The Daily Index — Friday, July 5, 2024 · TLDR Index

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INTEL SHOWS OFF FIRST FULLY INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPUTE INTERCONNECT, DESIGNED TO SCALE UP AI WORKLOADS

Intel has presented the industry's first fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet designed to significantly boost high-bandwidth data interconnect performance. Essential for growing AI demands, the milestone represents a step forward in silicon photonics, combining integrated circuits with lasers to enhance data transfer rates and support AI infrastructure scaling. The OCI chiplet aims to overcome the limitations of current electrical I/O interconnects by enabling higher bandwidth and longer-distance data transmission.

siliconangle.com · 4 min

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LLM101N: LET'S BUILD A STORYTELLER

Andrej Karpathy announced a new course that guides learners in building a Storyteller AI Large Language Model from scratch. It covers the fundamentals of web app implementation using Python, C, and CUDA. The content spans language modeling, deep learning frameworks, and AI deployment including multimodal applications.

github.com · 2 min

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MAGIC INSERT

Method from Google to insert semantic objects into images with diffusion. Dataset and demo available.

magicinsert.github.io · 4 min

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CTR PREDICTIONS WITH A NEW TOKENIZATION

UIST is a novel approach that drastically improves click-through rate predictions by converting dense embeddings into compact, discrete tokens for user and item representations.

arxiv.org · 4 min

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ENHANCED CAUSALITY UNDERSTANDING

CELLO is a new dataset with 14,094 causal questions to improve AI's grasp of causality beyond commonsense reasoning.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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CAMERA TRACKING WITH MULTI-SESSION SLAM

Multi-Session SLAM is a new system that innovatively tracks camera movements across several unconnected video sequences under one universal frame of reference.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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CONTRA ACEMOGLU ON AI

Economist Daron Acemoglu's working paper on AI suggests a modest 0.06% annual increase in TFP growth, challenging more optimistic forecasts. He distinguishes AI's productivity impact through four channels but discounts deepening of automation and creation of new labor-intensive products, arguably underestimating AI's full economic potential. Critics find his approach overly narrow, potentially misrepresenting the broader macroeconomic implications of AI advancements.

maximum-progress.com · 6 min

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SPEECH ENHANCEMENT WITH SEMAMBA

SEMamba is a new speech enhancement system that leverages the Mamba state-space model to improve the clarity of speech signals.

arxiv.org · 8 min

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OPENAI'S CHATGPT MAC APP WAS STORING CONVERSATIONS IN PLAIN TEXT

OpenAI's ChatGPT macOS app, until a recent update, stored user chats in plain text, making them vulnerable to unauthorized access.

theverge.com · 2 min

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LONG VIDEO GENERATION WITH NEW DIFFUSION MODEL

FlexiFilm is a diffusion model designed specifically for generating long videos over 30 seconds with high consistency and quality.

y-ichen.github.io · 2 min