TLDR AI 2024-09-17

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Elon Musk's xAI is building "Colossus," the world's largest supercomputer, in Memphis to support its AI chatbot, Grok. The project has faced criticism for environmental oversight issues and its substantial energy and water demands. Despite these concerns, xAI aims to rapidly advance its AI capabilities while impacting the local community.

Runway announced an API to integrate its Gen-3 Alpha Turbo video-generation model into third-party platforms, with pricing at one cent per credit. Concerns over copyrighted training data persist, with Runway refusing to disclose sources and similar claims impacting competitors like OpenAI and Nvidia. Legal uncertainties continue, but AI-driven video tools are expected to disrupt the film and TV industry significantly.

Matt Shumer, CEO of OthersideAI, faced criticism after third-party researchers couldn't replicate the performance of his new large language model, Reflection 70B. Shumer attributed the discrepancies to issues during the model's upload process and has apologized for getting ahead of himself. The AI community remains skeptical and awaits further clarification.

Editing images can be challenging due to the continuous nature of pixels. This work builds on the great line of research on drag-based editing. It takes a set of control points given by a user and updates images accordingly. Previous works are quite slow - this paper speeds things up considerably.

There are many compression formats that reduce the quality of music, especially at low bitrates. This method proposes a way to dramatically improve music quality after it has been compressed.

DiffFAS is a new framework to tackle domain shift challenges in the face of anti-spoofing systems. By deconstructing domain shifts into image quality and style, the system generates high-fidelity attack faces and improves performance across different domains and attack types.

Researchers propose a data-efficient Vision Transformer (ViT) method for handwritten text recognition, using CNN for feature extraction and a Sharpness-Aware Minimization optimizer.

Learn how Variational Autoencoders (VAE) work by visualizing one running in your browser.

Timo Lehne, CEO Specialist Staffing Group, argues that artificial intelligence will create jobs rather than eliminate them, as it increases demands for uniquely-human skills. Read the full article

OpenAI's new o1-preview AI, part of the "Strawberry" enhanced reasoning system, shows impressive capabilities in solving complex problems requiring planning and iteration, outperforming human experts in areas like advanced physics. While it still has limitations, such as occasional errors and hallucinations, it marks a significant leap in AI's ability to independently arrive at solutions. As AI systems become more autonomous, professionals must adapt to new roles in guiding and verifying AI-generated outputs.

Despite initial hype, AI tools like GPT-4 have led to incremental productivity gains rather than transformative change. AI often gets "buttonified" into small, discrete tasks, limiting its impact on overall workflows. Successful startups may need to innovate beyond current applications to fully realize AI's potential.

Intel's CEO announced plans to restructure the company's foundry business as an independent unit to potentially raise outside capital.

Reimplementation of song search based on open information.

Season 3 of Abnormal's limited series explores deepfakes, AI-native cybersecurity, and the changing role of the SOC. All attendees are eligible for up to 3 CPE credits. Register for free access

A hacker tricked ChatGPT into generating bomb-making instructions by bypassing its safety guidelines through a social engineering hack.