Tianle Cai, Yuhong Li, Zhengyang Geng, Hongwu Peng and Tri Dao (together.ai) unveil Medusa, a simpler, more user-friendly framework for accelerating LLM generation.

Ziwen Zhuang, Zipeng Fu, Jianren Wang, Christopher Atkeson, Soeren Schwertfeger, Chelsea Finn and Hang Zhao propose a system for learning a single end-to-end vision-based parkour policy of diverse parkour skills using a simple reward without any reference motion data.

Quantamagazine - Physicists are now harnessing nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it.

Vgel walks you through the steps to make a transformer by hand

Big Think - Ethan Siegel explores the "speed" of gravity, a concept that did not even exist in the Newtonian approach

Chengrun Yang, Xuezhi Wang, Yifeng Lu, Hanxiao Liu, Quoc V. Le, Denny Zhou and Xinyun Chen propose Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a simple and effective approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) as optimizers, where the optimization task is described in natural language.

Clever article from Tim Hwang on how, sometimes, it makes a lot of sense to fund research to continue to explore what is deemed a dead end

Foundation Mozilla, as part of the "Privacy Not Included" initiative, reviewed a number of car brands for their privacy and security standards. And they were not impressed!

ChinaTalk - The ChinaTalk team puts Baidu's LLM chatbot to test

Wired - ChatGPT was just the start. OpenAi's ultimate goal is to change everything.

Chirp is a text-to-music model developed by Suno.

Jeremy Howard and Jonathan Whitaker from fast.ai conducted a series of experiments to validate and better understand why model appear to rapidly memorize examples from datasets after seeing them just once

Hrishi Olickel proposes a guide to prompt engineering

Jan Fijor writes about the failed implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in Nigeria.

Nature - JohnMark Taylor and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte introduce TorchLens, a new open-source Python package for extracting and characterizing hidden-layer activations in PyTorch models.

Futurism - a quadriplegic patient recovers movement and sensation in his arms thanks to AI-chips implanted in his brain

Gizmodo - An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago

Tom's Hardware - New restrictions imposed by the Biden administration on exports of advanced compute GPUs

Michael C. Frank explores candidate explanations for human children learning efficiency compared to large language models

Wired - Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

Scott Alexander provides a compelling argument that, although a number of studies underpinning behavioral science have been debunked, the entire automaticity paradigm should probably not be written off.

Nature - Elia Kaufmann, Leonard Bauersfeld, Antonio Loquercio, Matthias Müller, Vladlen Koltun and Davide Scaramuzza introduce Swift, an autonomous system that can race physical vehicles at the level of the human world champions.

Jimmy Lin, Ronak Pradeep, Tommaso Teofili and Jasper Xian show that hierarchical navigable small-world network (HNSW) indexes in Lucene are adequate to provide vector search capabilities in a standard bi-encoder architecture.

Quantamagazine - Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

Anton Howes raises the question of replication or reproducibility in history, which seems to lag behind other fields when in comes to backing claims.