March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
13m
English
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March 4, 2024
January was a dull month, at least in my opinion. Maybe everyone was recovering from their holidays. February was a short month, but it was far from dull. And I’m not even counting the first shipments of Apple Vision. OpenAI has demoed an impressive text-to-vision model called Sora; Google has two very impressive small language models and a model specialized for time series, and they opened Gemini to the public. Outside of AI, there’s a JVM for WebAssembly; you can use it to run applications like Minecraft in the browser. There are some new ultralight web frameworks. And one of the world’s biggest ransomware groups has been shut down.
On the purely weird front: there are a couple of new esoteric languages, one of which solves the problem of naming. We found out that Origami is Turing complete, so start folding. If you want a relief from AI that’s trying to be your pal, try antagonistic AI. And the best of the lot: edible robots.
Artificial Intelligence
- Mistral has released Mistral Large, their flagship language model, with performance almost equal to GPT-4. It is available only via their API (although a chatbot is in beta). Unlike Mistral’s other models, Mistral Large is not open source.
- This is different: Google’s DeepMind has announced Genie, a generative model for building interactive worlds. It’s a video model, but unlike other video models, it’s ...
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