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Some notes on the Stable Diffusion safety filter
How deep learning models are moderated
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 301 posts.
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GitHub Copilot isn't worth the risk
Copilot may be a glimpse into the future of AI, but it comes with a lot of legal and security baggage.
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The near future of AI is action-driven
…and it will look a lot like AGI. LLMs can become extremely powerful by leveraging external cognitive assets and choosing actions.
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AI found a bug in my code
I wanted to see how a language model would analyze my existing code.
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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24x7 using AI to process that information?, before someone else does, I tried to do it myself, and this is the result. First of all some clarifications. It’s not really 24x7 because I didn’t find it useful to leave it
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Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
Every year, we have a new iPhone that claims to be faster and better in every way. And yes, these new computer vision models and new image sensors can exercise the phone as hard as they can. However, you could already take good pictures on an iPhone 10 years ago. These are incremental improvements.
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AI and the Future of Pixel Art
The homepage of Lux: professional artist, game developer, educator, and pixel provocateur.
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A step by step backpropagation example (2015)
Background Backpropagation is a common method for training a neural network. There is no shortage of papers online that attempt to explain how backpropagation works, but few that include an example…
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Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain
Neuroscientists often use neural networks to model the kind of tasks the brain performs, in hopes that the models could suggest new hypotheses regarding how the brain itself performs those tasks. But a group of MIT researchers urges that more caution should be taken when interpreting these models.
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Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s
My chat with Cristóbal Valenzuela, Cofounder & CEO of Runway .
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An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
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Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate differentiable rendering with algebraic surfaces
Shape From Silhouette Reconstruction from a short cell phone video, showing reconstructed masks.
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Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
Sending an MP3 typically requires 128 kb/s of bandwidth. We can compress HiFi audio down to 12 kb/s, without sacrificing the quality.
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Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
In November of 2021, an anonymous source leaked 600 hours of police aerial surveillance footage to the non-profit transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets .
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Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015)
I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of…
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Bumble releases open-source A.I. feature to help combat unsolicited nudes
Bumble has made an open-source version of our Private Detector™ A.I. technology available on GitHub.
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The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
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Building the Future of TensorFlow
The TensorFlow roadmap for 2023 and beyond
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AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
Peng-Jen Chen is well aware of how language barriers can affect people’s ability to communicate. Chen grew up in Taiwan speaking Mandarin Chinese, but his father, Sheng-Jiang Chen, a 70-year-old retired factory lead technician, hails from Southern Taiwan, where Taiwanese Hokkien is widely spoken. Though the two…
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AI Data Laundering
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
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