The Daily Index — Friday, December 1, 2023 · TLDR Index

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MILLIONS OF NEW MATERIALS DISCOVERED WITH DEEP LEARNING

DeepMind and Berkeley teamed up for research that uses graph neural networks to discover over 2 million novel materials. They found around 300k of them that are extremely stable and great candidates for future research. Interestingly, they say that this amount of research would have taken 800 years of dedicated human labor.

deepmind.google · 6 min

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META INTRODUCES SEAMLESS: A REAL-TIME EXPRESSIVE MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION

Seamless is a system that revolutionizes automatic speech translation. This advanced model not only translates across 76 languages, but also preserves the speaker's unique vocal style and prosody, making conversations feel more natural.

ai.meta.com · 4 min

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ADVANCING OPEN-VOCABULARY OBJECT DETECTION

Researchers introduce DECOLA, a groundbreaking open-vocabulary detection framework that excels in identifying objects beyond its training dataset.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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ACCELERATING GENERATIVE AI WITH PYTORCH II

This blog post from the PyTorch team highlights how to use native Pytorch code to dramatically speed up language model inference. The post shows how you can get 200+ tokens per second from Llama 2 7B.

pytorch.org · 12 min

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CHATGPT IS WINNING THE FUTURE - BUT WHAT FUTURE IS THAT?

ChatGPT, launched a year ago by OpenAI, unexpectedly became the fastest-growing consumer technology, profoundly impacting the tech industry from venture capital investments to major companies like Microsoft and Google, and while it faces challenges in reliability and ethical concerns, it continues to rapidly evolve and integrate into various aspects of technology and daily life.

theverge.com · 8 min

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5 WAYS TO LEVERAGE AI IN TECH

Freshworks CIO, Prasad Ramakrishnan, walks through some viable use cases of AI in startups. From enhancing user experience to onboarding and data platform optimization, this article shares five ways organizations can leverage AI to solve problems and grow.

saastr.com · 6 min

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AI SYSTEM SELF-ORGANISES TO DEVELOP FEATURES OF BRAINS OF COMPLEX ORGANISMS

Cambridge researchers found that imposing physical constraints on AI systems, mirroring the human brain's limitations, helps them develop brain-like features for efficient problem-solving and could enhance our understanding of cognitive differences and AI design.

cam.ac.uk · 3 min

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SOME OPENAI EMPLOYEES ARE STILL FEELING UNEASY AND ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER JOBS

Despite Sam Altman's reinstatement as OpenAI's CEO, the company's employees remain uneasy due to the board's silence on the reasons behind his temporary removal.

businessinsider.com · 2 min

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HUMANE AIPIN (PRODUCT)

The Humane AiPin is a wearable tech that’s enabled with generative AI technology.

hu.ma.ne

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MARTIAN'S TOOL AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHES BETWEEN LLMS TO REDUCE COSTS

AI researchers Shriyash Upadhyay and Etan Ginsberg have launched a startup, Martian, supported by $9 million in funding. Martian created a "model router" tool that optimizes the use of large language AI models such as GPT-4 by smartly routing requests to the most suitable model for the task, making it more cost-efficient. The founders believe this approach promotes fundamental rather than competitive research.

techcrunch.com · 3 min