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You can subscribe to The Sequence below:📝 Editorial: AI Dropped the Mic at the Nobel PartyThe 2024 Nobel Prizes have thrown the scientific community into a delightful tizzy with some drama included AI waltzed onto the stage, grabbing not one but two prestigious awards – physics and chemistry The honorees? Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield for their groundbreaking work on Boltzmann machines and The Hopfield networks respectively. The Chemistry prize was awarded to DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their protein-structure-predicting AlphaFold in chemistry. But oh, the whispers, the gasps, the outright indignation! Some physicists, their feathers ruffled, cried foul. Machine learning winning a physics Nobel? Preposterous! They argue that machine learning, while undeniably powerful, is a child of computer science, not physics. Awarding it the physics prize, they say, feels like handing the Nobel in Literature to a particularly eloquent chatbot( which might happen soon enough btw). The chemistry prize was less debate. After all, its hard to argue AlphaFold’s impact in the space. Yet, many scientists are applauding, seeing this as a beautiful blurring of lines, a testament to the interconnectedness of knowledge. After all, Hinton and Hopfield's work, like a masterful conductor, harmonized physics, math, computer science, and neuroscience. And AlphaFold, that protein-whispering AI, wouldn't exist without the decades of painstaking work in structural and computational biology, including the Protein Data Bank, a treasure trove of over 200,000 protein structures, some of which even helped win previous Nobels. So, is AI crashing the Nobel party or simply adding its unique flair? Perhaps it's both. This controversy underscores the dynamic dance between science and technology, a dance that constantly reshapes the boundaries of knowledge. As AI continues its meteoric rise, expect more such debates, more intellectual waltzes, and more Nobel-worthy breakthroughs that blur the lines between disciplines. It's a thrilling time to be a scientist, even if it means occasionally stepping on each other's toes on the dance floor. One interesting version of this is that the Nobel Prize should be upgraded to include categories such as mathematics, computer science and even a specific category for AI. It is a known fact that Alfred Nobel's lack of interest in mathematics but its been 123 years so you can say its time for a change. Like it or not, AI winning two Nobel prizes like the scientific equivalent of a mic drop in the Nobel party. 🔎 ML ResearchVQAScoreCarnegie Mellon University(CMU) published a paper introducing VQAScore, a new evaluation metric for determining the quality of text-to-image models. The research also introduces GenAI-Bench, a dataset to streamling the evaluation of generative vision models —> Read more. MLE-BenchOpenAI published a paper detailing MLE-Bench, a benchmark for measuring AI agent’s performance in ML engineering tasks. The benchmark in based on Kaggle competition and includes aspects such as model training, dataset preparation and experiment execution —> Read more. LLMs Know More Than They ShowGoogle and Apple Research collaborated on a paper about hallucinations in LLMs. The paper outlines some fascinating discoveries including the fact that LLMs encode much more information about truthfulness that we realize and that this information is concentrated in specific tokens —> Read more. Erasing Conceptual Knowledge from LLMsResearchers from Anthropic and Northeastern University published a paper introducing Erasure of Language Memory (ELM), a new technique to erase conceptual information from LLMs. ELMs incorporates three fundamental forms of concept erasure: innocence (complete knowledge removal), seamlessness (maintaining conditional fluent generation), and specificity (preserving unrelated task performance) —> Read more. Pixtral 12BMistral published a paper sharing the details behind Pixtral, its multimodal LLM unveiled last month. Pixtral uses a vision encoder trained from scratch as well as a very innovative text model which allows it to process both images and documents with a high level of performance —> Read more. Augmented Object IntelligenceGoogle Research published a paper detailing Augmented Object Intelligence(AOI) that makes physical objects interactive in digital environments. AOI is a new interaction paradigm that leverages multimodal LLMs with real time object classification and segmentation —> Read more. 🤖 AI Tech ReleasesAnthropic Message BatchesAnthropic introduced its Message Batches API that enables the processing of large volume queries asynchronously —> Read more. Gradio 5Hugging Face open sourced Gradio 5, its platform to build AI-driven web applications —> Read more. Pamyra X 004Writer released Pamyra X 004, a new model optimized for function calling —> Read more. 🛠 Real World AITime Series Data at NetflixNetflix details their internal architecture for time series data —> Read more. Amazon RufusAmazon discusses the AI behind Rufus, its popular shopping assistant —> Read more. 📡AI Radar
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