Not so Secret Sauce
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/ speculative Decoding and specially designed chips that escape processing bottlenecks appear to have a huge impact of the response time for AI training / inferencing.
Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally) | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/28/linkup-connects-llms-with-premium-content-sources-legally/ Knowledge is power and the keys to those locks are important. Training data has been stolen by bug tech, and they will make sure that everyone else has to pay so much they won’t be able to train. Seems a bit anticompetitive and not the type of example we should be setting for our…
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World Labs Demos Its 3D Worlds
World Labs and its founder Fei Fei Li are teaching AI how to sense and navigate in 3D. For now the worlds are virtual, but it’s conceivable and somewhat proven that AI can learn there and then replicate that ability in our world given a robotic shell. I think we even gave a mushroom a…
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Patchwork Imaginings
Patchwork is a collaborative text to image generative AI worldbuilding tool
Not novel, but Nova
There are 6 models incorporated into Amazon’s Nova AI suite announced and released on 12-3-24 at re:Invent conference.
Futuristic Flash Memory
I have been testing a web application called “Learn About“. It’s one of Google’s AI projects, and from what I can tell it is trying to play fetch with answers to your questions. Whether you’re a student, a lifelong learner or just someone who loves to explore new ideas, Learn About is your guide to…
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Test Driving Technology
Welcome to Test Driving Technology, a new segment of our website. Here we will endeavor to try out all of the latest artificially intelligent technology and dutifully report the results. The biggest problem is that there’s so much to see and use that it’s almost impossible to of keep up with what has been released,…
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Saddle Up Keyboard Cowboys
It’s not long before either humanity and AI fuse into some sort of new entity that represents the best of both machines and people, that or humanity’s over reliance on technology becomes its undoing. Either way, it’s an exciting time to be alive… right? Future Shock Waves Welcome to the Frontlines of the New Frontier.…
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