The Daily Index — Tuesday, December 19, 2023 · TLDR Index

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BYTEDANCE IS SECRETLY USING OPENAI’S TECH TO BUILD A COMPETITOR

ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has been secretly using OpenAI's technology against its terms of service to develop a competing language model named Project Seed. Internal communications suggest plans to "whitewash" evidence of this misuse.

theverge.com · 2 min

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ATLASSIAN WELCOMES AI TO THE TEAM

Atlassian has launched its first set of AI-powered services across its cloud platform. Leveraging 20 years of data insights, Atlassian Intelligence aims to optimize teamwork by automating routine tasks, accelerating individual productivity, clarifying company jargon, and empowering data-driven decisions. Major features available include Generative AI in the editor, AI-powered summaries, and natural language automation.

atlassian.com · 5 min

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GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS FOR BETTER NODE CLASSIFICATION

Researchers have developed a new method called DSF to improve spectral graph neural networks. By introducing node-specific filter weights, DSF can better handle complex networks like the World Wide Web.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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EVALUATING AND MITIGATING DISCRIMINATION IN LANGUAGE MODEL DECISIONS

This article discusses a method for proactively evaluating the potential discriminatory impact of language models. The method includes generating a wide array of potential prompts for various decision scenarios and demographic information variations. Strategies for mitigating both positive and negative discrimination primarily involve careful prompt engineering.

anthropic.com · 15 min

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SMOOSEG: SUPERIOR SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

This study introduces SmooSeg, a new approach that utilizes the principle that nearby features in images often share similar meanings.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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THOUGHTS ON JAXTYPING

Shape errors in ML are challenging to debug and are often only caught when you try running the model. By checking shapes as types you can eliminate much of this challenge and develop more quickly.

kidger.site · 18 min

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LEGALTECH X AI: THE LIGHTSPEED VIEW

Lightspeed’s take on the legaltech landscape as it relates to AI is interesting and transparent from the view of what’s-good-for-VCs-is-good-for-everyone take. There are a few interesting insights and only time will tell if they are on the right track or not.

lsvp.com · 6 min

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NEW SEQUENCE MIXERS

The creators of Mamba (and many more models) have released a cool blog post outlining basic sequence mixing architectures that give pretty dramatic speed ups relative to standard Transformers.

hazyresearch.stanford.edu · 22 min

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THE COMPETITION IS COMING FOR NVIDIA

While things have been frothy in the AI space, we’re still barely a year into this new world order and the really interesting silicon has yet to hit. However, the competitive landscape is shaping up to be cutthroat and everyone is gunning for Nvidia.

bigtechnology.com · 2 min

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