captures activities like hand-raising, reading, and writing to better understand and detect students' classroom behaviors using deep learning.

arxiv.org · 6 min

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DEEP DIVE: DEVELOPER’S GUIDE TO PRODUCTION LLMS

Building tools with language models is an emerging engineering discipline that spans high performance computing, GPU orchestration, and monitoring.

buildingaistuff.com · 21 min

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ACCELERATING SEGMENT ANYTHING WITH PURE PYTORCH

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pytorch.org · 11 min

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MUSIC CONTROLNET

ControlNet was a novel way to give fine-grained control to image synthetics models. Now there is a somewhat analogous model for music generation that lets you control a number of features like speech and pitch.

musiccontrolnet.github.io · 8 min

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THERE’S A MODEL FOR DEMOCRATIZING AI

OpenAI's call for proposals on implementing democratic processes in AI decision-making appears restrictive and seems to prefer handling sensitive political issues without taking responsibility, potentially limiting the scope and effectiveness of democracy in AI governance.

programmablemutter.substack.com · 7 min

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COPILOT IS AN INCUMBENT BUSINESS MODEL

The Copilot AI business model enhances existing workflows for efficiency without creating new markets or disrupting lower ends, but its true disruptive potential lies in reimagining workflows, a challenge that could unlock significantly larger market opportunities.

matt-rickard.com · 2 min

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GOOGLE IS EMBEDDING INAUDIBLE WATERMARKS RIGHT INTO ITS AI GENERATED MUSIC

Google DeepMind's AI Lyria model will use SynthID to watermark audio tracks generated using its technology, making them identifiable as AI-created without affecting the listening experience, even after compression or other modifications.

theverge.com · 1 min

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GPT-4 TURBO NOTE TAKER (PRODUCT)

Let AI automate your meeting notes using GPT-4 Turbo.

tactiq.io

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YOUTUBE WILL SHOW LABELS ON VIDEOS THAT USE AI

YouTube is implementing new guidelines requiring creators to disclose the use of AI in their videos, including both AI-altered and entirely synthetic content.

9to5google.com · 1 min