Highlights
Twitter Updated Its AI Chatbot. The Images Are A Dumpster Fire
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence model — a system that learns on its own and creates new content based on what it’s learned. In the past two years, advancements in data processing and computer science have made AI models incredibly popular in the technology space, with both startups and established companies like Meta developing their own versions of the tool.
rollingstone.com
LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve
In controlled experiments, MIT CSAIL researchers discover simulations of reality developing deep within LLMs, indicating an understanding of language beyond simple mimicry.
mit.edu
Google launches Pixel 9 phones with advanced AI
New Pixel phones, foldable, watch and earbuds feature Gemini Live for free-flowing conversations with AI bot Google is launching four phones, one of them foldable, two smartwatches and a set of earbuds packing its latest AI tech including the new advanced Gemini Live conversational experience, as the Android maker tries to outdo Apple and Samsung.
theguardian.com
Paper of the week
Paper of the week: Improving sign language learning tools with AI
This week’s paper discusses the development of a Sign Language Assessment (SLA) tool to evaluate the comprehensibility of Sign Languages (SL). The system can detect mistakes in signed sequences and provide actionable feedback for the learner. A really useful AI tool for people looking to learn sign language!
arxiv.org
Video
Brad Smith’s Post
Watching Microsoft’s Chief Questions Officer, Trevor Noah, take the ‘Real or Not’ quiz makes me feel a bit better about my own score. What a great episode… | 17 comments on LinkedIn
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Articles
AI assistant monitors teamwork to promote effective collaboration
The AI team coordinator aligns agents’ beliefs about how to achieve the task, intervening when necessary to potentially help with tasks in search and rescue, hospitals, and video games.
mit.edu
Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.
techcrunch.com
Large Language Model (LLM) for Standard Cell Layout Design Optimization
Standard cells are essential components of modern digital circuit designs. With process technologies advancing toward 2nm, more routability issues have arisen due to the decreasing number of routing tracks, increasing number and complexity of design rules, and strict patterning rules.
nvidia.com
Mixture of Models vs Dense Transformers?
Recently meta has released their “Herd of LLama Models” and highlight of which is 405B parameter model contributing significantly to the…
medium.com
How to Get JSON Output from LLMs: A Practical Guide
We’ll use a complex, nested and realistic JSON schema example to guide LLM frameworks/APIs like Llama.cpp or Gemini API to generate structured data, specifically tourist location information.
towardsdatascience.com
Insights from Silicon Valley: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing
Introduction: Exploring the center of Global Innovation. My recent participation in a bootcamp in Silicon Valley was a transformative…
medium.com
Code
llamafile v0.8.13 (and whisperfile)
The latest release of llamafile (previously) adds support for Gemma 2B (pre-bundled llamafiles available here), significant performance improvements and new support for the Whisper speech-to-text model, based on whisper.cpp, Georgi Gerganov's C++ implementation of Whisper that pre-dates his work on llama.cpp.
simonwillison.net