TLDR AI 2023-09-06

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X has updated its privacy policy to collect biometric, job, and education data from users. Notably, X will use this data and other public info to train its AI models. Alex Ivanovs suggests Elon Musk might leverage X's data for his AI venture, xAI. Musk clarifies only public data will be used.

Hugging Face launched a new service that allows you to simply train a model without managing the complicated process internally.

Led by Riot Ventures, Kindo aims to create a central set of tools for managing complex enterprise AI processes.

The authors have created a new tool called SQLdepth that helps self-driving cars and robots understand their surroundings in great detail.

This research looks into how well LLMs can solve math problems and how different factors affect their abilities. They’ve found that a method called Rejection sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT) helps these models get better at math, especially when we use samples from several models.

Zero shot models are AI models that have robust performance on a broad range of distributions. However, if you tune them on your narrow task, they tend to lose that ability while simultaneously getting much better at what they're trained for. This is good but could be improved. This paper presents a method to tune such models, like CLIP to maintain their generalizability while improving specific performance.

LoRAs are small parameter adapters that change the behavior of the underlying model by plugging into certain layers. You can batch generation for the base model to improve performance. Additionally, you can batch LoRA-modified versions of the model and serve models with different performance to different users.

Many AI chatbots struggle with having natural wide-ranging chats like humans do, so this project introduced 'Topical-Chat', a new dataset from human conversations on 8 big topics, to teach AI how to talk more like us without fixed roles.

Colleges grapple with the rise of AI-generated admissions essays. With chatbots like ChatGPT able to produce college essays, officials fear a potential for generic or plagiarized content. While some schools discourage AI use, Georgia Tech advises students to use it responsibly for brainstorming and refining, but not for direct content creation.

US attorneys general from all 50 states urge Congress to create a commission investigating AI's role in child exploitation. They're concerned about AI being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and deepfakes. Led by South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson, the push aims to expand CSAM restrictions to cover AI-generated content.

An exploration of the central ethical dilemmas posed by artificial intelligence, with the goal of illuminating how AI may shape our collective destiny and the power we have to guide it down a path aligned with human values.

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