AIR#10 - March 14th, 2024
Pour your favorite blend and get ready to turbocharge your morning with today's edition of AIR: The AI Recon, where we're zipping through the digital landscape at breakneck speed with stories that'll have you at the edge of your seat.
From Anthropic unveiling Claude 3 Haiku, their swiftest and most pocket-friendly AI model yet, to the EU setting a global precedent with the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, we're covering the spectrum of AI innovation and regulation.
Google's Gemini chatbot takes a cautious step back in India's elections, mirroring Adobe Firefly's stumble into the same AI pitfalls, while Cerebras blows the lid off AI processing power with a chip boasting 4 trillion transistors. The battle for AI talent reaches fever pitch, with a CEO learning the hard way that the stakes have never been higher. Amidst this, we're diving into why the ROI on Generative AI might not be as rosy as painted, exploring DeepMind's versatile SIMA in 3D environments, and figuring out how to automate your browsing with LaVague's open-source marvel.
For the thinkers, we're pondering over IBM and NASA's mission to democratize scientific knowledge with AI, and the ethical quandaries of AI 'scam' books flooding Amazon. Whether you're a business mogul, a coding virtuoso, or an academic philosopher, today's brew is steeped with the insights to kickstart your day. Let's sip on the future together, shall we?
Business
Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet
Meet Claude 3 Haiku: Anthropic's fastest & most affordable AI model yet, blazing through data with top-tier security for enterprises. Now live!
Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers
Google's Gemini AI limits election info in India to curb misinformation, reflecting global regulatory moves on AI tech.
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law
EU Parliament passes historic Artificial Intelligence Act, setting global standards for AI ethics, innovation, and fundamental rights protection.
Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini
Adobe Firefly mirrors Google Gemini's AI errors, inaccurately depicting historical figures' races, highlighting industry-wide tech challenges.
Why Adopting GenAI Is So Difficult
Adopting GenAI isn't plug-and-play; success requires choosing performance over novelty, integrating with existing tools, keeping humans in the loop, tracing data, and setting realistic goals.
Cerebras Unveils Fastest AI Chip with Whopping 4T Transistors
Cerebras launches world's fastest AI chip, WSE-3, with 4 trillion transistors, powering AI supercomputers with up to 256 exaFLOPs.
Interviewee response to CEO, "Come back to me when you have 10k H100 GPUs"
AI talent war heats up: Startup CEO learns hard lesson on the high stakes of hiring - 10,000 H100 GPUs or bust.
The ROI on GenAI might not be so great, after all
Generative AI's ROI may disappoint, as experts and market signs suggest hype exceeds reality.
Engineering
🔥 A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
DeepMind's SIMA, a generalist AI, excels in diverse 3D games by following natural-language instructions, hinting at versatile future AI applications.
🔥 LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing
LaVague, the open-source AI, transforms natural language into Selenium code for easy web automation, aiming to free up user time for what matters.
🔥 Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration
Figure 01 robot now chats using OpenAI, blending high-level intelligence with dexterous actions. Watch it all neural-powered.
🔥 OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API
OpenAI introduces streaming in Assistants API, enabling real-time AI assistant responses within apps, enhancing user interaction.
🔥 4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) [video]
Cerebras WSE-3 debuts as a colossal chip with 4 trillion transistors, pushing AI hardware boundaries.
Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
Physical Intelligence aims to revolutionize robotics with AI software that learns tasks across various robots, making them universally smarter.
Phospho – Text Analytics for LLM Apps
Phospho now offers a text analytics platform for LLM apps, enhancing user feedback analysis and app iteration with insights from text messages.
GemMoE: An 8x8 Mixture Of Experts based on Gemma
Launched GemMoE beta: an 8x8 MoE model blending Deepmind's Gemma for enhanced AI training and inference, thanks to community collaboration.
Cerebrum 7B – Mistral fine-tune created specifically for reasoning tasks
Cerebrum 7B, an LLM fine-tuned for reasoning, outshines larger models in benchmarks with its efficient, targeted training and strategic thought process.
Academic
🔥 IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible
IBM & NASA's new AI models, trained on scientific texts, boost info access & understanding, now open-sourced on Hugging Face.
🔥 Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research
Silicon Valley's AI ambitions are sidelining academics, with tech giants' resources dwarfing universities, skewing research towards profit, not public good.
A "peer reviewed" research paper written by ChatGPT
ChatGPT authors a breakthrough paper on CuMOF-ANFs, enhancing lithium battery performance and safety by inhibiting dendrite growth.
Authors push back on the growing number of AI 'scam' books on Amazon
Authors fight back as AI 'scam' books flood Amazon, risking sales and reputations. Amazon vows action but challenges persist.
What happens when ChatGPT tries to solve 50k trolley problems?
ChatGPT faces 50k trolley problems, revealing AI can make moral choices similar to humans, but with intriguing deviations.