stafford williamslinks from May 2024
xAI gets a Series B funding round of $6 billion
Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively has some really good prompting guidance.
Yann LeCun says LLM’s won’t achieve AGI.
I pondered whether LLMs would be any good at solving for Vehicle Routing Problem - thankfully I don’t need to investigate as arxiv.org once again delivers. TL;DR - yes, as long as you’re happy with it being wrong 30-40% of the time.
Microsoft releases Phi-3 vision
a 4.2B parameter multimodal model with language and vision capabilities.
Scarlett Johansson issues a statement on OpenAI and OpenAI posts about How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen.
I’ve been running koboldcpp in wsl, but the Tcl/tk UI is tiny. This looking interesting tho, and already in a container.
Yann LeCun reminding us there is no such thing as a rogue super intelligence.
Doomers have lost the AI fight
When Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI this week, the firm lost its last influential leader known to question CEO Sam Altman’s push to deploy AI fast.
Marc Andreessen on navigating a model’s latent space via prompting.
In the first quarter of 2024, Stability AI generated less than $5 million in revenue and lost more than $30 million, the report said, adding that the company currently owes close to $100 million in outstanding bills to cloud computing providers and others.
glif lets you package your comfyui workflow into an app with no code.
Sam Altman on Ilya leaving OpenAI
We’re announcing GPT‑4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
We want to ensure that people have maximum control to the extent that it doesn’t violate the law or other people’s rights, but enabling deepfakes is out of the question, period