AI Stuff I Saw Today, Saturday 2024-03-09
An anticlimactic dénouement to the OpenAI 'blip' - Bloomberg
Sam Altman to return to OpenAI board after investigation - The Verge
OpenAI’s Friday evening dump blog post - OpenAI
AI researcher criticizes Altman, Elon has never mashed that 'like' button harder - X
The ball is in OpenAI’s court as the GPT-4 barrier appears about to be broken. - Simon Willison
It’s now been a full year since GPT-4 and rivals are finally catching up. The overall OpenAI platform and toolchain is still second to none, and OpenAI has been somewhat more surefooted than rivals in avoiding major missteps. Gemini 1.5 could steal the crown with the giant context window and a probable big improvement over Gemini 1 which was nipping at GPT-4’s heels.
Cathie Wood says Nvidia is the Cisco of the AI boom, margins will fall, competition will arise, hyperscalers will make their own chips. - Business Insider
Maybe the next Nvidia could be a brand new chip that supports radically different AI architectures, like mixed digital-analog chips or Bitnet 1.58-bit ternary chips or neuromorphic chips. - Princeton Engineering
Korean researchers claim ultra-low power AI chip with neuromorphic architecture. - Tom's Hardware
Some like it bot: Talk to a digital Marilyn Monroe at SXSW - The A.V. Club
Valley of the creepy AI dolls - WIRED
Better forecasting with AI assisting humans, and humans assisting AIs - Fast Company
LLMs might be 'thinking in English' - New Scientist
How do LLM emergent properties emerge? First gradually, then suddenly. Continuous quantitative change becomes discrete qualitative change depending on what you measure. When you watch your algos learn and loss functions evolve, you absolutely do see breakthroughs where it 'gets' something and then learns rapidly for a while, and sometimes breakdowns. - Nautilus
Insilico startup unveils an AI-discovered drug that reached clinical testing in 1/3 the time using an AI pipeline. - VentureBeat
Scientists and labs sign agreement to block AI bioweapons by restricting lab equipment, not AI - NYT
Midjourney accuses Stable Diffusion of stealing its images. Ironic much? - 80.lv
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