Links for 2023-06-10
Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once
OmniMotion jointly tracks all points in a video across all frames, even through occlusions.
Project page: https://omnimotion.github.io/
Impossible Distillation: from Low-Quality Model to High-Quality Dataset & Model for Summarization and Paraphrasing — They generate a high-quality task-specific dataset by iteratively: 1. having a model generate examples, 2. filtering out all but the highest-quality examples, and then 3. using these high-quality examples to improve the model. The final task-specific model can outperform 200x larger generalist models like GPT-3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16635
McKinsey says ‘about half’ of its employees are using generative AI https://venturebeat.com/ai/mckinsey-says-about-half-of-its-employees-are-using-generative-ai/
AI-powered video production with RunwayML. Generate videos from raw text or a simple static image. https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1667218274860318745
Clipdrop Launches Uncrop: The Ultimate Aspect Ratio Editor https://stability.ai/blog/clipdrop-launches-uncrop-the-ultimate-aspect-ratio-editor
Fixing things with AI https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1444yr9/fixing_things_with_ai/
"We present MusicGen: A simple and controllable music generation model. MusicGen can be prompted by both text and melody." https://twitter.com/FelixKreuk/status/1667086356927901696
Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model — “Remarkably, RAM even surpasses the fully supervised manners and exhibits competitive performance with the Google API.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03514
Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion: “Without any additional fine-tuning or supervision on the task-specific data or annotations…It even outperforms the state-of-the-art supervised methods on 9 out of 18 categories…” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03881
Beautiful QR codes created using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet. https://twitter.com/tobyordoxford/status/1666027321688567809
“A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons” [published in 2022] https://picower.mit.edu/news/neurons-are-fickle-electric-fields-are-more-reliable-information
The association between intelligence in youth and all-cause-mortality was the subject of this 2011 meta-analysis. All 16 studies analyzed showed a relationship between IQ and longevity, which was not explained by socioeconomic differences in early life. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21037248/
General intelligence measured at age 10 predicts financial well-being at age 38. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/5/2/11
Devil in the grooves: The case against forensic firearms analysis https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-grooves-the-case-against
China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into the Earth [Bloomberg] https://archive.is/olKBW
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33049277
Sam Altman meeting politicians. This is a taste of how powerful the CEOs of AI companies will be in the future. They will rival heads of state. https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1667108821905309697
A failed Ukrainian combined arms breach filmed from both sides: Russian: https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1667154927053856768 Ukrainian: https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1667406397112299520 (Note: this constitutes approximately 0.13% of the Ukrainian force assembled for the latest counteroffensive. Also compare this to the successful 2022 Kherson counteroffensive when Ukraine initially suffered heavy losses during a failed breakthrough: https://twitter.com/aldin_aba/status/1576649640417853440)
The US Congress introduced a resolution demanding to provide ATACMS to Ukraine. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-kean-wilson-keating-lieu-golden-introduce-bipartisan-resolution-urging-immediate-transfer-of-atacms-to-ukraine/