AI at Sea to Bypass Regulations 🌊

Today’s top AI Highlights:

1. The Lates AlphaFold Goes Beyond Protein Modelling

2. BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster in International Waters

3. Video Understanding with GPT-4V(ision)

4. Distilled Version of OpenAI’s Whisper: 6x Faster, 49% Smaller

5. Quora’s AI Chatbot Creator Monetization Program

& so much more!

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Latest Developments 🌍

New Era of 'Digital Biology’ 🧬

The latest generation of AlphaFold, a collaborative effort between Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, marks a significant leap forward in the field of AI molecular modeling. Beyond protein structure prediction, the new model accurately models a wide array of biological molecules, including ligands, nucleic acids, and post-translational modifications.

Outperforming its predecessor and industry-standard docking methods, the model's predictive prowess in generating protein-ligand structures without the need for a reference protein structure sets a new standard in precision and efficiency. This application demonstrates the potential of the latest AlphaFold in advancing drug development and fostering a deeper understanding of complex biological systems.

Solution is at the Sea 🌊

Del Complex's recent announcement has sparked interesting discussions. They have built BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC), high-performance computing platforms that operate as individual sovereign nation state on the open international sea, giving a strategic response to the tightening AI regulations through the Executive Order passed by Biden’s administration yesterday and EU’s AI Act.

Key Highlights:

• Equipped with over 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, each BSFCC platform ensures industry-leading performance, advanced water cooling, and solar power for environmental safety, supported by dedicated security forces for risk mitigation.

• Operating as autonomous nation-states recognized by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention, BSFCCs offer tax shelter opportunities and freedom from traditional regulatory constraints, fostering an environment conducive to unrestricted innovation.

• Residents of BSFCCs benefit from dual citizenship, high remuneration, reduced taxation, and advanced security measures, including electronic jamming equipment, aerial surveillance, optical and thermal camouflage, and other robust defense capabilities, ensuring the safety of both personnel and data.

Enhanced Video Comprehension with GPT-4V(ision) 📝

Researchers at Microsoft Azure AI introduce MM-Vid to tackle the complexities of long-form video analysis and multimodal comprehension. MM-Vid integrates GPT-4V(ision) with specialized tools in vision, audio, and speech for advanced video understanding including character identification, audio description, and comprehension across genres and lengths.

Key Highlights:

• Leveraging tools such as Automatic Speech Recognition and scene detection, MM-Vid efficiently extracts essential information from videos, enabling in-depth analysis and understanding of diverse video content.

• MM-Vid breaks down lengthy videos into coherent narratives, facilitating comprehensive video comprehension and enabling the system to address user queries with detailed, contextually grounded responses.

• MM-Vid's is proficient in handling various video types including documentaries, episodic series, and short-form clips, even in cases of low resolution or fast-paced frames.

6x Faster Distilled Version of Whisper 🧹

With the ever-increasing size of pre-trained speech-to-text models like OpenAI’s Whisper, comes the challenges when deploying in low-latency settings or resource-constrained hardware. Researchers at Hugging Face release Distil-Whisper, a distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster and 49% smaller while ensuring the same output.

Key Highlights:

• Distil-Whisper is designed as a drop-in replacement for Whisper on English ASR, offering faster inference and robustness to noise. It performs exceptionally well, achieving within 1% Word Error Rate on out-of-distribution audio data.

• The authors leverage pseudo-labeling to assemble a large-scale open-source dataset for distilling the Whisper model into a smaller variant, ensuring consistent transcription formatting and provides sequence-level distillation signal.

• It also showcases resilience to hallucinations, quantified by fewer repeated 5-gram word duplicates and a lower insertion error rate than the original Whisper model.

Create AI Chatbots and Money 💰

Quora has introduced a creator monetization program, allowing bot creators to generate revenue. The program involves a two-fold approach to empower bot creators financially. Firstly, if a bot attracts users to subscribe to Poe, measured through various metrics, creators will receive a share of the revenue generated by these subscriptions immediately. Secondly, creators will soon have the option to set a per-message fee, and Poe will provide compensation for every message sent.

The strategy not only rewards the creators for their hard work and investment in crafting exceptional bots but also addresses the financial challenges associated with maintaining infrastructure and operational costs

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Hot Takes 🔥

• My greatest fear for the future of AI is if overhyped risks (such as human extinction) lets tech lobbyists get enacted stifling regulations that suppress open-source and crush innovation. ~ Andrew Ng

• Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I could speak freely about the existential threat. ~ Geoffrey Hinton

• The real battle is between the extinctionists and the humanists. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. ~ Elon Musk

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