What ScarJo v. ChatGPT Could Look Like in Court
23 May

What ScarJo v. ChatGPT Could Look Like in Court

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It doesn’t matter whether a person’s actual voice is used in an imitation or not, Rothman says, only whether that audio confuses listeners. In the legal system, there is a big difference between imitation and simply recording something “in the style” of someone else. “No one owns a style,” she says.Other legal experts don’t see what OpenAI did as a clear-cut impersonation. “I think that any potential ‘right of publicity’ claim from Scarlett Johansson against OpenAI would be fairly weak given the only superficial similarity between the ‘Sky’ actress' voice and Johansson, under the relevant case law,” Colorado law professor…
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Data Machina #252
23 May

Data Machina #252

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Diffusion, FM & Pre-Trained AI models for Time-Series. DeepNN-based models are starting to match or even outperform statistical time-series analysis & forecasting methods in some scenarios. Yet, DeepNN-based models for time-series suffer from 4 key issues: 1) complex architecture 2) enormous amount of time required for training 3) high inference costs, and 4) poor context sensitivity.Latest innovative approaches. To address those issues, a new breed of foundation or pre-trained AI models for time-series is emerging. Some of these new AI models use hybrid approaches borrowing from NLP, vision/ image, or physics modelling, like: transformers, diffusion models, KANs and state space…
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LLM Task-Specific Evals that Do & Don’t Work
23 May

LLM Task-Specific Evals that Do & Don’t Work

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If you’ve ran off-the-shelf evals for your tasks, you may have found that most don’t work. They barely correlate with application-specific performance and aren’t discriminative enough to use in production. As a result, we could spend weeks and still not have evals that reliably measure how we’re doing on our tasks. To save us some time, I’m sharing some evals I’ve found useful. The goal is to spend less time figuring out evals so we can spend more time shipping to users. We’ll focus on simple, common tasks like classification/extraction, summarization, and translation. (Although classification evals are basic, having a…
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Tips for LLM Pretraining and Evaluating Reward Models
23 May

Tips for LLM Pretraining and Evaluating Reward Models

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It's another month in AI research, and it's hard to pick favorites.Besides new research, there have also been many other significant announcements. Among them, xAI has open-sourced its Grok-1 model, which, at 314 billion parameters, is the largest open-source model yet. Additionally, reports suggest that Claude-3 is approaching or even exceeding the performance of GPT-4. Then there’s also Open-Sora 1.0 (a fully open-source project for video generation), Eagle 7B (a new RWKV-based model), Mosaic’s 132 billion parameter DBRX (a mixture-of-experts model), and AI21's Jamba (a Mamba-based SSM-transformer model).However, since detailed information about these models is quite scarce, I'll focus on…
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Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal
23 May

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

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"I don’t need any artificial intelligence."I, RobotAfter OpenAI got in trouble for copying actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new ChatGPT voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft — a major investor and close partner of OpenAI — bashed human-like AIs in a surprising interview on Monday."I don't like anthropomorphizing AI," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Bloomberg Television. "I sort of believe it's a tool.""It has got intelligence, if you want to give it that moniker, but it’s not the same intelligence that I have," he added, while also dinging the term "artificial intelligence.""I think one of the most unfortunate…
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Yi-34B, Llama 2, and common practices in LLM training: a fact check of the New York Times
23 May

Yi-34B, Llama 2, and common practices in LLM training: a fact check of the New York Times

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On February 21 2024, the New York Times published “China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology.” The authors claim that Yi-34B, a recent large language model by the Chinese startup 01.AI, is fundamentally indebted to Meta’s Llama 2: There was just one twist: Some of the technology in 01.AI’s system came from Llama. Mr. Lee’s start-up then built on Meta’s technology, training its system with new data to make it more powerful. This assessment is based on a misreading of the cited Hugging Face issue. While we make no claims about the overall…
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The Role of Synthetic Data in Cybersecurity
23 May

The Role of Synthetic Data in Cybersecurity

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Data's value is something of a double-edged sword. On one hand, digital data lays the groundwork for powerful AI applications, many of which could change the world for the better. Conversely, storing so many details on people creates huge privacy risks. Synthetic data provides a possible solution. What Is Synthetic Data? Synthetic data is a subset of anonymized data – data that doesn't reveal any real-world details. More specifically, it refers to information that looks and acts like real-world data but has no ties to actual people, places or events. In short, it's fake data that can produce real results. In…
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OpenAI will reportedly pay $250 million to put News Corp’s journalism in ChatGPT
23 May

OpenAI will reportedly pay $250 million to put News Corp’s journalism in ChatGPT

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OpenAI and News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Sun, and more than a dozen other publishing brands, have struck a multi-year deal to display news from these publications in ChatGPT, News Corp announced on Wednesday. OpenAI will be able to access both current and well as archived content from News Corp’s publications and use the data to further train its AI models. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal, but a report in The Wall Street Journal estimated that News Corp would get $250 million over five years in cash and credits.“The pact acknowledges…
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The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’
23 May

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’

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AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers.”Most of the letter’s signatories are from Kenya, a hub for tech outsourcing, whose president, William Ruto, is visiting the US this week. The workers allege that the practices…
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