Summary A new AI chip from Meta is designed to speed up the execution of neural networks, and an upgraded supercomputer is designed to speed up the company’s own AI research. The “Meta Training and Inference Accelerator” (MTIA) is a new family of chips designed to accelerate and cheapen the processing performance of neural networks, …
Summary Until now, AI has had a hard time controlling smartphone interfaces. But Google researchers seem to have found a way. To improve voice-based interaction with mobile user interfaces, researchers at Google Research have been investigating the use of large language models (LLM). Current mobile intelligent assistants are limited in conversational interactions because they cannot …
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Summary HumanRF brings high-resolution 3D avatars to NeRFs. Behind it is an AI startup for synthetic media. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) learn 3D representations from photos or videos and can render individual objects or entire scenes. Some variants specialize in moving scenes or objects, others experiment with editing capabilities, and others attempt to render people …
Summary BigCode, a joint initiative of Hugging Face and ServiceNow, introduces Starcoder and StarcoderBase, two large open-source code language models. The researchers place special emphasis on transparent and copyright-compliant data selection. The 15.5 billion parameter Starcoder models can generate code in 86 programming languages. In a novel approach, the researchers used a method called “multi-query …
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Summary DetGPT gives a preview of the AI applications that will be possible with multimodal models in the future – and not just the good ones. At the GPT-4 launch, OpenAI demonstrated some multimodal capabilities, including converting a photographed and scribbled web design into code or the ability to answer questions about images, which is …
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Summary Can OpenAI’s GPT-4 help make AI safer? The company’s large language model tried to explain GPT-2 neurons. In a recent paper, OpenAI shows how AI can help interpret the internal workings of large language models. The team used GPT-4 to generate and evaluate explanations for neurons from its older predecessor, GPT-2. The work is …
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Summary OpenAI dominates the media with ChatGPT, but the company is also researching other generative AI models. A new paper shows a text-to-3D model. In late 2022, OpenAI unveiled Point-E, a generative AI model for text-to-3D that received little attention given the enormous success of ChatGPT that same month. In part, this was because Point-E …
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Summary Meta’s ImageBind is a new multimodal model that combines six data types. Meta is releasing it as open source. ImageBind makes the metaverse seem a little less like a distant vision of the future: In addition to text, the AI model understands audio, visual, motion sensor, thermal, and depth data. At least in theory, …
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Summary With the right prompts, GPT-4 achieves flawless performance on Theory of Mind tests. A philosophical theory may explain how a large language model learns “mindreading”. A team from Johns Hopkins University studied the performance of GPT-4 and three variants of GPT-3.5 (Davinci-2, Davinci-3, GPT-3.5-Turbo) in so-called false-relief tests, the most famous of which is …
Summary Emergent abilities in large language models have generated both excitement and concern. Now, Stanford researchers suggest that these abilities may be more of a metric-induced mirage than a real phenomenon. The sudden emergence of new abilities while scaling large language models is a fascinating topic and a reason for and against further scaling of …
AI’s most puzzling aspect has just been challenged Read More »
