Congratulations – you are now above average!
It may sound like an old, bad statistics joke, but I mean it quite literally. We now have very strong evidence that AI elevates the skills of the lowest performers across a wide range of fields to, or even far above, what was previously average performance. — Read More
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Indeed’s CEO says college students might be learning skills that could go ‘obsolete’ once they graduate — all because of AI
Getting a bachelor’s degree might not be enough to compete with AI in the job market — at least according to Chris Hyams, the CEO of job site Indeed.
In an essay, Hyams shared his top concerns around AI — one of which is how technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT will affect the job market. — Read More
40 AI Founders Discuss Current Artificial Intelligence Technology
Why Open Source AI Will Win
There’s a popular floating theory on the Internet that a combination of the existing foundation model companies will be the end game for AI.
In the near future, every company will rent a “brain” from a model provider, such as OpenAI/Anthropic, and build applications that build on top of its cognitive capabilities.
In other words, AI is shaping up to be an oligopoly of sorts, with only a small set of serious large language model (LLM) providers.
I don’t think this could be farther from the truth. I truly believe that open source will have more of an impact on the future of LLMs and image models than the broad public believes. — Read More
What OpenAI Really Wants
The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.
… For Altman and his company, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are merely stepping stones along the way to achieving a simple and seismic mission, one these technologists may as well have branded on their flesh. That mission is to build artificial general intelligence—a concept that’s so far been grounded more in science fiction than science—and to make it safe for humanity. — Read More
FLM-101B: An Open LLM and How to Train It with $100K Budget
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in NLP and multimodal tasks. Despite these successes, their development faces two main challenges: (i) high computational cost; and (ii) difficulty in conducting fair and objective evaluations. LLMs are prohibitively expensive, making it feasible for only a few major players to undertake their training, thereby constraining both research and application opportunities. This underscores the importance of cost-effective LLM training. In this paper, we utilize a growth strategy to significantly reduce LLM training cost. We demonstrate that an LLM with 101B parameters and 0.31TB tokens can be trained on a 100K budget. We also adopt a systematic evaluation paradigm for the IQ evaluation of LLMs, in complement to existing evaluations that focus more on knowledge-oriented abilities. We introduce our benchmark including evaluations on important aspects of intelligence including symbolic mapping, rule understanding, pattern mining, and anti-interference. Such evaluations minimize the potential impact of memorization. Experimental results show that our model FLM-101B, trained with a budget of $100K, achieves comparable performance to powerful and well-known models, e.g., GPT-3 and GLM-130B, especially in the IQ benchmark evaluations with contexts unseen in training data. The checkpoint of FLM-101B will be open-sourced at this https URL. — Read More
#nlp, #strategyBuilding Enduring Enterprise AI Products
… We wondered if generative AI (genAI) adoption would mirror the promise of the cloud back in 2010. The transition to cloud ended up requiring significant investment in infrastructure and time, not to mention change management. But the promise—and implementation—of AI is proving to be very different. — Read More
Time100 AI
Time has published its list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebrated—its ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. AI’s capacity to model itself on human behavior has become its defining feature. Yet behind every advance in machine learning and large language models are, in fact, people—both the often obscured human labor that makes large language models safer to use, and the individuals who make critical decisions on when and how to best use this technology. Reporting on people and influence is what TIME does best. That led us to the TIME100 AI. — Read More
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The ChatGPT Hype Is Over — Now Watch How Google Will Kill ChatGPT.
It’s happening. OpenAI’s losing the AI race.
- Remember those days when ChatGPT was everyone’s topic of conversation? Yes, you do.
- Remember those days when BeReal was everywhere? Yes, you do.
- Remember those days when Vine was the most trending app? Uh, maybe?
- What about when YikYak was everyone’s app? Yik-what?
Go back to high school. There’s always that popular girl in school for a few years. Ten years later, you’ll probably say, “Gosh, I haven’t heard that name in years.” — Read More
Grubhub is bringing Amazon’s cashierless tech to colleges this fall
Grubhub’s bringing Amazon’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology to some colleges, the company announced today. The food delivery service will first focus on rolling out the tech to colleges, starting with Loyola University Maryland next week before expanding nationwide.
The tech is capable of identifying items taken from and returned to shelves so students and staff can buy food from on-campus stores without waiting in line. After scanning a QR code in the Grubhub app, the company will automatically charge their Grubhub-linked meal plans or other stored payment methods after they leave the store. — Read More
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