Month: June 2024

WTF is AI?

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What is AI? We’ve put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today’s AI works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Using LLMs to Correct Reasoning Mistakes: Related Works That You Should Know About

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:::info Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: gladys.tyen@cl.cam.ac.uk); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: hassan@google.com); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: vcarbune@google.com); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (chenfeif@google.com); (5) Tony Mak, Google … Read more

President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill

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President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current approach to banks and crypto. Specifically, the resolution targeted the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, which presents guidance around how banks can handle customers’ crypto assets — in effect, they must treat those assets as … Read more

OpenAI’s ‘Sky’ sounds a lot like ScarJo, according to voice researchers

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Scarlett Johansson at Cannes in 2023. | Photo: Laurent Koffel / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Researchers at Arizona State University found that Scarlett Johansson’s voice does indeed sound like “Sky,” OpenAI’s currently discontinued GPT-4o voice, according to NPR, which commissioned the comparison. After using AI models developed to analyze vocal similarities to compare Sky to … Read more

VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market

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VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most aren’t able to get into such deals at all. Yet, small, unknown investors, including family offices and high-net-worth individuals, have found their own way to get shares of the hottest … Read more

Leveraging Natural Supervision for Language Representation: Sentence Variational Autoencoder

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:::info Author: (1) Mingda Chen. ::: Table of Links Abstract Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview 1.2 Contributions 2 BACKGROUND 2.1 Self-Supervised Language Pretraining 2.2 Naturally-Occurring Data Structures 2.3 Sentence Variational Autoencoder 2.4 Summary 3 IMPROVING SELF-SUPERVISION FOR LANGUAGE PRETRAINING 3.1 Improving Language Representation Learning via Sentence Ordering Prediction 3.2 Improving In-Context Few-Shot Learning via Self-Supervised … Read more