TLDR AI 2024-01-15

OPENAI CHANGES POLICY TO ALLOW MILITARY APPLICATIONS

OpenAI has revised its usage policy to potentially allow military applications of its technologies, a change from its previous policy that explicitly prohibited such use.

USING AI, MIT RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY A NEW CLASS OF ANTIBIOTIC CANDIDATES

Utilizing deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered compounds capable of killing the drug-resistant bacteria MRSA responsible for over 10,000 deaths annually in the U.S.

I AM A STRANGE DATASET: METALINGUISTIC TESTS FOR LANGUAGE MODELS

There is a challenge type of phrase that is self-referential, for example, “the last word in this sentence is is”. Language models struggle immensely with this sort of language. This paper introduces a dataset and some evaluations to help improve language models' metalinguistic capability.

PIXART-Δ: FAST AND CONTROLLABLE IMAGE GENERATION WITH LATENT CONSISTENCY MODELS

PixArt has been a parallel research direction to the popular Stable Diffusion set of image generation models. This work brings faster generation with Latent Consistency Models and better control with ControlNet style prompting.

SLEEPER AGENTS: TRAINING DECEPTIVE LLMS THAT PERSIST THROUGH SAFETY TRAINING

Anthropic released some really interesting research that purposefully poisons a language model with a sleeper phrase that elicits some behavior. It found that it was unable to “align” this sort of model with the powerful system used for its production models. Meaning, once the model had been poisoned, bad behavior could not be removed with current tools.

ANIMATE ANYONE REPLICATION

AnimateAnyone is an amazing video control model that takes an image and skeleton motion as input and then animates the person in the control image. This code is an open replication of that work.

MULTILINGUAL OCR LINE DETECTOR

Line detection is where you put a bounding box around a line of text in an image or PDF. Surya is an extremely powerful multi-lingual line detection model.

AUTOMATICALLY NARRATE YOUR LIFE

Using a combination of GPT4-V, top-of-the-line text-to-speech, and some computer capture software, you can have folks like David Attenborough narrate everything that is happening in your life.

THE CASE FOR CYBORGS

An expert in human cognition and AI discusses the evolution from artificial narrow intelligence to general intelligence, proposing cyborg integration as a potential path to superintelligence.

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF AI WITH VIJAY PANDE (40 MINUTE PODCAST)

A 40-minute reflection on AI with a peek at what’s to come.

PROMPT ALIGNED IMAGE PERSONALIZATION

Dreambooth is the current best method for personalizing an image model. Prompt alignment dramatically improves adherence to the prompt and is composable.

and LLM framework. Make your data LLM-ready

SEAMLESS EXPRESSIVE TRANSLATION

Meta has a new demo for seamless voice cloning and translation between languages.

VANNA

Use AI to interact with your database.

MICROSOFT WANTS TO AUTOMATICALLY LAUNCH ITS COPILOT AI ON SOME WINDOWS 11 DEVICES

Microsoft is currently testing an update in Windows 11's Dev Channel preview that automatically launches the AI-powered Copilot feature on widescreen devices with a screen size of at least 27 inches and a pixel width of 1920 pixels. This experiment, aimed at enhancing AI integration in Windows, is part of Microsoft's broader initiative to incorporate AI technology more seamlessly into its operating system.

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