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TLDR AI 2023-04-11

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

AMAZON TELLS EMPLOYEES IT ISN’T FALLING BEHIND ON AI

Despite Amazon's absence in the generative AI race, executives maintain that the company is actively involved in the AI space. Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon's VP of database, analytics, and machine learning, said that Amazon's 100,000+ machine learning customers are interested in using the company's technology for personalization, search engine results, and call center automation. While Amazon Web Services has partnered with AI companies like Stability AI and Hugging Face, the company has not launched a consumer-facing generative AI product, leading to speculation that it may be lagging behind its competitors.

archive.ph4 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

AGENTS ARE THE NEW PARADIGM

What happens if you use language models to simulate an entire town? They ask each other out on Valentine's dates. This paper explores what happens if you give language models open-ended tasks and shows that you can observe remarkable human-like social capabilities from these agents, such as keeping schedules, planning activities, and reminiscing about previous interactions. This is one step in a broader trend of language models moving more towards agent-like paradigms, which dramatically changes the safety considerations for true model alignment.

arxiv.org26 min read

A TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION TO REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

The paper provides a brief survey of Reinforcement Learning (RL), with a focus on Stochastic Approximation (SA) as a unifying theme. The scope includes Markov Reward Processes, Markov Decision Processes, Stochastic Approximation algorithms, and widely used algorithms like Temporal Difference Learning and Q-learning.

arxiv.org30 min read

LLMMAPS - A VISUAL METAPHOR FOR STRATIFIED EVALUATION OF LLMS

The paper introduces LLMMaps, a visualization technique that allows for the stratified evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) based on Q&A datasets, providing detailed insights into their knowledge capabilities and enabling comparative analysis of multiple LLMs. The approach was tested on state-of-the-art LLMs and evaluated through user feedback.

arxiv.org13 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

SEGMENT ANYTHING CHROME EXTENSION

Since the Segment Anything Model from Meta is so lightweight, it can run directly in the browser. As a result, we can copy items from images directly to the clipboard - in the wild. It works just like the demo from Meta, but instead of displaying the segmented object, that object is copied to the system clipboard for you to paste as needed.

github.comGitHub repository

OPENPLAYGROUND

Openplayground is an LLM playground you can run on your laptop.

github.comGitHub repository

UPTRAIN

UpTrain is an open-source framework to observe ML applications built for engineers.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS