AI News (8th May 2023)
Summary: A short summary of recent AI-related news.
Topics: AI news
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References/links
- Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004)
- Mosaic MPT-7B (https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b)
- Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9)
- Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653)
- StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code (https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder)
- The Internal State of an LLM Knows When it's Lying (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734)
- Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301)
- Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06031-6)
- Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02463)
- Generative AI at Work (https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161)
- OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-chatgpt/)
- OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-losses-doubled-to-540-million-as-it-developed-chatgpt)
- Italy lifts ban on ChatGPT after data privacy improvements (https://www.dw.com/en/ai-italy-lifts-ban-on-chatgpt-after-data-privacy-improvements/a-65469742)
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23699633/mark-zuckerberg-meta-generative-ai-chatbots-instagram-facebook-whatsapp)
- Runway raises funds at 1.5B valuation (https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-artificial-intelligence-startup-runway-funding-cloud-provider-2023-5?r=US&IR=T)
- Bing AI comes to Samsung Galaxy (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706437/microsoft-swiftkey-bing-ai-samsung-galaxy-devices-oneui-android
- LinkedIn offers AI writing (https://www.engadget.com/linkedins-new-ai-will-write-messages-to-hiring-managers-162528197.html)
- Waymo expands service (https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html)
- Modular release (https://www.modular.com/blog/a-unified-extensible-platform-to-superpower-your-ai)
- Andrew Zisserman wins Bakerian Medal (https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/bakerian-lecture/)
- US Whitehouse meeting with AI CEOs (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/04/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-promote-responsible-ai-innovation-that-protects-americans-rights-and-safety/)
- UK announces 100M GBP for AI taskforce (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/initial-100-million-for-expert-taskforce-to-help-uk-build-and-adopt-next-generation-of-safe-ai)
- AI-scribed content farms on the rise (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/ai_written_content_farms/)
- Paul Christiano interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFkWb903aU)
- Fortune headline about Christiano interview (https://fortune.com/2023/05/03/openai-ex-safety-researcher-warns-ai-destroy-humanity/)
- Independent headline about Christiano interview (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-openai-ai-apocalypse-warning-b2331369.html)
- Hinton BBC interview (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65452940)
- Hinton CNN interview (https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/05/02/the-lead-geoffrey-hinton.cnn)
- Yann LeCun tweet in response to Hinton interview (https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1653990686973214723)
- Conor Leahy interview on CNN (https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/05/02/amanpour-leahy-ai.cnn)
- The costs of caution (https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/the-costs-of-caution/)
- Clarifying and predicting AGI (https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/BoA3agdkAzL6HQtQP/clarifying-and-predicting-agi)
- Filtir fact-checking API (https://filtir.com/)
- Midjourney v5.1 release (announced on Midjourny discord)
- LaMini-LM (https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/LaMini-LM)
- Microsoft Designer (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/04/27/microsoft-designer-expands-preview-with-new-ai-design-features/)
- ScarFace 2 Trailer (https://www.tiktok.com/@charlsromano123/video/7228664705886391598)
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