The Daily Index — Monday, January 15, 2024 · TLDR Index

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USING AI, MIT RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY A NEW CLASS OF ANTIBIOTIC CANDIDATES

Utilizing deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered compounds capable of killing the drug-resistant bacteria MRSA responsible for over 10,000 deaths annually in the U.S.

freethink.com · 4 min

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I AM A STRANGE DATASET: METALINGUISTIC TESTS FOR LANGUAGE MODELS

There is a challenge type of phrase that is self-referential, for example, “the last word in this sentence is is”. Language models struggle immensely with this sort of language. This paper introduces a dataset and some evaluations to help improve language models' metalinguistic capability.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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PIXART-Δ: FAST AND CONTROLLABLE IMAGE GENERATION WITH LATENT CONSISTENCY MODELS

PixArt has been a parallel research direction to the popular Stable Diffusion set of image generation models. This work brings faster generation with Latent Consistency Models and better control with ControlNet style prompting.

arxiv.org · 26 min

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SLEEPER AGENTS: TRAINING DECEPTIVE LLMS THAT PERSIST THROUGH SAFETY TRAINING

Anthropic released some really interesting research that purposefully poisons a language model with a sleeper phrase that elicits some behavior. It found that it was unable to “align” this sort of model with the powerful system used for its production models. Meaning, once the model had been poisoned, bad behavior could not be removed with current tools.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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THE CASE FOR CYBORGS

An expert in human cognition and AI discusses the evolution from artificial narrow intelligence to general intelligence, proposing cyborg integration as a potential path to superintelligence.

every.to · 9 min

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PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF AI WITH VIJAY PANDE (40 MINUTE PODCAST)

A 40-minute reflection on AI with a peek at what’s to come.

a16z.com

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PROMPT ALIGNED IMAGE PERSONALIZATION

Dreambooth is the current best method for personalizing an image model. Prompt alignment dramatically improves adherence to the prompt and is composable.

prompt-aligned.github.io · 6 min

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SEAMLESS EXPRESSIVE TRANSLATION

Meta has a new demo for seamless voice cloning and translation between languages.

seamless.metademolab.com · 3 min

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MICROSOFT WANTS TO AUTOMATICALLY LAUNCH ITS COPILOT AI ON SOME WINDOWS 11 DEVICES

Microsoft is currently testing an update in Windows 11's Dev Channel preview that automatically launches the AI-powered Copilot feature on widescreen devices with a screen size of at least 27 inches and a pixel width of 1920 pixels. This experiment, aimed at enhancing AI integration in Windows, is part of Microsoft's broader initiative to incorporate AI technology more seamlessly into its operating system.

theverge.com · 1 min

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