A study on MRIs of people born in the 1930s through to the 1970s found that babies in the 1970s had nearly 15% more brain surface area and 6.6% more brain volume than in the 1930s. Parts of the brain associated with memory and learning have also increased in size. It is unclear if larger brains make people more intelligent, but it could still be a plus as there are links to better brain health. Larger brain structures may reflect improved brain development and health. The percentage of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease has decreased every decade.
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2024.03.28·athenago.com·Sponsor·TLDR The developer job market is the worst it has been in over two decades, even with the AI bubble in full force. It is unlikely to ever fully bounce back. Finding a good job is only going to get harder - the overall market might fluctuate, but there isn't much on the horizon that seems likely to turn the decline around. Effective documentation, information, and training will likely start getting harder to find, especially in areas where AI is even less effective than normal.
2024.03.28·baldurbjarnason.com·35 min read·TLDR Apache Parquet, the de facto standard for tabular data exchange, uses a binary, columnar, and compressed data representation and comes with enough metadata so that files can be correctly interpreted without additional information. The format is supported by most modern data tools and services. Parquet files come with some risks - even perfectly valid files can be problematic. This article discusses how to exploit one of the vulnerabilities in the Parquet file format to create a 'zip bomb' that is only 42 kilobytes large but contains 622 trillion values, requiring over 4 petabytes of memory to decompress.
2024.03.28·duckdb.org·5 min read·TLDR The AI boom is pushing the industry's talent wars to new extremes, with companies offering million-dollar annual compensation packages and accelerating stock-vesting schedules to draw people with expertise and experience to develop generative AI technologies. This is happening as layoffs continue in other areas of tech. While there is a surplus of software engineers, the number of candidates who have trained large language models from scratch or can help solve vexing problems in AI is scarce. Salespeople in AI are also in demand.
Artificial intelligence is already making people rich, but some researchers think this is only the beginning. AI may be set to make society much richer by causing economic growth at a scale it has never experienced before. This article looks at arguments for why such a dramatic explosion in economic growth might be possible. Explosive growth without causing a loss in jobs may be possible, but even a small boost can wind up changing all of our lives.
Amazon will maintain a minority stake in the company but won't have an Anthropic board seat.
Hulu's integration into Disney involved a large transfer of assets and a huge reworking of underlying infrastructure that will change the way Disney thinks about, creates, and distributes content.
2024.03.28·theverge.com·7 min read·TLDR OpenAI is partnering with a small group of US builders to test usage-based GPT earnings with the goal of creating a vibrant ecosystem where builders are rewarded for their creativity and impact.
2024.03.28·twitter.com·1 min read·TLDR Phil Schiller says that the whole developer ecosystem has benefited from the work Apple has done together with them.
The leaked images, available in the article, show a disc-less system with the same exterior design as the existing black Xbox Series X.
2024.03.28·theverge.com·2 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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2024.03.28·anyscale.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Databrix and Mosaic have trained a 132B parameter MoE model with impressive performance. They trained the model on 3,000 H100s and have released the weights. The model is also available on the Databricks API.
2024.03.28·databricks.com·8 min read·TLDR AI Amazon finalized a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, its largest venture investment yet.
2024.03.28·venturebeat.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Emerging AI-driven search tools challenge Google by offering direct and explorative answers, but struggle to match its speed, diverse functionalities, and efficient data presentation, underscoring the complexity of replacing traditional search with AI.
2024.03.28·theverge.com·6 min read·TLDR AI Searching over embedding vectors is a key to RAG pipelines. If you replace the fp32 numbers with a single 0 or 1, then use a KNN clusterer and reranker, you can maintain performance while shrinking memory requirements 30x.
2024.03.28·blog.pgvecto.rs·12 min read·TLDR AI This comprehensive survey delves into the advancements and challenges of deepfake technology and its detection, highlighting the arms race between deepfake creators and those developing technologies to spot them.
2024.03.28·arxiv.org·24 min read·TLDR AI AniPortrait is a framework designed to create lifelike animated portraits from a single reference image and audio input. By translating audio into 3D representations and then mapping these onto 2D facial landmarks, this method produces animations that excel in natural facial expressions, varied poses, and high visual quality.
2024.03.28·arxiv.org·7 min read·TLDR AI 2024.03.28·semanticlayersummit.com·TLDR AI Sponsored
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2024.03.28·semanticlayersummit.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI LLMs are useful in as much as they are fast, accurate, and follow directions. This combination makes a street fighter emulator with text input an excellent way to figure out which models are good at these three criteria.
2024.03.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI AID and its variant PAID are two techniques designed to improve image interpolation by incorporating conditions like text and poses. These methods ensure the production of images with enhanced consistency, smoothness, and fidelity without requiring additional training.
2024.03.28·qy-h00.github.io·4 min read·TLDR AI The OPTIN framework introduces a novel way to enhance the efficiency of transformer-based AI models across various domains without the need for re-training. By using a technique called intermediate feature distillation, OPTIN can compress networks under specific constraints while barely affecting accuracy.
2024.03.28·samirkhaki.com·3 min read·TLDR AI The world is grappling with the challenge of regulating AI. A series of high-profile meetings and conferences involving global leaders, tech executives, and policymakers revealed divisions and a lack of consensus on how to control this transformative technology.
2024.03.28·politico.eu·11 min read·TLDR AI New models are regularly released that claim to be the state of the art on standard benchmarks. It is important to measure these models on your own tasks and data. Superpipe is a tool that helps build these evaluation pipelines on your data.
2024.03.28·superpipe.ai·4 min read·TLDR AI Researchers discovered a side-channel attack that can decipher encrypted AI assistant chats with high accuracy on specific topics by exploiting token transmission within the encryption. The attack utilizes large language models to reconstruct token sequences into readable text, potentially exposing sensitive user conversations. Major AI assistants, except for Google Gemini, are vulnerable to this method, prompting providers to seek mitigation strategies.
2024.03.28·arstechnica.com·11 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
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2024.03.28·twitter.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Nvidia’s GPUs, particularly the H200, led the MLPerf’s inferencing benchmarks.
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A US District Judge has ruled that the SEC’s securities lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, despite the firm’s attempt at getting a dismissal. This decision implies that cryptocurrency transactions could fall under the SEC's jurisdiction, despite Coinbase's objections. The judge dismissed claims against Coinbase's Wallet product, stating the SEC has failed to prove that it acts as a 'broker'.
Three major players in the crypto AI space, SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol, have announced a merger to create the ‘Artificial Superintelligence Alliance’, a decentralized AI network. The alliance merges $FET, $OCEAN, and $AGIX tokens into one - $ASI. This groundbreaking move aims to accelerate the path towards Artificial General Intelligence, provide an alternative to Big Tech's AI advancements, and facilitate more ethical AI development and utilization.
Ondo is launching instant investment and redemption for its OUSG product, bypassing traditional securities settlement times. An additional form of OUSG, described as rOUSG, will maintain a steady mint/redeem price of $1.00, with yields distributed daily. A conversion tool will also facilitate immediate OUSG and rOUSG conversion. Meanwhile, a significant portion of OUSG's assets will be placed into the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.
Oasis AI has introduced a distributed AI inference platform enabled by a distinctive browser extension in an attempt to entice a wider user base, irrespective of their technical expertise, to participate in the AI space. The platform facilitates decentralized computing, makes APIs easily accessible, and promotes AI inference at scale. In the upcoming weeks, an extension for providers, an inference platform, and enterprise APIs are expected to be released.
This article gives an overview of the DePIN space, a new sector in cryptocurrency that pertains to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. After an initial surge in prices, DePIN projects seem primed for promising future growth. The broad category encompasses both physical and digital resources. Its benefits include resource efficiency, lower barriers to entry, and decentralization. This article highlights several DePIN projects, including Filecoin, Helium, and Shadow.
2024.03.28·route2fi.substack.com·11 min read·TLDR Crypto The Bitcoin halving is usually a positive catalyst for altcoins and this is expected to be the case again this cycle. While the extent to which this happens as it did in prior cycles is uncertain, it is highly unlikely the market will go into an extended cooldown phase after the halving.
Tokenization plays a pivotal role in the distribution strategy for blockchain-based products, often being more significant than the product itself. Founders who focus on attracting attention and liquidity to their tokens can create successful crypto projects and substantial network effects. Examples include Uniswap and the Helium Network, which used tokens to incentivize network participation and subsequently gained great traction because of that.
BlackRock's first tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), has attracted $160 million in inflows within the first week of its launch, boosted by contributions from tokenized real-world asset platform, Ondo Finance. The fund, which invests in U.S. Treasury bills, repurchase agreements, and cash, provides dividends to qualified investors in the form of tokens representing U.S. dollar yield.
The Base Migration Tool allows users to easily migrate ERC20 tokens to the Base network with a user-friendly interface.
Telegram trading bot volume surged 3x in March to $4.7 billion, with a 1.7x increase in users to 450k, mostly on Solana.
NFT game Munchables, built on Blast, an Ethereum L2 network, experienced an exploit by a North Korean hacker, losing $62 million in the process. The Blast team was able to recover the stolen funds.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan thinks that "3% is the new 1%" for bitcoin allocations among professional investors, due in part to the institutional legitimacy the spot Bitcoin ETFs bestowed upon the asset class.
Google has introduced a new feature that allows users to personalize shopping experiences by rating products with Tinder-style swipe gestures to compete with Amazon and Walmart's AI shopping tools. The tool, available on mobile browsers and the Google app, will show style recommendations based on user ratings, with options to adjust preferences for further personalized results.
A Banksy mural in Finsbury Park, London, has been covered up with plastic and wooden boards by the building's owner after being vandalized with white paint. This has caused visibility issues and resident concerns. Islington Council is now managing the site, aiming to allow public enjoyment while considering local disruptions.
Google Maps is streamlining its mobile interface with a cleaner home screen and a simplified bottom bar, the specifics of which are yet to be unveiled. The app will feature new pin colors to enhance map readability, complementing previous updates like map color revisions, improved directions interface, and expanded Street View coverage.