Welcome to another edition of AI Fridays, your weekly dose of theĀ latest updates and innovations in AI brought by HackerPulse in collaboration with Kusho.Ā
The winner of this weekās coding challenge is announced at the end of this issue.
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8ļøā£ The Inside Story of 8 Google Researchers Who Invented AI
š ChatGPT Now Available Without Accounts, but With Caveats
šļø Navigating the Wilderness: Building Strong Language Models from Scratch
š² Samsung's 'Bespoke AI' Home Appliances Set New Industry Standards
š Amazon Shifts Checkout Strategy: From Just Walk Out to Dash Carts
The Inside Story of 8 Google Researchers Who Invented AIĀ (š Read Paper)
Eight Google employees have been behind the creation of modern AI, as revealed in the legendary "Transformers" paper authored by them. Led by Jakob Uszkoreit, the team had a strong hunch about the potential of the novel self-attention mechanism, revolutionizing language processing. Despite initial skepticism, the significance of the "Transformers" paper was recognized by OpenAI and paved the way for ChatGPT and Dall-E. The narrative reveals how monumental discoveries often fly under the radar before reshaping entire industries.
ChatGPT Now Accessible Without Accounts, but There are Caveats (š Read Paper)
OpenAI has made its conversational AI, ChatGPT, accessible to all without requiring an account. Visitors to chat.openai.com can now engage in conversations without the need to log in. However, stricter content policies are in place for non-account users, such as the inability to save or share chats or use custom instructions. All conversations are logged for training data unless users choose to opt out of their chats. While safety measures are in place, specifics about additional safeguards and content policies remain unclear.Ā
Navigating the Wilderness: BuildingĀ Strong Language Models from Scratch (š Read Paper)Ā
Yi Tay sheds light on Reka's journey in training large language and multimodal models from scratch. He delves into the instability of compute providers, highlighting the significant variance in cluster quality and connectivity, complicating the training process. Yi reflects on the disparity between multinode and distributed training, emphasizing the need to prioritize the latter akin to TPU pods. The complexities of multi-cluster setups pose additional hurdles, however, Yi underscores the importance of leveraging a strong prior to navigate the vast search space efficiently, enabling Reka to achieve remarkable results with limited trials and resources.Ā
Samsungās Bespoke AI Home Appliances Set New Industry Standards (š Read Paper)Ā
Samsung, the global consumer electronics brand, has shifted its focus from product-specific AI to platform-specific AI, unveiling a range of 'Bespoke AI' home appliances at a global launch event. This shift aims to leverage AI as a system of operations, ensuringĀ seamless integration, scalability, and user experience across the entire appliance ecosystem.
Samsung announced that Bespoke AI appliances feature AI Energy Mode, offering significant energy savings. Refrigerators can achieve up to 10% energy savings, air conditioners up to 20%, and washing machines up to an impressive 70%.Ā
Amazon Shifts Checkout Strategy: From Just Walk Out to Dash Carts (š Read Paper)Ā
Amazon is pivoting away from its no-checkout shopping experience in large grocery stores, replacing it with Dash Carts where customers scan items as they shop. The shift comes as Amazon aims to enhance its brick-and-mortar presence, focusing on Amazon Fresh locations. The Just Walk Out program will remain in smaller stores and UK grocerie.Ā
And the winner for this weekās coding challenge is Anish Kumar, please reach out to us at nina@hackerpulse.io to claim your prize.
The winner was picked randomly, you can look at the process of selection here.
Now thatās a wrap. Catch you on the flip side š