Tag: research
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/qvq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model Feedly Summary: I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities". Their blog…
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Hacker News: AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
Source URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ais-will-increasingly-fake-alignment Source: Hacker News Title: AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant findings from a research paper by Anthropic and Redwood Research on “alignment faking” in large language models (LLMs), particularly focusing on the model named Claude. The results reveal how AI…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/modernbert/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT Feedly Summary: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT BERT was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn’t designed for generating text. BERT was trained for masked token prediction and was generally…
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Hacker News: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
Source URL: https://sakana.ai/asal/ Source: Hacker News Title: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary with Insight: The text discusses the development of a new algorithm, Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL), which leverages foundation models to automate the discovery of artificial lifeforms through…
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Slashdot: New Physics Sim Trains Robots 430,000 Times Faster Than Reality
Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/12/24/022256/new-physics-sim-trains-robots-430000-times-faster-than-reality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New Physics Sim Trains Robots 430,000 Times Faster Than Reality Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary: The text discusses the unveiling of Genesis, an advanced open-source computer simulation system that enables robots to practice tasks at vastly accelerated speeds. This technology could significantly enhance AI training…
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Hacker News: Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
Source URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2024/11/09/why-are-we-using-llms-as-calculators/ Source: Hacker News Title: Why are we using LLMs as calculators? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and motivations behind using large language models (LLMs) for mathematical reasoning and calculations. It highlights the historical context of computing and the evolution of tasks from simple…