/AI Weekly/Issue 66
LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve
Published Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence model — a system that learns on its own and creates new content based on what it’s learned. In the past two years, advancements in data processing and computer science have made AI models incredibly popular in the technology space, with both startups and established companies like Meta developing their own versions of the tool.
In controlled experiments, MIT CSAIL researchers discover simulations of reality developing deep within LLMs, indicating an understanding of language beyond simple mimicry.
This week’s paper discusses the development of a Sign Language Assessment (SLA) tool to evaluate the comprehensibility of Sign Languages (SL). The system can detect mistakes in signed sequences and provide actionable feedback for the learner. A really useful AI tool for people looking to learn sign language!
Watching Microsoft’s Chief Questions Officer, Trevor Noah, take the ‘Real or Not’ quiz makes me feel a bit better about my own score. What a great episode… | 17 comments on LinkedIn
The AI team coordinator aligns agents’ beliefs about how to achieve the task, intervening when necessary to potentially help with tasks in search and rescue, hospitals, and video games.
In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.
The latest release of llamafile (previously) adds support for Gemma 2B (pre-bundled llamafiles available here), significant performance improvements and new support for the Whisper speech-to-text model, based on whisper.cpp, Georgi Gerganov's C++ implementation of Whisper that pre-dates his work on llama.cpp.
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