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An image model at Midjourney’s level?

Summary A new beta version of Stable Diffusion delivers much more aesthetic and photorealistic results than the previous version. Will this make commercial offerings obsolete? While Stable Diffusion is the most developed open-source image model, it can’t always match the quality and especially the accessibility of commercial competitors like Midjourney. Its strength so far is …

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Sims running on ChatGPT are a glimpse into the social future of AI

Summary Characters in video games could soon feel even more realistic. But these AI sims could also be helpful outside of gaming. In a new paper, researchers from Google and Stanford University simulate human behavior using large-scale language models. The paper, titled “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior” relies on ChatGPT and offers more …

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Google’s medical language model Med-PaLM 2 passes exam questions

Summary Med-PaLM is Google’s variant of the PaLM language model optimized for medical questions. The latest version is designed to answer medical questions reliably at an expert level. Last December, Google unveiled Med-PaLM, a version of Google’s giant PaLM (Pathways Language Model) language model optimized for answering medical questions. Med-PaLM was developed using a special …

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LERF is like Google for the Metaverse

Summary Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a promising graphics technology that can transform the real world into 3D relatively quickly and with high quality. LERF (Language Embedded Radiance Fields) integrates the capabilities of large language models into NeRFs. This enables accurate 3D object recognition without additional training. UC Berkeley researchers present LERF, which volumetrically integrates …

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OpenAI kills its Codex code model, recommends GPT3.5 instead

Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that scientists will continue to have access to the model after a wave of criticism over the Codex shutdown. “We didn’t realize how much people liked this model; we will continue to support it for researchers!” he wrote on Twitter. Only a few days after a first notice, OpenAI …

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How ChatGPT drives open source AI development

Summary Stanford’s Alpaca was just the beginning: In recent weeks, several AI models have been unveiled using training data generated by ChatGPT. In mid-March, Stanford researchers unveiled the Alpaca language model, a variant of Meta’s LLaMA 7B that was fine-tuned with AI-generated data. The team trained the LLaMA model with 52,000 example statements generated by …

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GPT-4 likes this chatbot almost as much as ChatGPT

Summary After Alpaca comes Vicuna, an open-source chatbot that, according to its developers, is even closer to ChatGPT’s performance. Vicuna follows the “Alpaca formula” and uses ChatGPT’s output to fine-tune a large language model from Metas LLaMA family. The team behind Vicuna includes researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, and UC San Diego. While Alpaca …

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PAC-NeRF learns physical properties of objects from videos

Summary PAC-NeRF demonstrates how NeRFs can learn the geometric structure and physical properties of objects from video. Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a powerful AI-based rendering technology that can be used for video production, 3D reconstruction, and other tasks. They learn to represent and render the geometric structure and lighting of scenes and objects from …

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