TLDR AI 2024-09-19

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SALESFORCE'S NEW AI STRATEGY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT AI WILL TAKE JOBS

Salesforce is overhauling its AI strategy, introducing generative AI tools for tasks without human supervision and revising its pricing model to $2 per AI-driven conversation. This shift aims to address investor concerns about AI-induced job losses impacting subscription-based revenues. The new AI tools offer higher efficiency and autonomy compared to traditional copilots and chatbots.

QWEN 2.5

An impressive array of open models that approach the frontier of performance. Specifically, they have strong performance on code, math, structured output, and reasoning. The Qwen team has also released a suite of sizes for a variety of use cases.

CREATE FULL WEB APPS WITH LLAMACODER

Together AI and Meta have partnered to make a tool that enables users to build entire apps from just a prompt on the LlamaCoder platform. It is akin to Claude Artifacts but purely created to show off the speed of Together AI's inference engine.

BITNET WITHOUT RETRAINING

The Hugging Face team, using a new technique called quantization warm up, fine-tuned Llama 3 8B and maintained Llama 1 performance while quantizing it to use 1.58 Bits per parameter.

1X WORLD MODEL

1x, a robotics company, has trained a video generation model that can be used to simulate first person views of robotic activity. This can be helpful for offline data generation and robot training.

DIAGRAM OF THOUGHT: ITERATIVE REASONING IN LANGUAGE MODELS

The Diagram of Thought (DoT) framework introduces a new way for large language models to reason by organizing ideas into a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This method allows models to propose, critique, refine, and verify ideas, improving logical consistency.

ZML INFERENCE

ZML is a lightning fast inference engine written in Zig that is designed with performance in mind. It can be used for a variety of models, although it requires some customization to get working for a new architecture.

ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON NAVIGATION AGENTS

This repository introduces a new attack method for embodied navigation agents that attaches transparent patches with learnable textures to target objects.

GRAPH ANOMALY DETECTION: A SURVEY

This paper offers an in-depth review of deep learning methods, particularly graph neural networks (GNNs), for detecting anomalies in graph data. Researchers introduce a novel taxonomy of approaches, analyzing GNN designs, proxy tasks, and anomaly measures.

SOCIALAI OFFERS A TWITTER-LIKE DIARY WHERE AI BOTS RESPOND TO YOUR POSTS

SocialAI, a new iOS app, offers a social media experience solely populated by AI-powered bots, eliminating human interaction. Users can share thoughts and receive endless, tailored AI-generated responses, choosing from categories like "supporters" or "critics." Founder Michael Sayman aims to provide a private, interactive space leveraging large language models for diverse feedback.

ACADEMIC TEXT PARSING

AceParse is a dataset designed to improve the parsing of structured texts in academic papers, including formulas, tables, and complex sentences.

JUMPING OVER AI'S UNCANNY VALLEY

This article explores the Uncanny Valley theory, which suggests that discomfort with almost-human AI could hinder its adoption. It examines recent advancements in AI that bring this psychological phenomenon into focus, questioning its potential impact on AI's future. The piece concludes by suggesting that AI's best use may be in a complementary role rather than as a human replacement.

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MERCOR'S $30M SERIES A

Mercor raised $30M from Benchmark to build an AI recruiter.

CANCER DETECTION

SkinMamba is a hybrid model that combines CNN and Transformer techniques to improve skin lesion segmentation for early cancer detection.

AMAZON ALEXA CAN NOW BE CONTROLLED BY THOUGHT ALONE - THANKS TO THIS BRAIN IMPLANT

Synchron has enabled an ALS patient to control Amazon's Alexa with a brain implant, bypassing the need for voice or touch.