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Get Paid to Train AI? There’s a New Cryptocurrency for That
Ts Yotov
October 02, 2023
In today’s edition (02 Oct):
📰 Quick News - Get Paid to Train AI? There’s a New Cryptocurrency for That and more
📚 Nerd section - Why GPUs are the New Kings of Cache. Explained and more
📰 Quick News 📰
🧍🏿♀️ Humane, a startup created by ex-Apple bosses, showcases 'Ai Pin', their stand-alone AI device. Equipped with a mini-projector, camera, and speaker, this wearable AI assistant emphasizes user privacy and performs tasks like AI-powered optical recognition. It is set to be officially unveiled on November 9.
🤑 Get Paid to Train AI? There’s a New Cryptocurrency for That - Vivoka launched a project called "Ta-Da" that uses blockchain tech to motivate users to share data by completing tasks, in turn training AI models. Users get rewarded with TADA cryptocurrency, making the platform unique with its collaborative and privacy-conscious approach.
📖 Meta Platforms has quietly introduced Llama 2 Long, an AI model that can generate coherent and relevant responses to long user queries, surpassing its competitors. It is an extension of Llama 2, an open-source AI model that Meta released earlier.
🎮 SyncDreamer, a diffusion model based generative AI, is headed to transforming the gaming industry. It propels productivity by generating multiple views of an object from one image, reducing the time taken to create art and assets.
📱 ‘A Smartphone Sized LLM’ - The Cerebras Systems and OpenTensor Foundation have announced the launch of BTLM-3B-8K, a revolutionary language model. This innovative model provides high-performance language processing abilities with fewer parameters and computational needs, making it an optimal choice for devices with limited memory capacities like smartphones and laptops.
🥳 AI as a Gatekeeper - The latest from Airbnb reveals the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict and avert potential house parties by inspecting data from billions of past bookings. Further ensuring integrity, Airbnb also uses AI to cross-check property photos with satellite images, helping to eradicate fake listings.
📚 Nerd section 📚
👨💻 Why GPUs are the New Kings of Cache. Explained - аs technology evolves, GPUs are now being used beyond just graphics, causing them to require large caches to boost their capabilities in general-purpose computing. This increased need for more cache makes them surpass CPUs as preferred processors with lots of cache.
📒 GPT-4, Llama-2, Claude: How Different Language Models React to Prompts - each have unique reactionary patterns to prompts due to their distinctive tokenization process and data interpretation techniques. This variation mirrors how humans interpret language based on their individual language 'tokenizer', shaping their understanding and response.
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