The Daily Index — Friday, September 13, 2024 · TLDR Index

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GOOGLE IS NOW ROLLING OUT GEMINI LIVE TO FREE USERS ON ANDROID

Google is rolling out Gemini Live, its conversational AI feature, to free Android users after a month of advanced user access. Users can interrupt responses with new information and receive text transcripts of their interactions. Although Gemini Live doesn't support extensions like Gmail yet, it offers ten new voice options, and more features are promised soon.

9to5google.com · 2 min

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HTML TO MARKDOWN

Jina has released two new state-of-the-art models that take noisy HTML and parse it into clean and usable Markdown for training and reasoning.

jina.ai · 12 min

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CODE GENERATION WITH POLICY FILTRATION

Policy Filtration for Proximal Policy Optimization (PF-PPO) is a method designed to improve the accuracy of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in code generation tasks.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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SALIENCY PREDICTION WITH TARGETED DATA AUGMENTATION

Researchers have developed a new data augmentation method for improving saliency prediction models, which traditionally suffer from limited labeled data.

arxiv.org · 27 min

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1-CLICK FINE-TUNING OF LLAMA 405B

Axolotal AI has partnered with Lambda Labs to show how to use its one click cluster to fine-tune the Llama 3.1 405B model. This requires 64 GPUs, but can be done with minimal infra setup due to new tools.

axolotlai.substack.com · 11 min

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WILL THE "AI SCIENTIST" BRING ANYTHING TO SCIENCE?

Researchers have developed an AI tool that automates scientific processes, performing tasks from hypothesis generation to experiment execution and paper writing. Its accuracy and coherence still need improvement. Critics highlight that, while AI can handle simulations in fields like quantum computing and materials science, it risks narrowing research questions and producing less meaningful knowledge. Proponents believe this AI could optimize early research stages, potentially aiding scientists in conceptualizing and scoping research projects.

spectrum.ieee.org · 9 min

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USING GPT-4O FOR WEB SCRAPING

An AI-assisted web scraper that uses OpenAI's GPT-4o to extract structured data from HTML tables, with varying results on complex and merged row tables.

blancas.io · 5 min

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SERGEY BRIN SAYS HE'S WORKING ON AI AT GOOGLE 'PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has returned to Google to focus on AI because of its rapid advancements.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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AMAZON STARTS TESTING ADS IN ITS RUFUS CHATBOT

Amazon's shopping-focused chatbot, Rufus, will soon display sponsored ads based on search and conversational context.

techcrunch.com · 1 min