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  • Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data
  • and An RNA foundation model enables discovery of disease mechanisms

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Marcel Hedman

Key Recent Developments

What is retrieval-augmented generation?

What is retrieval-augmented generation? | IBM Research Blog
RAG is an AI framework for retrieving facts to ground LLMs on the most accurate information and to give users insight into AI’s decisionmaking process.
IBM
Lewis et el. (2021)

What: RAG is an AI framework for retrieving facts from an external knowledge base to ground large language models (LLMs) on the most accurate, up-to-date information and to give users insight into LLMs' generative process.

Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images

Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
Generative AI by Getty Images offers copyright indemnification to users.
The Verge

New Artificial Intelligence Framework for Collaborative NLP Development (CoDev) that Enables Multiple Users to Align a Model with Their Beliefs

Microsoft AI Research Proposes a New Artificial Intelligence Framework for Collaborative NLP Development (CoDev) that Enables Multiple Users to Align a Model with Their Beliefs
Although NLP models have demonstrated extraordinary strengths, they have challenges. The need to teach these models ideas is highlighted by unacceptable values buried in their training data, recurrent failures, or breaches of business standards. The phrase ‘religion does not connote sentiment’ is an…
MarkTechPostAneesh Tickoo

AI Ethics & 4 good

🚀 Helios unveils AI analyst Cersi for tracking food supply chain disruptions

🚀 Automating Extremism: Mapping the Affective Roles of Artificial Agents in Online Radicalization

🚀 Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data

🚀 Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts

Other interesting reads

🚀 Inspired by physics, a new generative model PFGM++ outperforms diffusion models in image generation. [MIT]

🚀 Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices

🚀[Repo] StreamingLLM - input length inputs

🚀 Bark: text-audio model which can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effect

[Demo]

Papers

🚀 [Repo] Autogen - a framework that enables the development of LLM applications using multiple agents that can converse with each other to solve tasks.

🚀Stochastic re-weighted gradient descent via distributionally robust optimization

🚀 An RNA foundation model enables discovery of disease mechanisms and candidate therapeutics

🚀 Where Medical Statistics Meets Artificial Intelligence

🚀Meet Text2Reward: A Data-Free Framework that Automates the Generation of Dense Reward Functions Based on LLMs

Cool companies found this week

Operations

Stampli - AI-powered accounting platform which has recently raised $61m

What is retrieval-augmented generation?

Best,

Marcel Hedman
Nural Research Founder
www.nural.cc

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