AI Reading for Wednesday April 10

OpenAI updated GPT-4 to a new version, says GPT-4 Turbo with vision is now generally available with function calling agent-driving capabilities. Will enable some interesting apps along the lines of Devin that can watch your screen and interpret it. - VentureBeat

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Google made a slew of announcements. Gemini 1.5 Pro now in public preview, previously required an invite request; adds sound prompts, previously supported video input but didn't hear the sound. - Gemini 1.5 is kind of a big deal, might be to Gemini 1.0 what ChatGPT 4 was to 3.5, improved mixture of experts model with 1m-token context.

Google announced new TPUs, ARM-based CPUs to be available in Google Cloud. Also potentially a big deal if they can serve Gemini to e.g. Apple phones efficiently without paying a huge Nvidia tax. - Yahoo Finance

Google added Vids, new AI video creation tool. - VentureBeat

Imagen 2, yet another Google tool, can make 4-second GIFs from text, Google adds image editing features like infill and object removal to online apps. - VentureBeat

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Meta to start rolling out versions of Llama 3, with biggest model coming this summer. - The Information

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New Mistral and StabilityLM models also released.

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OpenAI, Meta say their upcoming models will make progress on reasoning.

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Symbolica raised $31m to move away from transformers and LLMs to AI that can reason symbolically. - TechCrunch

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Gary Marcus challenged Elon Musk to a $10 million bet that we won’t see human-superior AGI by the end of 2025. I would get the cash is in escrow with clear rules and an honest 3rd-party judge, Gary. - Substack

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Vinod Khosla calls TikTok a 'programmable fentanyl whose effects are under the control of the CCP.' Notes that China bans TikTok internally, along with Google and all US social media. - FT

Taiwanese researchers delve into how CCP mounted a major campaign on TikTok to influence Taiwanese elections, including deepfakes linking candidates to CIA and US military. - Defense One

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eBay 'shop the look' recommender system generates a model wearing stuff it suggests. - Chain Store Age

Will AI like eBay's and Amazon benefit consumers or lead to more efficient enshittification and extraction? - The Conversation

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Hollywood lined up behind an Adam Schiff bill that would require AI companies to disclose whose content they used for training among other measures to limit creating likenesses of living and dead artists. - Deadline

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OpenAI is stockpiling lawyers for the mother of all legal battles. - Washington Post

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Intel announced Gaudi 3 AI chips. - Tom's Hardware

An in-depth look at Intel's Gaudi 3 AI chip. - The Reg

Intel looks to reclaim performance crown with Lunar Lake laptops coming later in 2024. - Tom's Hardware

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Some hardware aficionados aren't thrilled that adding NPU cores and AI FLOPS takes away from general-purpose features like cache. - Wccftech

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ARM chief says current growth in AI energy demand is not sustainable. - The Reg

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Air Force secretary to take a demonstration ride in an autonomous fighter jet. - AP News

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State Street AI lets you chat with your portfolio. - VentureBeat

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Do the Delve Challenge to see how much AI-generated email you are now getting.

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How to implement local retrieval-augmented generation with LangChain, SQLite-vss vector database, Llama2 and Ollama. - InfoWorld

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