Week 1 of 2024- W012024
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“No One Cares. It’s Your Fault” -Shane Parrish
“Hit me with the horns Tony…
Here we go now, here we go now, here we go now...”
-DJ Kool, Let Me Clear My Throat
News
AIML
There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI
Is it already too late to regulate AI-generated likenesses?
What is at stake as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful?
Happy Puppies and Silly Geese: Pushing the Limits of A.I. Absurdity
Microsoft's New AI Key Marks First Windows Keyboard Addition in 30 Years
Director Christopher Nolan reckons with AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’
Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
Painting
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (LEYDEN, 1606 - 1669, AMSTERDAM), SELF-PORTRAIT, AGE 23, 1629
Taken off the wall of the Gardner Museum by thieves, on March 18, 1990, but left leaning against the wall and not Stolen from the Gardner Museum
More:
This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist
Crypto
Who’s affected by new crypto tax reporting obligations in the US?
Cyber
Missing exchange student found cold and scared after what police call a ‘cyber-kidnapping’
Markets
Is private credit a systemic risk?
Dick Bove: ‘Inability to Take Risk Is Crippling Ability of Banks to Compete’
What Comes After a Good Year in the Stock Market?
Major Asset Classes | December 2023 | Performance Review
The Sports-Betting Traders Deciding How Much You Win or Lose
Misc
Elvis to Make Comeback With London AI Show
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them with Antibiotics
Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
Why Richer People Spend More Time With Their Friends
Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?
Papers
GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded
Development of LMMs: Large multimodal models (LMMs) like GPT-4V(ision) are expanding capabilities beyond traditional tasks like image captioning and visual question answering.
SEEACT Web Agent: Proposes SEEACT, a generalist web agent using LMMs for integrated visual understanding and web interaction.
GPT-4V as a Web Agent: Shows that GPT-4V can successfully complete 50% of tasks on live websites with manual grounding, outperforming text-only models like GPT-4.
Grounding Challenge: Identifies grounding, especially element grounding, as a major bottleneck, with a 20-25% performance gap compared to ideal (oracle) grounding.
Online vs. Offline Evaluation: Online evaluations show a higher task success rate compared to offline, suggesting underestimation of capabilities in offline settings due to multiple viable task completion plans.
Capabilities and Future Direction: GPT-4V exhibits skills like error correction and long-range planning, but fine-grained visual grounding remains challenging. Future work should focus on leveraging web-specific properties for improved grounding.
Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4
Introduces 26 principles to enhance prompt formulation for large language models (LLMs).
Aims to simplify user interactions and improve response quality from LLMs.
Demonstrates significant improvements in response quality, particularly in larger models.
Focuses on precise instructions for targeted and relevant LLM responses.
Notes varying effectiveness based on query complexity and LLM capabilities.
Documentary Series
This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist