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Clibrain, a Spanish AI startup, has launched Lince Zero, a large language model optimized for Spanish. The model, available under open-source license, is aimed at delivering enhanced performance for Spanish language queries.
Shutterstock is expanding its partnership with OpenAI, providing data to train AI models in return for advanced tech access. The move comes despite industry debates over generative AI and copyright issues.
This study proposes a method to improve the functionality of chatbot systems like ChatGPT by using ontology-driven structured prompts that allow for more effective information retrieval and response generation. By showcasing its effectiveness in the Ukrainian language within rehabilitation, the study illustrates that this approach is adaptable and can be applied to a variety of other large language models.
This paper presents CAT-ViL, a deep learning tool that can provide detailed answers and visualize them on surgical videos, serving as a valuable resource for medical students and junior surgeons.
A new automated system, Text2Cinemagraph, can transform text descriptions into moving artistic images called cinemagraphs, even when the text includes imaginary elements and stylistic details.
a16z released an AI companion app starter kit.
GPT Researcher is an autonomous agent designed for comprehensive online research on a variety of tasks.
This repo holds the code, demos, and logs for Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning.
This blog post discusses the "Picks & Shovels" behind Generative AI leaders like OpenAI. The post covers topics like foundational models, compute, frameworks, orchestration & vector databases, fine-tuning, labeling, synthetic data, AI observability, and model safety.
Bill Gates discusses the real but manageable risks of AI, making the case that we’ve successfully mitigated the risks from past innovations.
A profile into Anthropic’s efforts to simultaneously balance competition with a desire to build safe AI models.
Mike Loukides argues that the only thing to fear is failing to make the transition to AI-assisted programming.
This article discusses the commercial ecosystem that is emerging around data in the age of AI. It argues that new pricing and usage models, compliance and data rights, and data marketplaces are needed to update the current system.
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Oklo, an advanced nuclear fission microreactor startup, is going public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman is also the chairman of Oklo's board. The SPAC will raise as much as $500 million for the company. It will close by early 2024. The company plans to use the raised capital to ramp up its supply chain and procurement processes and for building a pilot scale production facility for its reactor. Artificial intelligence will demand a lot of energy if it scales up in the way Altman is predicting it will.
Apple has launched an online store on WeChat. WeChat has over 1.2 billion users. It is China's biggest messaging platform. The super app also features mini-programs that lets users access services from inside WeChat. Apple's WeChat store will allow users to purchase the full line of Apple's products with free shipping. Some customers will be able to receive three-hour delivery and other Apple services, like the trade-in program.
The next six months will see up to half a dozen missions attempt to land on the Moon. The three primary drivers in the renewed interest in the Moon include the discovery of water on the Moon in the 1990s and early 2000s, the rise of China's space program, and private companies looking to exploit resources on the lunar surface. This article provides a rundown on what to expect from the upcoming Moon missions. The missions include Chandrayaan-3 in July, Luna 25 and SLIM in August, IM-1 sometime in the third quarter of this year, Peregrin Mission One in the fourth quarter, and IM-3 near the end of the year.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has shown encouraging results in clinical trials involving people addicted to various substances. The treatment has already been authorized in the US, Canada, and the EU as an aid for cigarette smokers trying to quit. Researchers are currently studying different forms of TMS that may be able to rewire the brain of people with addictions more effectively. Some treatments are currently waiting for regulatory approval. One of the downsides of TMS is the cost, which many health insurance providers do not cover.
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gpt-prompt-engineer is a tool that allows prompt engineers to take their experimentation to a whole new level. Users simply input a description of the task to be completed with some test cases and the system will generate, test, and rank prompts to find the ones that perform the best. gpt-prompt-engineer uses an ELO rating system to rate generated prompts. A classification version is available for handling classification tasks.
This tutorial teaches readers how to create and host AI companions that they can chat with through their browsers or via SMS. Users can choose the personality and backstory of their companions. A vector database with similarity search is used to provide conversations with more depth. These companions can be used as friends, romantic partners, coaches, and more. The tutorial is intended to be a starter stack for those curious about how chatbots are built.
This article discusses how social media has changed over the past decade. While Threads looks a lot like Twitter on many levels, there are essential differences that may lead it to become something larger than Twitter ever was. Owning social media is a fool's errand. The most important new social networks in recent years have been notable for not really being social networks at all. Apps like TikTok showed that an abundance of easily-discoverable content can be a powerful force.
This pastebin text contains notes detailing GPT-4's structure. GPT-4 is more than 10 times the size of GPT-3, with an estimated total of 1.8 trillion parameters across 120 layers. OpenAI utilized a Mixture of Experts model to help keep costs reasonable. The model would have cost around $63 million to train. Many more details are available in the text.
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Claude 2 is available for users to try on a new beta website and it is also available as a commercial API for developers.
One of the reasons behind Linux's rise in user base is due to its strong presence in high performance computing, making it the go-to choice for AI/ML experts.
Distributed computing involves taking large projects, slicing them into pieces, and then sending out these pieces to PCs for processing.
A look at Google Brain from someone who worked in the division.
A memo issued by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicates that the company plans to change its hardware lineup and consolidate leases.
TikTok's US employees will be allowed to vest their shares without waiting for their company to list on the stock market.
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Threads has already surpassed 100 million users, reaching the milestone dramatically faster than ChatGPT. It took ChatGPT two months to pass the mark, while Threads only launched last Wednesday. Users have made more than 95 million posts and shared 190 million likes on the platform. Mark Zuckerberg said in a post that the growth was mostly organic. Threads is still in its infancy and it is yet to be seen whether the platform will retain its users.
This article contains a transcript of an interview with Dennis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind is the result of an internal merger between DeepMind and Google's previous internal AI team called Google Brain. DeepMind was purchased in 2014 and the merger was completed earlier this year. The two divisions were not focused on the same things when they were merged, resulting in a culture clash. The interview covers the merger and the dramas around it as well as AI risk and artificial general intelligence.
Longshot Space's CEO Mike Grace thinks that rockets are an overly exquisite solution to the problem of sending large masses to space. The company's answer is a kinetic launch system that will be capable of reaching hypersonic speeds and shooting projectiles to orbital velocities for as low as $10 per kilogram. Its system involves a multiple-kilometer-long horizontal concrete tunnel that is basically a vacuum chamber. The system will generate a lot of noise, so it will have to be built somewhere very remote.
SpaceX recently set a new record for the most flights by a SpaceX launch vehicle. The mission was SpaceX's 216th successful mission in a row for the Falcon rocket family. SpaceX is now aiming to fly its Falcon 9 boosters as many as 20 times. The company’s most-flown rocket, numbered B1058 in the its inventory, went through a process that included a recertification to prove that it could fly up to five more times. It first debuted with SpaceX’s first launch of astronauts in May 2020.
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React95 is a component library inspired by the Windows 95 UI design. It features TypeScript support, a Figma design kit, themes, and Clippy. Examples are available in the repository.
Gita is a command-line tool for managing multiple git repos. It can display the status of multiple git repos side by side and delegate commands on repos from any working directory. A video explaining common usages for Gita is available.
Meta had been planning to release Threads for a while, but the backlash to Twitter's recent limiting of how many tweets people can see per day pushed the company to get the app out of the door. This article contains a transcript of an interview with Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, on how the Threads project started, the decision-making process when developing the standalone app, Threads' ActivityPub integration, why Threads isn't available in the EU, Mosseri’s views on Twitter, and more. Threads' success shows that there is room in the market for multiple players in different spaces.
Design can feel like there's no science to it, but there are many enthusiasts who spend their time deconstructing designs to find out the why behind great displays of interaction design. This article presents observations on common interactions as an exercise in building stronger design intuition and vocabulary. It covers metaphors, gestures, spatial consistency, touch inputs, and much more. Understanding and articulating why something feels right might not come as intuitively as designing something to feel right, but they're two sides of the same coin.
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Feature flags are great for continuous deployment, but they add complexity to code, are difficult to verify, and add to potential costs.
There are many stories of tech workers being paid by giant tech firms to do very little, with some having to basically fight to find work.
Edge computing runs code and serves data from servers as close as possible to the client to keep apps fast and relevant.
Tumblr is redesigning its reply and reblog features in an attempt to make the site less intimidating to attract users disillusioned with Reddit and Twitter.
The team behind BotDefense, a service that helps moderate 3,650 subreddits on Reddit, is quitting over Reddit's antagonistic actions towards moderators and developers.
Sparkline charts are simple, compact charts that show general trends without getting into details.
Salesforce was one of the first groups to release open source code models. Since then, they have kept pace with the state of the art, surpassing all equivalently sized models (7B params) and even beating out models 2x as large.