AI Edition - It's AI Time - 47 [31-05-2024]

 AI Edition - It's AI Time - 47

Perplexity Pages

The Perplexity search engine has announced a new product for creating long-lasting research artifacts that are shareable and created with AI.


Anthropic's AI Now Lets You Create Bots To Work For You

Anthropic is introducing a "tool use" feature for its Claude AI chatbot, enabling users to create personalized assistants that can interact with any external API. This feature can analyze data, provide product recommendations, track orders, offer technical support, and even process images for applications like interior design.


Prolific gives AI researchers access to high-quality human data

Prolific is a platform that connects AI researchers with a pool of 150k+ active participants and domain specialists. It's trusted by Google, Stanford, and Oxford.

Use Prolific to collect rich, reliable data that reflects the breadth of humanity, easily and within a matter of hours.


AI integration and modularization

During an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the differing strategies of vertical integration and modularization in AI, comparing Google's integrated approach to Amazon's and Microsoft's more modular strategies, which leverage partnerships and diverse models. This analysis highlights the potential benefits and challenges of each approach, suggesting that Google's strategy may offer unique advantages in creating cohesive AI systems but also poses risks and demands significant investment.


1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI's Energy Demands

Large language models are demanding more and more energy and computational power as they get better. These models need to shrink to become cheap, fast, and environmentally friendly. Researchers use a process called quantization to compress networks by reducing the precision of their parameters. They are now pushing the envelope to single bit, producing models that are faster and more energy efficient than their full-precision counterparts. The quantized versions of the models perform almost as well as their original versions.


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