Links for 2024-05-15
Google I/O:
1. Trillium TPU:
By far the most important announcement was Google's new Trillium TPU.
It delivers a 4.7x improvement in compute performance per chip over the previous generation, while being over 67% more energy-efficient.
This is what distinguishes Google from its competitors who rely on Nvidia GPUs.
Read more: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-trillium-6th-gen-tpus/
2. Google Astra, the future of AI assistants:
It can interact with the world around it by taking in information, remembering what it sees, processing that information and understanding contextual details.
3. Google is ALL IN on AI agents: https://x.com/chiefaioffice/status/1790484696557596866
AI agents are deployed across their whole product ecosystem.
4. Gemini Nano:
5. For more I recommend you watch the whole keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEzRZ35urlk
AI:
Topoformer: brain-like topographic organization in Transformer language models through spatial querying and reweighting — “LLMs fundamentally differ from the human language system. One notable difference is that biological brains are spatially organized, while current LLMs are not. This paper is addressing this issue.” https://tahabinhuraib.github.io/topoformer.github.io/
Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/13/todays-ai-models-are-impressive-teams-of-them-will-be-formidable [no paywall: https://archive.is/ilYK9]
Safety researchers leave Ilya Sutskever (co-founder & Chief Scientist) and Jan Leike have quit OpenAI. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JSWF2ZLt6YahyAauE/ilya-sutskever-and-jan-leike-resign-from-openai
Miscellaneous:
A new way to detect light in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could enable researchers to map changes in gene expression, map anatomical connections between cells, or reveal how cells communicate with each other. https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-mri-engineers-have-found-way-detect-light-deep-brain-0510
Ukraine:
[Warning: 18+]: “The 79th Air Assault Brigade at work. 11 out of 17 pieces of Russian equipment were destroyed. The rest retreated.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1790486015540412846
“On board with a unit from GUR 'KRAKEN', who's part of the defense in Chasiv Yar. Until now, Russian have not managed to get closer to or inside the city.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1790484418223595586
Full footage of the clash between Ukrainian border guards from Frozen Group and Russian invaders in Kharkiv Oblast on 10 May. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1790522290406322534
Fires continue to grow at Belbek Airbase in Russian occupied Crimea, after a large Ukrainian ATACMS strike tonight. https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1790600935321841793 (Possible video: https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1790681120121426040)
Belbek Airfield, Russian-occupied Crimea, Russian firefighters douse the charred wreck of a 92N6E “Grave Stone” missile control radar, hit by a Ukrainian ATACMS. https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1790721815779668005
Ukraine is making a new push to get Biden to lift his ban on using U.S.-made weapons to strike inside Russia, saying the policy kept them from attacking Russian positions as Moscow prepared for its major march toward Kharkiv https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/14/ukraine-weapons-russia-00157970