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We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI
A new AI winter is coming?
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
AI Makes Me Sad
Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness.
Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors
John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
Celebrated software engineer & Keen Technologies founder John Carmack partners with Amii's Dr. Richard Sutton to bring greater focus to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying. She argues that...
The 100k whys of AI
One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.
Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)
So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that might've worked before or saw on a tweet. "Use in-place operations! Set gradients to None! Install PyTorch 1.10.0 but not 1.10.1!"
Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production, for AI inference and more. Today we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves.
Touching the Elephant – TPUs
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit
AI competitions don’t produce useful models
Ai competitions are fun, community building, talent scouting, brand promoting, and attention grabbing. But competitions are not intended to develop useful models.
Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
Talk to your smart home and let it talk back with our new voice assistant features.
Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.
Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
Gradient Community Notebooks provide free GPUs with pre-configured environments for machine learning and deep learning projects.
Machine Learning in Google Bigquery
Posted by Umar Syed and Sergei Vassilvitskii, Research Scientists, Google AI, NYC Google BigQuery allows interactive analysis of large datasets, ma...
Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome
Discover our solutions for how to consistently automate browser testing and improve application performance.
Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown
Reader-LM-0.5B and Reader-LM-1.5B are two novel small language models inspired by Jina Reader, designed to convert raw, noisy HTML from the open web into clean markdown.
Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons
In previous posts, I mentioned that the even numbered release will be bugfixes. However, 0.6 is a bit different.
CodeMender: an AI agent for code security
Using advanced AI to fix critical software vulnerabilities
A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy
The Eclipse Deeplearning4j Project. Eclipse Deeplearning4j has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
Last month, I met with Eric, a fearless PM at a medium size startup who recently got into vibe coding with Gemini.
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages
Armed with a download of my 240,000 text message and Whatsapp history, I was able to fine-tune an LLM to create convincing conversations.
Skynet won and destroyed humanity
For a very long time, it appeared obvious to outside observers of the time flow that Skynet would never win the war, and never annihilate humanity.