Is ReFT All We Needed?
Representation Fintuning — Beyond the PEFT Techniques for fine-tuning LLMs Hasn’t everyone started using ReFT yet? Stanford published the paper ReFT: Representation finetuning for language models in May 2024, which immediately showed its great potential. In July 2024, Oxen.ai presented an experiment finetuning Llama3 (8B) on a single Nvidia A10 GPU within 14 mins, further demonstrating this technique's […]
New generative AI tools open the doors of music creation
This work was made possible by core research and engineering efforts from Andrea Agostinelli, Zalán Borsos, George Brower, Antoine Caillon, Cătălina Cangea, Noah Constant, Michael Chang, Chris Deaner, Timo Denk, Chris Donahue, Michael Dooley, Jesse Engel, Christian Frank, Beat Gfeller, Tobenna Peter Igwe, Drew Jaegle, Matej Kastelic, Kazuya Kawakami, Pen Li, Ethan Manilow, Yotam Mann, […]
Are Video Games Becoming Too Smart?
Remember the days when beating a video game was just about memorizing patterns, learning when to jump, and mashing buttons in the right order? Those days seem like a distant memory as we step into an era where video games are not just challenging—they’re becoming eerily intelligent. With the rise of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) […]
How to Answer Business Questions with Data | by Tessa Xie | Nov, 2024
Data analysis is the key to drive business decisions through answering abstract business questions but it’s hard to get right 13 min read · 13 hours ago Image by author “We have observed a drop in our core metric, what is going on?” “What are the drivers for churn?” As data scientists, we encounter questions […]
Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Technologies Published 30 October 2024 Authors Zalán Borsos, Matt Sharifi and Marco Tagliasacchi Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools. Speech is central to human connection. It helps people around the world exchange information and ideas, express emotions and […]
TheDream AI Review and Alternatives
Key Insights: TheDream AI is an AI-powered platform that enables users to create personalized profile pictures and social media content across various styles. Key features include AI-driven profile generation, a diverse range of artistic styles, and secure data handling practices. The platform is suitable for content creators, professionals, and artists seeking to enhance their digital […]
Increasing Transformer Model Efficiency Through Attention Layer Optimization | by Chaim Rand | Nov, 2024
How paying “better” attention can drive ML cost savings 13 min read · 12 hours ago Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash Introduced in the landmark 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” (Vaswani et al., 2017), the Transformer architecture is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientific breakthroughs of the past decade. […]
A new era of discovery
AI is revolutionizing the landscape of scientific research, enabling advancements at a pace that was once unimaginable — from accelerating drug discovery to designing new materials for clean energy technologies. The AI for Science Forum — co-hosted by Google DeepMind and the Royal Society — brought together the scientific community, policymakers, and industry leaders to […]
5 Best NSFW Character AI Alternatives
Character AI has grown in popularity as a groundbreaking tool, enabling users to create and interact with detailed virtual characters in a range of settings, including NSFW (Not Safe For Work) contexts. This AI-driven platform simulates realistic conversations and generates visually appealing images, making it a go-to for users seeking immersive, customizable character interactions. However, […]
From Local to Cloud: Estimating GPU Resources for Open-Source LLMs | by Maxime Jabarian | Nov, 2024
Estimating GPU memory for deploying the latest open-source LLMs Source If you’re like me, you probably get excited about the latest and greatest open-source LLMs — from models like Llama 3 to the more compact Phi-3 Mini. But before you jump into deploying your language model, there’s one crucial factor you need to plan for: […]