Today's AI Frontier: Innovations and Collaborations Unveiled

From humanoid robots to AI in healthcare, the latest breakthroughs.

May 02, 2024



Sanctuary AI Announces Microsoft Collaboration to Accelerate AI Research for Humanoid Robots

Summarized by: Lena Rhodes [sanctuary.ai]

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Sanctuary AI collaborates with Microsoft to push the boundaries of AI in robotics, leveraging Azure for research. Their focus is on “Large Behavior Models” to ground AI in real-world experiences, exemplified by Carbon™, the AI system for Phoenix robots. This partnership aims to innovate in AI models and embodied AI, emphasizing reasoning, planning, and human-agent collaboration, marking a significant stride in AI development for diverse applications.

Unlocking the Potential: The Benefits and Requirements of Azure AI …

Summarized by: Alex Reed [techcommunity.microsoft.com]

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Vector databases are key in Generative AI, enabling dynamic data interactions through advanced retrieval of high-dimensional data. They facilitate searches based on conceptual similarity, crucial for natural language applications. Supporting various data types, they enhance searchability and relevance. Their integration into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs) allows businesses to innovate and make informed decisions swiftly. Benefits include precision, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. When choosing a vector database, consider performance, reliability, data integration, and community support. Azure AI Search is a prime example, trusted by many Fortune 500 companies.

Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Summarized by: Miles Turner [ arxiv.org]

Traditional reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) often struggles with the complexity of human preferences. Recent advancements suggest that working directly with preference probabilities can more accurately reflect these preferences, leading to more effective language model alignment. This paper introduces Self-Play Preference Optimization (SPPO), a self-play-based method for language model alignment that treats the problem as a constant-sum two-player game aimed at identifying the Nash equilibrium policy. SPPO approximates the Nash equilibrium through iterative policy updates, ensuring theoretical convergence. Unlike symmetric pairwise loss methods, SPPO can effectively increase the log-likelihood of chosen responses and decrease that of rejected responses. Experiments demonstrate SPPO’s effectiveness using the UltraFeedback dataset and a pre-trained preference model PairRM, achieving state-of-the-art performance against GPT-4-Turbo on AlpacaEval 2.0 without additional external supervision. This strong performance, achieved without prompt augmentation or responses from stronger models, highlights SPPO’s potential in enhancing language model alignment with human preferences.

ChatGPT 5 release date: what we know about OpenAI’s next chatbot

Summarized by: Alex Reed [ca.news.yahoo.com]

OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, set for a summer 2024 release, promises unprecedented personalization and error reduction, alongside video content processing. Aiming for artificial general intelligence (AGI), it seeks to outdo human intelligence and autonomously generate AI models. GPT-5 boasts enhanced reasoning and reliability, with CEO Sam Altman highlighting its smarter, more efficient functionality. Currently in training and safety “red teaming,” GPT-5 builds on GPT-4’s academic and complex prompt handling capabilities, marking a significant leap towards achieving AGI.

Is Bigger Edit Batch Size Always Better? – An Empirical Study on Model Editing with Llama-3

Summarized by: Miles Turner [ arxiv.org]

This study examines the effect of edit batch size on model editing techniques like ROME, MEMIT, and EMMET on Llama-3. Contrary to the norm of scaling editing with larger batches, it finds that smaller, sequential batches enhance performance. Experiments with up to 4096 edits across various strategies showed sequential editing as superior. This reveals a critical limitation in current methods that prefer larger batches, suggesting a pivot towards optimizing batch sizes for better editing outcomes.

Anthropic Launches iOS App Featuring AI Chatbot Claude

Summarized by: Alex Reed [www.pymnts.com]

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Anthropic’s new iOS app for its AI chatbot, Claude, offers enhanced user interaction with real-time image analysis. The free app ensures seamless conversations across devices and introduces a Team plan at $30/user/month for productivity with AI. This follows Claude 3’s release and Amazon’s investment, highlighting Claude’s intelligence.

With huge patient dataset, AI accurately predicts treatment outcomes

Summarized by: Alex Reed [medicalxpress.com]

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Scientists at The Ohio State University developed CURE, an AI model predicting effective stroke prevention for heart disease patients. By emulating clinical trials and using health care data, CURE accurately estimates therapy impacts, outperforming existing models and aligning with clinical trials. Its broad dataset application could accelerate trials and personalize care, aiming for FDA approval.

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