I don't remember word2vec trending on Twitter or being front page news. Or creating a billion dollar market. LLMs are the first big success story in their lineage.
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New Course Iteration: Advance in Foundation Models Released
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Stanford CS 324 Large Language Models Lecture Notes 2022
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Stanford CS 324 – Large Language Models – Lecture Notes 2022 A handy notes on various topics and techniques related to large language models. Notes are structured really well and there are pointers for recent/landmark papers in LLMs. https://
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Human BS Generation: A Social Game Beyond LLM Capability
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It's accurate that humans generate a lot of BS, and superficially that might sound like something you could do with a LLM… but when people do it, it's always as a tool (among others) in a social game that is completely out of reach for non-humans, and likely always will be.
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Single Flag Changes Can Match Months of Optimization Work
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I love how sometimes changing one integer/flag can have the same impact as a 1 month optimization project. You just know there is some OMP_NEVER_HEARD_OF=3 that gets addition 3% MFU. Or my personal favorite – that undocumented bios flag that only 4 people on Earth know exists 😀
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Impactful AI Papers: Rejection and Academic Evaluation
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Lots of impactful papers come to mind that were rejected… but also some bad ones
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Open Assistant: Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative
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Open Assistant Open-source alternative to ChatGPT! GitHub: https://
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Viral AI Research Paper Spreads False Headline Claims
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Luego la gracia es que cuando descarté el tema, justo ese paper se hizo súper viral y pasó al mainstream con este titular (que era falso btw)…
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Computer Vision Conference Publication Policy Exclusivity Debate
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This is very different from any of the core machine learning conferences, where the distinguishing factor is whether or not there are published proceedings. Not sure why CV chose a more exclusive policy.
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AI Improves Lung Cancer Outcomes: Outstanding Review
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How can #AI help improve outcomes for lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide? An outstanding review https://
cell.com/cell-reports-m
edicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00025-3
… @CellRepMed @ColtonLadbury @DrAryaAmini @DrRaviSalgia @cityofhope