This article presents a mental model of LLMs and how their limitations can be overcome. A mental model of LLMs is needed to know where they work well, where they don't, and how best to use them. Most people already have a similar model for Google without realizing it - it's assumed everyone knows how to talk to Google, but that wasn't always the case. LLMs are basically like booksmart Harvard graduates who can Google anything to answer any question you ask them.
2023.11.14·about.sourcegraph.com·7 min read·TLDR OpenAI recruiters are trying to poach senior researchers from Google's AI teams with pay packages ranging from $5 million to $10 million. Workers joining the company will receive stock that could potentially quickly triple in value. They will also receive large stock grants later on. The movement of employees is not only one way - some employees have jumped in the other direction from OpenAI to Google as well.
2023.11.14·sfgate.com·2 min read·TLDR Apple came out in support of a right-to-repair bill in California in August. The Right to Repair Act guarantees everyone access to parts, tools, and manuals for fixing their electronic devices. Apple had pledged to honor the new law nationwide, but its newest iPhone release appears impossible to fully repair without paying Apple money. This article looks at the right-to-repair movement and how the industry is responding to it.
2023.11.14·theverge.com·20 min read·TLDR Loro is a Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) library that makes building local-first apps easier.
2023.11.14·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Any system determined to have achieved artificial general intelligence will be excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft.
2023.11.14·venturebeat.com·6 min read·TLDR Construction for Tesla's 1950s-style diner and drive-in movie theater Supercharger station has begun at 7001 West Santa Monica Blvd in LA.
2023.11.14·axios.com·3 min read·TLDR Too many office environments are hostile to collaboration - return-to-office mandates can tear teams apart, at a huge cost.
2023.11.14·benjiweber.co.uk·13 min read·TLDR OpenAI is working on GPT-5 and it plans to raise more capital from Microsoft to support its development efforts.
2023.11.14·siliconangle.com·5 min read·TLDR Coding as a valuable skill might soon fade from the world.
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Anyscale [5] is the company behind the open-source framework called Ray, used by the world’s leading AI teams.
2023.11.14·anyscale.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Nvidia is launching the HGX H200, an advanced AI chip with significantly more memory bandwidth and capacity than its predecessor, the H100. Availability remains uncertain as Nvidia works with partners for its 2024 release.
2023.11.14·theverge.com·2 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI is working on GPT-5 and seeking additional funding from Microsoft Corp. for its development.
2023.11.14·siliconangle.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Xbox and Inworld AI are collaborating to create AI-powered tools to help enrich the narrative and character creation elements in game development. The partnership will develop an AI design copilot to assist game designers and an AI character runtime engine for an immersive gaming experience. They anticipate these tools will foster limitless creativity, enhance immersion, and expedite game production.
2023.11.14·inworld.ai·4 min read·TLDR AI Advances in AI, including AlphaFold, have significantly increased the rate of progress in science. This study presents RoseTTAFold All-Atom, a neural network that can model a wide range of molecules beyond proteins including drugs, vitamins, DNA, and sugars. The authors validate their architecture by fine-tuning it into a diffusion model and experimentally validating new-to-nature molecules designed from minimal prompts across many applications.
2023.11.14·biorxiv.org·45 min read·TLDR AI This paper introduces FinGPT, a language model trained on Finnish. The researchers who created it found that data repetition with some tricks produced extremely smooth loss curves. This may serve as an easy fix for underrepresented languages on the internet.
2023.11.14·arxiv.org·22 min read·TLDR AI VLPMarker, a new watermarking method, protects Embedding as a Service Vision-Language Pre-Trained Models from extraction attacks.
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2023.11.14·mendable.ai·Sponsor·TLDR AI An open-source project building upon LangChain, LangServe, and LangSmith that offers customizable language models, prompts, tools, vector databases, retrieval algorithms, and chat history databases. It features a sandbox environment, custom actions, and analytics for enhanced user control similar to OpenAI's GPTs.
2023.11.14·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI The enhanced LLaMA model now includes 16,000 Tamil tokens, leveraging the LoRA methodology for efficient training. This update, along with new Tamil versions of Alpaca and OpenOrca datasets, has notably improved Tamil text processing, paving the way for future advancements in Indian language AI.
2023.11.14·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI This report evaluates GPT-4V for autonomous driving, focusing on its capabilities in scene understanding, decision-making, and real-time responses.
2023.11.14·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Sparse tensors occur when some values of the neural network are zeros. These values can efficiently be skipped. Researchers developed a way to quickly find when values are zero and overload hardware to fit more non-zero values onto a chip at a time.
2023.11.14·news.mit.edu·8 min read·TLDR AI A comprehensive review of the major developments in the AI research, industry, and open-source space that happened in 2023.
2023.11.14·magazine.sebastianraschka.com·15 min read·TLDR AI 2023.11.14·medium.com·8 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
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2023.11.14·kickstarter.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI OpenAI's six-member board will decide when AGI is achieved, potentially impacting its commercial relationship with Microsoft.
2023.11.14·venturebeat.com·5 min read·TLDR AI Civitai, an AI model sharing platform, has introduced a controversial "bounties" feature, allowing users to request and monetize the creation of AI-generated images.
2023.11.14·404media.co·4 min read·TLDR AI Top-ranked OpenAI GPTs.
2023.11.14·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Bithumb, a South Korean crypto exchange, is reportedly planning a potential IPO on Kosdaq, aiming for the second half of 2025. It has selected Samsung Securities as the underwriter for this process. Meanwhile, its former chair, Lee Jeong-hoon, cleared of previous fraud charges, has returned to the company as a registered director.
A falsified business registration listed as a BlackRock XRP trust triggered significant market volatility yesterday. The phony registration, posted on Delaware’s Division of Corporations website, led to a 10% surge in XRP prices, which later dropped back after confirmation of the fake news. The incident mirrored the fake CoinTelegraph announcement regarding a BlackRock Bitcoin ETF approval that temporarily sparked a market rally.
Cboe Digital is preparing to launch margin futures for Bitcoin and Ethereum in January 2024, marking its transition as the first US-regulated crypto native combined exchange and clearinghouse for both spot and leveraged derivatives trading. Supported by leading crypto trading firms, Cboe also intends to broaden its crypto derivatives suite, subject to regulatory approvals. This move is expected to enhance liquidity and hedging opportunities for traders.
New Ethereum research is aiming to apply zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge proofs) to enable privacy in transactions using Solidity. This could potentially remove the need for L2 blockchains, leading to reduced gas fees on Ethereum and centralizing transaction activity. Obstacles include ensuring auditability and extra storage needed at the verification phase. This open-source research hopes to attract other builders and funding to work on these types of projects.
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This post discusses how trend-traders can adjust their strategies to effectively execute in strong market trends. It shares numerous strategies, including lowering timeframes, considering consolidations as forms of pullback, using MAs as dynamic S/R levels, and leveraging liquidations. Traders can make use of seemingly mediocre levels and simple price action concepts during strong trends. Traders should not ignore BTC and ETH as they remain key indicators of market movements and sentiment.
This report provides an in-depth exploration of zkSync's architecture and its processes, including Account Abstraction, Core Architecture, Transaction Finality, zk-proof, and Interoperability. It also provides detailed illustrations that can help you understand the relationship between different components of the protocol, transaction phases, and how zkSync accommodates and integrates with Ethereum's processes. The report analyzes the revenue and costs of the protocol and gives a developer's perspective on working with zkSync, highlighting notable functionalities and potential challenges.
The Block announced that it has sold a stake in the company for around $60 million to Singapore's Foresight Ventures for ~80% ownership. The majority of this capital was used to buy out former CEO Mike McCaffrey's stake following a scandal involving FTX loans. Foresight plans to help The Block expand its Asian customer base amidst struggles in the crypto media industry.
This post breaks down the value of what is left on FTX’s balance sheet a year after its dramatic implosion. Despite calls for liquid assets like BTC, ETH, and SOL to be returned to customers, systems in place require broad creditor distribution. Creditor claims total $81 billion, split between customer and non-customer claims. However, the total liability might be closer to $23.2 billion, accounting for disputes. Assets include liquid and illiquid digital tokens, real estate, and brokerage accounts, with the values in this report based on closing prices as of August 31, 2023.
This post discusses the importance of capital efficiency in DeFi, highlighting Solana's ability to generate significantly more trading volume with less liquidity compared to Ethereum, challenging the relevance of TVL as a metric.
Ryan Wyatt, former head of YouTube Gaming and Polygon Labs, is now joining Optimism as its Chief Growth Officer to focus on the adoption and development of Optimism.
Solana's daily active user count surpassed Ethereum user count over the weekend, but Ethereum's entire ecosystem, including its Layer 2 networks, is still in the lead with over 1 million active wallets.
As it continues to sort out legal issues, Terraform Labs has acquired Pulsar Finance, focusing on a post-Kwon strategy with enhanced cross-chain capabilities and portfolio management tools.
Adobe Research and Australian National University have developed a breakthrough AI model that can turn a 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in just 5 seconds. The breakthrough involved end-to-end training of around 1 million 3D objects using the Objaverse and MVImgNet datasets to predict neural radiance fields directly from input images.
Android Police spotted a new UI experiment with a one-line input bar below a quick reply box that looks like instant messaging input. Above it, you can still select from the "reply," "reply all," or "forward" options. Also, you get an attachment and send controls and an "expand" button that seems to open the usual compose interface.
NASA has been using both its "worm" and "meatball" logos simultaneously as it enters its Artemis era. The meatball logo is the official one, while the worm logo, which was used from 1975 to 1992, serves as a supporting element. Design experts and NASA officials agree that both logos have their place and complement each other, representing the agency's heritage and modernity, respectively.
Eight trends are predicted for graphic design in 2024 based on the insights of industry experts. The list includes subscription-based agency work, brand sprints, de-packaging, and moving types.
2023.11.14·coyleandrew.medium.com·3 min read·TLDR Design Checkout screens everywhere, from in-person stores to delivery apps, have added buttons designed to make it easier for you to tip. It’s all built into the regular flow of checking out, and you don’t have to rummage through your wallet to add to the tip jar. However, the question arises: How much of these tips go to the people you intended to tip?
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