AI NEWS: Elon just predicted that AI may be smarter than any human by end of next year. Plus, more developments from Sam Altman, Canada/Justin Trudeau, Huawei, Cornell, Microsoft, Spotify, and Poe. Here's everything going on in AI right now:
GENERATIVE AI
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Grok’s Real-Time Event Summarization Capabilities Improve Rapidly
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I've been pretty critical of Grok (and it keeps not working quite right), but its ability to do real-time summarizing of changing events is improving rapidly, and is differentiated from other LLMs. No idea of the actual accuracy though.
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Model Scaffolding: Structure First, Implementation Second Approach
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ok i promised screenshots- thread below. its interesting that the model does not attempt to one-shot everything top to bottom. it scaffolds out the structure with a bunch of TODOs at the end, implements basic testing, and then attempts to fix
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AI Safety: Teaching Chatbots to Disengage Appropriately
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One smart thing that Copilot/Bing does well is giving the AI the ability to hang up on you. Otherwise, you can end up in a dead-end place where you “offended” the AI which will just keep looping through refusals & recriminations. Clearing the context window is the way forward.
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LLaMA 3 Release Expected to Surpass Mistral Models
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LLaMA 3's will start to drop next week. Assuming there's a 7B version, I'm expecting it to far surpass the current Mistral model.
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AI Implementation Requires Hands-On Experience Not Just Consulting
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One problem is the usual pathways for working with technology don't work here. The consultants don't have special knowledge you don't & you need to use the systems to understand what AI can do for you. Otherwise, it is all just talk & feels like fiction.
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Llama2.c translations and broader training design possibilities
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😀 😀 I really do love how llama2.c was translated to a zillion languages I've never heard about. Looking forward to that with the training too! The design space is a lot wider too because you can train stuff, not just inference a fixed, given thing.
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Using Long Context Models to Manage Multi-File Projects
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With long context models like Claude you can send an entire project – spanning multiple files – in a single prompt and then ask questions about it or ask it to rewrite sections of the code for you
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NVIDIA Shopping Advisor Revolutionizes Retail with AI Personalization
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Retailers are using #AI to elevate the customer experience with personalized recommendations. Learn more about how NVIDIA’s #ShoppingAdvisor will change the #retail landscape. https://
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ChatGPT Web Interface and Code Interpreter Usage Preferences
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I still do most of my casual LLM usage via the ChatGPT web interface partly out of convenience but also because that gives me Code Interpreter which I lean on for all sorts of things