Links for 2024-05-14

GPT-4o

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, a new and highly efficient free-for-everyone model you can interact with like you would with another human:

1. It is capable of fluent, low-latency, real-time translation.

2. GPT-4o is a significantly larger improvement over GTP-4 than 3.5 was over 3.

3. GPT-4o is half the price AND twice as fast as GPT-4-turbo.

Coding capabilities of the new GPT-4o are far ahead of all other models.

Watch lots of video examples like two GPT-4os interacting and singing or helping the blind and visually impaired:

1. X: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1790072174117613963

2. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI/videos

3. Web: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

4. Two GPT-4o AI agents resolving a customer service claim: https://x.com/JoeBeutler/status/1790248559113306375

Read more:

1. Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free/

2. Sam Altman: “It feels like AI from the movies; and it’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change.” https://blog.samaltman.com/gpt-4o

3. OpenAI’s GPT-4o: The Best AI Is Now Free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KJ7nvhRWk

Side note: Alexa was already outdated years ago when Amazon should have adopted LLMs. But now with the release of GTP-4o it is getting ridiculous. Such a vast infrastructure that is perfectly fit for something like "Her" and they're just letting it rot. What’s going on?

AI:

1. Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06624

2. RLHF Workflow: From Reward Modeling to Online RLHF https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07863

https://x.com/blader/status/1790057591491428729

Miscellaneous:

1. “…if you measure the entropy of published poems they’ve been declining as far back as back goes…a feedforward neural network with just a single hidden layer...could approximate any given function...Why bother...stacking a bunch of hidden layers…to throw away macroscale descriptions of the world is to lose robustness in causal relationships…” https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/rip-to-the-man-who-beat-the-efficient

2. Representation of internal speech by single neurons in human supramarginal gyrus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01867-y

3. Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-14-internet-use-statistically-associated-higher-wellbeing-finds-new-global-oxford-study

Politics:

1. The Australian Federal Police agreed to secret police from China coming to Australia to interrogate a permanent resident living there. The police then broke their “agreement” with the AFP and returned to China with the woman. She has disappeared. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/chinese-police-escorted-woman-from-australia-to-china/103840578

2. Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed. https://www.wsj.com/world/birthrates-global-decline-cause-ddaf8be2 [no paywall: https://archive.is/4KuXZ]

Ukraine:

1. A drone attacked a Russian freight train in the village of Samofalovka, Volgograd region of Russia. 470km from the frontline. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1790265820750217265

2. Units of the 3rd Assault Brigade show the battlefield near Terny, Kreminna direction. Over a 100 Russians were killed in less than 11 days. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1790116168428048570

3. “General Budanov assessed that Ukrainian forces would be able to shore up their lines and stabilize the front within the next few days. But he expects Russia to launch a new attack further north of Kharkiv, in the Sumy region.” https://www.nytimes.com/article/russia-ukraine-kharkiv.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/eeFtO]

4. In Ukraine, Russia is Beginning to Compound Advantages https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/ukraine-russia-beginning-compound-advantages

5. “There has been a controversy surrounding the situation in the northern area of Kharkiv Oblast, invaded on May 10th. One of the primary points of contention has been the alleged absence of fortifications. But is it so?” https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1790086938046710097

6. “Current US policy prohibiting Ukraine from using US-provided weapons in the territory of Russia is severely compromising Ukraine's ability to defend itself against the renewed cross-border invasion Russia has recently launched in Kharkiv Oblast.” https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1790047702677405862

7. “Russian aircraft can strike Kharkiv City indefinitely without ever leaving the sanctuary of Russian airspace. Kharkiv City lies 40 kilometers from Russia’s international border with Ukraine. Russia’s glide bombs have a glide range of 40-60 kilometers.” https://x.com/georgewbarros/status/1790053230279319967