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Gemini is here
Google Deepmind just released their new Gemini models. They come in 3 sizes. Nano will be used on devices like the Pixel phones, and Pro will be used in their products such as Bard, and Ultra is going to be released at the beginning of next year. The models are multimodal and can input, audio,… — read more
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Looking Back On 2023 And Predictions for 2024
As we close the chapter on 2023, it’s time to revisit the predictions I laid out at the beginning of the year. It was a year marked by technological strides and societal challenges. Let’s evaluate how my forecasts stood against the unfolding of 2023. Let’s start with my predictions about AI: “AI will continue to… — read more
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Humane presents the AI Pin
The company presented the AI Pin Today. It is a small device with a camera, microphone, sensors, and laser projector. It is designed to replace the smartphone and costs 699 plus a monthly subscription of 24 dollars. This includes the unlimited use of multiple frontier LLMs, internet, and multiple other services like music. It can… — read more
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Microsoft published the next Version of Kosmos
Researchers at Microsoft have unveiled Kosmos-2 the successor of Kosmos-1, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that integrates the capability of perceiving object descriptions and grounding text in the visual world. By representing refer expressions as links in Markdown format, Kosmos-2 achieves the vital task of grounding text to visual elements, enabling multimodal grounding, referring… — read more
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RoboCat handles every Robot
Deepmind published a new blog post where they present their newest AI which is based on their previous work Gato. RoboCat is a self-improving AI agent for robotics that learns to perform a variety of tasks across different arms and then self-generates new training data to improve its technique. It is the first agent to… — read more
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New OpenAI Update
OpenAI announced a set of changes to their model APIs. The biggest announcement is the addition of function calls for both GPT-3.5 and 4. This allows developers to enable plugins and other external tools for the models. They also released new versions of GPT-3.5 and 4 that are better at following directions and a Version… — read more
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Episode 8: Nvidia, Microsoft und die Entwicklung von ChatGPT
In dieser Episode reden Nico und Ich über die neuen Ankündigungen von Nvidia und Microsoft und geben eine ausführlichere Erklürung wie ChatGPT denkt und lernt. Mehr informationen auf dem Discord server https://discord.gg/3YzyeGJHthoder auf https://mkannen.tech/ — read more
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Episode 7: KI-Regulationen und Copyright
In dieser Episode reden Florian und Ich über den EU AI Act die US Senats Anhörungen und wie Copyright und Kunst im Zeitalter von KI funktionieren kann. Wenn ihr mehr von Florians musik hören wollt: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CKbYO3CbkhsJe0CvexCAx?si=s2pEu5PATcSngnvVoIMKIQ Mehr informationen auf dem Discord server https://discord.gg/3YzyeGJHthoder auf https://mkannen.tech/ — read more
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Episode 6: Bewusstsein, Erinnerungen und Emotionen
In dieser Episode reden Florian und Ich über mögliche Formen künstlichen Bewusstseins, den Zweck von Emotionen und warum es schwierig ist eine KI mit unseren Interessen in Einklang zu bringen. Mehr informationen auf dem Discord server https://discord.gg/3YzyeGJHthoder auf https://mkannen.tech/ — read more
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Intel Presents New Hardware
Intel just announced a new supercomputer named Aurora. It is expected to offer more than 2 exaflops of peak double-precision compute performance and is based on their new GPU series which outperforms even the new H100 cards from NVIDIA. They are going to use Aurora to train their own LLMs up to a trillion parameters.… — read more
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US Senate Holds an AI Hearing
Today the US Senate held an AI testimony to discuss the risks and chances of AI and possible ways to regulate the sector nationally and globally. Witnesses testifying include Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University, and Christina Montgomery, vice president and chief privacy and trust officer at IBM.… — read more
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Google IO Summary
Google IO happened yesterday and the keynote focused heavily on AI. Some of the things that I found most important are: PaLM 2 is their new LLM. It comes in different sizes from small enough for pixel phones, to big enough to beat ChatGPT-3.5. It is used in Bard and many of their productivity tools.… — read more
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Claude comes with 100K context
Anthropic, the OpenAI competitor just announced a new version of their LLM Claude. This new Version has a context length of 100K tokens, which corresponds to around 75K words. It is not clear from the announcement how they implemented that and how the full context gets fed into the attention layers. OpenAI is planning to… — read more
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AI helps with AI Understanding
One of the main problems of LLMs is that they are black boxes and how they produce an output is not understandable for humans. Understanding what different neurons are representing and how they influence the model is important to make sure they are reliable and do not contain dangerous trends. OpenAI applied GPT-4 to find… — read more
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Episode 3: KI in Bildung und Text-To-Speech
In dieser Episode rede ich mit Florian über die verschiedenen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von KI in der Bildung. Die erwähnten Beispiele für text-to-speech: https://mkannen.tech/text-to-speech-is-reaching-a-critical-point/https://github.com/suno-ai/bark Für weitere Informationen besuche https://mkannen.tech/ — read more
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OpenAI Open-Sources a New Text-to-3D model
Shap-E can generate 3D assets from text or images. Unlike their earlier model Point-E, this one can directly generate the parameters of implicit functions that can be rendered as both textured meshes and neural radiance fields. It is also faster to run and open-source! Read the paper here. Just like video generation, the quality is… — read more
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Microsoft Improves Bing Chat Again
Microsoft announced, that not only Bing Chat is now available for everyone but also that Bing Chat will get new features such as image search, and more ways to present visual information. They also add the ability to summarise PDFs and other types of content. But the biggest news is that they bring plugins to… — read more