The Daily Index — Friday, March 22, 2024 · TLDR Index

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COHERE’S COMMAND-R ENTERPRISE MODEL COMING TO AI.NVIDIA.COM

Cohere’s newly launched RAG-optimized Command-R model, designed for businesses to get into large-scale production, is coming to the recently launched NVIDIA API catalog.

txt.cohere.com · 4 min

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BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH INTEL FOR AI CHIPS

The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed granting Intel up to $8.5 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act to support semiconductor projects in multiple states. This funding aims to bolster U.S. chip manufacturing, develop critical technologies like AI, and create thousands of jobs. Intel's planned $100 billion investment in expansion is one of the largest in U.S. semiconductor history.

commerce.gov · 7 min

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SCENE SCRIPT 3D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION

Meta Reality Labs has trained a model that takes visual input and translates it into a 3D representation of a scene. The 70m parameter model runs quickly on-device and exhibits extreme stability.

ai.meta.com · 9 min

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IMAGE GENERATION WITH DIFFUSION STATE SPACE MODELS

Diffusion State Space Models (DiS) are a new type of diffusion model that use a state space backbone instead of the traditional U-Net for image data. These models can handle long-range dependencies and are efficient in generating high-quality images with less computational effort.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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LLM’S ABSTRACT THINKING DATASET

PuzzleVQA is a dataset designed to test the abstract reasoning capabilities of large multimodal models like GPT-4V.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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IMPRESSION WITH GPT 4 EARLY ACCESS FINE TUNING

The GPT-4 fine-tuning API allows you to create a custom version of GPT-4 that can be 3x better at 1.5x the cost.

supersimple.io · 18 min

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AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK

Anthropic's latest AI, Claude, achieves high scores on Mensa tests, signaling proximity to self-improving AI and posing both opportunities and existential risks. Machine learning is already displacing jobs, as evident at Klarna, where a customer service AI replaced 700 agents, hinting at an accelerating trend in automation. Duolingo's recent layoffs due to AI's translation capabilities further underscore this shift, emphasizing the growing impact of AI on the future of work.

unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com · 8 min

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TWO YEARS LATER, DEEP LEARNING IS STILL FACED WITH THE SAME FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGES

Two years after publishing a skeptical AI article, Gary Marcus revisits his predictions and stands by his initial skepticism. Despite advancements like GPT-4, fundamental issues like genuine comprehension and trustworthy AI remain unresolved. Marcus concludes that scaling up data and computing power alone won't achieve AGI, and interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial.

garymarcus.substack.com · 5 min

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APPLE’S AI AMBITIONS COULD INCLUDE GOOGLE OR OPENAI

Apple is in talks with Google to integrate Gemini generative AI technology into the iPhone and is considering using OpenAI's ChatGPT.

theverge.com · 1 min

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COPY.AI'S JOURNEY TO 10 MILLION USERS IN FOUR YEARS

Copy.ai, an AI-powered writing tool, managed to acquire an impressive 10 million users within just four years.

growthunhinged.com · 5 min

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WORLD’S FIRST MAJOR ACT TO REGULATE AI PASSED BY EUROPEAN LAWMAKERS

The European Parliament has approved the first major AI regulation framework, setting global standards for artificial intelligence governance.

cnbc.com · 4 min