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Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here Who Has The Vision?On Sunday, The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space📝 EditorialWhat we have seen this week is truly remarkable. The war between two giants, Google and Microsoft, is hot. We saw a triumphant and unexpected comeback of Bing, Microsoft's search engine, powered by its Prometheus model, optimized to work with the “next-generation” OpenAI model. Bing, still unavailable to the public, reported its waiting list to be over a million people. Microsoft's aggressive move made Google rush into its presentation of LaMDA-based ChatGPT competitor Bard. One error of a model - Bard gave an incorrect answer during the presentation - cost Google $100 billion. As Microsoft prepares to roll out more integrations of OpenAI's language AI technology and its Prometheus model into its core productivity apps, Google seems to have everything except the vision. It's worth noting that in 2017, it was Google's researchers who published the article "Attention is all you need," introducing the concept of the transformer, which gave a tremendous boost to the AI space. In the same year, a collaboration between DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2014) and OpenAI resulted in the paper "Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences", now known as RLHF - reinforcement learning from human feedback. This literally changed everything for ChatGPT. But Google seemed to overlook it for LaMDA. Another Microsoft smart move was to invest in OpenAI, exclusively licensing GPT models but letting the company be independent and – therefore – much more agile. Google acquired DeepMind and though investing heavily in AI and hoarding up many top-notch AI researchers, the talent and AI innovations were first channeled into existing corporate products, without a try to reimagine them. Other players are now entering the game, such as Baidu and Meta. Baidu – the Chinese search engine leader – is set to announce its ERNIE bot, based on the "Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration" language model introduced in 2019. It is expected to be publicly rolled out in March as a standalone service and as part of the search engine. Meta, on the other hand, has adopted a wait-and-see approach after the disappointing performance of BlenderBot and Galactica, to avoid making costly mistakes. The success of ChatGPT and the surge in interest in Bing showed that is not the size of the model that matters most, but the vision of how to implement it. The new era of AI excitement is here, and there will be no shortage of AI news from the giants’ battle this year. As the commercialization of LLMs is looming over us, we continue to watch the independent research efforts, such as BigScience Research Workshop with its free language model BLOOM, and the fight for the ethics of LLMs. Whether we will see any collaboration of the giants around it is the question. Exciting and impactful times are ahead! 🔎 ML ResearchTransformers’ In-Context Learning Researchers from MIT, Google Research, and Stanford University published a paper discovering an algorithm that can describe the in-context learning of LLMs →read more Sources of distribution inference attacks Microsoft Research published a paper analyzing the sources of information leakage allowing distribution inference attacks →read more Anomaly detection Google Research published an article detailing two research papers addressing the challenges of Anomaly detection using data-centric approaches →read more 🤖 Cool AI Tech ReleasesTFX-Addons TensorFlow detailed the work behind TFX-Addons. These are new components, libraries, and examples that extend TFX contributed by the community of developers →read more ⚔️ AI vs. AI ⚔️ at Hugging Face Hugging Face introduced a new tool for multi-agent competitions and explained how to use it with examples →read more ADEV for decision-making under uncertainty Researchers from MIT and Oxford University published a paper introducing ADEV, a tool that can help to apply AI to a much broader class of problems. →read more IBM’s Vela IBM publicly announced its first AI-optimized, cloud-native supercomputer Vela, the go-to environment for IBM Researchers creating to work on foundation models →read more 🛠 Real World MLProject Minerva for Modernization IBM Research detailed their new efforts for making application modernization easier →read more Creative Insights in Promotional Artwork Netflix detailed two approaches for data-driven recommendations for creating more effective asset suites of promotional artwork →read more ML Innovation with Ray Spotify described their today’s ML infrastructure and how they plan to transform it using Ray →read more 💸 Money in AI
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