The Daily Index — Tuesday, December 5, 2023 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI AGREED TO BUY $51 MILLION OF AI CHIPS FROM A STARTUP BACKED BY CEO SAM ALTMAN

During his tenure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman planned to purchase $51 million worth of AI chips from Rain AI, a company in which he personally invested. Despite his firing and reinstatement, OpenAI expressed possible future collaboration with Rain. This aspect highlights Altman’s intertwining roles as a vested investor and CEO, which contributed to his firing.

wired.com · 7 min

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NOUS RESEARCH RELEASES HERMES 2.5 VISION MODEL

Built on top of the best 7B language model with SigLIP integration, this vision model is a powerful new open source text and vision model that can run on consumer hardware. One of the cool innovations here is the integration of function calling. The model is still in alpha because of a hallucination issue.

huggingface.co · 4 min

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PERPLEXITY AI UNVEILS ‘ONLINE’ LLMS THAT COULD DETHRONE GOOGLE SEARCH

Perplexity AI's combination of a web index and up-to-date information with a conversational AI chatbot-style interface has the potential to dethrone Google. The company recently released fine-tuned and augmented versions of open source models from Mistral and Meta. The models aim to offer helpful, factual, and up-to-date information. They are the first-ever live LLM APIs that are grounded with web search data and have no knowledge cutoff.

venturebeat.com · 6 min

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LLMS AS FUNCTIONS

When slotting in language models to your code base, a useful mental model is treating them like functions with standard input and output. This blog, from the creator of React Native, shows a few ways you can do that and the benefits of modeling your models this way.

blog.vjeux.com · 8 min

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LINEAR-TIME SEQUENCE MODELING

Another state spaces paper with improved scaling and performance. In this case, they borrow ideas from the LSTM and train a 3B parameter model that outperforms larger 7B parameter Transformer models.

arxiv.org · 24 min

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VIDEO MOTION EDITING WITH A NOVEL DIFFUSION MODEL

MotionEditor is a diffusion model designed for video motion editing, skillfully balancing motion manipulation and original content preservation. It introduces a content-aware motion adapter and a unique two-branch architecture with attention injection, allowing seamless integration of edited motions while maintaining the original background and protagonist's appearance.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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DIFFUSION MODELS AS PRIOR FOR VISUAL PREDICTIONS

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shinying.github.io · 2 min

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PROTECT TEXT-TO-IMAGE MODELS FROM MALICIOUS ADAPTATIONS

The new IMMA technique offers a unique solution to safeguard text-to-image models from being maliciously adapted to generate harmful content.

zhengyjzoe.github.io · 4 min

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AI AND TRUST

The speaker in the talk highlights the distinction between interpersonal and social trust, cautioning that our tendency to anthropomorphize AI as friends rather than services can be exploited by profit-driven corporations. They advocate for government intervention through transparency laws and regulations aimed at humans behind AI and call for the development of public AI models to ensure AI remains a trustworthy and beneficial service in society.

schneier.com · 10 min

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AI DOOMERS ARE WORSE THAN WRONG - THEY’RE INCOMPETENT

This article criticizes the AI doomer movement within OpenAI for strategic blunders and counterproductively accelerating AI development rather than ensuring its safety.

infinitescroll.us · 8 min

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GENERATIVE AI FOR BEGINNERS (ONLINE COURSE)

Microsoft released a 12 lesson course on generative AI for beginners.

microsoft.github.io

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HOW AI CHANGES WORKFLOWS

GitHub is "re-founding" Copilot, recognizing the impact of AI on developer workflows. It will increase efficiency with AI-assisted processes like autocomplete code and may even restructure entire workflows. This shift allows individualized workflows, but must balance flexibility with the ability to provide large-scale customer support.

matt-rickard.com · 2 min

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SCHOOLXPRESS (PRODUCT)

SchoolXpress turns your books, notes, classwork, and documents into interactive learning content that simplifies concepts and delivers on your learning objectives.

schoolxpress.ai

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