Venkatesh Rao's allegorical map of the current AI landscape highlights key players, challenges, and emerging trends, arguing that AI development is rapidly transitioning to a "town-planning" phase. via Ribbonfarm Studio.
Alex Tabarrok launches EnsureDone, a platform for "dominant assurance contracts," and highlights an early project on atmospheric sulfur seeding. via Marginal REVOLUTION
Researchers created 26 principles to improve prompting large language models and get better answers, which were tested on models like LLaMA and GPT - you can find out more about these principles and how they work in the paper "Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4". via Hugging Face.
MetaFilter user 'taz' highlights a post with the latest developments in space exploration, including asteroid bits, fast spaceships, and even a space cat video. via MetaFilter
Google AI introduces Gemini, a new family of multimodal models designed for understanding image, audio, video and text data. via Hugging Face
PowerInfer is a new inference engine designed to run large language models more quickly on a single consumer-grade GPU, achieving speeds up to 11.69x faster than llama.cpp. Read the paper on Hugging Face.
via Hugging Face.
This content relates to internet security with Zscaler, with one message providing a ServiceNow ticket for website issues. The second message explains that Zscaler is blocking an AI/ML site and provides contact information for support. via Perplexity
Tyler Cowen shares an AI tool called EconEats that uses economic principles to provide AI-powered dining suggestions.
via Marginal RevolutionMatt Webb shares a strategic framework for how tech-savvy organizations can approach AI, emphasizing systematic exploration and knowledge building. via Interconnected
Modern AI acts as a tool to discover hidden structures in data, similar to how a camera reveals the unseen.
via Ribbonfarm StudioTyler Cowen suggests a resource from Andrej Karpathy of Open AI as a starting point to learn about LLMs.
A developer programmed AI that uses voice cloning technology to narrate his life as David Attenborough. via kottke.org
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