The Daily Index — Tuesday, May 21, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI PAUSES CHATGPT-4O SKY VOICE

OpenAI paused the "Sky" voice mode for ChatGPT-4o after backlash for allegedly mimicking Scarlett Johansson's voice from the 2013 film Her. The actress is also pursuing legal action against the AI firm.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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GOOGLE INTRODUCES THE FRONTIER SAFETY FRAMEWORK

Google DeepMind introduced the Frontier Safety Framework to address risks posed by future advanced AI models. This framework identifies critical capability levels (CCLs) for potentially harmful AI capabilities, evaluates models against these CCLs, and applies mitigation strategies when thresholds are reached.

deepmind.google · 4 min

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ART 3D: GAUSSIAN SPLATTING FOR TEXT-GUIDED ARTISTIC SCENES GENERATION

Generating artistic 2D images is a fun and creative use of AI. This work brings that capability to 3D with Gaussian Splatting guided by textual input.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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3D GROUNDED SCENE UNDERSTANDING

Understanding where things are in a 3D scene is challenging. By using language-guided 3D understanding, you can pinpoint semantic labels for objects in 3D space.

groundedscenellm.github.io · 12 min

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FAST VISION TRANSFORMERS WITH LEARNABLE META TOKENS

LeMeViT is a new approach to reduce computational costs in Vision Transformers by using learnable meta tokens. These tokens efficiently capture key information, improving inference speed.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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BACKDOOR ATTACK ON VISION TRANSFORMERS

Researchers have discovered a new security threat for Vision Transformers, a popular AI model. The attack, named SWARM, uses a "switch token" to secretly activate backdoor behavior in a model, making it highly stealthy and dangerous for users.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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WHAT'S UP WITH LLAMA 3?

Meta's Llama 3-70B language model has surpassed rivals in the English Chatbot Arena, excelling at open-ended creative tasks but struggling with more technical prompts. Analysis reveals that Llama 3's win rate decreases as prompts become more challenging and that it is particularly strong with friendly, conversational responses. While Llama 3's approachability may contribute to its success, its overall competitive edge needs further study.

lmsys.org · 9 min

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PERPLEXITY CEO ARAVIND SRINIVAS TAKES SHOTS AT GOOGLE

Perplexity AI's CEO Aravind Srinivas is unfazed by Google's AI-driven summaries, suggesting they could harm Google's ad-reliant business model. In this post, he critiques Google's frequent rebranding in response to AI competition while highlighting his company's user-focused approach to ads.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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GOOGLE STILL HASN'T FIXED GEMINI'S BIASED IMAGE GENERATOR

Google's AI chatbot Gemini remains unable to generate images of people, months after pausing the feature due to inaccuracy concerns and racial stereotyping.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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SOUNDHOUND AI AND PERPLEXITY PARTNER

The SoundHound Chat AI assistant will leverage Perplexity to provide accurate, up-to-date responses to web-based queries that static LLMs cannot currently answer.

businesswire.com · 4 min

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STABILITY AI DISCUSSES SALE AMID CASH CRUNCH

Stability AI has engaged in talks with potential buyers amid a cash crunch.

finance.yahoo.com · 1 min