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Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to take one type of data (e.g, a script) and port it into another (e.g, a song, a poem). This is a deep and weird idea the more you think about it. What would you do if you can ‘transpose’ anything into anything else? RIFFUSION is a creative example of what happens when you play with this idea.
Import AI 313: Smarter Robots via Foundation Models; Stanford Trains a Small Best-in-Class Medical LM; Baidu Builds a Multilingual Coding Dataset
Jack Clark
A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its artificial computing capacity may still want to continue the practice of computer science in a purely theoretical level, as a form of mathematics.
A Holistic Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture.
xxiivv.com
If you thought the Fed only cared about propping up the stock market, 2022 should dissuade you from that opinion.
9 Things That Surprised Me in 2022
Ben Carlson
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