There's a new way to generate speech in anyone's voice, in many languages, with zero training data. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/my-voice-is-…] Ok, hold on — let me back up a minute to put some context on this. Models like GPT are at the forefront of a capability revolution. It's a

I've always loved world-building: starting from nothing and creating a new universe. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/neural-model…] Back in 2009, Minecraft changed the industry by procedurally generating a new planet with every new game. There's something fun about exploring a world that

I sometimes get a sense that AIs aren't perfect, but it's tricky to put my finger on exactly what they're bad at. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/finding-weak…] Well, ok, if a self-driving car can't drive around an orange cone, that's an obvious fail. But I want to highlight some

It would be fun to make images of yourself in whatever setting you can imagine: scuba diving, giving a TED talk, exploring a jungle ... [article: learnandburn.ai/p/one-shot-tex…] A while ago, I tried the Lensa app, which supports this kind of thing, but it required ten photos of me to

LLMs require an insane level of compute, making them slow and expensive. It would be amazing if top-quality LLMs were fast and cheap to run, which is exactly the goal of new work from MIT/Meta/CMU. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/llms-with-fa…] Guangxuan Xiao and his co-authors created a

Earlier this year, researchers showed that gzip can be used as a kind of machine learning predictor. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/an-elegant-e…] A few weeks ago, Google DeepMind added a new, very elegant, perspective — they showed a simple and effective equivalence between any kind of

The first computer imagery on film looks humorously simplistic today. Similarly, the earliest models that generate 3d objects from text already exist, but are low quality. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/a-leap-forwa…] Looking ahead, I see an exciting future where the creation of 3d

I can imagine a future where advanced mathematics has completely changed. What makes math challenging today is the ability to learn abstract technical concepts, as well as the ability to construct arguments that solve precise logical problems. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/an-open-sour…]

I'm reading an old sci-fi classic called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. It contains a passing reference to the need for an AI in the story to read virtually every book ever written in order to understand humanity. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/how-to-make-…] Another

What is intelligence? This question is surprisingly practical today, as researchers focus on AI's current holy grail of AGI — artificial general intelligence. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/defining-and…] AGI is a central focus of research by OpenAI and others. But it's going to be tricky

I want to kick off the new year with thoughts on 3d avatars: My favorite aspect of VR is a sense of presence when spending time with other people. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/realistic-re…] The technology so far doesn't offer a lot of this. If you have a Quest headset, then you can

One difference between a human brain and an AI model is that organic neurons don't need to load data from RAM. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/dramatically…] Even when the weights of an AI model are loaded into GPU memory, there's still some load time to get data from that memory into the

Within the research world, Gaussian splats have proven to be an unexpected breakthrough to empower realistic, data-driven 3d models. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/modified-gau…] I can't wait to see these techniques integrated into real systems. My guess is that Meta will be a pioneer

What stands between us and widespread adoption of LLMs in our day-to-day lives? [article: learnandburn.ai/p/fast-llms-ev…] In one sense, we're already seeing hints of AI applications: email portals offer to write emails for us (no thanks), and I've tried out tools that summarize work

What's the next challenge for AI image generation? Well, what if we asked a model to generate a single image that simultaneously includes two separate scenes when looked at in different ways? [article: learnandburn.ai/p/generating-o…] It's basically a magic trick. One way to do this is

If you were to put an open source LLM into production today, which one would you chose? [article: learnandburn.ai/p/a-47b-llm-ne…] Many people jump straight to llama-2, perhaps opting for the large 70b version, which has the best performance of the different sizes available. However,

The movie Tron was released in 1982, and made the first "extensive" use of computer generated imagery. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/text-to-vide…] "Extensive" in this case means only 15 minutes of full CGI. The blending of live action video with rendered images was an early encounter

I've written a few times before about learning when text is written by an AI. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/a-breakthrou…] Up until now, the best technique I know of has been to _edit the LLM_ to secretly give itself away — referred to as adding a watermark. But why would a nefarious

I used to laugh at Hollywood whenever an actor said "enhance image!" and a blurry pixelated mess morphed into a crystal-clear portrait of a villain (a process called upscaling). Now, at long last, it's Hollywood's turn to laugh at me. [article: learnandburn.ai/p/computer-enh…]