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Seeing Through Darkness: Purdue Researchers Unveil AI Thermal Imaging Technology

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Chris McKay• August 1, 2023 • 2 min read

Improving upon traditional machine vision and perception, this method is designed to help machines perceive and interact with their surroundings in ways that were previously unthinkable.

AI Safety Research

RLHF In the Spotlight: Problems and Limitations with Key AI Alignment Technique

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Chris McKay• July 31, 2023 • 3 min read

A new paper takes a closer look at serious open challenges related to RLHF, and emphasizes that relying solely on it for AI alignment is profoundly risky

Google Healthcare Research

Med-PaLM M is a Multimodal Biomedical AI from Google Research and Google DeepMind

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Chris McKay• July 31, 2023 • 3 min read

Across all tasks in the benchmark, Med-PaLM M reached or exceeded state-of-the-art performance, often surpassing specialized models optimized for individual tasks by a wide margin.

AI Safety Research

“Sure, I’ll Help You Build a Bomb”: New Research Reveals Alarming Gaps in AI Safety

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Chris McKay• July 29, 2023 • 6 min read

The new class of adversarial attacks are capable of circumventing the alignment measures designed to prevent the generation of inappropriate or harmful content in multiple LLMs.

Google Robotics Research

Google DeepMind Unveils RT-2, Bringing Robots Closer to General Intelligence

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Chris McKay• July 28, 2023 • 4 min read

Essentially, the model can comprehend and 'speak robot', translating abstract concepts learned from vast web data into actionable knowledge that informs robot behavior.

Meta Research

Meta Releases Open Catalyst Demo to Help Discover Catalysts Faster With AI

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Chris McKay• July 27, 2023 • 2 min read

The research represents a potential game-changer for material science, enabling catalyst simulations at unprecedented speeds and scales.

Apple Research

Highlights from Apple's Natural Language Understanding Workshop 2023

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Chris McKay• July 24, 2023 • 2 min read

Topics covered included privacy preservation, knowledge grounding, multimodal understanding, and controlled synthetic data generation.

Meta Research

Meta Unveils CM3leon: A Breakthrough AI Model for Advanced Text-to-Image Generation and Image Understanding

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Chris McKay• July 14, 2023 • 3 min read

With its versatile capabilities and improved performance, CM3leon represents a significant step towards higher-fidelity image generation and understanding, paving the way for enhanced creativity and applications in the metaverse.

Research Auto

Toyota Unveils New Generative AI Technique to Streamline Vehicle Design

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Chris McKay• June 20, 2023 • 2 min read

The novel technique facilitates the inclusion of preliminary design blueprints as well as engineering limitations when generating design concepts.

Meta Research

Take a listen to Voicebox, Meta's new generative AI for speech

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Chris McKay• June 16, 2023 • 2 min read

This new model is a significant leap forward in AI speech synthesis, demonstrating its versatility and efficiency by outperforming existing models in various tasks, even those it was not specifically trained for.

OpenAI Research

ChatGPT is About to Get a Lot Better At Math

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Chris McKay• May 31, 2023 • 2 min read

New research from OpenAI explores how training reward models with process supervision significantly improves mathematical reasoning compared to outcome supervision.

Google Research

Google Researchers Publish Barkour, A Benchmark for Quadiped Robot Agility

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Chris McKay• May 26, 2023 • 1 min read

A new study establishes an agility course and scoring system for evaluating four-legged robot locomotion.

Microsoft Research

New Research From Microsoft Teases Next-Level Multimodal Generative AI Capabilities

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Chris McKay• May 23, 2023 • 2 min read

The research team has developed an AI model that can process and generate any combination of text, images, video and audio.

Research

OpenAI Releases Shap·E: A Leap Forward in Generating 3D Implicit Functions from Text

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Chris McKay• May 4, 2023 • 2 min read

Their latest research in 3D model generation gets a major upgrade with Shap·E, addressing limitations of their previous model, Point·E.

Google Research

Google DeepMind is Using AI to Teach Robots to Play Soccer

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Chris McKay• May 1, 2023 • 2 min read

The OP3 Soccer Team at DeepMind has applied deep reinforcement learning to train low-cost humanoid robots to play 1v1 soccer. This research could open doors to more practical applications of reinforcement learning in robotics.

Meta Research

Meta AI Unveils DINOv2: A Game-Changer in Self-Supervised Vision Transformer Models

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Chris McKay• April 17, 2023 • 2 min read

Meta AI follows up on its Segment Anything release with DINOv2, a self-supervised model that's poised to redefine image processing across industries

Research

Can Generative AI Simulate Human Behavior?

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Chris McKay• April 11, 2023 • 2 min read

Researchers from Google and Stanford put 25 ChatGPT agents in a virtual world called Smallville to find out.

Meta Research

Meta AI Open Sources its Segment Anything (SA) Project

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Chris McKay• April 5, 2023 • 3 min read

The project includes a new a new task, dataset, and SAM—a fascinating new model for image segmentation