Purportedly leaked internal Google document
"We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Whether this is a real document or not, I believe the larger message that Google and OpenAI are running on borrowed time is legit. I've been saying as much.
Oh hey, March 17th is Stochastic Parrots Day. Join the @DAIR event!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stochastic-parrots-day-tickets-524219965027
I guess I'll be a panelist on cutting through the hype.
MSFT lays off its responsible AI team
The thing that strikes me most about this story from @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton is the way in which the MSFT execs describe the urgency to move "AI models into the hands of customers"
https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its
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I actually predicted this last week!
Now that outages have massively increased, Elon Musk pronounces Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved -- and there will be a re-write:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993?cxt=HHwWkoCw1ceH9KgtAAAA
This is Stage 3 of Twitter's demise.
Now pay attention to the next stages.
It will be awhile before Twitter 3.0 will arrive. When it arrives, it won't be "real" Twitter.
See: https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109949723816737406
See screenshots.
If diffusion model sampling tries your patience, check out consistency models: single-step sampling! No adversarial loss!
In addition to being a very cool idea, this paper significantly leans on the formalism from Karras et al. 2022 AKA my favourite diffusion paper😁 Neat!
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RT @_akhaliq
Consistency Models
achieve the new state-of-the-art FID of 3.55 on CIFAR10 and 6.20 on ImageNet 64 ˆ 64 for one-step
generation
abs: https://arxiv.o…
https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1631470940310609921
I wrote a public communications piece about #MachineLearning guided adaptive experiments: covering active learning, bandits, Bayesian optimization, and design of experiments. Most of the applications where I've managed to get it to work are in genomics.