It was so much fun to exchanges ideas of AI with my long term friend and colleague Bill Dally, Chief Scientist of @nvidia #GTC2024
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Claude 3 Models Excel at Handling Multiple Examples
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Newer models like Claude 3 are quite good at handling many examples gracefully
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AI-Generated Election Misinformation: Rules Easily Manipulated
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It turns out rules designed to prevent fake election-related images are easy to manipulate. @StanfordHAI
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@dzhang105
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Model Preview Assessment: Tuning and Performance Evaluation
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I will say it doesn’t feel as tuned yet as other models, it is very much a preview, so it is hard to judge directly.
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Gemini 1.5 Pro Outperforms Gemini 1.0 Ultra with Massive Context
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Gemini 1.5 Pro is a very good model, by the way. Appears to beat Gemini 1.0 Ultra which was itself GPT-4 class on the stats. Also impressive that Google can more widely release massive context windows. Google seems to be moving quickly.
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MongoDB Integration Advanced RAG and LLM Cost Optimization
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We recently added a deep integration with MongoDB in a few key areas… AND we released some awesome references for getting started! A blog on advanced RAG https://
mongodb.com/developer/prod
ucts/atlas/advanced-rag-langchain-mongodb/
… Cutting LLM costs with a semantic cache https://
youtube.com/watch?v=kAgSPz
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AI Agentic Workflows Drive Major Progress Beyond Foundation Models
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I think AI agentic workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it. Today, we mostly use LLMs in zero-shot mode, prompting
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Book tour highlights: connecting with students and fresh perspectives
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Meeting students is my favorite part of the book tour- lots of great energy and ideas.
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Foundation Models Learning Biology Fundamentals Make Discoveries
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With vast amounts of data about genes and cells, foundation models are learning the fundamentals of biology. As the models scale up, scientists predict they will start making more profound discoveries. HAI faculty affiliate @jure was quoted in this story:
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Claude 3 Opus thinks @goodside is Anthropic’s low-profile co-founder and CEO
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Claude 3 Opus believes I am the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, where I "maintain a relatively low public profile":