TLDR AI

TLDR AI 2023-08-15

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01GENERAL

Sponsored

MARKET

The AI revolution has already begun to rewire Wall St. Using it, a Harvard data scientist and his crack team have allowed everyday people to now benefit from a previously “off-limits” investment. The company that makes it possible is called Masterworks, whose unique investment platform enables savvy investors to invest in blue-chip art for a fraction of the cost. Their proprietary database of art market returns provides an unrivaled quantitative edge

masterworks.comSponsor

02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

THE AI RULES THAT US POLICYMAKERS ARE CONSIDERING, EXPLAINED

The US government is getting serious about regulating AI, with proposals focused on new rules, oversight institutions, funding for research, and expanding the expert workforce. However, the area remains slippery as the technology rapidly evolves. Key players like OpenAI and Microsoft have endorsed new government licensing and auditing for advanced AI models, but the specifics remain contested.

vox.com19 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

A LIGHTWEIGHT RGB-D SEGMENTATION

Efficient RGB-D semantic segmentation helps mobile robots understand their environment. While depth data offers useful geometric insights, it can be noisy. This paper introduces a streamlined network that uses less computing power but remains robust, blending color and depth features effectively.

arxiv.org16 min read

BRIDGING THE GAP IN 3D DETECTION ACROSS DIFFERENT LIDAR ENVIRONMENTS

3D detectors often fail when used in unfamiliar settings, causing a huge drop in detection rates due to changes in tools, places, or weather. This project proposes a self-training system that adapts to different lidar types by creating accurate fake labels, MS3D++.

github.comGitHub repository

EFFICIENT MULTI-TASK MODEL SELECTION

Predicting the performance of pre-trained neural networks on multiple tasks without fine-tuning them is a challenge. The traditional method is computationally costly, while modern methods are limited to single tasks. This paper introduces EMMS, which transforms varied task labels into a unified format, allowing for the prediction of a model's effectiveness across tasks efficiently.

arxiv.org24 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

Sponsored

What if you could spend 100x less time building apps for your team? With Glide’s AI-powered no-code app builder

glideapps.comSponsor

WHICH GPU SHOULD I BE USING AND WHERE TO GET IT?

There are lots of cloud providers popping up for fine-tuning or serving AI workloads. It is hard to know which one to choose over another one. This guide gives a pretty great set of heuristics to decide which cloud to run your jobs on.

gpus.llm-utils.org12 min read

FOOOCUS

Fooocus is an image-generating software that is offline, open-source, free, and does not require manual tweaking.

github.comGitHub repository

THE POWER OF SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION IN COMPUTER VISION

This project introduces a new tool called DatasetDM that can make endless fake images along with detailed labels, like which part is which object or how far things are in the image. This is great for training computer vision systems, and by using just a small set of real photos, the synthetic ones help achieve top results in tasks like identifying objects or editing images.

weijiawu.github.io4 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

WHAT IF GENERATIVE AI TURNED OUT TO BE A DUD?

Generative AI is extremely hyped, but does it deserve it? Many professionals have still not found a good use for ChatGPT multiple months after its release. In this article, Gary Marcus explores the possibility that we are too confident in our assumptions that generative AI will be world-changing.

garymarcus.substack.com7 min read

AI.COM FLIPS FROM CHATGPT TO ELON MUSK’S X.AI

AI.com now redirects to x.AI, a company that aims to understand the true nature of the universe. OpenAI had seemingly purchased this domain back in February, but it looks like Musk swooped in.

techcrunch.com2 min read

THE GREAT INFLECTION?

The economist Matt Clancy and research scientist Tamay Besiroglu debate what happens to the economy when intelligence becomes extremely cheap.

asteriskmag.com17 min read