In this interview with Le Monde, Yoshua Bengio expresses his fears of some catastrophe scenarios that could be enabled by progress in AI. One such scenario he is worried about is a flood of disinformation and political propaganda on social networks. He says that we have a "moral

“We are, of course, rapidly integrating chatbots into our email, calendar, and office suite, and fully intend to monetize that data stream. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.”

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We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

Church’s lambda calculus and the Turing machine are equally powerful but differ in the fact that Turing machines use mutable state. To this day, there is a rift between functional and imperative programming languages, because of the separation of Church and state.

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers Pretrained and fine-tuned

This is super cool!

Reinforcement learning takes #Robotic to the next levels by Interesting Engineering #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #Tech #Technology #Innovation cc: Andrej Karpathy Ravi Kikan @patrickgunz_ch

We introduce LLM2Vec, a simple approach to transform any decoder-only LLM into a text encoder. We achieve SOTA performance on MTEB in the unsupervised and supervised category (among the models trained only on publicly available data). 🧵1/N Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.05961