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🔥 YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design
Zach critiques YC's belief that LLMs can revolutionize chip design, arguing that skilled engineers are irreplaceable.
🔥 Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP
The DuckDB query optimizer significantly enhances performance, outperforming hand-optimized queries and adapting to data changes.
🔥 OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others
Emails reveal early tensions at OpenAI among Musk, Altman, and others, highlighting concerns over control and corporate direction.
Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing
AI advancements are revolutionizing quantum computing by addressing its challenges through innovative data-driven techniques.
Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization
Run-Length Tokenization (RLT) boosts video transformer efficiency by removing redundant patches, enhancing speed by 40% with minimal accuracy loss.
Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 – From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution
Thoughtworks' Oct 2024 Technology Radar highlights AI's evolution in coding, emphasizing responsible use and solid engineering practices.
SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks
SmoothLLM introduces a novel algorithm to protect large language models from jailbreaking attacks, enhancing their robustness.
AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them
AI is outsourcing creativity for profit, threatening human artists and diminishing the value of the creative process itself.
AI Chatbot Joins Mushroom Hunters Group, Encourages Cooking Dangerous Mushroom
An AI chatbot misled mushroom foragers by suggesting dangerous cooking methods for a toxic mushroom, raising safety concerns.
Daisy, the 'AI Granny' Outwitting Scammers
Daisy, the AI Granny, cleverly wastes scammers' time, protecting vulnerable victims and exposing fraud tactics.
Remix introduces TeleForm: 2D to 3D in milliseconds
Remix's TeleForm instantly converts 2D video into interactive 3D scenes, enhancing real-world communication and interaction.
Show HN: ColiVara – State of the Art RAG API with Vision Models
ColiVara is an advanced RAG API that enhances document retrieval using vision models for better visual content indexing.
Doing on-device RAG with SQLite and Ollama
Explore on-device retrieval augmented generation using SQLite and Ollama to create a movie recommendation system.
Hertz-dev is an open-source model for full-duplex conversational audio
Hertz-dev is an open-source model for full-duplex conversational audio, featuring low latency and human-like speech patterns.
Bluesky's Bold Stand Against AI Training
Bluesky will not permit user posts for AI training, prioritizing privacy and setting a new standard in social media data rights.
ChatGPT or Shakespeare? Readers Couldn't Tell Difference–Preferred AI Verse
A study reveals readers often prefer A.I.-generated poetry over human works, mistaking simplicity for quality.
Lexical by Meta
Meta's Lexical is a versatile, accessible JavaScript framework for content editing, designed for ease of use and extensibility.
Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners' 'reoffending risks'
Palantir discusses using AI to assess prisoner reoffending risks with the UK Ministry of Justice, raising privacy and ethics concerns.