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šŸ”„ Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
Midjourney's web experience is now accessible to all, enhancing creative exploration and imaginative capabilities.

šŸ”„ I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
A developer expresses frustration over fixing AI-generated code errors from customers lacking programming skills, complicating support.

šŸ”„ Show HN: Handwriter.ttf ā€“ Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
Handwriter.ttf synthesizes handwriting using Harfbuzz WASM and a lightweight RNN model, enabling real-time font generation.

Self-Supervised Learning for Videos
Self-supervised learning for videos, especially through VideoMAE, addresses unique challenges like temporal redundancy and efficiency.

Google's 'Reimagine' tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to photos
Google's 'Reimagine' tool allows users to add disturbing elements like wrecks and corpses to photos, raising ethical concerns.

AI vs. AI: The Job Market
AI is reshaping the job market, with candidates applying en masse and recruiters using AI to filter applicants.

Google's AI search gives sites dire choice: share data or die
Google's AI search forces publishers to choose between sharing data or risking obsolescence, amid antitrust scrutiny.

Ideogram 2.0 ā€“ Text to Image model
Ideogram 2.0 launches with advanced text-to-image capabilities, an iOS app, and a developer API, enhancing creativity for all users.

Run AI inference apps with self-hosted models on Cloud Run with Nvidia GPUs
Google Cloud's Cloud Run now supports NVIDIA GPUs for real-time AI inference, enhancing performance and scalability for developers.

Nvidia Build a Digital Human
NVIDIA introduces digital humans for customer service, leveraging AI models for interactive and intelligent avatars.

Show HN: Open-Source macOS App for AI-Summarized Web Change Alerts
Glanceables v1.2 enhances web monitoring with change detection and desktop notifications for effortless updates.

Running an LLM on a Simple Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi 5 can run LLMs like Ollama, yielding surprisingly good results despite limited resources and no cloud access.

We've replaced our rule-based health engine with LLM
Aidlab replaces its rule-based health engine with LLMs for deeper, personalized health insights, enhancing user motivation and accuracy.

Decoding Strategies ā€“ How LLMs Choose the Next Word
Explores how large language models select the next word in text generation, focusing on decoding strategies.

Show HN: Self-Hosted AI Starter Kit
The Self-Hosted AI Starter Kit by n8n is an open-source template for quickly setting up secure local AI workflows.

Show HN: Spok, Our Journey to Building an AI-Powered Marketer
Spok is an AI-powered marketing tool that provides data-driven insights and strategies to enhance marketing effectiveness.

Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030? (2024)
AI scaling could reach 2e29 FLOP by 2030, driven by power, chip production, data, and latency constraints, if investments are made.

Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more
Microsoft launches Phi-3.5 models, outperforming competitors with advanced capabilities and open-source licensing for developers.

Telecom that enabled Biden deepfake scam will pay FCC $1M
Lingo Telecom will pay $1M to the FCC for enabling a deepfake scam involving President Biden's audio targeting voters.

Chrome Built-In AI Demo Page
Chrome introduces Gemini Nano, an AI test page for running large language models locally in the browser. Open source on GitHub.

Everyday Llamas: Getting Started with Large Language Models Locally
Explore using local LLMs like Ollama to enhance productivity while protecting company IP, avoiding risks of remote models.

Simplified robotic gripper can still tackle complex object manipulation tasks
A new 5 DOF robotic gripper effectively performs complex tasks, bridging the gap between simplicity and dexterity in robotics.

Show HN: Open-source fine-tuning in a Colab notebook
Open-source fine-tuning now available in a Google Colab notebook for easier access and experimentation.

Big Tech wants AI to be regulated. Why do they oppose a California AI bill?
Big Tech opposes California's SB 1047 AI regulation bill, fearing it may hinder innovation and drive developers away.

Let's All Agree to Use Seeds as ML-KEM Keys
NIST's ML-KEM spec now endorses using 64-byte seeds for key storage, simplifying cryptography and reducing errors.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (a.k.a. LLM-as-Judge)
LLM-evaluators, or LLM-as-Judge, assess other LLM responses, offering scalable alternatives to traditional evaluation methods.

AI cheating is getting worse. Colleges Still Don't Have a Plan
Colleges struggle with rampant AI cheating, lacking effective plans while educators seek to adapt teaching methods.

AI Applications with Haystack
Learn to build custom AI applications using Haystack's framework, focusing on pipelines, components, and advanced features.

Examination of Metaculus AI predictions implications for AI timelines (2021)
Metaculus AI predictions reveal overconfidence in timelines, with weak evidence suggesting faster progress than actual outcomes.

Recommendations to help mitigate prompt injection: limit the blast radius
To mitigate prompt injection risks, understand the threat and limit potential damage through careful security measures.

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