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AI News 2024-09-12

Opinions Research Insights LLM Models: Multi-modal: Evaluation: Tools for LLMs: LLMs as tools: Image Synthesis Video Audio Brain Hardware Cars Robots

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Her in the age of chatbots

Over the last couple years of rising generative-AI, I have frequently heard people look disapprovingly at human-chatbot interactions, and wink knowingly along the lines of “they made a whole movie about how this is a bad idea”. They seem to … Continue reading

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AI News 2024-09-05

General LLM Multi-modal Models AI Agents Science Policy Human Factors Image Synthesis Audio Video World Synthesis Hardware Cars Robots

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AI News 2024-08-29

Research Insights LLM AI Agents Policy Philosophy Audio Video Vision World Synthesis Hardware Robots

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AI News 2024-08-22

Research Insights LLMs AI Agents Policy Image Synthesis Video Vision Brain Science Robots

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Can we Distinguish Human from AI?

Let’s pull together some information (as of 2024-08-16): Overall, the ability to distinguish human from AI in an online setting is becoming challenging; especially in cases where a human can intervene where necessary to maintain the ruse. Update 2024-09-01

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AI News 2024-08-15

Research Insights LLMs AI Agents Safety Image Video Generative video (text-to-video and image-to-video) has advanced rapidly over the last couple of years. It’s interesting to look back over the evolution of capabilities. Nov 2016: Sync-Draw April 2021: GODIVA Oct 2022: … Continue reading

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AI News 2024-08-08

Research Insights LLMs Voice Safety Image Synthesis Vision Video 3D Science Hardware Robots

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AI News 2024-08-01

Research Insights Several results relevant to recursive self-improvement: Some new work investigates LLM reasoning and compute tradeoffs: There are conflicting messages here. You can trade-off between model complexity/power and repeated calls to that model. Is it better to use a … Continue reading

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Consistency Problems with Simulation Hypothesis

The simulation hypothesis is quite simple: we could be living in a simulation. Nick Bostrom makes this more concrete. Since simulating realities appears to be physically possible, either intelligent species (like future humans) choose not to simulate worlds (for some … Continue reading

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