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TLDR AI 2024-05-22

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01GENERAL

Sponsored

AND IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE A HUMAN

AI lab, Bland AI [4] has released a hyper-realistic sounding AI phone agent. Its autonomously taking actions and it's blowing everyone's minds.

bland.aiSponsor

02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

SCALE AI RAISES $1B

The monstrous series F comes from Accel and previous investors. Demand for the services provided is enormous and Scale is uniquely positioned to continue powering the modern AI data wave.

scale.com6 min read

XAI WORKING TO MAKE GROK MULTIMODAL

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is advancing its Grok chatbot to support multimodal inputs, allowing users to upload photos and receive text-based answers.

theverge.com2 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

PHI-3 14B (HUGGING FACE HUB)

The powerful small series of models got an upgrade with the 14B version. It performs on par with Command R (a 104B model).

huggingface.co

DICTIONARY LEARNING ON CLAUDE SONNET

Anthropic has made a breakthrough in mechanistic interpretability by mapping millions of concepts inside of Sonnet. It even found that you could push on the internal concepts and change Sonnet's sense of self (e.g., researchers made it believe it was the Golden Gate Bridge).

anthropic.com35 min read

TEXT CLASSIFICATION WITH LLMS

The Smart Expert System is a new approach using Large Language Models (LLMs) for text classification. This system streamlines the process by reducing the need for extensive preprocessing and domain expertise.

arxiv.org18 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

Sponsored

OCTOAI OUTPERFORMS VLLM FOR SELF-HOSTED GENAI

Open source LLMs like Llama 3 and Mixtral are game-changing. But getting them to run efficiently on vLLM requires a ton of manual optimizations. OctoStack [12] from OctoAI achieves better throughput, lower latency, and efficient GPU utilization by baking the latest optimization techniques into an inference stack you control. Read the

octo.aiSponsor

ENHANCED VIDEO SUMMARIZATION

This project introduces a novel CNN-based SpatioTemporal Attention (CSTA) method to improve video summarization. Unlike traditional attention mechanisms, CSTA effectively captures the visual significance of frames using a 2D CNN to understand relationships and key attributes in videos.

github.comGitHub repository

DEBIASING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS

This project identifies a critical bias in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), where outputs lean more towards language model priors than actual visual inputs. The project effectively reduces this bias by introducing "calibration" and "debias sampling" techniques, leading to more accurate and vision-focused responses across various tasks.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

CHATGPT CAN TALK, BUT OPENAI EMPLOYEES SURE CAN'T

The departures of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike have brought to light OpenAI's restrictive NDA, which prevents former employees from criticizing OpenAI under threat of losing their vested equity. CEO Sam Altman responded to the story by promising a fix.

vox.com5 min read

APPLE ANNOUNCES NEW ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES, INCLUDING EYE TRACKING

Apple has announced upcoming accessibility features leveraging AI and machine learning, such as Eye Tracking for iPad, iPhone navigation using the front-facing camera, and Vocal Shortcuts that enable Siri to execute tasks via custom sounds. Other upcoming features include Music Haptics for tactile music feedback and advanced speech recognition for atypical speech patterns.

apple.com9 min read

ASK HN: IF YOU'VE USED GPT-4-TURBO AND CLAUDE OPUS, WHICH DO YOU PREFER? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

This Hacker News thread compares GPT-4-Turbo, the default model in ChatGPT Plus, to Claude Opus, Anthropic's competing model. Most developers seem to prefer Claude as it is apparently better at coding and engineering work. Its writing style also seems to be preferred, but part of that is due to the recognizability of GPT-4-Turbo's style. OpenAI's app functionalities, like its code interpreter and ability to search the internet, are still big reasons to continue using ChatGPT Plus.

news.ycombinator.com