a16z Thinks Controversial Startup Cluely Is the Future of AI

Quick Summary Cluely, the startup promising to “cheat on everything,” just raised $15 million from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). n The company hasn’t launched a real product yet but is already making headlines with viral content. n a16z partner Bryan Kim says speed and attentionmatter more than polished products in today’s AI world. n Cluely’s marketing may be … Read more

Songscription launches an AI-powered ‘Shazam for sheet music’

A small company called Songscription launched last week with AI models that automate music transcription, turning an audio file of a song into sheet music within minutes. Operating on a freemium model, the product is geared toward both professional and hobbyist musicians. “We hope to make playing music more enjoyable,” Andrew Carlins, CEO of Songscription … Read more

Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you’ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July … Read more

How an Open Model and a Pile of Data are Changing Time Series Analysis

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Methodology Experimental Setup and Results Conclusion and Future Work Acknowledgments Reproducibility statement Impact statement, and References 5. Conclusion and Future Work We release the first open-source family of time series foundation models and make contributions at all stages of the development and evaluation process. We first … Read more

When a Specialized Time Series Model Outshines General LLMs

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Methodology Experimental Setup and Results Conclusion and Future Work Acknowledgments Reproducibility statement Impact statement, and References 4. Experimental Setup and Results We extend the experimental benchmark introduced by Wu et al. (2023) across various dimensions. Below, we outline the design choices of our benchmark and highlight … Read more

How Do You Train an AI to Understand Time? With a Giant Pile of Data.

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Methodology Experimental Setup and Results Conclusion and Future Work Acknowledgments Reproducibility statement Impact statement, and References 3. Methodology We first collect a large number of public time series data into the Time Series Pile and then use it to pre-train a transformer model on the masked … Read more

Why Training on Time Series Beats Fine-Tuning LLMs for Time Series Tasks

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Methodology Experimental Setup and Results Conclusion and Future Work Acknowledgments Reproducibility statement Impact statement, and References 2. Related Work Transformers and patching for time series modeling. There is a growing body of work utilizing transformers for various time series analysis tasks (Wen et al., 2023). One … Read more

How a New AI Model is Taming the Chaos of Time Series Data

:::info Authors: (1) Mononito Goswami, Auton Lab, Robotics Insititute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (mgoswami@andrew.cmu.edu) (2) Konrad Szafer, Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, with equal contribution, order decided using a random generator; (3) Arjun Choudhry, Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, with equal contribution, order decided using a … Read more

Date Everything will make you see your favorite household objects in a sexy new light

Date Everything! isn’t the dating sim it appears to be. Though the game’s cutesy art style and lighthearted premise indicate an unserious game that’s making yet another joke at the expense of the genre, Date Everything actually contains novel explorations of human relationships and sharp-as-shit political critique. Date Everything (the title technically includes an exclamation … Read more

What’s on your desk, Kallie Plagge?

Kallie Plagge, The Verge’s senior copy editor, has been working in the media for over 10 years now, mainly at gaming websites. She was primarily a video game critic for a lot of that time and was the reviews editor at GameSpot for about three years, before eventually becoming the senior copy editor at Polygon. … Read more

Meta restructures its AI unit under ‘Superintelligence Labs’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is restructuring the company’s AI efforts to center around building  AI “superintelligence.”  Going forward, all teams working on AI at Meta will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to Bloomberg, which viewed an internal memo sent Monday.  Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of data labeling startup Scale … Read more