TLDR AI 2024-03-27

xAI Grok access 🤖, Apple AI app store 📱, AI identifies COVID-19 variants 🔬

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Headlines & Launches

OpenAI’s Chatbot Store Is Filling Up With Spam (5 minute read)

OpenAI's GPT Store has become a mix of innovative tools and questionable content, including potentially copyright-infringing GPTs and bots promoting academic dishonesty.

Apple’s Big WWDC 2024 Announcement May Be An AI App Store (2 minute read)

Apple is planning to enhance its AI offerings at WWDC 2024, potentially introducing an AI App Store where consumers can access AI apps from various vendors.

Elon Musk Says All Premium Subscribers Will Gain Access To AI Chatbot Grok This Week (1 minute read)

Elon Musk announced that xAI’s Grok chatbot, previously exclusive to Premium+ subscribers, will soon be available to all Premium subscribers on X.
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Research & Innovation

Text-Based Person Retrieval (16 minute read)

UFineBench is a new benchmark in text-based person retrieval. It uses detailed descriptions to help AI better understand and find people in images.

Ultrasound Image Clarity (6 minute read)

RDSTN is a new network that enhances ultrasound images through arbitrary-scale super-resolution, addressing the trade-off between image quality and field-of-view.

Improved Object Segmentation (17 minute read)

SegRefiner, a new model-agnostic solution, improves object mask quality in various segmentation tasks by interpreting refinement as a data generation process. It refines coarse masks pixel-by-pixel using a discrete diffusion process, enhancing segmentation and boundary metrics.
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Engineering & Resources

Codel (GitHub Repo)

Fully autonomous AI Agent that can perform complicated tasks and projects using terminal, browser, and editor.

DETR Enhances Object Detection (GitHub Repo)

This project introduces Salience DETR, which leverages hierarchical salience filtering to refine query selection in object detection, offering a balance between computational efficiency and accuracy.

Efficient Spatiotemporal Forecasting (GitHub Repo)

VMRNN cell is a new architecture that combines Vision Mamba blocks and LSTM for enhanced spatiotemporal forecasting.
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Miscellaneous

LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty (8 minute read)

Anthropic's new AI model Claude-3 surpasses the average human IQ and outperforms other models, including GPT-4, in advanced cognitive tasks. Despite this achievement, Claude-3 still struggles with basic challenges like puzzles that humans find easy. LLMs may possess a 'Special Intelligence' rather than human-like general intelligence. They could be reflecting our knowledge back to us in innovative ways.

Mathematicians use AI to identify emerging COVID-19 variants (4 minute read)

University of Manchester mathematicians have developed an AI tool, CLASSIX, to rapidly identify emerging COVID-19 variants from genetic data, potentially streamlining the tracking of viral evolution and aiding in proactive responses like tailored vaccine development. The method, which is computationally less demanding than traditional phylogenetic analysis, processed 5.7 million sequences in 1-2 days on a standard laptop, demonstrating its efficiency in managing large-scale genomic data. The research signifies a step towards quicker, resource-efficient identification of significant pathogen strains.

Trends in Synthetic Biology & AI in Drug Discovery in 2024 (17 minute read)

2024 is set to be a monumental year for AI in drug discovery, marking considerable advancements in synthetic biology. This article highlights key trends, including generative AI's influence on science and the synthesis of modular biological components. AI's integration with synthetic biology is accelerating the drug discovery process, as demonstrated by Insilico Medicine's AI-powered candidate's progression to Phase II clinical trials.
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Quick Links

AI SaaS Companies Will Be More Profitable (2 minute read)

AI software companies might initially have higher expenses, but their profitability could surpass traditional SaaS companies due to AI's deflationary effects across marketing, sales, operations, and software development.

Arc (Product)

AI-powered remote jobs marketplace to hire software developers from around the world.

iOS 18 Reportedly Won’t Feature Apple’s Own ChatGPT-Like Chatbot (1 minute read)

Apple will reportedly not debut its own generative AI chatbot in its next major software updates, including iOS 18, but is discussing potential generative AI partnerships with companies like Google, OpenAI, and Baidu while planning to enhance various apps with generative AI features for user assistance.
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