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REAL WEIRD

THIS NEW BREED OF GENERATOR CAN RUN ON ALMOST ANY FUEL

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EFFICIENCY’

Meta managers have reportedly given 'subpar' performance reviews to thousands of employees, raising fears of more layoffs. Around 10% of workers received poor reviews. The company's metaverse division is seemingly safe from cuts. Reality Labs was responsible for $13.7 billion in losses last year. Despite this, Mark Zuckerberg remains committed to the division.

MAN BEATS MACHINE AT GO IN HUMAN VICTORY OVER AI

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MICROSOFT'S BING PLANS AI ADS IN EARLY PITCH TO ADVERTISERS

Microsoft plans to allow paid links within responses to search results.

FINGERPRINT

AMAZON WANTS EMPLOYEES TO RETURN TO THE OFFICE IN MAY

PER MONTH

THREADLESS PROCESS INJECTION

Process injection is a technique used for executing code from within the address space of another process, commonly used to mask activity within legitimate processes.

GITHUB COPILOT GETS AN UPGRADE

HOW SHOULD AI SYSTEMS BEHAVE, AND WHO SHOULD DECIDE?

1B MULTIMODAL MODEL OUT PERFORMS 175B COUNTERPART

Narrow models can still, unsurprisingly, beat larger general purpose models. This paper is another example, the authors use a small multimodal model to beat GPT3 by 16% on the visual / text benchmark ScienceQA. It's only one benchmark, but it's good to see improvements on more reasonably sized models.

THE STABLE ENTROPY HYPOTHESIS

This paper submits an hypothesis that “human-like” text generation lies in a narrow region of low entropy. Degenerate text which has repeated words, incoherent sentences, and grammatical errors lie away from this region. They provide supporting evidence and present an entropy aware decoding scheme.

MORAL SELF-CORRECTION IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit harmful biases that can get worse with size. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) helps, but not always enough. The authors show that simple prompting approaches can help LLMs trained with RLHF produce less harmful outputs.

NAVIGATING THE MANIFOLD OF LATENTS IN STABLE DIFFUSION

LANGCHAIN FOR THE WEB

Similar to other recently released libraries, Langchain now has a JavaScript library. Use this to build LM powered web apps. Importantly, interfacing with the python version is a huge focus specifically around serialization of objects.

TALK-TO-CHATGPT

Talk-To-ChatGPT is a Google Chrome extension that allows users to talk with ChatGPT using their voice and listen to the AI’s answer with a voice.

SCALING MEDIA ML AT NETFLIX

HOW TO FINE-TUNE THE MOST POWERFUL OPEN SOURCE LLM

THE PHYSICS PRINCIPLE THAT INSPIRED MODERN AI ART

SUMMARY OF CREATIVE AI RESEARCH AT SONY

A list of papers from the Sony creative AI research group. They focus on deep generative modeling, music, and cinematic AI. Lots of great links here to put on your reading list if you want to understand the state of the art for music.

AI CAN HELP DESIGN OPIOID DRUGS

AI BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSTICS

AI BECOMES SILICON VALLEY’S NEXT BUZZY BANDWAGON AS CRYPTO BOOM FIZZLES

Technologists agree that the generative AI that powers systems like ChatGPT has the potential to change how we live and work, despite the technology’s clear flaws. But some people see signs of froth that remind them of the crypto boom that recently fizzled.

BITCOIN INVESTORS ARE PLOTTING A MAJOR COUP

TERRA ECOSYSTEM

OPENSEA GOES ZERO-FEE, CREATOR ROYALTIES OPTIONAL

DAI FINDS ITS SPARK WITH SPARK LEND

BITCOIN PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM

COMPUTE LEGOS: DRIVING THE NEXT PHASE OF CRYPTO INNOVATION

FEBRUARY

PROBE

Nishad Singh is expected to plead guilty to US criminal charges related to a multiyear fraud at crypto exchange FTX. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission are planning to sue Singh over his alleged role in the scheme. Singh had a close relationship with Bankman-Fried. He helped write the software the exchange was built on. The deal, which could involve cooperating with authorities, has yet to be finalized.

BITCOIN MINERS ARE PLAYING A HIGH-STAKES GAME OF CHICKEN

SERVICE PROVIDER?

BANK OF RUSSIA TO PILOT CBDC IN APRIL

JAPAN WILL LAUNCH PILOT FOR ISSUING DIGITAL YEN IN APRIL

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SURPRISING WAYS

REPROGRAMMING MOUSE MICROBIOMES LEADS TO RECOVERY FROM MS

INQUERY

Inquery is a utility that triggers webhooks in response to changes made in a Postgres table. It works by sending low-latency websocket messages to a Go application, which then calls the configured webhook(s) with a JSON payload that includes values from the database row. Use cases include sending notifications via Slack, Email, Text Message or Push Notification, calling serverless functions, triggering analytics events, and streaming data real-time.