TLDR AI 2023-12-21

ZOO DEV LAUNCHED TEXT-TO-CAD

Zoo Dev (previously Kitty Cad) has rebranded and released a new text-to-cad feature. It is a powerful platform that generates 3d assets that are usable for printing or parts.

WAYMO FINDS THAT ITS DRIVERLESS CARS ‘SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORMED’ HUMANS

Waymo's researchers say that its driverless cars have significantly reduced rates of police-reported and injury-causing crashes compared to human drivers. It is pushing broadly for international standardization for valid analysis of autonomous vehicle crash data.

GEMINI PAPER

This 850+ author paper outlines much of the Gemini language modeling effort from Google. It's understandably short on key architectural and dataset details, but gives attribution and evaluation details.

ALIBABA’S FONTDIFFUSER: ONE-SHOT FONT GENERATION

FontDiffuser is a diffusion-based method for automatic font generation, particularly excelling with complex characters and large style variations. It features a Multi-scale Content Aggregation block for better stroke preservation and a Style Contrastive Refinement module for style transfer.

3D STRUCTURE RECONSTRUCTION FROM 2D LANDMARKS

The new 3D-LFM model uses transformers to reconstruct 3D structures from 2D landmarks without needing 'in-correspondence' 3D data. This approach, the first of its kind, efficiently handles varying point numbers, occlusions, and can generalize to unseen categories.

WHISPERPLUS

Advanced speech-to-text processing.

TINYZERO

Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want.

SPEECH SEPARATION MODEL

The MossFormer2 model, an advancement of the original MossFormer, offers improved monaural speech separation capabilities.

MULTILINGUAL SCENE TEXT GENERATION

Diff-Text is a new training-free framework for creating photo-realistic images with text in any language. It enhances the Stable Diffusion model's multilingual capabilities by using sketched images as priors.

MY JAW HIT THE FLOOR WHEN I WATCHED AN AI MASTER ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST PHYSICAL GAMES IN JUST SIX HOURS

AI can play the game Labyrinth exponentially better than humans, with a best time of just 14.8 seconds. It can learn how to do so in just six hours. Labyrinth is an incredibly difficult physical board game that takes fine motor control, dexterity, and a lot of real-time problem-solving to win.

LARGEST AI IMAGE DATASET REMOVED AFTER DISCOVERY OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL

The LAION-5B dataset used by Stable Diffusion and other major AI products have been removed after a Stanford study found that it contained 3,226 suspected instances of child sexual abuse material, 1,008 of which were externally validated.

META’S CTO ON HOW THE GENERATIVE AI CRAZE HAS SPURRED THE COMPANY TO ‘CHANGE IT UP’

Meta's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth on the AI craze and where the technology will take the company.

TOP PAY BY ENGINEERING LEVEL

The top-paying company for entry-level engineers is Jane Street with an L1 total compensation package of $350,000

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