Global AI Weekly

Issue number: 75 | Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Highlights

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Using avatars in psychosis therapy can help those who hear voices, study finds

Therapy involves patients talking with animated digital representations of voices they hear ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? Digital characters – avatars – could help people with psychosis hear voices less often and reduce the distress caused, research suggests.

theguardian.com

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A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots

Inspired by large language models, researchers develop a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.

news.mit.edu

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OpenAI says it won’t release a model called Orion this year

OpenAI says that it doesn’t intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting on the company’s product roadmap. “We don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “We do plan to release a lot of other great technology.” The Verge reported […]

techcrunch.com

Video

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Episode 307 - Revolutionize developer productivity with Jim Bennett

Join us in this episode where we talk with Jim Bennett about Revolutionize developer productivity.

youtube.com

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OpenAI’s New AI Model: 50x Faster!

My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free

youtube.com

Articles

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Intern Insights: Vaishnavi Ranganathan with Angela Busheska

Undergrad Angela Busheska has a passion for sustainability. She talks with researcher Vaishnavi Ranganathan about the why behind her drive, the work she did at Microsoft on a platform for tracking land use, and her advice for making the internship experience count.

microsoft.com

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Reconstructing Translucent Thin Objects from Photos

The joint reconstruction of shape and appearance for translucent objects from real-world data poses a challenge in computer graphics, especially when dealing with complex layered materials like leaves or paper.

research.nvidia.com

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Getting started with PyTorch, ExecuTorch, and Ethos-U85 in three easy steps

ExecuTorch support for Ethos-U85

pytorch.org

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Simplifying, stabilizing, and scaling continuous-time consistency models

We’ve simplified, stabilized, and scaled continuous-time consistency models, achieving comparable sample quality to leading diffusion models, while using only two sampling steps.

openai.com

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From ChatGPT to Dishwashing Robots: My Love-Hate Relationship with the AI Revolution

Back in 2022 (feels like a century ago, doesn’t it? Remember the pandemic?), the name Sam Altman wasn’t on anyone’s radar. Elon Musk was…

medium.com

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AutoGPT — New Breakthrough in Generative AI

The world of AI has been making incredible strides, and now we have Auto-GPT, a revolutionary application that’s bound to change the way…

medium.com

Upcoming Events

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Announcing the NeurIPS 2024 Affinity Events

By Ioana Bica, Nezihe Merve Gürel We are excited to announce this year’s affinity events co-located with NeurIPS. What are affinity groups? At NeurIPS, affinity groups play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the ideas and voices of various communities that are defined by some axis of joint identity and raise awareness of issues […]

blog.neurips.cc

Code

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python-imgcat

I was investigating options for displaying images in a terminal window (for multi-modal logging output of LLM) and I found this neat Python library for displaying images using iTerm 2.

simonwillison.net

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