came back home to this beautiful first issue from @runwayml that bridges the Art and AI communities. A quote from the mag:
"if the result blows you away, it's because traditional steps, planning and human talent are still behind it." – Ricardo Vilavicencio, the creator of the
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Runway ML Magazine Bridges Art and AI Communities
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Mobile ALOHA Platform Showcases Advanced Robotic Hardware Capabilities
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More demos from the Mobile ALOHA platform.
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) 4 janvier 2024
This is human-teleop, so this showcases the capability of the hardware, which looks solid.
The idea to use a warehouse-class robot as the base is very clever π
Great work @zipengfu @tonyzzhao @chelseabfinn , very exciting! https://t.co/QkEfhzzMAoMore demos from the Mobile ALOHA platform.
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CoPilot adoption friction limits user experience and adoption
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IDK if its still true, but to try out CoPilot with Bing, I had to download the Edge browser, and then login with my Microsoft account. Just to try it out.
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Perplexity vs ChatGPT: Speed and Fact-Seeking Performance
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Perplexity has become my most used AI app by the end of 2023. I use it for fact-seeking questions — including recent news / facts, summarizing opinions and recommendations on products and much more.
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) 4 janvier 2024
ChatGPT + Browsing can do similar stuff, but its like 100x slower, and is oftenβ¦ https://t.co/n0aftiwBBmPerplexity has become my most used AI app by the end of 2023. I use it for fact-seeking questions — including recent news / facts, summarizing opinions and recommendations on products and much more. ChatGPT + Browsing can do similar stuff, but its like 100x slower, and is often
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Home Robotics Platform Gains Traction Despite Space Constraints
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Cool new ~home robotics platform, and great to see more work in this direction!
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) 3 janvier 2024
might be a bit too large for NYC apartments though π https://t.co/TCgHuGR913Cool new ~home robotics platform, and great to see more work in this direction! might be a bit too large for NYC apartments though π
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GPT-Fast Adds Mixtral-8x7B Support in Efficient PyTorch
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gpt-fast now supports mixtral-8x7B, in addition to gpt/llama.
1000 lines of simple pytorch code blazing it out! https://
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Named Tensors Utility Without Complete Coverage Requirements
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yes its here to stay, as it doesn't need complete coverage to be useful (unlike named tensors)
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functorch.dim Upstreamed to PyTorch Official Repository
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functorch.dim and its docs.
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PyTorch Discontinues Named Tensors for Tensor Dims
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we actively stopped developing named tensors in favor of tensor dims
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Google’s 2017 RL-Optimized Cookie Recipe Experiment
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google did something like this in 2017 when RL was the rage. i remember seeing a cookie baking at their booth at a conference, where the recipe was RL optimized