Tech & Society
Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.
How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
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Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.
A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.
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Custom Agents, Little Coding: All about Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder
Google is empowering developers to build autonomous agents using little or no custom code.
Machine Learning Research
Robo-Football From Simulation to Reality: Reinforcement learning powers humanoid robots to play football
Humanoid robots can play football (known as soccer in the United States) in the real world, thanks to reinforcement learning.
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One Agent, Many Environments: SIMA, a system that understands and plays diverse 3D video games
AI agents are typically designed to operate a particular software environment. Recent work enabled a single agent to take actions in a variety of three-dimensional virtual worlds.
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Google Tests Generative News Tools: Google funds newsrooms to test AI-powered article generation tools.
Google is paying newsrooms to use a system that helps transform press releases into articles.
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Google Releases Open Source LLMs: All we know about Google's Gemma-7B and Gemma-2B models
Google asserted its open source bona fides with new models. Google released weights for Gemma-7B, an 8.5 billion-parameter large language model intended to run GPUs, and Gemma-2B, a 2.5 billion-parameter version intended for deployment on CPUs and edge devices.
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Context Is Everything: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a leap in multimodal AI amid controversy over v1.0
An update of Google’s flagship multimodal model keeps track of colossal inputs, while an earlier version generated some questionable outputs.
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GPT-4 Biothreat Risk is Low: Study finds GPT-4 no more risky than online search in aiding bioweapon development.
GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study. OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.
Machine Learning Research
More Consistent Generated Videos: Lumiere, a system that achieves unprecedented motion realism in video
Text-to-video has struggled to produce consistent motions like walking and rotation. A new approach achieves more realistic motion.
Machine Learning Research
Learning the Language of Geometry: AlphaGeometry, a system that nears expert proficiency in proving complex geometry theorems
Machine learning algorithms often struggle with geometry. A language model learned to prove relatively difficult theorems.
Machine Learning Research
Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals
A neural network makes music for unaccompanied vocal tracks. Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts, and colleagues at Google proposed SingSong, a system that generates musical accompaniments for sung melodies. You can listen to its output here.