Here are your weekly articles, guides, and news about NLP and AI chosen for you by NLPlanet!

😎 News From The Web

• Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm. Twitter's algorithm uses ML to pick preferred tweets from user timelines in < 1.5 seconds. Includes candidate sourcing, ranking, and filtering stages.

• The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down. Open letter urges AI labs to halt training models more powerful than GPT-4 for 6 months. AI progress outpacing alignment and understanding raises concerns of approaching catastrophe.

• The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI. History of OpenAI, transformation to for-profit, power struggles & controversies (incl. Musk & Altman), ChatGPT language model, Microsoft collab.

• GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers. GM is developing an AI assistant with Microsoft Azure & OpenAI's ChatGPT to aid drivers with advanced voice commands & useful guidance.

• Jupyter X Hugging Face. Hugging Face enhances Jupyter notebook support on their machine learning platform for better reproducibility of models and datasets among the community.

• Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more. GrammarlyGO is a new AI tool being launched this April for users. It helps compose text, rewrite, ideate, personalize voice, and much more.

📚 Guides From The Web

• labml.ai Annotated PyTorch Paper Implementations. Labml.ai has PyTorch paper implementations with explanatory notes, neural network & other related algorithms, updated regularly.

• Open Stanford Course on Large Language Models. Stanford's CS324 focuses on large language models' fundamentals and practical applications. Students get hands-on exp with GPT-3/BERT models, ethical/scalability challenges covered.

• Malleable software in the age of LLMs. The power of Large language models: LLMs (like GPT-4) mean anyone might soon author code & LLMs will revolutionize tool support for end-user programming.

• Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI was used to create a marketing campaign in just 30 mins. It conducted market research, created a website and social media campaign, plus more. Its potential and disruption were discussed.

• Not Boring, by Packy McCormick. OpenAI is becoming a significant tech position and business model, with millions of users on its new interface. It may become an aggregator and platform.

🔬 Interesting Papers and Repositories

• Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot with Quality Similar to ChatGPT. Open-source chatbot Vicuna-13B rivals ChatGPT and Bard with 90% quality on 70K conversations using LLaMA fine-tuning. Costs ~$300.

• A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Generated Content. This paper surveys Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), its recent advancements in complex modeling and large datasets, and explores new ways to integrate technologies such as reinforcement learning.

• LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models. LLaMA-Adapter is an efficient method to fine-tune models into instruction-following ones using learnable prompts. It generates high-quality responses and achieves great reasoning capacity with multi-modal inputs.

• ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text Annotation Tasks. ChatGPT beats humans in text annotation tasks like relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection, is more cost-effective, and has a higher intercoder agreement.

• Meet in the Middle: A New Pre-training Paradigm. New language model pre-training method uses bidirectional sequence info for training and inference, achieving better results than strong baselines.

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