Earkind

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A daily show about AI made by AI: news, announcements, and research from arXiv, mixed in with some fun. Hosted by Giovani Pete Tizzano, an overly hyped AI enthusiast; Robert, an often unimpressed analyst, Olivia, an overly online reader, and Belinda, a witty research expert.

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Aug 29, 2024

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Hugging Face's $235M Funding 💰 // Anti-hype LLM Reading List 📚 // Large Language Models for Autonomous Agents 🤖 28.08.2023

Hugging Face, an AI startup, has raised a massive $235 million in funding from big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and IBM, highlighting the demand for collaborative AI development. The Anti-hype LLM reading list is a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding language models from a practical perspective, providing links to reasonable and good explanations of how things work, wit...

Code Llama 🦙 // AI on Windows 11 💻 // Bayesian Flow Networks 🌊 25.08.2023

Code Llama, a new state-of-the-art large language model for coding, and Microsoft's plans to add AI capabilities to apps like Paint and Photos on Windows 11. We also explore Ludwig, a low-code framework for building custom AI models, and WizardMath, a new model that improves the mathematical reasoning abilities of large language models. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introducti...

SeamlessM4T Translation Model 🌎 // GPT 3.5 Turbo Finetuning 💻 // Motion-Guided Masking for Video 🎥 24.08.2023

Meta introduces SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations that supports nearly 100 languages. OpenAI announces fine-tuning for GPT 3.5 Turbo, allowing businesses to customize the model for unique user experiences. The Backyard Emporium offers Miracle Grow, a product that makes plants grow super fast. Three AI research papers are discussed, covering adversarial robustness...

YouTube AI x Music Labels 🎶 // IBM Study on the Future of Workers 👨‍💼 // DeepMind's Reinforced Self-Training 🧠 23.08.2023

YouTube's partnership with music labels to establish rules for AI-generated content, IBM's study on the impact of AI on the workforce, and two papers on language modeling and safety alignment. The episode also explores Reinforced Self-Training (ReST), a new reinforcement learning algorithm that improves the quality of large language models, and "Adapting Learned Sparse Retrieval for L...

AI Social Media App 📱 // AI Art and Copyright 🎨 // Brain-Inspired Deep Learning 🧠 22.08.2023

From the launch of BeFake, an AI-based social media app, to a ruling that AI-created art is not copyrightable, the show explores the latest developments in the field. The episode also features two research papers that propose new approaches to deep neural networks and machine unlearning, as well as a paper that introduces a general approach to personalized text generation inspired by writing educa...

Microsoft's Databricks Plans 🤖 // Dry News August 😩 // Multi-Agent Debate for LLM 🤝 21.08.2023

Microsoft plans to sell a new version of Databricks software that helps customers make AI apps for their businesses, potentially hurting OpenAI's business. Businesses should prioritize customer experience over cost reduction when implementing AI, according to an article titled "How NOT to apply Artificial Intelligence in your business". Three AI research papers were discussed, includ...

DeepMind Life Advice 🤔 // Eric Schmidt's AI Moonshot 🚀 // Role-Play Prompting for Zero-Shot Reasoning 👥 18.08.2023

Google's AI unit, DeepMind, is developing AI tools for life advice, planning, and tutoring, but AI safety experts have concerns about users taking life advice from AI tools. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is launching an AI-science moonshot, building a new nonprofit organization to tackle scientific challenges with the help of AI. "Transformers in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey" ex...

IBM's Analog AI Chip 🧠 // New Google Search AI Features 🕵️‍♂️ // Multimodal LLMs with LCL 🔗 17.08.2023

IBM has unveiled a new prototype of an analog AI chip that works like a human brain, promising to be more efficient and less battery-draining for computers and smartphones. Google has rolled out new search AI features, including the ability to see definitions within AI-generated responses and color-coded syntax highlighting for coding. The paper "Learning to Identify Critical States for Reinf...

ChatGPT for Business 📊 // Race for Scarce Nvidia Chips 🚀 // GPT-4 Code Interpreter's Remarkable Performance 🔥 16.08.2023

Microsoft's new enterprise spin-off of ChatGPT, the race for scarce Nvidia chips, the remarkable performance of GPT-4 Code Interpreter on challenging math datasets, and a new paper from Google Research comparing the performance of prefixLM and causalLM for in-context learning. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:54  Microsoft Azure ChatGPT allows enterprises to run C...

AI in Elections 🗳️ // OpenAI's Financial Trouble 💰 // Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation 🤖 15.08.2023

The Federal Election Commission is considering regulating the use of AI-generated content in political ads ahead of the 2024 elections. Zoom has updated its policies to clarify that user data, such as videos, won't be used to train AI models. OpenAI is facing financial struggles and may have to file for bankruptcy by the end of 2024. Three exciting papers were discussed, including a method for...

Zoom Keystroke Detection 🔍 // DeepMind's AlphaStar Unplugged 🔌 //Claude Instant 1.2 🤖 14.08.2023

Anthropic has released Claude Instant 1.2, a faster and safer model that outperforms its previous version in math, coding, and safety. Media organizations are calling for regulations to protect copyright in data used to train generative AI models, as it undermines their business models and reduces media diversity. Researchers have made a breakthrough in detecting keystrokes over Zoom calls, using...

Google's IDF 🌐 // Nvidia bet on AI 💰 // Simple Synthetic Data 🤖 11.08.2023

Google's new project IDX, Nvidia's bet on AI, and two papers on language models are discussed. The first paper from Google DeepMind explores how simple synthetic data can reduce sycophancy in large language models, while the second paper from Stanford University proposes a new algorithm called staged speculative decoding to speed up the inference of large language models in small-batch, on...

Nvidia's New AI Chip 🚀 // Disney Looking into AI 🎥 // Context-Prompting for Language Models 🤖 10.08.2023

Nvidia's new AI chip, the GH200, promises to significantly reduce the cost of running large language models, making AI more accessible for smaller companies. Disney is exploring the use of AI to cut costs in movie and television production, as well as enhance customer support and create unique interactions within its theme parks. The paper "Skills-in-Context Prompting" proposes a nov...

Bing Chat on Mobile 📱 // Zoom's Privacy Policy Update 🔒 // AgentBench for LLMs 🚀 09.08.2023

Microsoft's AI-powered Bing Chat now available on all mobile browsers, Zoom's updated privacy policy, the introduction of AgentBench for evaluating LLMs as agents, and the Flows framework for modeling complex interactions between AI systems and humans. These developments have the potential to lead to more robust and reliable AI models that can perform well in complex, real-world scenarios....

Microsoft Kills Cortana 💀 // AI-Powered Brain Implants Restore Mobility 🌟 // Graphical Language for Predictive Processing 🤔 08.08.2023

Microsoft is shutting down Cortana and shifting its focus to modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity features across Windows and its web browser Edge. Researchers have used AI-powered brain implants to restore movement and sensation for a man who was paralyzed from the chest down, offering life-changing mobility and independence to many. A paper pr...

Apple's Generative AI 💰 // CoreWeave's $2.3B Loan 🌩️ // Evaluating Large Multimodal Models 🧐 07.08.2023

Apple's investment in generative AI and CoreWeave's $2.3 billion loan for cloud infrastructure. We also dive into two research papers, "Retroformer" and "MM-Vet," which explore optimizing language agents and evaluating large multimodal models, respectively. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:42  Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Coo...

GPT-5 Trademark Application 📝 // Google's "Mind-Reading" AI 🧠 // Soft MoE Outperforms Transformers 🔥 04.08.2023

OpenAI's trademark application for GPT-5 could signify a continued advancement in natural language processing and machine learning. Google's "mind-reading" AI raises ethical concerns about potential implications and future uses of the technology. Soft MoE, a new type of mixture of expert architecture proposed by Google DeepMind, outperforms standard Transformers and popular MoE v...

AI Video Summaries on YouTube 🎥 // Generative AI for Audio 🎵 // Synthetic Dataset for Point Tracking 🕹️ 03.08.2023

YouTube is experimenting with AI-generated video summaries, potentially changing the way creators structure their videos. AudioCraft, a generative AI for audio, is now available to all and could revolutionize the way we create and experience audio. PointOdyssey, a synthetic dataset and data generation framework, aims to advance the state-of-the-art in long-term fine-grained tracking algorithms. A...

Palantir's AI Weapons 💣 // Meta's Chatbot Personas 🤖 // Google Assistant x BART 🗣️ 02.08.2023

Billionaire CEO of military technology supplier Palantir advocates for AI weapons, sparking controversy and raising questions about the risks and benefits of such technology. Meta is developing AI-powered chatbots with different personalities, which could collect vast amounts of data on users' interests, but also raises concerns around privacy and potential manipulation. Google is planning to...

StackOverflow's OverflowAI 💡 // Vision & Language to Action 🤖 // Limits of RLHF 🚫 01.08.2023

The RT-2 model translates vision and language into action, showing improved generalization capabilities and semantic and visual understanding beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. OverflowAI is a new space for Stack Overflow's community and customers to explore the future of knowledge sharing together, featuring semantic search, enterprise knowledge ingestion, Slack integration, a Visual...

Netflix's AI job Ad 💼 // Google's impressive Q2 earnings 📈 // Boosting LLMs for Code 🤖 31.07.2023

Netflix's controversial AI job ad, Google's impressive Q2 earnings, and advancements in autonomous agents and large language models for code. The episode also features discussions on a realistic web environment for building autonomous agents and a new framework for boosting pre-trained Code LLMs. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:41  Netflix touts $900k AI jobs...

OpenAI x Google x Anthropic x Microsoft Partnership 🤝 // Stablilty's New Text-to-Image Model 🌅 // Factual Error Detection Framework 📚 28.07.2023

A new partnership promoting responsible AI, the release of a new text-to-image model with ethical safeguards, a framework for detecting factual errors in generated text, and a framework for high-quality object tracking in videos. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:32  A new partnership to promote responsible AI 03:18  Stability AI releases its latest image-generating mo...

Japan's Supercomputer 🇯🇵 // GitHub x EU AI Law 🇪🇺 // ARB benchmark for LLMs 🧪 27.07.2023

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry is investing heavily in AI development by building a new supercomputer to accelerate progress in AI and reduce Japan's dependence on foreign countries. GitHub and other companies are calling for more open-source support in EU AI law to promote a more open ecosystem for AI innovation. The ARB benchmark presents a more challenging test for lar...

Worldcoin from Sam Altman 🪙 // ChatGPT for Android 📱 // Retentive Network for LLMs 🧠 26.07.2023

The launch of Worldcoin at the intersection of AI, identity, and finance, to the Android release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, this episode explores the cutting-edge of AI-powered conversational tools. The paper "Evaluating the Ripple Effects of Knowledge Editing in Language Models" proposes a new evaluation benchmark that could have important implications for improving the accuracy of langua...

Stability's New LMs 🆕 // Anthropic on Faithfulnes in CoT 🔗 // STEVE-1 for Minecraft 🎮 25.07.2023

two new open-source Large Language Models, the departure of OpenAI's head of trust and safety, the introduction of STEVE-1, a model that can follow a wide range of instructions in Minecraft, and a paper exploring ways to protect the copyright of Neural Radiance Fields. Contact:   sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 02:03  Stability AI Releases 2 Language Models 03:20  OpenAI’s hea...

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