In the News

This section lists interesting articles and announcements from my RSS feeds:

• August 19, 2024: Meta’s Self-Taught Evaluator enables LLMs to create their own training data by Ben Dickson: Meta FAIR researchers have introduced the Self-Taught Evaluator, a novel system that eliminates the need for human-annotated data by allowing LLMs to generate and evaluate their own training data, significantly improving model accuracy and scalability while reducing reliance on manual evaluation.

• August 19, 2024: Build your own AI-powered robot: Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial is a game-changer by Michael Nuñez: Hugging Face has released a detailed tutorial guiding developers through building and training AI-powered robots, making advanced robotics accessible to a wider audience by lowering barriers to entry and encouraging community collaboration.

• August 16, 2024: MidJourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web by Carl Franzen: MidJourney has unveiled a new web editor that integrates inpainting, outpainting, and other features into a unified interface, providing users with a more seamless and precise tool for AI-generated image editing, while also introducing message mirroring between its web and Discord platforms.

• August 15, 2024: Exists launches GenAI platform to create 3D games from text prompts by Dean Takahashi: Exists has unveiled a generative AI platform that allows users to create high-quality 3D games from simple text prompts without any coding skills, providing instant multiplayer games and advanced customization options within a user-friendly cloud-based interface.

• August 15, 2024: Google quietly opens Imagen 3 access to all U.S. users by Michael Nuñez: Google has made its latest text-to-image AI model, Imagen 3, available to all U.S. users, expanding access to the powerful tool amid mixed reactions to its content filters and ethical considerations in the broader AI industry.