Generative AI Group Podcast

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 19 Jan 2025! Maya: We’re Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about some exciting new research in diffusion models. Pulkit shared a cool paper from Angjoo’s lab on decentralized diffusion models. Maya: Decentralized diffusion? How does that differ from normal diffusion models? Alex: Great question! Instead of one big...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 12 Jan 2025! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about new AI platforms making waves in India, especially those aiming to be like AllenAI but domestically focused. Maya: Oh yeah, Alex, what’s catching your eye about this Indian AllenAI-like entity? Alex: Aashay mentioned meeting the founders, and it seem...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 05 Jan 2025! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about multi-token prediction and training efficiency in large language models. Maya: Multi-token prediction? How is that different from regular token prediction? Alex: Good question! Normally models predict one token at a time. Multi-token prediction lets...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 29 Dec 2024! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about AI and the future of software engineering, sparked by Aravind Putrevu’s insightful take on code generation and the role of CS grads. Maya: Aravind said, “The talk that it is over for CS Grads a joke. We have a long long way to go.” That’s pretty bold...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 22 Dec 2024! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about testing fluency in Text-to-Speech models, a puzzle Mahesh Chandran G raised. Maya: Testing fluency sounds tricky without a reference text, right? How do you even start? Alex: Luv Singh shared that he uses Speech-To-Text models, compares outputs to re...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 15 Dec 2024! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about some impressive new features and competition in the AI model space. Maya: Oh? What’s the big news here? Alex: Well, Sridevi Prabhu mentioned that the o1 model now supports attachments, which is a neat upgrade. Manan compared o1 to Claude Sonnet 3.5 a...

Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 08 Dec 2024! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: First up, we’re talking about a great question from Sid about how to get large language models, or LLMs, to generate diffs—like changes—based on instructions applied to an existing object. This could be code, a document, or even a markup language. Maya: Oh, like when you want the...