February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
11m
English
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February 7, 2023
This month’s news seems to have been derailed by the three-ring circus: Musk and Twitter, Musk and Tesla, and SBF and FTX. That said, there are a lot of important things happening. We usually don’t say much about computing hardware, but RISC-V is gathering steam. I’m excited by Ion Stoica’s vision of “sky computing,” which is cloud-independent. A similar but even more radical project is Petals, which is a system for running the BLOOM large language model across a large number of volunteer hosts: cloud-free cloud computing, which the authors liken to Bittorrent. There’s been a lot of talk about decentralization; this is the real thing. That model for large-scale computation is more interesting, at least to me, than the ability to run one specific language model.
Artificial Intelligence
- Adversarial learning tries to confuse machine learning systems by giving them altered input data, tricking them into giving incorrect answers. It is an important technique for improving AI security and accuracy.
- We all know about AI-generated text, voices, and art; what about handwriting? Calligrapher.ai is a handwriting generator. It’s nowhere near as flexible as tools like Stable Diffusion, but it means that ChatGPT can not only write letters, it can sign them.
- ChatGPT has been shown to be good at explaining code. It’s also good at re-writing code that has been intentionally ...
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