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Minecraft Welcomes Its First LLM-Powered Agent
Researchers from Caltech, Stanford, the University of Texas, and NVIDIA have collaboratively developed and released Voyager, an LLM power agent that utilizes GPT-4 to engage in Minecraft gameplay. Voyager demonstrates remarkable capabilities by learning, retaining knowledge, and showcasing exceptional expertise in Minecraft.
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OpenAI Launches its Official ChatGPT App for iOS
OpenAI made its official ChatGPT app available on the US App Store, providing voice-based input, GPT-4 support for paying users, and faster response times. The company said they will soon start the roll out to additional countries and that an Android version is in the making.
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Microsoft Open-Sources 13 Billion Parameter Language and Vision Chatbot LLaVA
Researchers from Microsoft, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Columbia University have open-sourced Large Language and Vision Assistant (LLaVA). LLaVA is based on a CLIP image encoder and a LLaMA language decoder, is fine-tuned on a synthetic instruction-following dataset, and achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on the ScienceQA benchmark.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: Generative Fill, Copilot, Aria, and Brain Chips
The most recent update, covering the week starting May 22nd, 2023, encompasses the latest progress and declarations in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week, the focus is on prominent figures such Adobe, Microsoft, Opera, and the University of Lausanne.
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OpenAI is Using GPT-4 to Explain Neurons' Behavior in GPT-2
A recent paper by a group of researchers at OpenAI outlines a novel approach to solve one of the limitations of current deep neural networks (DNNs), namely their lack of interpretability. By Using GPT-4, the researchers aim to build a technique to explain what events cause a neuron to activate, as a first step towards automating DNN interpretability.
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Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2
Meta AI Research open-sourced DINOv2, a foundation model for computer vision (CV) tasks. DINOv2 is pretrained on a curated dataset of 142M images and can be used as a backbone for several tasks, including image classification, video action recognition, semantic segmentation, and depth estimation.
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Java News Roundup: Azul Zulu Support for CRaC, Spring Boot Updates Mitigate CVEs, OpenJDK JEPs
This week's Java roundup for May 15th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Azul Zulu, point releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Security Kerberos, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Authorization Server, Spring LDAP, Micronaut, Open Liberty, TornadoVM, Hibernate ORM, Apache TomEE, Apache Tika, OpenXava, JBang, JDKMon and Spring I/O conference.
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Meta Switches to MySQL Raft to Improve Reliability and Operational Simplicity
Meta is rolling out MySQL Raft in its data centers to replace its current MySQL semisynchronous databases. The new consensus engine helps operation and allows MySQL servers to take responsibility for promotions and membership.
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Is ChatGPT Fit for Every Purpose: Alan Turing Ethics Fellow Presents Checklist in Devoxx UK Keynote
During her keynote at Devoxx UK, Mhairi Aitken talked about the limitations of AI when grappling with the complexities of human language. Further, she provided checklist developers use to inspect the AI Foundations before building on top of them. She urged us to be guided by ethical and social considerations when building on AI, as a general-purpose AI model may not be fit for every purpose.
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Adopting Artificial Intelligence: Things Leaders Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies identify new opportunities and products, and stay ahead of the competition. Senior software managers should understand the basics of how this new technology works, why agility is important in developing AI products, and how to hire or train people for new roles.
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Google's Universal Speech Model Performs Speech Recognition on Hundreds of Languages
Google Research announced Universal Speech Model (USM), a 2B parameter automated speech recognition (ASR) model trained on over 12M hours of speech audio. USM can recognize speech in over 100 languages, including low-resource languages, and achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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Open Source MongoDB Alternative FerretDB Now Generally Available
FerretDB, an open-source MongoDB alternative database, recently announced its general availability. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, the project allows developers to use existing PostgreSQL infra to run MongoDB workloads.
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Google Previews Studio Bot, a Coding Bot for Android Development
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Hugging Face and ServiceNow have partnered to develop StarCoder, a new open-source language model for code. The model created as a part of the BigCode initiative is an improved version of the StarCoderBase model trained on 35 billion Python tokens. StarCoder is a free AI code-generating system alternative to GitHub’s Copilot, DeepMind’s AlphaCode, and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer.